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by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The leopard population in a region of South Africa once thick with the big cats is crashing, and could be wiped out within a few years, scientists warned Wednesday. Illegal killing of leopards in the Soutpansberg Mountains has reduced their numbers by two-thirds in the last decade, the researchers reported in the Royal Society Open Science journal. “If things don’t change, we predict leopards will essentially […]
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (Eagle News) – Isang malaking pawikan ang nalambat ng mga mangingisda na mayroong bigat na 180 kilograms. Ang nasabing pawikan ay kabilang sa species ng green sea turtle na isa umanong endangered species. Ayon kay Felix Badon, Ipil MENRO, nahuli ng lambat ng mangingisda ang pawikan sa Sibakya, Barangay Sanito ng Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Agad itong ipinagbigay-alam sa kanilang tanggapan. Ito na ang ika-98 marine sea turtle na narescue ng LGU-Ipil mula noong taong […]
CHESTER, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A quartet of eye-catching new individuals arrived at Chester Zoo, England. Native to Madagascar, the distinctive looking lowland streaked tenrecs are “striped like a bee and covered in spines like a hedgehog,” the zoo said in an e-mail. A video shot on Monday (March 27) shows the little known animals as they explore their habitat at the facility. The new arrivals are believed to be the only lowland streaked […]
Reuters — Sixty percent of the world’s primates are at risk of extinction. That’s the stark warning issued by 31 of the world’s leading primatologists. The academics have published an article in the journal Science Advances entitled ‘Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter’. They warn that without immediate efforts to protect tropical forests from “unsustainable pressures”, humans could precipitate a mass extinction of our closest biological relatives. The report also states […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Dozens of fish species have disappeared or are on the verge of being lost from marine biodiversity hotspot the Philippines, an environmental group said Friday, citing a new study. Fishermen reported that 59 coral reef species had gone missing from catches since the 1950s, according to the study conducted by Haribon, one of the Philippines’ oldest conservation groups, and Britain’s Newcastle University. It based its findings on interviews with 2,600 fishermen […]
