Fishing communities living on the islands of Indonesia's Karimunjawa National Park have found an important balance, improving their social well-being while reducing their reliance on marine biodiversity, ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

The annual duck hunting season in the United States is traditionally big business, but while bird numbers are rising faster than they have for decades, the number of hunters continues to fall. Far from being good news for ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

More than half of Gabon's elephant population has been killed by poachers since 2004 despite ramped up security measures to try to stop the slaughter, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 3

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

(Edmonton) A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 04, 2013 3.7 / 5 (9) 78

NOAA has added a new service to alert the public when red tides threaten human health at Tampa Bay area beaches. The new alert is timely since many of southwest Florida's beaches are experiencing or are under threat of red ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A team of scientists led by a University of Wyoming researcher recently reported that the size of trophy horns and antlers of most species of North American big game has declined slightly over ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

A young dolphin has been used to lure a pod of 100 to 150 others to safety after they were in danger of stranding themselves, Australian officials said Sunday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 03, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 5

The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," is being added to the list of species threatened by climate change—a dubious distinction that puts it in the ranks ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 01, 2013 2.6 / 5 (5) 0

When viewed from shore in late fall and winter, Lake Michigan often appears barren and unwelcoming. Hardly a place anyone or anything would choose to spend the coldest months of the year, right? But many bird species ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 31, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

A badly damaged minesweeper stranded on a World Heritage-listed coral reef in the Philippines for nearly two weeks will need to be dismantled before it is removed, the US Navy said Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 30, 2013 4 / 5 (5) 2

(AP)—Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday that they probably were poisoned.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 9

The United States said Friday it would support proposals to curb the trade of five shark species and manta rays, whose numbers are declining because of demand for fins and gills.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Poachers have slaughtered 32 South African rhinos in the first three weeks of 2013, marking a disturbing start to the year for a country battling crisis level killings of the beast, government said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 23, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 4