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India's top court clamps down on tiger tourism
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
India's top court has suspended tourism in core areas of tiger reserves as the country struggles to stem the dwindling numbers of the endangered wild cats, a la...
Search for mountain gorillas after DR Congo fighting
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
Congolese rangers on Tuesday began searching the dense Virunga jungle for six families of critically endangered mountain gorillas who have not been spotted sinc...
Asia fuels record elephant, rhino killings: WWF
Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)
China, Vietnam and Thailand are among the worst offenders in fuelling a global black market that is seeing record numbers of elephants and rhinos killed in Afri...
Primate behavior: Chimps select smart tools, monkeys intentionally beg
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Chimpanzees use weight to pick the best tool, and monkeys beg more when they're paid attention to, as reported in two independent research reports published Jul...
Do dolphins think nonlinearly?
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Research from the University of Southampton, which examines how dolphins might process their sonar signals, could provide a new system for man-made sonar to det...
French crusader for gibbons in Borneo jungle
Jul 20, 2012 (AFP)
For 15 years Aurelien Brule has lived in the Indonesian jungle, crusading against palm oil multinationals, loggers and corruption in his bid to save endangered ...
Researchers publish results of an iron fertilization experiment
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
An international research team has published the results of an ocean iron fertilization experiment (EIFEX) carried out in 2004 in the current issue of the scien...
50,000 wild birds smuggled through Solomons: group
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
More than 54,000 wild birds, including critically endangered species, were laundered through the Solomon islands into the global wildlife trade between 2000 and...
Caterpillar gets more from its food when predator is on the prowl
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Animals that choose to eat in the presence of a predator run the risk of being eaten themselves, so they often go into a defensive mode and pay a physical penal...
Study: Wolverines need refrigerators
Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)
Wolverines live in harsh conditions; they range over large areas of cold mountainous low-productivity habitat with persistent snow. The paper suggests wolverine...
Tamarisk biocontrol efforts get evolutionary boost
Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)
UC Santa Barbara scientists trying to control the invasive tamarisk plant have been getting a boost from evolution, in the form of a rapidly evolving beetle tha...
Endangered wild horses head to Mongolia
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
Four rare Przewalski's wild horses were headed for the Mongolian steppe from Prague on Monday as part of a project to reintroduce the critically endangered spec...
Ions, not particles, make silver toxic to bacteria
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
Rice University researchers have settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the ...
Fossil turtle from Colombia round like car tire
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
Paleontologist Carlos Jaramillo's group at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and colleagues at North Carolina State University and the Flori...
The Iberian wolf lives close to humans more for refuge than for prey
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
The Iberian wolf lives in increasingly humanised landscapes, with limited food resources and its presence is not always welcome. But, according to Spanish resea...
US carp hunters spike flying fish with bows and arrows
Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)
Shooting a fish flying through the air with a bow and arrow isn't as hard as you would think. At least, not when it's a 20-pound Asian carp -- and there are so ...
Baby giant panda's death in Tokyo sparks grief
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
The death of a baby panda in Japan stopped regular television programming and brought a Tokyo zoo director to tears Wednesday, a week after its birth sent rippl...
Snakes and baby monkey seized at Thai airport
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
Thai airport authorities Wednesday found 11 pythons and a baby monkey among an array of creatures hidden in the suitcase of a Kuwaiti woman trying to board a fl...
A new species of wirerush from the wetlands in northern New Zealand
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
The northern part of the North Island of New Zealand is marked at approximately 38 degrees S latitude by a distinct ecological boundary known as the "kauri line...
Rare glimpse into the origin of species
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
A new species of monkey flower, created by the union of two foreign plant species, has been discovered on the bank of a stream in Scotland. Genetic changes in t...
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