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#1280292021-04-12
Butterflies hedge their bets when times get tough
Understanding how organisms deal with an uncertain future may help identify which species are most vulnerable to climate change and which are best at managing the risk. In a paper published recently in the journal Evolution, Macquarie University ARC Future Fellow Associate Professor Darrell Kemp ...
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#1279772021-04-08
Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters—this could trigger a mass extinction event
The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having the richest diversity of marine life on Earth, with vibrant coral reefs and large aggregations of tunas, sea turtles, manta rays and whale sharks. The number of marine species naturally tapers off as you head towards the poles.
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#1279802021-04-08
New fish species named in honor of University of Georgia ecologists
University of Georgia ecologists Mary and Byron "Bud" Freeman are being recognized for their contributions to freshwater science in the most fitting way possible—with the naming of a newly discovered fish species in their honor.
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#1279842021-04-08
One of Africa's rarest primates protected by... Speedbumps
A new study revealed that a drastic reduction of deaths of one of Africa's rarest primates, the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii), followed the installation of four speedbumps along a stretch of road where the species frequently crossed.
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#1279392021-04-07
Chimpanzees: Intelligent, social and violent
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), also known as chimps, are one of our closest living relatives and members of the great ape family, along with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and humans. Chimps share 98.7% of their DNA with humans and have a lot of the same traits.
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#1279402021-04-07
Endangered right whales have biggest baby boom since 2015
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than scientists have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all.
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#1279412021-04-07
Ringed seals under consideration for listing under Species at Risk Act
Fisheries and Oceans Canada will begin consultations this fall on whether to list ringed seals under the federal Species at Risk Act. The consultations will begin nearly two years after the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, declared the animals a species of s ...
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#1279612021-04-07
The horror safari: why was Francis Bacon so triggered by dead elephants?
When the great painter died, 200 macabre photographs of elephant carcasses were found in his studio. They were by Peter Beard – and they propelled the artist into the heart of darkness
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#1279022021-04-06
Biodiversity is essential to humanity’s survival － and Malaysia is losing it
The recent report that a total of 567 plant species out of the 1,600 Peninsular Malaysia plant species assessed in the Malaysia Red List have been classified as threatened should be a cause for alarm.
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#1279092021-04-06
Biodiversity’s healthy byproduct — nutrient-rich seafood
About a third of people around the world rely on protein from the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. But the full nutritional value of this seafood depends upon the species diversity in the ecosystem where it was extracted, a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of British Columbi ...
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#1279102021-04-06
Invasive species' staggering damage: $1.3 trillion since 1970
Conservationists have always said invasive species can have a devastating impact, but now we have a clearer idea of the dollar-figure cost: A little under US$1.3 trillion (C$1.62 trillion) in the nearly four decades between 1970 and 2017.
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#1279122021-04-06
What can we learn from vanishing wildlife species: The case of the Pyrenean Ibex
Likely the first extinction event of the 2000s in Europe, the sad history of the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) is a powerful example of the ever-increasing species loss worldwide due to causes related to human activity.
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#1279252021-04-06
New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth 'Legend of White Snake'
In 2001, the famous herpetologist Joseph B. Slowinski died from snakebite by an immature black-and-white banded krait, while leading an expedition team in northern Myanmar. The very krait that caused his death is now confirmed to belong to the same species identified as a new to science venomous ...
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#1279272021-04-06
Why has the African elephant been split into two species? – podcast
Recently, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessed the African elephant as two separate species – the forest elephant and savannah elephant. The move has increased these animals’ ‘red list’ categorisation to endangered for savannah elephants and critically endangere ...
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#1278812021-04-05
Scientists Discover Weird 'Falgae' in Cornwall That Are Genetically Unique
The mesmerizing red algal species Phymatolithon calcareum clumps together to form habitats called maerl beds in coastal regions across the northeast Atlantic, but researchers have discovered a pocket of the algae near Cornwall in the UK that's genetically distinct from the rest of the region.
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#1278822021-04-05
Endangered Loggerhead Turtle Rescued
A Loggerhead Turtle was found caught in a fishing net at Al Qana in Abu Dhabi and has been nursed back to health.The turtle was saved by the Environmental Agency in Abu Dhabi and The National Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the Middle East, and is a breed of turtle not commonly found in the UA ...
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#1278842021-04-05
Hidden diversity of coral more important for conservation than previously thought
In recent years, advancements in DNA sequencing have exposed a large amount of hidden diversity in reef-building corals: species that appear identical to one another but are genetically distinct.
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#1278932021-04-05
At least 22 leopards poached in Odisha in a year, say forest officials
The Odisha Forest Department and the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police have seized as many as 20 leopard skins in one year from 10 districts. This indicates how rampantly big cats are poached in the state.
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#1278972021-04-05
Iran among world’s richest in biodiversity, genetics
Biological and genetic diversity in our country has caused many plants and animals to be native to Iran, currently, there are 2,100 endemic plant species in Iran, Eskandar Zand, the national authority for the Convention on Biological Diversity said.
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#1278422021-04-01
Damage from invasive species 'trebling every decade'
Mosquitoes, rats and termites among species that have hitched ride on trade routes, causing at least $1.3tn of damage. The costs of damage caused by invasions of alien species across the world is trebling every decade, research has found.
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#1278472021-04-01
Maharashtra's Sindhudurg Where A Rare Fish Species Was Found Named Biodiversity Heritage Site
Following the discovery of a rare freshwater fish species there, the Maharashtra government has declared an area at Amboli in Western ghats in Sindhudurg district as a biodiversity heritage site. The notification to convert the locality into a protected area was issued on Wednesday under the Bio ...
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#1278492021-04-01
Biodiversity is positively related to mental health
The higher the number of plant and bird species in a region, the healthier the people who live there. This was found by a new study published in Landscape and Urban Planning and led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Resear ...
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#1278552021-04-01
Croatia acts to save its iconic Istrian goat
With wavy horns and a sturdy build, the Istrian goat stands proudly on Croatia's national flag. But in the pastures where the white-furred animal hails from, the breed is almost nowhere to be seen.
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#1278582021-04-01
Early risers catch the worm at annual waterbird count in the Great Rift Valley
It’s 4am. The birders prepare for the start of the annual waterfowl count on Lake Bogoria and Lake Baringo, both famous birding destinations in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.
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#1278592021-04-01
When the season’s last fleet of migratory birds flew over Madurai
Around the lockdown anniversary, a young photographer in Madurai planned a silent anniversary celebration of his Canon 1500 D that he purchased just before the stay-at-home orders came into effect last year. “After paying my last EMI, I roamed alone for days around the various water bodies in th ...
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#1278602021-04-01
Do you know the names of these rare birds found in China?
China is home to a variety of animal and plant species, both common and rare. Let's take a look of some of the precious bird species found in the country.
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#1278162021-03-29
Nearly 40 sharks and rays reclassified as threatened, including one species of ray already possibly extinct
New updates on the conservation status of sharks and rays released today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show that 39 additional species are now facing a risk of extinction in the wild.
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#1278242021-03-29
Crocodiles sacrés, les nouveaux résidents du Bioparc Genève
Depuis novembre, l’institution genevoise héberge trois spécimens. Taille, durée de vie et régime alimentaire: présentation d’une espèce qu’il faut protéger.
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#1278292021-03-29
Two New Species of Screech Owls Identified
Ornithologists from the United States, Brazil and Finland have described two new species of the owl genus Megascops from the Amazon and Atlantic forests.
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#1278302021-03-29
African elephants listed as critically endangered amid rise in ivory demand
Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened.
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#1278312021-03-29
Nearly 500 bee species are thriving in a small patch of US desert
There are about 20,000 known species of bee on the planet, and nowhere else is this diversity more concentrated than in southern Arizona along the US-Mexico border. Hundreds of bee species can be found in a patch of desert there about the size of Heathrow airport, meaning it has the world’s dens ...
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#1278352021-03-29
Small farms outdo big ones on biodiversity — and crop yields
Large-scale farms account for most of the global food supply, but smallholdings protect species and are just as profitable.Small farms tend to be more productive and biodiverse than large ones, and are roughly as profitable and resource-efficient.
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#1277782021-03-23
Rhino census starts in Nepal
The Nepali government started census of the rhinoceros population on Monday in Chitwan National Park and Parsa National Park in central Nepal.
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#1277792021-03-23
British zoo launches plan to save endangered animals
Conservation scientists at Britain's Chester Zoo unveiled Monday a plan to save the world's rarest species from extinction.Conservationists at the zoo have identified six key targets, including options for future conservation for an additional 150 species, halting or reversing the decline of 200 ...
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#1277802021-03-23
Stranded endangered false killer whale divulges a dietary first
Researchers found something unexpected inside a rare false killer whale that stranded dead on Maui in February 2021, and it could ultimately help the endangered species. The whale was an insular false killer whale, the most critically endangered species of dolphins and whales in Hawaiian waters.
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#1277872021-03-23
Scientists Discover Tropic‑Like Glowing Fish in the Arctic
Tropical waters are known for their bright sunlight above and their richly colorful biodiversity below. These two things aren’t unrelated; for the many tropical species that exhibit biofluorescence — that is, the ability to absorb light energy and reemit it as different colored light — the sunli ...
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#1277932021-03-23
Short-lived plant species are more climate-sensitive
Plant species with short generation times are more sensitive to climate change than those with long generation times. This is one of the findings of a synthesis study by researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ...
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#1277962021-03-23
Link found between invasive species and commercial success in global pet trade
A pair of researchers at the University of Lausanne has found a link between invasive animal species and commercial success in the global pet trade. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jérôme Gippet and Cleo Bertelsmeier describe their study of sales of i ...
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#1278002021-03-23
Yale researchers create map of undiscovered life
Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet, Yale researchers have launched an even more ambitious and perhaps important project — creating a map of where life has yet to be discovered according to Yale Un ...
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#1278022021-03-23
Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex
Sudanese conservationists have accused trophy hunters of exploiting the country’s political transition to hunt the country’s unprotected rare animals.
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#1277512021-03-22
Toilet-invading iguanas among invasive species now banned in Florida
Florida is known as a state with a fondness for the exotic, from its long history of accommodating religious cults to the Bubble Room restaurant where every day is Christmas Day. But now time is running out for one type of eccentric Floridian: those who own or breed exotic and invasive reptiles ...
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#1277552021-03-22
Tracking species invasions with digital biodiversity data
Large online data sources are increasingly important to understand biological invasions. Emerging fields of conservation culturomics and iEcology have a great potential to inform invasion science and practice through novel insights and knowledge. In a recent publication, an international researc ...
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#1277562021-03-22
How Mexico City Is Embracing Biodiversity
Wildlife and greenery aren’t Mexico City’s calling cards. But while the world’s fifth-largest metropolis is home to more than 21 million people, it’s also grounds for nearly 4,000 species of flora and fauna, and some 15 percent of its total area consists of national parks and other protected areas.
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#1277592021-03-22
Protecting Your Garden From Invasive Plant Species
It’s a terrible irony that the gardens we plant to make our personal environments more beautiful often damage the natural world outside our fences. By now we all understand the harm caused by pesticides and the over-use of chemical fertilizers.
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#1277662021-03-22
Protection of honey bee should be ethical concern.
Albert Einstein once said, " If the bees disappeared off the surface then man would have only four years of life left." Many people who understand the cruelty involved in factory farming and are morally opposed to eating meat find it less obvious that the lowly honeybee should also be of ethical ...
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#1277682021-03-22
Smaller amphibians have increased extinction risk due to fewer offspring
Research led by Queen's University Belfast has found that the risk of extinction among amphibians—the most endangered animals on the planet—increases for species of smaller body size as their females produce fewer babies per birth.
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#1277102021-03-16
Dying of curiosity: Why people shoot harpy eagles
The rancher peers at an enormous bird high in the treetops. Reining in his horse, he squints upward. It’s not moving; maybe it will still be there when he gets back. An hour later, he returns with a gun.
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#1277282021-03-16
Study shows how varying climate conditions impact vulnerable species
New findings on the diet of Arctic foxes, determined by the condition of their teeth, show how varying climate conditions in the Arctic affect the animals that live there.
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#1276942021-03-15
Can cloning save endangered species?
Optimism for endangered species rose with the successful cloning of an endangered black-footed ferret. The precious Elizabeth Ann, born on December 10, 2021, was cloned from the preserved cells of Willa, a fellow black-footed ferret who died in 1988.