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conservation
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Climate Change Is Destroying Monarch Butterflies’ Winter Habitat
every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes…
Conservationists are collecting semen from endangered wild sharks
Scientists swab the cloaca of a wild leopard shark at North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane, Australia, in order…
Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons
Red kites have been found with high levels of rodenticides in their livers TheOtherKev/Pixabay Raptors across England are…
COP16: The world is falling far short of its goal to halt biodiversity loss
Construction at a controversial dam complex in the Amazon basin Mario Tama/Getty Images The area of land and…
What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit
Countries are convening in Colombia to debate how they will achieve wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and how they…
Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade
African giant pouched rats proved adept at detecting four commonly trafficked products derived from endangered species including rhino…
Why the underground home of the world’s weirdest wildlife is in danger
A lava cave in Iceland is a tiny part of a vast, underground habitat found around the planet TOMMY…
Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It
Nonnative species like Sitka spruce and lodgepole pine were often favored, because of their qualities as a timber…
Endangered giant pangolin spotted in Senegal after nearly 24 years
A rare sighting of a giant pangolin revives hopes for the species’ survival in West Africa, despite threats…
Snares are wiping out South-East Asian wildlife – what can be done?
Conservation workers examine the body of a Sumatran tiger that died after getting caught in a snare in…