Conservationists recently dehorned the entire white rhino population of Spioenkop Nature Reserve in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to decrease poaching incidents. Rhino poaching in South Africa has been steadily declining over the past several years, with dehorning efforts likely playing a part in protecting local populations. However, experts say there are still grave concerns for […]
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Epicurious has given up beef. The popular online recipe website announced on Monday that it would no longer publish beef recipes, feature beef in articles and newsletters or post beef pictures on its homepage and Instagram feed. Epicurious based this decision on environmental reasons. “For any person — or publication — wanting to envision a […]
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We have always had a rocky relationship with wasps. They are the sort of insects we love to hate. They’ve ruined a good number of picnics and disrupted us from enjoying pints in pub beer gardens. But wasps deserve much more credit, a group of researchers argue, as they provide key ecosystem services that we […]
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I was lying on the jungle floor of a Malaysian rainforest with a wasp nest dangling 10cm from my nose. I had painted each wasp with a few coloured spots so that I could tell one from another. I’d been watching these wasps for several weeks: I saw them being born, I saw them fight […]
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WASHINGTON— For the first time ever, nearly 60 U.S. representatives have urged the House Appropriations Committee to spend $50 million per year to stabilize and help recover monarch butterflies. Today’s letter, led by Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), notes that the monarch population has plummeted more than 80% in the past two […]
Continue ReadingWILD ELEMENTS For Immediate Release: April 27, 2021 WILD ELEMENTS Foundation Launches With Unprecedented Approach to Investing in Women Conservation Leaders New Community-Focused Funding Model Disrupts Male-Dominated Philanthropy Dollars. LOS ANGELES, CA (April 27, 2021) – Today, WILD ELEMENTS is launching its mission in action, the WILD ELEMENTS Foundation. The brainchild of social entrepreneur Nikki […]
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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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