Russian conservationists have hailed a rare sighting of an Amur leopard mother with three cubs in the far-eastern region of Primorye as proof of the efficiency of the country’s efforts to boost the population of the endangered species. Scientists in a Russian national park in Primorye on the border with China obtained the images using […]
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In 2006, biologists working near Iceland found a shell that seemed really old, and they wanted to date it. So they took it back to the lab and, well, killed it. The reason is that the best way to count a shell’s age is by counting its growth rings inside its hinge ligaments. These rings […]
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Africa’s elephants are in trouble, and human activity is to blame. For the first time, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessed Africa’s elephants as two separate species: the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). They found that both species are endangered, and the forest elephant critically […]
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The pandemic with all its suffering and shuttering has exposed vulnerabilities in our deeply entrenched economic and social system. After all, the virus fell upon us because humans ultimately encroached on the environment, spilling over a viral reservoir just like you would stir a hornet’s nest — it was bound to happen eventually and it […]
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The number of American bald eagles has more than quadrupled since 2009, according to a recent report by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The species, once on the brink of extinction, has grown to 316,700 birds and 71,400 nesting pairs in the 2019 breeding season. US officials say the “strong return” of American bald […]
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Ever been so hungry that you could hardly wait until the packaging was removed from your food? Don’t worry, this will soon be something of the past. Researchers and companies have been working for a while now on edible, cost-effective food films as a way to tackle food waste and plastic pollution. Now, an international […]
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Monitoring Cinereous Vultures A GPS transmitter weighs only a few grams, and yet it provides invaluable information that will help inform more accurate conservation actions. With the data provided, we understand the movements, foraging ranges and habits of these birds, which allows us to detect when the vultures are no longer moving and potentially injured. […]
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While constantly harassed by hunters, sperm whales during the 19th century were clever enough to learn how to avoid the ships — and social enough to share this information with other whales. This led to a significant drop in the strike rate of harpooners in just a few years and might have avoided more whales […]
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After they took on Wall Street, obtaining massive profits by betting against the system, a group of garage investors are now using their money to help endangered animals. Earlier this year, users of the WallStreetBets group on Reddit, a popular social media channel, started buying volumes of shares in the retailer GameStop. GameStop (GME) had […]
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iNaturalist, a global citizen science platform where users collaborate to identify uploaded photos of fauna and flora, saw its observations from Sri Lanka hit the 50,000 mark, the second-highest in South Asia and 14th in Asia. Sri Lanka’s first observation was uploaded in 2011, but it was only in the past two years that […]
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