Wildlife Conservation
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Australia saves Barrier Reef World Heritage status, cops climate deadline
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) controls World Heritage listings and on Friday night a committee of…
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Record number of manatees die in Florida as food source dries up
More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida’s recorded history, primarily from starvation due…
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‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
‘The shore doesn’t usually crunch when you walk’ Leyland Cecco The Guardian More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada’s…
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We discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab (and named it after David Attenborough)
But the fossil record shows that hundreds of millions of years ago they came in a huge range of shapes…
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Friday essay: a rare bird — how Europeans got the black swan so wrong
The official emblem of Western Australia, depicted in the state flag and coat-of-arms, it decorates several public buildings. David Haworth…
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‘Dark’ ships off Argentina ring alarms over possible illegal fishing
But there’s a similar scenario playing out off the coast of Argentina: each year, hundreds of foreign-owned vessels are also…
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China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders from town to town, causing over $1 million in damage
Asian elephants are native to the south-western province of Yunnan, but one herd has migrated unusually far northward this year,…
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Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds
Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from China, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in…
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‘The distance from Perth to London’: How a gas company cleared the Kimberley
Such is the scope of the clearing, scientists and local Indigenous people fear some areas could become open killing fields,…
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Population of Australia’s only unique seal has fallen by 60%, study finds
The population of Australia’s only unique seal has fallen by more than 60% in just four decades, with experts worried…
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Experts call for global policy on moving species at risk from climate change
As global temperatures increase, experts predict many species will have to move away from the planet’s equatorial regions towards cooler…
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Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainability, and Farmed Fish
Much like drone fishing, there are serious ethical issues of interest to the average angler. Coty Perry YourBassGuy There’s another commonality…
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Just 3% of Earth’s land ecosystems remain intact – but we can change that
For the last 30 years, scientists intent on protecting Earth’s biodiversity have sought to enshrine targets for preserving and expanding…
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Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
A Guardian Seascape analysis of 44 recent studies of more than 9,000 seafood samples from restaurants, fishmongers and supermarkets in…
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Look up! A powerful owl could be sleeping in your backyard after a night surveying kilometres of territory
You find a grey oval-shaped ball about the size of a thumb, filled with bones and fur — a pellet,…
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Artificial insemination in captive lions is bad news for conservation
The recent success story of a lion cub, Simba, born at Singapore zoo as a result of artificial insemination, is…
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