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Japanese man jailed for smuggling insects from Ecuador
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
The defendant was arrested at the international airport in Quito in March with 248 spiders, cockroaches, wasps, bees and butterflies in his suitcases, the envir...
Disabled flies sleep more as they learn to adapt
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
New research suggests flies that are unable to fly sleep more as they learn to adapt to their disability. The research -- published Friday in the journal Scienc...
Jerusalem's dilemma over hordes of stray cats
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
Captured in the streets of Jerusalem by city workers or brought in by residents, at least 15 cats a day are sterilised at the municipal veterinary centre. But e...
Southern African countries push to be allowed to trade in ivory
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose country has Africa's largest elephant population, told his fellow leaders that it was time the region comes up with ...
Indigenous peoples, 'guardians of Nature', under siege
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
But these "guardians of nature" are under siege, warns the first major UN scientific report to fully consider indigenous knowledge and management practices. Whe...
Save Nature to save ourselves, UN report pleads
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
Changes wrought by decades of pillaging and poisoning forests, oceans, soil and air threaten society "at least as much as climate change," said Robert Watson, w...
Here we go again: Earth's major 'mass extinctions'
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
"In each of the five previous mass extinctions, we lost about 75 percent of species," said Robert Watson, head of the UN science panel on biodiversity, which un...
A million species risk extinction, are we one of them?
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
Changes wrought by decades of pillaging and poisoning forests, oceans, soil and air threaten society "at least as much as climate change," said Robert Watson, w...
Pandas descend from carnivores, despite vegetarian diet
May 03, 2019 (UPI)
While the panda's diet is plant-based, it's protein and carbohydrate intake looks more like a hypercarnivore, which gets more than 70 percent of its those nutri...
How to fix Nature and avoid human misery: UN report
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
Delegates from 130 nations wrap up week-long negotiations in Paris Saturday on the executive summary of a 1,800-page tome authored by 400 scientists, the first ...
Species conservation: some success, many failures
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
Some creatures, such as the giant panda and the red tuna, have fared well, while efforts to save others, including sharks and cedars, have largely missed the ma...
Saving Nature key to human wellbeing: UN biodiversity chief
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
The former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Watson has a unique perspective on how global warming and biodiversity loss -- two of the most...
Malaysia destroys almost four tonnes of ivory
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
The small Southeast Asian nation has become a transit point in the illicit trade in ivory, which typically arrives from Africa and is sent on to major Asian mar...
UN biodiversity conference to lay groundwork for Nature rescue plan
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
The destruction of Nature threatens humanity "at least as much as human-induced climate change," UN biodiversity chief Robert Watson said as the five-day meetin...
Cute or creepy: why humans love some species, loathe others
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Weighing as much as an adult human, it has slimy brown skin, a giant mouth curled to a gormless grin, and puny, mistrustful eyes. It is also one of the world's ...
Food, medicine, water: What has Nature done for us lately?
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
Ahead of a major biodiversity summit in Paris expected to outline in the starkest terms yet the threat humans pose to Earth's natural habitats and species, here...
One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
The accelerating loss of clean air, drinkable water, CO2-absorbing forests, pollinating insects, protein-rich fish and storm-blocking mangroves -- to name but a...
Giant tortoise migration follows upredictable pattern
Apr 22, 2019 (UPI)
But when researchers tracked the migration patterns of Galapagos giant tortoises over several years, they found the reptiles' movements are weakly associated wi...
Poachers threaten precious Madagascar forest and lemurs
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
Alert to the slightest movement and sound, Michael Tovolahy's patrol is tracking poachers who are inflicting grievous harm to this jewel of biodiversity. The po...
Scientists recover liquid blood from 42,000-year-old foal
Apr 18, 2019 (UPI)
Last summer, scientists at the Mammoth Museum at Northeastern Federal University found the prehistoric foal frozen in the permafrost of Batagaika crater. An aut...
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