Tag Archives: Wildlife

Chimpanzee recently launched its NFT Passports with an exclusive promotion giving holders a chance to win $10,000USDT and an opportunity to stake them. With a unique approach to rekindling interest in wildlife conservation among the youth, Chimpzee is set to revolutionize climate action as we know it. Let’s see how. …

Picture used for consultant goal. File A Supreme Court docket-constituted panel has requested the Union Atmosphere Ministry to amend or withdraw the rules associated to organising zoos and safaris inside tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries to discourage the usage of wildlife habitats for tourism actions that are non-site particular. In …

Take heed to this story: Carrying a hooded sweatshirt, denims and sneakers, with a pocket book and pen in his hand, Andrew Pask bounds via the gothic sandstone arches of Melbourne College’s historic quadrangle on a cold October afternoon. He may move for a scholar, however in truth, the 48-year-old …

The African continent is bursting with biodiversity. In a 2016 report, the United Nations Setting Programme wrote: Africa’s biomes lengthen from mangroves to deserts, from Mediterranean to tropical forests, from temperate to sub-tropical and montane grasslands and savannas, and even to ice-capped mountains. A couple of quarter of the world’s …

Elizabeth Arthur, Unit Supervisor at Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney, picked up an enormous specimen jar packed to the brim with shredded items of plastic. The container got here from a big perspex field full of labelled samples emblazoned with species’ names; inexperienced turtle, magpie, pied cormorant, Australasian darter, and …

Every year Africa loses $50 billion in illicit financial flows. This represents a huge lost opportunity in funds for economic investment in jobs, poverty, inequality and climate change. It then becomes imperative to detect, trace and recover this money. At least a third of these illegal financial flows (IFFs) are …

CNN  —  The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 news release from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The organization reclassified the species from …

Authorities in the United States on Wednesday have identified a 24-year-old woman and her one-year-old son as the victims of a fatal polar bear attack in an isolated Alaska Native village. The fatal mauling happened on Tuesday in Wales, a coastal community that is no stranger to co-existing with polar …

Oceans are full of sound. Waves, earthquakes and calving icebergs all contribute to the underwater soundscape. But so do human activities, and this can be a problem for marine life as it can seriously affect their physiology, behaviour, reproduction and even survival. Being able to produce and detect sound in …

Walking down a road during a white winter comes with its own set of challenges: the frigid cold, stepping around slippery ice on roads and the need to switch sidewalks to avoid dagger-sharp icicles that could potentially fall from above. This accumulated ice on roofs and rain gutter overhangs is …

It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. Poaching has driven the decline. Some reserves, like Garamba in the Democratic Republic …

Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, play a key role in maintaining biodiversity in the wider mountain catchment area. The variation in mountain …