Giant Rats: Sniffing Out Wildlife Crime | Wild Targets
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MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals.…Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking
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MOROGORO, Tanzania — Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African…Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed
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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
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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
11:26am 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
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Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection…Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls
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Charmed by the picturesque beaches and enchanting temple complexes, millions of tourists flock each…More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains
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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
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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
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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
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Japan: Record-breaking snowfall wreaked havoc in northern Japan last week, leaving at least three…CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A surge in “helicopter tourism” at Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, is adversely…Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods
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PADER DISTRICT, Uganda — As the early morning mist lifts over the plains of northern Uganda,…
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