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Legal respite only temporary as Amazon indigenous battle miners
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
They and other indigenous communities have gone to court to protect their rainforest habitat and keep mining and oil projects off their lands. But activists her...
Giant kangaroo had crushing bites
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
The new findings, published in PLOS ONE, support the hypothesis that some short-faced kangaroos were capable of persisting on tough, poor-quality vegetation, wh...
Bones essential to the fight or flight response
Sep 12, 2019 (UPI)
"In bony vertebrates, the acute stress response is not possible without osteocalcin," Dr. Gérard Karsenty, chair of the department of genetics and development ...
Jurassic crocodile species identified 250 years after fossil discovery
Sep 12, 2019 (UPI)
The skull was first unearthed from a quarry in a Bavarian town in the 1770s by Johann Friedrich Bauder, the mayor of Altdorf, as well as a merchant and avid nat...
Using machine learning for rewilding
Sep 11, 2019 (ESA)
As Earth's land continues to be scarred by human activity, rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. The philosophy is to allow natural processes rep...
Scientists spot six near-extinct vaquita marinas
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
The vaquita has been nearly wiped out by illegal fishing in its native habitat, the Gulf of California, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned last year that ...
Tanzanian arrested with tusks from 117 elephants
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
The suspect, who had been sought by authorities since 2016, had in his possession 338 pieces of elephant tusk, and 75 whole tusks, the minister of natural resou...
High standards of females inspire lifelong learning in male songbirds
Sep 05, 2019 (UPI)
A bird's ability to learn, practice and tweak songs throughout its life is called "adult song plasticity" or "open-ended learning." Scientists previously believ...
Geese change migratory flight plan to cope with climate change
Sep 03, 2019 (UPI)
Over the last 25 years, scientists have been tracking the movements of barnacle geese as they migrate from the British Isles to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelag...
Zimbabwe leader blasts conservation watchdog over ivory trade
Aug 27, 2019 (AFP)
Global trade in ivory has largely been outlawed since 1989 after elephant numbers plunged from millions in the mid-20th century. Zimbabwe and its two southern n...
Mosquitoes push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive winters
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
The northern mosquitoes have adapted to colder winters, compared to their southern counterparts. This new evidence of rapid local adaptation could have implicat...
Wildlife meeting backs more protection for giraffes
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
The vote in Geneva by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) recognises for the first time that international trade is p...
More than 2,300 tigers killed and trafficked this century: report
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
With an average of more than 120 illegally trafficked tigers seized each year -- which amounts to over two each week -- since year 2000, conservation group Traf...
'Otterly adorable'?: Demand for cute selfies puts animals at risk
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Popular Instagrammers posting selfies with their pet otter may simply be seeking to warm the hearts of their sometimes hundreds of thousands of followers, but a...
Foreigners arrested with ivory bracelets at Kenyan airport
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
Spaniard Maria Pich-Aguilera, 50, was arrested on Sunday evening and pleaded guilty, paying a fine of one million shillings ($9,800) for illegal possession of i...
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the former glacier in western Iceland,...
Ban on sending wild elephants to zoos a step closer
Aug 18, 2019 (AFP)
A large majority of countries voted in Geneva to prohibit the transfer of elephants caught in the wild to so-called captive facilities -- a practice animal prot...
Wildlife summit mulls trade rules to counter 'unprecedented' species declines
Aug 17, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of conservationists and policymakers from more than 180 countries will meet for 12 days to evaluate regulations and species protection listings under ...
Global meet to mull trade rules to protect endangered species
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of conservationists and policymakers from more than 180 countries will meet for 12 days to evaluate changes to regulations and species protection list...
Gentle giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
"There was no particular pride in killing a giraffe, not like a lion... (But) a single giraffe could feed the village for more than a week," the community elder...
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