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CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) –Australia will spend nearly A$1.3 billion ($965.25 million) over the next five years to improve the well being of the Great Barrier Reef in an attempt to stop UNESCO from classifying the World Heritage Site as “in danger”. In the first progress report to UNESCO – requested by United Nation’s when it stopped short of placing the Great Barrier Reef on an “in danger” list last May – Australia said it will […]
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) — Munich’s Hellabrunn Zoo introduced its latest addition on Thursday (December 1), a polar bear cub that was born on November 21. The healthy cub was born to 17-year-old father Yoghi and 10-year-old mother Giovanna. Giovanna, who could be seen snuggling the newborn in video released by the zoo, is a mother for the third time. Her twins Nela and Nobby left Hellabrunn earlier this year. Giovannia and the cub will stay […]
STUCKENBROCK, Germany (Reuters) —A dog at a German zoo is helping to rear Bengal tiger cub twins which were abandoned by their mother soon after birth, Safaripark Stukenbrock in northern Germany said on Monday (November 28). One-month-old Peach and Pearl, born over the course of about an hour, were immediately rejected by their mother, said keeper Jeannette Wurms. “The first-born was in critical condition. She was so cold that we couldn’t take her temperature. Her […]
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (Reuters) — Warm seas around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday (November 29). Scientists surveyed sites on the Northern Great Barrier Reef in March and April and again at the same sites in October and November and found on average a […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Two men were charged Monday with stealing rare pygmy marmosets from an Australian wildlife park as a baby was reunited with her mum and the hunt continued to find dad. Three of the monkeys, the world’s smallest, were snatched from their enclosure at the Symbio Wildlife Park south of Sydney on Saturday, with police and zookeepers launching a desperate bid to locate the suckling infant. There were fears it would die […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Ants found in the Pacific islands of Fiji behave as miniature farmers, carefully sowing and fertilising the seeds of at least six types of plant, a study said Monday. Ants have previously been observed farming fungi for food, but this is the first study to show the insects cultivating plants, said researchers from the University of Munich who published their findings in the journal Nature Plants. The ant, known as Philidris […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Female vervet monkeys manipulate males into fighting battles by lavishing attention on brave soldiers while giving noncombatants the cold shoulder, researchers said on Wednesday. After a skirmish with a rival gang, usually over food, females would groom males that had fought hardest, while snapping at those that abstained. When the next battle came along, both those singled out for attention and those aggressively shunned would participate more vigorously in combat, according […]
XIANRENDAO, China (AFP) — With a crack of his whip, Qin Yusheng drives his mules through the ocean surf off the Chinese coast, labouring to bring in the day’s catch. For decades, equine-powered carts have trundled through the shallow waters off the peninsula near Xianrendao to meet shallow-keeled trawlers piled high with jellyfish, which teem in the waters of the Yellow Sea. Now Qin, 55, and his last two mules are ready to retire, as the area’s […]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, United States (Reuters) — Fans around the world are being invited by Zoo Atlanta on Monday (November 21) to vote on possible names for giant panda twins born on September 3. The 11 week old twins born to Lun Lun and Yang Yang in the United States will be named on December 12, their 100th day of life, in accordance with Chinese tradition. Zoo Atlanta has set up a website to help fans […]
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (Reuters) — Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo unveiled three healthy baby echidnas, known as puggles, on Thursday (November 17), the first to be born there in nearly 30 years. Hatched between the 16th-30th of August this year, the puggles, who have recently opened their eyes, weighed in between 250 and 500 grams, the Zoo confirmed in a statement. Echidnas are a rare Australian mammal that lays eggs, hatching after 10 days and carried in […]
MARRAKECH, Morocco (20 November, 2016) –- In response to the close of COP22, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, leader of WWF International’s Climate & Energy Practice, issued the following statement: “The UN climate talks continue to be filled with twists and turns, but they have delivered what they needed to this week – putting substance behind the promise of the Paris Agreement so it can be fully implemented. The Marrakech work has not been the most glamorous, but it’s […]
(Reuters) — Government representatives and officials at this year’s U.N. climate talks have played down the impact of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week on global momentum to tackle global warming, while Fiji leaders prepare to host next year’s international conference on climate change. Speaking to delegates at a news conference COP22 President Mezouar said ”We don’t have any doubt about the spirit of pragmatism of President Donald Trump, nor the commitment demonstrated […]
