Earning its stripes: tech bid to crack tiger trade
In a town in northeastern Scotland, Debbie Banks looks for clues to track down criminals as she clicks through a database of tiger skins.
In a town in northeastern Scotland, Debbie Banks looks for clues to track down criminals as she clicks through a database of tiger skins.
Ecology
Aug 17, 2022
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At least 150 critically-endangered vultures were poisoned to death in separate incidents in Botswana and South Africa, conservationists said Friday, warning the killings pushed the birds closer to extinction.
Ecology
Aug 12, 2022
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The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex—a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site.
Ecology
Aug 2, 2022
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Malaysian customs officials said Monday they seized a stash of rare animal parts worth $18 million thought to have come from Africa, including elephant tusks, rhino horns and pangolin scales.
Ecology
Jul 18, 2022
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The population of endangered Saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan is now over 1.3 million, the ecology ministry said Tuesday, in the latest boost to a species threatened by poaching and disease.
Ecology
May 31, 2022
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The bark of the Galbulimima belgraveana tree, found only in remote rainforests of Papua New Guinea and northern Australia, has long been used by indigenous people for both healing and ceremony. A tea brewed from the bark ...
Biochemistry
May 13, 2022
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Research published in Conservation Science and Practice has revealed novel links between the global trade in donkey skins and the wildlife trade. The study by an interdisciplinary team from the University of Oxford's Saïd ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2022
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Vaquita porpoises are on the edge of extinction, with just 10 left in their sole habitat within Mexico's Gulf of California.
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2022
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Of the hundred or so known species of hyena—living and extinct—that stalked the earth, all have been meat eaters or omnivores except one, the aardwolf, which, mysteriously, eats termites.
Paleontology & Fossils
May 6, 2022
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At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global assessment of the world's so-called cold-blooded creatures.
Ecology
Apr 27, 2022
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