News tagged with animal conservation
No place like home: Africa's big cats show postcode preference
Oct 09, 2009 |
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The secret lives of some of Africa's iconic carnivores, including big cats, are revealed in a new study in Animal Conservation, today.
Oil and wildlife don't mix in Ecuador's Eden
Sep 10, 2009 |
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What harm can a simple road do in a pristine place such as Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great deal, it turns out. Specifically, it ...
The war against wildlife comes to an end in Southern Europe
Sep 04, 2009 |
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This is the conclusion of a study which has analyzed the persecution of birds as a result of hunting in Spain over 14 years. The decrease in this activity and the fall in the number of animals admitted to ...
Humans lend a hand to critically endangered waterbird
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Human impact on one of the world's most threatened bird species can be beneficial rather than destructive - and could even save it from extinction - according to counterintuitive new findings by the University ...
'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stocks of minke ...
