GRAND-LAHOU, Ivory Coast (AFP) — Ponso is the last, lonely survivor of a colony of 20 apes that mysteriously died or vanished on the forested “Chimpanzee Island” in the Ivory Coast.
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Patay na Irrawaddy dolphin natagpuan sa pampang ng Malampaya Sound
TAYTAY, Palawan (Eagle News) — Isang Irrawaddy dolphin ang hindi na nagawa pang maisalba at maibalik ng mga tauhan ng City Environment & Natural Resoures Office (CENRO)-Taytay sa natural habitat nito nang aksidenteng sumabit ang buntot nito sa isang lambat. Ayon kay Forest Ranger Ricky Tandoc ng CENRO-Taytay, isang mangingisda umano ang humingi ng tulong sa kanila upang maialis sa pagkakasabit sa lambat ang isang dolphin sa Brgy. Old Guinlo sa Malampaya Sound sa Taytay, […]
Pawikan na naipit sa lambat, nasagip ng isang mangingisda sa baybayin ng Ibajay, Aklan
IBAJAY, Aklan (Eagle News) – Isang pawikan ang napadpad sa baybayin ng Aklan noong Linggo, July 30. Sa pahayag ni PO2 Dennis Jabagat ng Ibajay PNP Station, natagpuan ng mangingisdang si Adreano Timbas ang pawikan na naipit sa lambat sa Brgy. Bugtongbato, Ibajay. Tumitimbang umano ito ng 120 kilogram at may habang 49 na pulgada. Dahil sa nanghihina na umano ang naturang pawikan, agad na ibinalik ito sa dagat ng taga-bantay dagat at mga rumespondeng […]
China’s only artificially-bred snow leopard turns one year old
CHINA (Reuters) – The only snow leopard cub alive by artificial breeding in China turned one year old on Saturday. It lives at a wildlife zoo in Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province. It is 80 centimeters in length, 48 centimeters in height and 18.5 kilograms in weight. Given the high death rate of snow leopard cubs, its survival is of great significance to research on and protection of this endangered animal, which in […]
Endangered barn owl natagpuan ng mga bata sa Asuncion, Davao Del Norte
ASUNCION, Davao del Norte (Eagle News) – Isang endangered barn owl ang ibinigay ng tatlong bata sa Asuncion Municipal Police Station, Asuncion, Davao Del Norte noong Huwebes, Mayo 18. Ayon kay Chief of Police Edmund Montillano ng Asuncion MPS, natagpuan umano ng tatlong bata ang nasabing owl na hinang-hina na at hindi na makakain. Hindi na rin ito makalipad dahil sa natamong sugat sa kanang pakpak nito. Kaya ipinasya ng mga bata na i-turn over ito sa […]
World Migratory Bird Day
May 8 is World Migratory Bird Day Infographics by Dex Magno Research by Jodi Bustos, edited by Jay Paul Carlos
Rare one-horned rhino killed by poachers in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Poachers have shot dead a one-horned rhinoceros at a national wildlife park in Nepal, officials said Sunday, spotlighting the threat faced by the rare animals. Officials on Saturday found the male rhino with its horn gouged out in Chitwan National Park, the country’s biggest rhino conservation area. “We performed a post-mortem and found that it had been hit by a bullet on its head,” the park’s spokesman Nurendra Aryal told AFP. Aryal said […]
Dalawang pawikan na natagpuan sa isang hukay, ibinalik na sa karagatan
STA. MARIA, Romblon (Eagle News) – Nasagip ng mga tauhan ng Philippine National Police (PNP) at Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ng Romblon ang dalawang pawikan sa bayan ng Sta. Maria noong Martes ng umaga, March 7. Ang nasabing pawikan ay nakuha sa isang hukay malapit sa dalampasigan ng Sitio Tuburan, Brgy. Concepcion Norte, Sta. Maria, Romblon. Ayon kay Benito Largueza na pansamatalang nag-alaga ng nasabing mga pawikan, nakita aniya niya ang mga ito sa […]
Four Bengal tigers born in El Salvador animal park
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Four Bengal tigers have been born in an El Salvador animal park that runs an endangered-species reproduction program, the facility announced Wednesday. The cubs arrived in December to the tiger pair Lily and Papo that are being kept in the 0.6-square-mile (1.6-square-kilometer) private Furesa wildlife refuge in the southeastern town of Jayaque, the center’s veterinarian, Luis Martinez, told AFP. It was the second litter for the two adult tigers. […]
Giraffes ‘threatened with extinction’
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Marlowe HOOD Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the last three decades, and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body warned Thursday. The population of the world’s tallest land mammal dropped to below 100,000 in 2015, mainly due to shrinking habitat and illegal hunting, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported. The group added 742 newly-discovered birds to the global […]
WATCH: Endangered species
(AFP) — One in four mammals, one in eight birds, 40% of all amphibians and nearly one in three conifer trees; all are at risk of dying out. Some 20,000 of the world’s plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction out of 73,600 monitored — 1.8 million have been listed in total. Some 800 are already described as extinct while 69 species are only able to survive in captivity. Within the world’s mammal […]
Eats shoots and rarely breeds: giant pandas ‘still at risk’
by Julien GIRAULT CHENGDU, China (AFP) — The giant panda may have been taken off the endangered species list, but the emblematic black and white bear still faces a plethora of risks including epidemics and climate change, Chinese breeding centres say. Every morning, with the dawn light shimmering on their patchy coats the young residents of a panda breeding centre in southwestern China shred their favourite breakfast — bamboo. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant […]
