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World meets protected areas target, quality needs improving
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
A report from the UN's Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) showed that there are currently at least 2...
Galapagos policeman given three years for tortoise trafficking
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
The reptiles were no more than three months old when they were found in airport luggage, destined for Guayaquil in mainland Ecuador, during a routine inspection...
Griffon vultures return to Bulgaria's Eastern Balkan Mountains after 50 years
May 17, 2021 (UPI)
Sporadic sightings were reported, but the birds were considered extinct as a breeding species in the region. Now, new surveys suggest the species -- one of Euro...
Bengal tiger found unharmed after week missing in Texas
May 16, 2021 (AFP)
"We got him, and he's healthy," Houston police commander Ron Borza was seen saying in a video. The animal, named India, had been in the custody of the wife of i...
18 elephants suspected killed by India lightning strike
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Forest officials and a local lawmaker, Jitu Goswami, told AFP they believed the pachyderms died after lightning struck a forest in Nagaon district in central As...
New genetic data bodes well for California's comeback condors
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The authors of the paper, published in the journal Current Biology, said the findings bode well for future restoration plans of the critically endangered specie...
Chinese hunt for escaped leopard dangles chickens as bait
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The leafy lakeside city of Hangzhou has been on edge since late last week, when residents began spotting leopards roaming around local hills covered in forest a...
Leopard on the loose: escaped big cat sparks fear in China
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Residents of the city of Hangzhou first reported seeing a leopard on the loose on Friday, with the safari park only acknowledging the escapes after the news wen...
US braces for billions of cicadas to emerge after 17 years underground
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
Before invading parks and people's gardens, the insects have already conquered the airwaves, social media and newspapers, especially in parts of the eastern, ce...
Owls may have inherited their night-hunting abilities from dinosaurs
May 06, 2021 (UPI)
Nocturnal hunting is relatively rare among predators, as it requires specialized sensory abilities -- many of the best night-hunters are birds, including owls, ...
California condors fly over Redwood National Park for first time since 1892
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
The four condors were raised by the Oregon Zoo's Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation. They were released in partnership with the Yurok Tribe's Wildlife Dep...
For animals, inbreeding isn't all that bad, new research shows
May 03, 2021 (UPI)
If it were, researchers contend, animals would be trying a lot harder to avoid inbreeding. "People assume that animals should avoid mating with a relative when ...
Humans significantly altered biodiversity on islands, study shows
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
By analyzing 27 fossil pollen sequences encompassing 5,000 years from islands across the world, scientists quantified the rates of change in vegetation composit...
Gorilla among 200 endangered species threatened by conflict: conservationists
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
A report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature examined the close interplay between the environment and armed conflict, warning that human vio...
Madagascar's horned crocodile warrants a new branch on the tree of life
Apr 27, 2021 (UPI)
New genomic analysis -- detailed Tuesday in the journal Communications Biology -- suggests the horned crocodile was closely related to "true" crocodiles, includ...
Siberian tiger attacks farm worker, batters car in northeastern China
Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)
The male juvenile tiger was first spotted Friday roaming close to Linhu village in Heilongjiang province, reported Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper, citing ...
Climate-friendly microbes break down dead plants, but don't release methane
Apr 23, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, novel microbes, found in hot springs and geothermal sediments, could play an im...
Flexible diet has helped leaf-eating lemurs survive deforestation
Apr 23, 2021 (UPI)
The authors of a new study, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, estimate lemurs with more flexible diets are better able to resist habitat fragmen...
Study: Humans interrupting 66-million-year-old relationship among animals
Apr 21, 2021 (UPI)
Animals that are exclusively herbivores or carnivores are generally much larger in size than omnivores or invertivores -- animals that only eat invertebrates --...
Forgotten species could future-proof coffee in a warming world
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
While there are more than a hundred known coffee species, the world gets its caffeine hit mostly from the beans of just two -- Arabica, considered to be the sup...
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