Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 16, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 2

Is it possible to put a dollar value on the beauty of a river or to judge the worth of a wetland?

Biology - Ecology

Jul 06, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

Gabonese President Ali Bongo on Wednesday set fire to five tonnes of ivory worth millions of euros to mark his government's commitment to battling poachers and saving elephants.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 27, 2012 not rated yet 1

A critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros was born Saturday at an Indonesian sanctuary, only the fourth birth in captivity in more than a century, boosting survival hopes for the species, say conservationists.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Conservationists in Nepal are to send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- A conservationist says she is releasing 100 short-haired bees into the wild, 20 years after they were wiped out in the British countryside.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 17, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

While climate change is likely to alter the spatial distributions of species and habitat types, the nature of those changes is uncertain, making it more difficult for conservationists to implement standard ...

Biology - Ecology

May 15, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking study on ...

Biology - Ecology

May 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 08, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the most linguistically diverse ...

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2012 4.9 / 5 (7) 2 |

(AP) -- As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the border, Thailand's last five pairs are guarded around ...

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- As human ancestors rose on two feet in Africa and began their migrations across the world, the climate around them got warmer, and colder, wetter and drier. The plants and animals they competed ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 24, 2012 3.5 / 5 (4) 17 |

The clock is ticking, and the heat is on. A giant male panda loaned to Britain by China has just 36 hours to make his move on his female companion or he'll have to wait another year.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 03, 2012 not rated yet 0

Four orangutans were released into the wild on Indonesia's Borneo island on Tuesday, an official said, as the country ramps up efforts to protect the animals from extinction.

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Feb 28, 2012 not rated yet 0