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Birds of a feather: India's raptor-rescuing brothers
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
New Delhi is home to a magnificent array of predatory birds, but untold numbers are maimed each week by kite strings, cars and other grave encounters with human...
Magical but messy: Rome scares off its starlings
Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)
Every winter, the skies over Italy's capital are filled with the mesmerising sight of thousands of starlings swooping and diving in unison. But when they stop t...
Mexican town hopes pelicans will help tourism take off
Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)
Petatan Island, located on Lake Chapala in Michoacan state, plays seasonal host to the birds, which head south in search of warmth and food. Many locals note th...
Could a 'virtual slime mould' design a better subway system?
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
Physarum polycephalum is a slime mould, a single-celled amoeboid organism that grows as a greenish-yellow system of veins. These veins form a tubular network th...
Indonesia jails poachers over killing of 5 Sumatran elephants
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
Rampant deforestation has reduced the elephants' habitat and brought them into increasing conflict with humans, while their ivory tusks are prized in the illega...
More than 200 new species found in Mekong region: WWF
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
The finds include a new primate, a colourless cavefish and an iridescent snake with an unusual non-overlapping pattern of scales. In all, 224 new species of pla...
S.African rhino returns to wild after brutal attack
Jan 24, 2022 (AFP)
His rescuers named the bull Sehawukele, meaning "God have mercy on us". Called Seha for short, he was found by police stumbling near a fence in a reserve, so di...
Rare baby elephant twins born in Kenya
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
Conservation group Save the Elephants said the twins -- one male and one female -- were born to a mother named Bora. They were first spotted by lucky tourist gu...
More protected areas won't save biodiversity, warn experts
Jan 19, 2022 (AFP)
Setting aside at least 30 percent of both land and oceans as protected zones is the cornerstone target of the so-called global biodiversity framework to be fina...
Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
A comprehensive assessment of evidence of this ongoing extinction event was published recently in the journal Biological Reviews by biologists from the Universi...
Seeing the chemistry of vision
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
It is commonly said that eyes are the mirror of the soul; however, they are undoubtedly our window on the world. The retina of the eye represents the first and ...
Without animals to disperse seeds, some plants may not survive climate change
Jan 13, 2022 (UPI)
That's a problem, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science, because the global loss of seed dispersers -- animals that spread plant seeds ...
Russian baby tiger fights for life after frostbite, surgery
Jan 12, 2022 (AFP)
An emaciated female tiger cub aged around four or five months and suffering from severe frostbite and injuries was found by a local fisherman on a river bank in...
Malaysian villager killed in tiger attack
Jan 10, 2022 (AFP)
The 59-year-old victim, Anek Along, was attacked Friday near the town of Gua Musang in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan. The 120-kilogram (264-pound) cr...
Life in the dead heart of Australia
Jan 10, 2022 (SPX)
The new fossil site (named McGraths Flat), located in the Central Tablelands, NSW near the town of Gulgong, represents one of only a handful of fossil sites in ...
Iran says only 12 Asiatic cheetahs left in the country
Jan 09, 2022 (AFP)
"The measures we have taken to increase protection, reproduction, and the installation of road signs have not been enough to save this species," Hassan Akbari t...
Former quarry turns haven for endangered UK birds
Jan 09, 2022 (AFP)
With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens outside Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the secretive bittern, which was until 2015 on th...
DR Congo park fetes birth of endangered gorilla species
Jan 08, 2022 (AFP)
Conservationists have long sought to protect the world heritage site's gorilla population even as violence and instability has plagued the DRC's eastern provinc...
Zimbabwe game park to receive $15 mn from new wildlife fund
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
The money, which will extend for at least 15 years, will help pay for ranger patrols, equipment maintenance and other everyday needs, the park's partner, the Fr...
Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19
Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)
Charly, Sandai and eight other animals at the Buin Zoo in Santiago were chosen for the experimental vaccine campaign as they belong to species considered at hig...
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