‘A barbaric federal program’: US killed 1.75m animals last year – or 200 per hour
Activists condemn Wildlife Services, a division of the USDA, which says deaths necessary to protect farmers and public health An obscure division of the US government had a busy – and ruthless –...
Arctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usual
An extreme heat event in the Arctic could cause it to reach the maximum of the extent of its ice for this year “considerably earlier” than usual, a scientist has warned. Temperature records were...
Pan Pan Dies at 31… With More Than 130 Descendants
On the 6th of September 2016,the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared that giant pandas are no more endangered species. “The decision to downlist the giant panda to...
Running Towards Extinction…
If you’ve been following up on some news about studies and researches on animal extinction, you would realize that it has recently been happening at a very fast rate. Cheetahs are now running...
How Climate Change is Affecting Polar Bears
Climate change is affecting everything in a bad way, and we better start paying more attention to everything triggering it, and especially greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most important animals...
Mexico scrambles to save world’s smallest porpoise
Mexican authorities and scientists are scrambling to save the world’s smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, from extinction, capturing illegal “ghost” fishing nets while hoping to...
Biodiversity conservation in Yemen – joining forces for the future
What do conservationists do when they can’t do surveys, can’t implement grass-root activities, can’t meet with local people or government representatives to talk about environmental issues and...
Ocean warning for Pacific’s Melanesia
Marine ecosystems in one of the Pacific’s most vulnerable regions face decline unless they are better managed, a WWF report warned today. The report described the ocean as the lifeblood of...
