Giant Rats: Sniffing Out Wildlife Crime | Wild Targets
Feb 12, 2025, 1:16 pm By
MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals.…Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking
Feb 12, 2025, 1:12 pm By
MOROGORO, Tanzania — Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African…Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed
Feb 12, 2025, 11:38 am By
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide…Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates
Feb 12, 2025, 11:35 am By
Hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) died on fish farms in Scotland in the final…Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study
Feb 12, 2025, 11:26 am ByMore than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and…Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees
Feb 12, 2025, 10:04 am By
Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection…Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls
Feb 12, 2025, 8:17 am By
Charmed by the picturesque beaches and enchanting temple complexes, millions of tourists flock each…More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains
Feb 12, 2025, 5:58 am By
KATHMANDU — A brewing controversy over private cable car projects in Nepal’s hills has taken a…Wild baboons don’t recognize their own mirror reflections
Feb 12, 2025, 3:31 am By
Humans like to study themselves in a mirror. But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t…Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood
Feb 11, 2025, 3:42 pm By
The bobcat population has rebounded over the past 125 years, making it North America’s most common…Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia
Feb 11, 2025, 10:59 am By
Japan: Record-breaking snowfall wreaked havoc in northern Japan last week, leaving at least three…CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports
Feb 11, 2025, 4:50 am By
Exports of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia will remain legal pending further review, despite…Singing lemurs found to be dropping beats just like King Julien
Feb 11, 2025, 4:39 am By
The indri, a critically endangered lemur only found in Madagascar’s rainforest, might hold clues…Brazil has seen a 460% increase in climate-related disasters since the 1990s
Feb 11, 2025, 4:36 am By
It’s a proven fact: the relationship between rising global temperatures and the number of…Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink
Feb 11, 2025, 12:00 am By
TANJUNG LEIDONG, Indonesia — At around 5:30 a.m., after the tide starts to recede, Zulkifli…Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown
Feb 10, 2025, 12:15 pm By
In 2021, an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest…Study finds population crash for critically endangered European eel in Spain’s Ebro Delta
Feb 10, 2025, 10:47 am By
The critically endangered European eel population is facing collapse in Spain’s Ebro Delta, where…Darfur’s women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland
Feb 10, 2025, 10:22 am By
ADRÉ, Chad — In the dry and windswept plains of the Adré refugee camp in eastern Chad, a grove…‘Helicopter tourism’ in the Himalayas affecting Sherpas, wildlife
Feb 10, 2025, 9:38 am By
A surge in “helicopter tourism” at Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, is adversely…Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods
Feb 10, 2025, 6:00 am By
PADER DISTRICT, Uganda — As the early morning mist lifts over the plains of northern Uganda,…
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