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Crouching tigers, hidden cameras: Nepal counts its big cats
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
Thousands of camera traps have helped conservationists track Nepal's wild tiger population, which has nearly doubled in recent years as the big cats claw their ...
A 'deal for nature' to rescue wildlife: WWF chief
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
WWF director general Marco Lambertini tells AFP what went wrong and what's at stake. - How bad is it? - "The situation is really bad, and it keeps getting worse...
China defends decision to ease rhino, tiger parts ban
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
The State Council, China's cabinet, unexpectedly announced on Monday that it would allow the sale of rhino and tiger products under "special circumstances". Tho...
Nature pushed to the brink by 'runaway consumption'
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone -- fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- were wiped out by human activity, according to ...
China permits limited trade of rhino, tiger goods
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
The trade of rhinos, tigers, and their related products will be allowed under "special" circumstances, the State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement. Those...
Tigers dwindling: just six sub-species remain, says study
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger, said the report in the journal Current Bio...
New Caledonian crows can create compound tools
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
Children take several years before creating novel tools, probably because it requires anticipating properties of yet unseen objects. Such anticipation, or plann...
Tortoise evolution: How did they become so big?
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
The fact that all living giant tortoises are insular may suggest that their evolution followed the so-called island rule: a trend toward dwarfism of large anima...
Rewilding landscapes can help to solve more than one problem
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
When animals become extinct or disappear from an area, their unique role in nature is often lost. "There is increasing evidence that this global wildlife loss d...
Spotlighting differences in closely-related species
Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)
"Aspergillus is such an important genus, not just for biotechnology, but for all the roles it plays in agriculture, human health, enzyme production and food fer...
Tsetse fly out of Zimbabwe's hot Zambezi valley
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
The study based on 27 years of data from the country's northern Mana Pools National Park suggests that temperature increases over the last three decades have ca...
Asian elephants are very good at math, study shows
Oct 22, 2018 (UPI)
Previous studies have shown other mammals posses a basic understanding of numbers. But such arithmetic relies on imprecise estimates of quantity, not the use of...
Two rhinos die in Chad after being relocated from S.Africa
Oct 21, 2018 (AFP)
Rhinos in Chad were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago, and the six rhinos were intended to establish a new population in the country after intensive ant...
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
There have been five upheavals over the past 450 million years when the environment on our planet has changed so dramatically that the majority of Earth's plant...
S.Africa divers risk all to poach marine delicacies for China diners
Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)
Investigators are looking into allegations by fellow divers and his family that he was murdered, shot by a special task force during an anti-poaching operation ...
Two degrees decimated Puerto Rico's insect populations
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
The finding supports the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warnings of severe environmental threats given a 2.0 degree Celsius ele...
Research gives new insight into the evolution of the nervous system
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
The new study used simple multicellular organisms called Placozoa to reveal the beginnings of the nervous systems found in more complex animals. The internation...
Dandelion seeds use a novel form of flight to get around
Oct 17, 2018 (UPI)
The white, fluffy parachutes that help dandelion seeds find new soil to colonize are mostly air. But their novel design allow seeds to float through the air for...
Scientists probe how dogs process words
Oct 15, 2018 (UPI)
To better understand how the canine brain comprehends different words, scientists imaged the brains of dogs responding to verbal cues. The analysis suggests dog...
Leaders urge 'follow the money' to combat wildlife trafficking
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
The Illegal Wildlife Trade conference drew royals, presidents and ministers from 80 nations to London to debate how to save endangered animals and better track ...
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