Conservation

Gorillas and Chimpanzees to end up on a plate

Gorilla via Shutterstock The Max Planck Institute in Leipzig have surveyed 109 resource management areas in Africa for twenty years to reach profoundly disturbing conclusions. The future of our nearest...

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Satellites help save warblers' forest homes

The Kirtland's Warbler spends its summers in North America and its winters in the Bahamas. Credit: Dave Currie Burning trees might not seem an obvious environmental good but when, in...

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Extant or Extinct

The Comma butterfly, one of the successful species taking full advantage of global warming via Shutterstock The Red Book tells us how much trouble our favourite mammal or bird is...

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Snow leopard genetics

Snow Leopard via Shutterstock Central Asia needs to check the endangered snow leopard's (Panthera uncial) populations throughout the vast mountain ranges of the Pamir, Tien Shan, Altai, Karakoram and Himalaya....

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A genetic tool in the fight against extinctions

Brown Argus butterfly via Shutterstock The Brown Argus occurs in southern Britain. It's a butterfly from the family of "Blues" (It resembles the female Common Blue very closely), widespread in...

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Hoolock gibbons rescued in India

Hoolock gibbon; Credit Bhaskar Chowdhury Gibbons are one of the largest types of apes that are found in India and a recent rescue mission has saved a small group of...

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Diagnosing Coral Reef Diseases

Coral reef in the Lembeh Striats of Indonesia via Shutterstock Coral reefs are in big trouble. That's not new news. However, coral reefs are an important marine environment, habitat and...

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Thankfully, elephants are scared of bees

African elephant in Uganda via Shutterstock Dr. Lucy E. King has been conducting research on how conflict between humans and elephants can be reduced. It has been greatly received in...

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