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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 ...
India watches for deadly virus as lion deaths spike
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
The new deaths take the toll at the Gir sanctuary in the western Gujarat state, home to India's entire population of around 500 wild Asiatic lions, to 21 since ...
Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
After analyzing many years of data for 81 North American amphibian species including more than 500,000 observations collected at more than 5,000 sites in 86 stu...
Judge restores protections for Yellowstone grizzlies, hunts canceled
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
In his ruling issued Monday, US District Judge Dana Christensen in Montana said the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) had acted "arbitrarily and cap...
More than 4 billion birds stream overhead during fall migration
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
"We've discovered that each autumn, an average of 4 billion birds move south from Canada into the U.S. At the same time, another 4.7 billion birds leave the U.S...
Fad for 'lucky' tail hair threatens Vietnam elephants
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
"I'll cut a hair off right in front of you here, so you can be sure it's not fake," said the saleswoman in Tri A village in the country's forested central highl...
Male mosquitoes listen for approaching females using built-in amplifier
Sep 25, 2018 (UPI)
The findings, detailed Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, could help scientists design acoustic traps for disease-carrying mosquitoes. "Hearing is a ...
Tiger population nearly doubles in Nepal
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
Wildlife groups have welcomed the news as a sign that political involvement and innovative conservation strategies can reverse the decline of the majestic Royal...
How plants harness microbes to get nutrients
Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)
In a process the team has named the "rhizophagy cycle" (rhizophagy means root eating), bacteria and fungi cycle between a free-living phase in the soil and a pl...
Delhi's last elephants; India probes death of 12 endangered lions
Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)
After years of pressure from activists who accuse the animals' owners of flouting wildlife regulations by keeping them in a city, authorities have ordered the s...
Praying mantis observed catching, eating fish
Sep 20, 2018 (UPI)
In a new paper published Thursday in the Journal of Orthoptera Research, scientists described for the first time evidence of fish consumption by a praying manti...
Mexico ranch helps American bison make a comeback
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
Today, genetically pure buffalo -- as the species is also known -- subsist within four preserves in the United States, but also on a ranch in Mexico's northern ...
DNA sleuths bolster case against three ivory cartels
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
Around 40,000 African elephants are killed every year for their tusks, which are illegally traded as part of a multi-billion dollar industry that extends from A...
Why songbirds can overeat and not get fat
Sep 18, 2018 (UPI)
According to research published this week in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, instead of precisely controlling food intake, songbirds may be able to...
Can you evolve while being robust?
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
As even the smallest organisms like bacteria have many genes, coordinating their expression is done by a dedicated set of proteins, which bind specific sites in...
The world needs death and decomposition
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
First off, it would be disgusting. Second, the Earth might run out of the key elements these organisms contain. Thanks to a new study by Michigan State Universi...
Gut microbes' role in mammals' evolution starts to become clearer
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers came up with a novel way of classifying the microbes - a taxonomy that groups them based on their ancestry and common distribution across mammals. K...
Where have all the turtles gone, and why does it matter?
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
"Our purpose is to inform the public of the many critical ecological roles turtles perform on a global scale and bring awareness to the plight of these emblemat...
Aging may be as old as life itself
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
"This could be a game changer for research on longevity and aging. It may also be relevant to the scientific discussions surrounding CRISPR9 gene editing," said...
4.7 billion birds leave U.S. to winter in the tropics each fall
Sep 17, 2018 (UPI)
From 2013 to 2017, an average of 4 billion birds moved south from Canada into the U.S. each fall, while another 4.7 billion birds crossed the southern border, h...
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