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Uganda court jails killer of mountain gorilla for 11 years
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
The Silverback gorilla, named Rafiki -- which means "friend" in Swahili -- was believed to be around 25 years old. He was found dead last month from a spear wou...
Pakistan probes deaths of lions, ostriches in Islamabad zoo
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
The ministry of climate change in the Pakistani capital said it had convened a commission to investigate the deaths, which it blamed on the careless relocation ...
World tiger population grows but SE Asia threats 'critical': WWF
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
India, home to 70 percent of the big cat's global population, is among 13 countries that pledged a decade ago to boost feline numbers. "From an historic populat...
Habitat loss sparks cascade of ecosystem damage: study
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
Human activity is devouring ever more of the natural world, destroying forests, splintering habitats into isolated areas, while polluting land and sea. This is ...
Thailand tiger sightings hailed as conservation win
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The zoologists said Southeast Asia is a key battleground in the fight to save the big cats, whose numbers globally have plummeted from about 100,000 a century a...
International team of scientists to preserve Lake Titicaca giant frog
Jul 26, 2020 (AFP)
"In a coordinated effort, a cross-border team has been formed for the conservation and study of the emblematic Titicaca water frog (Telmatobius culeus) with the...
Sumatran tiger cub born in Polish zoo
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
The female cub was born during the coronavirus lockdown on May 20 at the Wroclaw Zoo in the southwestern city by the same name, but news of her arrival was only...
Vietnam suspends wildlife trade as pandemic prods action
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
The directive signed by the leader of the Communist country follows an international scandal over the sale of wildlife, which has been blamed as the origin of t...
Much maligned elsewhere, bats get star treatment in central France
Jul 23, 2020 (AFP)
The pandemic has triggered bat-killing sprees in communities from India and Peru to Cuba and Rwanda, but the mission of the team at the Bourges natural history ...
Wall curvature dictates logic of termite nest construction
Jul 23, 2020 (UPI)
Termite nests and are often vast and structurally complex. Previously, scientists have struggled to explain how thousands of individual termites coordinate the ...
From egg hunter to protector, Malaysian battles to save turtles
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
His transformation is one success in an uphill struggle to defend the endangered reptiles who swim ashore to the tropical country from the South China Sea to la...
Malawi jails 9 Chinese wildlife trafficking gang members
Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)
The convicts are members of the Lin-Zhang syndicate, believed to be one of southern Africa's most active wildlife trafficking gangs. Nine Chinese nationals and ...
Pakistan to relocate lonely elephant to Cambodia sanctuary
Jul 18, 2020 (AFP)
Kaavan was kept in chains at Islamabad Zoo and exhibited symptoms of mental illness, prompting global outrage over his treatment and a petition demanding his re...
Pandemic highlights danger posed by wildlife crime: UN report
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
The report published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) points out "zoonotic diseases -- those caused by pathogens that spread from animals to humans -...
Silk Road discovery suggests cats were pets 1,000 years ago
Jul 10, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers from Germany's Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Tubingen, Kazakhstan's Korkyt-AtaKyzylorda State University and the H...
Dozens of endangered dorcas gazelles killed by poachers in Niger
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Forestry officials at the Termit and Tin-Toumma National Nature Reserve, which covers nearly 100,000 square kilometres (38,000 square miles) of desert and mount...
Scientists move to create single, comprehensive list of Earth's living species
Jul 07, 2020 (UPI)
On Tuesday, the team of scientists, organized by the International Union of Biological Sciences, published a series of principles in the journal PLOS One that t...
Botswana reports mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
The landlocked southern African country has the world's largest elephant population, estimated to be around 130,000. "We have had a report of 356 dead elephants...
A vanishing way of life in Danube Delta's natural paradise
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
Acsente has been plying the Delta with his wooden boat for more than four decades now from his home village of Sfantu Gheorghe. "I know the Danube so well that ...
Extinction Rebellion claims hoax about Swedish fund
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
A statement was published Monday on a website which purported to be the fund's official site with information from someone purporting to be the fund's spokesman...
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