Dogs, antennas and honey for Japan’s big bear problem
By Simon Sturdee and Harumi Ozawa KARUIZAWA, Japan, Dec 21, 2023 (AFP) - Thousands of bears are being shot in…
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Elusive Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia
By Sara HUSSEIN BANGKOK, Nov 10, 2023 (AFP) - An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing for six decades has…
3 years ago
51 whales dead after beaching in Western Australia
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Dozens of pilot whales have died just hours after stranding themselves on a beach…
3 years ago
Cambodian leader U-turns on rare dolphin conservation law
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) -- Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled a law he created just two months ago…
3 years ago
South African rhino-lover seeks billionaire successor
by Claire DOYEN Agence France-Presse JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -- He spent his vast fortune on a 30-year quest to…
3 years ago
Feathers ruffled as charismatic parrot banned from avian beauty contest
by Ryland JAMES Agence France Presse Wellington, New Zealand (AFP) -- The world's fattest parrot can't fly, and now it…
4 years ago
US calls for talks with Mexico on endangered porpoise
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) - Washington has invoked the environmental provisions of the North American free trade pact to…
4 years ago
End of the road in Colombia for Escobar’s ‘cocaine’ hippos?
by Juan Sebastian SERRANO Agence France-Presse BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) - More than 100 African hippos descended from fewer than a…
4 years ago
Kenya under fire over calls to ‘weaken’ forest protections
by Nick Perry Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) - In his 15 years defending one of Nairobi's last green spaces,…
4 years ago
Indonesia jails poachers over killing of 5 Sumatran elephants
ACEH JAYA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday over the 2020 killing…
4 years ago
More than 200 new species found in Mekong region: WWF
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) -- Scientists discovered more than 200 new species across the greater Mekong region in 2020, according to…
4 years ago
S.African rhino returns to wild after brutal attack
BELA BELA, South Africa (AFP) - A 10-year-old rhino that had its horn brutally hacked off returned to the wild…
4 years ago
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