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Australian carp virus plan 'dead in the water'
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
Australian Government scientists have asked for approval to release Koi Herpesvirus (KHV) into the continent's largest freshwater supply to kill non-native carp...
Siberian scientists breeding foxes for pets eye human link
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
But Plombir, whose white fur matches the colour of the beloved Soviet ice cream he was named after, is not Abramov's canine best friend. He is actually a fox, b...
Ivory Coast no more
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
In precolonial and colonial times, Cote d'Ivoire probably hosted one of the largest elephant populations in West Africa, resulting in the country's name, which ...
Male lion coalitions help protect territory, increase mating opportunities
Oct 16, 2020 (UPI)
To better understand the how's and why's of coalition-building among lions, biologists from the Wildlife Institute of India and the University of Minnesota turn...
Amanaci, the Jaguar that symbolizes environmental destruction in Brazil wetlands
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
She was found two months ago sheltering in a chicken coop in Pocone in the central-western state of Mato Grosso, trying to flee the fires. Since then Amanaci ha...
Wolves can bond with their human handlers, but still unfit as pets
Oct 14, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists suspect the last shared ancestor between the dog and grey wolf was a highly social animal, and that this sociality played an important role in the do...
Big payoff if Nature 'restored' in the right places
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
But it would have to be the right 30 percent to yield maximum benefits, an international team of experts said in a study positioning itself as the scientific co...
Carnivores living near people eat a lot of human food
Oct 12, 2020 (UPI)
For many wild animals, human food is the equivalent of junk food -- and researchers worry the lure of junk food could disrupt North America's carnivore-dominate...
Stanford scientists call for human-focused approach to conservation
Oct 12, 2020 (UPI)
Forests can help filter and clean drinking water, provide lumber for construction and help humans reconnect with the natural world. While forests can't be every...
US says climate change doesn't threaten snow-dwelling wolverines
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
The move was condemned by conservation groups, who said it was a result of the Trump administration's denial of climate science, and that extra measures were ba...
Researchers watch ants use tools to avoid drowning
Oct 08, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers described the first-of-its-kind observation in a new paper, published Thursday in the journal Functional Ecology. When scientists first presented bl...
2014 seal flu outbreak illustrates threat of avian flus to mammals
Oct 07, 2020 (UPI)
In 2014, an avian flu strain spread rapidly among harbor and gray seals in northern Europe, killing roughly a tenth of the population. For the new study, publis...
Animal rivalries could inspire 'Napoleonic' intelligence
Oct 06, 2020 (UPI)
To date, the study of cognitive evolution among animals has focused on antagonistic and co-operative social interactions within groups -- the kinds of interacti...
Megalodon was exceptionally large compared with other sharks
Oct 05, 2020 (UPI)
Mature megalodon sharks, which swam the oceans between 15 million and 3.6 million years ago, reached lengths of 50 feet. For as long as scientists have been fin...
Alien species to increase by 36 percent globally by 2050
Oct 01, 2020 (UPI)
Species are classified as alien when they colonize habitat outside their native ranges. To predict how many new species will become aliens in the decades ahead,...
Europe's captive tiger trade 'risks spurring illegal demand'
Sep 30, 2020 (AFP)
Wild populations of tigers have been chronically depleted by habitat destruction and a voracious demand for their bones, skins and other body parts used in deco...
Pet trade threatens thousands of species, especially reptiles
Sep 29, 2020 (UPI)
According to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, just 9% of the world's more than 11,000 reptile species are protected by internatio...
Suspected bacteria infection kills 12 more Zimbabwe elephants
Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)
"A total of 34 carcasses have been found... but some others have not been located," Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority director Fulton Upenyu Mang...
Nations commit to reverse nature loss by 2030
Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)
Ahead of the UN Summit on Biodiversity this week, more than 60 heads of state and government promised to slash air pollution, eliminate ocean plastic and transi...
Life still precarious for pangolins despite Vietnam's illegal trade crackdown
Sep 24, 2020 (AFP)
Life remains precarious for the world's most trafficked mammal despite the country's renewed vow to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that many blame for...
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