Wildlife Conservation
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As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place
The old order is being swept away, leaving scientists to ask: What’s coming in its place? Ben Deacon ABC Weather…
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The Mystery of the World’s Loneliest Penguins
How they got there, and whether they will stay, is unknown. Victoria Turk Wired UK Some years ago, researchers in…
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How the Soviet Union’s end sparked a grand rewilding
When Alyona Koshkina walks through the wild grasses of Kazakhstan’s vast plains in spring, she is overwhelmed by the life…
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Jane Goodall: ‘Change is happening. There are many ways to start moving in the right way’
Jane Goodall is a primatologist who is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees. Jonathan Watts The…
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Almost 90% of the world’s animal species will lose some habitat to agriculture by 2050
We also know that things are likely to get worse in the future, with a combination of habitat loss, climate…
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Deadliest plastics: bags and packaging biggest marine life killers, study finds
Plastic bags and flexible packaging are the deadliest plastic items in the ocean, killing wildlife including whales, dolphins, turtles and…
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United Nations urges world leaders to declare a state of climate emergency
More than 70 world leaders were due to address the one-day virtual gathering aimed at building momentum for much steeper…
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Fears for polar bears as the Trump administration pushes ahead with oil drilling in Alaskan refuge
The administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the…
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon skyrockets to 12-year high under Jair Bolsonaro’s push to increase farming and mining to combat poverty
In 2020, destruction of the world’s largest rainforest rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier to 11,088 square kilometres,…
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How will sharks respond to climate change?
They may have been around for hundreds of millions of years — long before trees — but today sharks and…
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To Save Nature, We Must Protect 30 Percent of U.S. Ocean
But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”…
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3 billion animals were in the bushfires’ path.
The Black Summer bushfires were devastating for wildlife, with an estimated three billion wild animals killed, injured or displaced. Authors…
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‘Wilfully destructive’: Natural disasters nearly double under climate change, UN says
Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United…
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Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds
One-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their…
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France announces ‘gradual’ ban on wild animals in circuses
On Tuesday, Ecology Minister Barbara Pompili said, “Our attitude to wild animals has changed.” BBC She also announced a ban…
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Coronavirus closures threaten future of Papua New Guinea’s only animal rescue centre
From the heat and dust of the city’s noisy, crowded streets, the Port Moresby Nature Park is an oasis, for the city’s…
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