(Phys.org) —India's tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners, according to new research carried out by scientists at Cardiff University.

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 3 |

The forests of the Russian Far East are being pushed to the brink of destruction due to pervasive, large-scale illegal logging, largely to supply Chinese furniture and flooring manufacturers, according to ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 17, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1

An emaciated female Sumatran tiger was in critical condition at Indonesia's largest zoo Wednesday and may have to be put down after another rare tiger died at the problem-plagued facility earlier this month.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Bangladesh is to launch a census of tigers next month living in the world's largest mangrove forest in a bid to determine the full extent of the threat to their survival, scientists said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

(AP)—A vet hopes groundbreaking surgery has relieved the arthritic hip pain of a 13-year-old Siberian tiger at a Texas sanctuary.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

(AP)—The pursuit of hackers who audaciously stole and published credit reports for Michelle Obama, the attorney general, FBI director and other U.S. politicians and celebrities crisscrossed continents and ...

Technology - Internet

Mar 13, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Parts of more than 1400 Tigers have been seized across Asia in the past 13 years, according to TRAFFIC's latest analysis of confiscations, which includes new data for 2010-2012.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A ban on the international trade of the Tasmanian tiger, the buff-nosed kangaroo rat and the pig-footed bandicoot was lifted Thursday—because the species have been extinct for decades.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

If mosquitoes were motorcycles, the species known as Psorophora ciliata would be a Harley-Davidson—big, bold, American-made and likely to be abundant in Florida this summer.

Biology - Other

Mar 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —The number of sharks killed each year in commercial fisheries is estimated at 100 million, with a range between 63 million and 273 million, according to the research "Global Catches, Exploitation ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Talk about meeting Mr. Wrong. Female yellow fever mosquitoes sometimes contend with the courtship and mating efforts of males from another, competing species—the Asian tiger mosquito.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 01, 2013 not rated yet 1 |

China defended its record on protecting endangered species Tuesday after an environmental group accused it of allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

Hundreds of conservationists have begun a major survey of the number of endangered Royal Bengal tigers living in a vast forest region bordering Nepal and India, officials said Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 05, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

The world's third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia's natural forests, after fierce campaigning by green groups against the company.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

Australian researchers investigating the extinction of the country's Tasmanian Tiger put the fault solely with humans Thursday, saying they had debunked a long-held theory that disease was to blame.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 31, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 4