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Sumatran rhinos — hairy and noisy — were thought to have gone extinct from southern Sumatra for…US proposes zero new protections for traded wildlife at upcoming CITES CoP
Aug 18, 2025, 11:09 am By
At the end of 2025, representatives from 185 countries will convene in Uzbekistan to discuss the…Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare
Aug 18, 2025, 10:34 am By
The jambu plant is native to the Amazon Rainforest, where it’s renowned for its numbing and…There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions pending
Aug 18, 2025, 10:19 am By
There’s hope for an iconic ocean predator that has mostly disappeared from California’s…Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters
Aug 18, 2025, 9:32 am By
San Matías Gulf, on the northern coast of Argentina’s Patagonia region, is one of the most…US proposes threatened listing for widely trafficked Borneo earless monitor
Aug 18, 2025, 7:29 am By
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Aug 18, 2025, 7:19 am By
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Aug 18, 2025, 5:02 am By
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Aug 18, 2025, 3:34 am By
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Aug 15, 2025, 11:31 pm By
A 54-day monitoring by Indonesia’s largest environmental group around a waste-to-energy plant in…UN plastic treaty negotiations end in failure, again
Aug 15, 2025, 6:26 pm By
Representatives from 184 countries recently gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tackle the growing…The death toll from flash floods in northwest Pakistan has jumped to 157, officials say
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An adult lioness has been photographed for the first time in six years in Bamingui-Bangoran National…
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