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#1297462021-07-28
Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine
In the rapidly shrinking lowland forests of Palawan Island, the Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila) can be found under tree buttresses, foraging for fallen root crops and fruits. Endemic to Palawan and neighboring islands, Philippine porcupines can grow up to (66.5 cm or 26.18 inches) long, an ...
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#1297472021-07-28
New plan launched to safeguard wildlife in Leicester
The new Leicester Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-31 sets out how the Council will focus conservation work on wildlife habitats and species that are most in need to help protect local biodiversity.
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#1297482021-07-28
Treasure of Nature: Wonderland famous for peaks and high biodiversity
Stretching over more than 26,000 hectares in central China's Hunan Province, the main draw of Zhangjiajie is the Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area.
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#1297582021-07-28
Dangerous attraction: Amorous pursuit imperils Cuban croc
Being too coveted a mating partner can have its downside for a species faced with extinction, as the Cuban crocodile has learned.Arduous pursuit by its amorous American counterpart has seen survival of the island species, its numbers already dwindling, further threatened by hybridization.
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#1297592021-07-28
In Spain, Iberian lynx claws back from brink of extinction
At a nature reserve in southern Spain, four baby Iberian lynxes sleep peacefully beside their mother, part of a captive breeding programme that has brought the species back from the brink of extinction.
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#1297682021-07-28
Here’s What Climate Change Will Mean for Bats
The Isabelline Serotine bat (Eptesicus isabellinus) ranges across areas north of the Sahara and into the southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula. But it may be time for the species to start packing its bags.
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#1297172021-07-27
Monarch butterflies raised in captivity can still join the migration
Each year, thousands of hobbyists and educators across North America collect monarch eggs or caterpillars from the wild to raise indoors and patiently wait for butterflies to emerge. Raising monarch butterflies indoors has become an increasingly popular activity that can have numerous benefits.
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#1297182021-07-27
Lack of species depth threatens mangroves
Marine ecologists have revealed mangroves might be threatened by a limited number of crustaceans, molluscs and other invertebrates for each ecological role.
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#1297232021-07-27
Pandemic gives breathing room to endangered sea turtles
Nikoletta Sidiropoulou and her colleagues in the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (Archelon) are huddled together on Marathonisi beach, carefully digging in the sand. Eventually they find what they’re looking for: a turtle nest, containing upwards of 100 eggs. “It’s really exciting,” says ...
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#1297252021-07-27
Breeding success: how tattoos and aviaries are helping save the saker falcon
Large and powerful with a wing span of more than a metre, the saker falcon is one of the fastest birds in the world. They soar high in the air before diving at up to 200mph to catch small mammals and birds.
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#1296682021-07-26
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
I have been fascinated by insects all my life. One of my earliest memories is of finding, at the age of five or six, some stripy yellow-and-black caterpillars feeding on weeds in the school playground. I put them in my empty lunchbox, and took them home. Eventually they transformed into handsome ...
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#1296692021-07-26
The return of Britain's meat-eating plants
Once common around Britain, carnivorous plants have suffered a dramatic decline over the last century. However, a young ecologist is on a mission to bring these dramatic species back.
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#1296742021-07-26
Can Arctic Animals Keep Up With Climate Change? Scientists are Trying to Find Out
New studies suggest that rising temperatures may prove disastrous for species of birds, fish and other animals that are adapted to the cold of Arctic climes.
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#1296812021-07-26
Seychelles: Project On Seychelles' Silhouette Island Protects Coco De Mer From Invasive Plant
A project to tackle invasive plants threatening a coco de mer population on Silhouette island started last month by the Island Conservation Society in partnership with the Islands Development Company and Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa.
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#1296822021-07-26
A fish called Guppy named after a Trinidadian
Did you know that the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) was named after a Trinidadian? You may be wondering, how did this happen? Well, in 1866, Trinidadian Robert John Lechmere Guppy sent specimens of the fish from TT to the Natural History Museum in London.
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#1296852021-07-26
Working through the pandemic to save the Cheer pheasant
Increasing anthropogenic pressures have led to severe environmental degradation and decline of several species. While protected areas offer refuge, a significant population of threatened species is found outside such areas -- unprotected areas are more widespread than these protected locations, ...
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#1296492021-07-23
Tagged grass carp unknowingly betray their species
Michigan State University researchers are working with state and federal fishery agencies to help remove invasive grass carp from Lake Erie in a bid to limit its spread to the other Great Lakes.
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#1296602021-07-23
Endangered giant clam gets much-needed lift
The Philippines’s true native giant clam species, scientifically called the Tridacna gigas, is about to get a needed lift to get it out of local extinction.
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#1296642021-07-23
Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia
The species are all part of the genus Jacquemontia, which are twining or trailing plants with pretty blue flowers. With rapid biodiversity loss taking place across South America and worldwide, identifying plant species is a vital step towards protecting them.
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#1296062021-07-22
High temperatures to destroy plants, animals in Tana River basin — report
Many species within the Tana River basin will not survive the rise in global temperatures, a study suggests. A researcher from the University of East Anglia in the UK published the study in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.
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#1296072021-07-22
Monarch butterflies are beloved—and declining for this sad reason
For the past three decades, monarch butterflies have been dwindling. The iconic bugs face a number of threats in North America, from weed killers to climate change, but it hasn’t been clear which one has been the most damaging.
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#1296132021-07-22
Management measures improve the conservation of the steppe bird in Lleida
Over the last forty years, the agricultural intensification, as well as the urban and farming development in the Lleida Plain, have reduced the expansion and quality of the available habitat for the steppe birds of this area, which covers a great part of species of such kind in Spain.
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#1296142021-07-22
Targeted removals and enhanced monitoring can help manage lionfish in the Mediterranean
Targeted removals can be effective in suppressing the number of invasive lionfish found within protected coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.
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#1296152021-07-22
Great Barrier Reef's World Heritage status at risk
After years of climate-worsened damage to its vibrant corals, Australia's vast Great Barrier Reef could this week be added to UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites.
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#1296162021-07-22
Speeding ships killing endangered N. Atlantic right whales: study
Most vessels are exceeding speed limits in areas designated to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 360 remain, a report said Wednesday.
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#1296192021-07-22
New ‘weird looking’ shark species from Indian Ocean discovered
In 2012 and 2014, researchers from the Pacific Shark Research Center in the US conducted surveys along the Southwest Indian Ridge or the underwater mountain system that bisects the ocean between Africa and Antarctica. While studying the seamounts situated to the south of Madagascar, the team col ...
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#1296242021-07-22
‘I’ve seen 40 on one dive’: invasive lionfish threatens ecosystems in Med
Non-native lionfish have become increasingly common in parts of the Mediterranean in recent years, threatening local ecosystems and posing a hazard to humans through their venomous spines.
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#1295762021-07-21
Gunning down a common owl to save an endangered worked. Are we willing to keep doing it?
For years, biologists and federal officials in the Pacific Northwest have wrung their hands about the decline of the endangered northern spotted owl following the arrival of its more aggressive and adaptable cousin, the barred owl. Now, it appears they have a tool that could turn the tables: a s ...
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#1295812021-07-21
DNA from 93-year-old butterfly confirms the first US case of human-led insect extinction
The Xerces blue butterfly was last seen flapping its iridescent periwinkle wings in San Francisco in the early 1940s. It's generally accepted to be extinct, the first American insect species destroyed by urban development, but there are lingering questions about whether it was really a species t ...
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#1295922021-07-21
Photos Show Wildlife That Relies on Delaware Bay Shore and Watersheds
The Delaware Bayshore is known for its expansive coastal marshes, lengthy shoreline, and upland forests, which provide diverse habitats for a variety of marine life and are an internationally recognized flyway for 300-400 species of migrating birds, including the second-largest shorebird congreg ...
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#1295962021-07-21
A new key for species identification in salt marsh harvest mice
It's hard to save what you can't identify. That's been a problem for the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, which is found only in the salty, brackish waters of the San Francisco Bay area. The mouse competes for space with about eight million humans, and more than three-quarters of its habitat ...
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#1295972021-07-21
Examining the food chains controlling invasive marine species
A landmark scientific study involving marine biologists from Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Libya, Italy, Tunisia, the UK, the US and Malta documenting instances where native Mediterranean species have preyed upon two highly invasive marine fish—the Pacific red lionfish and the silver-cheeked toadfish— ...
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#1295132021-07-12
Goldfish dumped in lakes grow to monstrous size, threatening ecosystems
Authorities in Minnesota have appealed to aquarium owners to stop releasing pet fish into waterways, after several huge goldfish were pulled from a local lake.
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#1295212021-07-12
Natural landscapes key to Canadian cities, rural areas for building climate resilience, experts say
In the South Okanagan area of B.C. lies an important area of grassland and wetlands known as the Park Rill Floodplain. It's home to species at risk like the peregrine falcon and the western screech owl. And as of last week, the 61 hectares of land are now protected from development after being p ...
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#1295252021-07-12
Swarm yields new insight into animal migration
Using measurements from ESA's Earth Explorer Swarm mission, scientists have developed a new tool that links the strength and direction of the magnetic field to the flight paths of migrating birds. This is a huge step forward to understanding how animals use Earth's magnetic field to navigate vas ...
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#1295262021-07-12
Population-specific diversity within fungi species could enable improved drug discovery
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have discovered that genetically distinct populations within the same species of fungi can produce unique mixes of secondary metabolites, which are organic compounds with applications in medicine, industry and ag ...
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#1294912021-07-09
Giant pandas no longer endangered in the wild, China announces
Giant pandas are no longer endangered in the wild, but they are still vulnerable with a population outside captivity of 1,800, Chinese officials have said after years of conservation efforts.
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#1295012021-07-09
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of a disease affecting corals
Coral reefs are a favorite spot for scuba divers and are among the world's most diverse ecosystems. For example, the Hawaiian coral reefs, known as the 'rainforests of the sea', host over 7,000 species of marine animals, fishes, birds and plants. But coral reefs are facing serious threats, inclu ...
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#1295022021-07-09
Scientists explore seamounts in Phoenix Islands Archipelago, gain insights into deep water diversity
Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor have identified likely new marine species and deep sea organisms on nine seamounts that were explored for the first time in the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago. In a 34-day expedition that ended today, scientists also c ...
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#1295032021-07-09
Scientists create genetic library for mega-ecosystem in Pacific Ocean
The California Current extends nearly 2,000 miles from Canada's Vancouver Island to the middle of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. It brings cold water from the North Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America and is home to numerous and abundant species because of the upwelling of deep nutri ...
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#1295052021-07-09
Opening protected area off New England coast to commercial fishing compromises protections
A study published this week in the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science found that opening the 3.14 million acre Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing reduces species protection in the richly diverse and vital ecological area.
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#1295062021-07-09
Deep-Sea Study Records Species Found Nowhere Else on Earth
A new study is shedding light on what lies in the deep. This first-ever deep-sea survey of both ends of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges has revealed unique and fragile species. It also spurred a call for the protection of deep-sea habitats.
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#1295112021-07-09
‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss.
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#1294502021-07-07
Mountain Forest Loss in Southeast Asia Accelerating At Unprecedented Rate
Southeast Asia is home to roughly half of the world’s tropical mountain forests. These highland ecosystems support massive carbon stores and tremendous biodiversity, including a host of species that occur nowhere else on the planet.
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#1294612021-07-07
Finland rallies to save one of world's most endangered seals
The serene, icy waters of Finland's Lake Saimaa are a boon to fishermen and tourists, but their presence also threatens one of the world's rarest and most endangered seals.
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#1294692021-07-07
Dolphin species that live together do not necessarily compete for food
A new molecular method reveals how different species of toothed whales compete for prey and which food they choose in each other's company. Marine scientists from NIOZ recently published their work in the scientific magazine Environmental Research.
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#1294732021-07-07
Researchers investigate acidobacteria survival in extreme soil conditions
Soils are one of the most diverse habitats on the planet. There are more than thousand microbial species per gram that significantly influence numerous environmental processes. However, the majority of these organisms are believed to be in a state a state of "dormancy" due to environmental stres ...
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#1293942021-06-21
Smaller bodies, longer wings, earlier migrations: Untangling the multiple impacts of climate warming
When a University of Michigan-led research team reported last year that North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and that their wings have gotten a bit longer, the scientists wondered if they were seeing the fingerprint of earlier spring migrations.
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#1293992021-06-21
Mexico’s bee guardians on mission to save species
Adriana Veliz whispered affectionately as she removed a colony of bees from inside a statue in a Mexican backyard — part of her mission to help save them from extinction. “Relax babies, relax. You’ll be fine,” the 32-year-old veterinarian said as the bees swarmed around her and clung to the whit ...
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#1294032021-06-21
Tasmanian devils wipe out thousands of penguins on tiny Australian island
An attempt to save the Tasmanian devil by shipping an “insurance population” to a tiny Australian island has come at a “catastrophic” cost to the birdlife there, including the complete elimination of little penguins, according to BirdLife Tasmania.