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In Ecuador, pair of Andean condors revives hope for species' survival
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
The massive Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), which calls the South American mountain range home, has a 3.5-meter (11.5-foot) wingspan, making it one of the large...
Biodiversity hypothesis called into question
Sep 22, 2020 (SPX)
One trade-off that is commonly assumed is that between gleaner organisms - which are able to acquire and consume more food than other species when resources are...
Botswana's mass elephant deaths caused by bacteria: govt
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
The landlocked southern African country boasts the world's largest elephant population, estimated at around 130,000. More than 300 of the pachyderms have myster...
Hundreds of groups demand leaders 'act on nature'
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
On the eve of the high-level section of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, more than 1,000 signatories joined the demand for a more sustainable fu...
DNA suggests horses didn't originate in Anatolia
Sep 17, 2020 (UPI)
Humans first started domesticating animals in the Fertile Crescent and Southeast Asia around 10,000 years ago, but horses weren't domesticated until much later....
Mobile phone radiation may be killing insects: German study
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
On top of pesticides and habitat loss, increased exposure to electromagnetic radiation is "probably having a negative impact on the insect world", according to ...
Australian stinging trees contain 'scorpion-like venom': scientists
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
Split-second contact with the dendrocnide tree, a rainforest nettle known by its indigenous name gympie-gympie, delivers a sting far more potent than similar pl...
World nature congress postponed again over virus
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said its 2020 congress, which had already been rescheduled for January 2021, would be further post...
World missing all targets to save nature, UN warns
Sep 15, 2020 (AFP)
Humanity's impact on the natural world over the last five decades has been nothing short of cataclysmic: since 1970 close to 70 percent of wild animals, birds a...
Algeria hunting season returns after quarter-century ban
Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)
The hunting season will run until February 15, said Agriculture Minister Abdelhamid Hamdani, quoted by national news agency APS. Hunting was banned and farmers'...
More than 90% of the world's protected areas are disconnected
Sep 11, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new study, more than 90% of Earth's protected areas are disconnected -- surrounded by human pressures -- according to a study published Friday in...
Trafficked apes from DR Congo recovered in Zimbabwe
Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)
DR Congo's environment minister Claude Nyamugabo Bazibuhe also announced a large seizure of pangolin scales from the country's northeast. DRC is one of the worl...
World wildlife plummets more than two-thirds in 50 years: index
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
Human activity has severely degraded three quarters of all land and 40 percent of Earth's oceans, and our quickening destruction of nature is likely to have unt...
Pakistan's only Asian elephant prepared for new home
Sep 04, 2020 (AFP)
The plight of Kaavan, an overweight, 35-year-old bull elephant has drawn international condemnation and highlighted the woeful state of Islamabad's zoo, where c...
Long gone, ibex gains foothold in French Pyrenees
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
Officials have counted 70 newborn ibex this year at the Pyrenees National Park (PNP) and nearby Ariege Regional Park in the craggy mountains that separate Franc...
Older bulls hold important leadership roles in elephant societies
Sep 03, 2020 (UPI)
The research, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, undermines the rationale of trophy hunters who target older males, claiming the bulls are "r...
Common, rare species equally vulnerable to climate change
Sep 02, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed the population trajectories of more than 2,000 species across a va...
New Guinea singing dog thriving all along
Sep 01, 2020 (UPI)
Genomic analysis, detailed this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, confirmed a group of wild dogs discovered in the New Guinea ...
Zimbabwe says 12 young elephants died from bacterial infection
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
The pachyderms were discovered late last week in Zimbabwe's northern Pandamasuwe forest, tucked between Hwange National Park and the town of Victoria Falls. Ran...
Zimbabwe probes deaths of 12 elephants near Hwange park
Aug 30, 2020 (AFP)
Eleven carcasses were discovered on Friday and another on Saturday in the Pandamasuwe forest tucked between Hwange and Victoria Falls town. "We have ruled out t...
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