Tag: aniamal

Galapagos iguanas transferred due to overpopulation

QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Six land iguanas, endemic to the Galapagos Islands, have been relocated within the Pacific archipelago due to food shortages and overpopulation on the islet where they lived, Ecuador’s Galapagos National Park said Tuesday. The reptiles were moved from the islet of Venice to Dragon Hill, on the neighboring island of Santa Cruz. “The shortage of rain, little food and the high number of land iguanas on the islet of Venice” forced […]

When humans wage war, animals suffer too: study

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS , France (AFP) — When humans wage war, they harm more than just one another. Wild animals suffer too, and some have verged on annihilation in Africa’s many anti-colonial and civil conflicts, researchers said Wednesday. More than 70 percent of the continent’s protected natural areas has been touched by war between 1946 and 2010, triggering a “downward spiral” for many populations of big plant-eating mammals, according to […]