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Prince William Calls for Better Support for Wildlife Conservationists on South Africa Visit

11 November 2024

Barbary macaques : threatened and unique.

05 December 2018

Forest lives are changing, with combined human/insect threats.

13 November 2017

The North Sea totally explored (twice) by OCEANA.

28 August 2017

Extinction or habitat management - the stark choice.

04 July 2017

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Africa's sea turtles need extra protection

featured Africa's sea turtles need extra protection

Researchers from the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Wildlife Conservation Society, amongst others, tracked olive ridley turtles off the coast of Central Africa. This is the first comprehensive tracking...

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Demand for illegal bear bile sores in Asia

Demand for illegal bear bile sores in Asia

According to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network sposored by the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the poaching of bears in Asia is driven...

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WSC wades in to stop US bog turtle decline

WSC wades in to stop US bog turtle decline

They're incredibly tiny, exceptionally slow and just love wallowing in bogs. But something is making the numbers of North America's smallest land turtle - the bog turtle - slip worryingly...

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WWF releases rare footage of Sumatran tigers

WWF releases rare footage of Sumatran tigers

Rare footage of Sumatran tiger cubs playing in an Indonesian rainforest was released yesterday by WWF. Camera traps captured images and footage of 12 Sumatran tigers, including two females with...

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Gray wolves lose protection in US states

Gray wolves lose protection in US states

Gray wolves have lost their protection in parts of the United States after their numbers made a recovery, a move that means they can be hunted again. The U.S. Fish...

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Rock climbing as a threat to cliffs' biological diversity

Rock climbing as a threat to cliffs' biological diversity

Being relatively inaccessible to humans cliff ecosystems have remained relatively undisturbed and consequently still harbour a magnitude of rare, endemic and endangered plant species. And thus given their considerable conservation...

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Sharks worth much more alive than dead

Sharks worth much more alive than dead

What's big, has lots of teeth and is worth nearly $2 million? No, it's not the punchline of a bad joke; it's the results of a recent study by the...

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Warning about forestry loss

Warning about forestry loss

Wildlife pressure group WWF has warned that more than 230 million hectares of forest could disappear by 2050. The Living Forests Report argues that policymakers and businesses should unite around...

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Southeast Asia's Tropical Peatlands could Disappear by 2030

Southeast Asia's Tropical Peatlands could Disappear by 2030

Like Southeast Asia's tropical rainforests, the region's peatlands are disappearing at alarming rates. In fact, they could vanish altogether by 2030, says a new study published in Frontiers in Ecology...

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