The Guardian – Scientists warn MEPs against watering down EU deforestation lawade than ever before, but are they enough?
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Mongabay – Myanmar supports some of the last refuges of rare and threatened species, such as tigers, leopards and pangolins, but lax law enforcement and porous borders make it a hotbed of illegal wildlife trade, imperiling the country’s remaining biodiversity.
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CoastReporter – Technological advancements in food production have created new ways to meet the growing demand for protein. Canada’s investment in this industry may create jobs and reduce carbon emissions.
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olitico – Elephants are a keystone species; when they thrive, many others do, too. The European Commission will announce stronger measures on ivory trade than ever before, but are they enough?
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Mongabay – The stretch of Trans-Canada highway that runs through Banff National Park was once incredibly dangerous for animals and motorists alike, but today the park has more wildlife crossing structures than anywhere else in the world and the data to support their effectiveness.
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Mongabay – Of the 60,000 known species of trees, 440 are critically endangered, an assessment spearheaded by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has found.
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The Guardian – World heritage sites in US, Australia and Russia among those that have emitted more carbon than they absorbed since 2001.
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Fast Company – The biotech startup Because, Animals is the first to focus on pet food, and hopes to launch its first productsits Red List of Threatened Species.
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Mongabay – Of the 60,000 known species of trees, 440 are critically endangered, an assessment spearheaded by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has found.
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Independent – The battle against the illegal wildlife trade intensifies as over 6,000 prosecutors in east and southern Africa unite against poachers.ational (BGCI) has found.
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According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s website, the population of giant pandas living in the wild in China had risen to 1.864 by 2013, up from 1.596 in 2003. This decision comes five years after the IUCN downgraded the giant panda’s status from endangered to vulnerable on its Red List of Threatened Species.
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Philippine porcupines are threatened by habitat loss and by black-market demand for bezoars, stony aggregations of undigested plant material that accumulate in their digestive tracts thought to hold curative properties.
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Restoration can save a lot more than just historic ornaments. What has been developed as a high-quality ivory alternative to restore art could also lower the demand for real ivory and save elephants from poachers. Nguyen’s non-profit has saved over 1,500 pangolins.
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Thai Van Nguyen’s non-profit has saved over 1,500 pangolins.
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With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what they are talking about. National Geographic, 21 April 2021.
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Are expected to replacing real dolphins in shows in dolphinaria, as a response to the increasing bans on the keeping and using of dolphins in captivity worldwide. The first robot dolphin with 10 hours of autonomy has been now realised. Robots are replacing live dolphins in Dolphinaria. Read e.g. Paris Match, 4 October 2020.
South Africa is one of 48 countries implicated in the illegal trade in hippo ivory, according to a new report from wildlife-trade specialists TRAFFIC.
Humans and their Pets may soon eat Meat manufactured in Labs rather than from animals. The CO2 – free and Animal – Free revolutionary solution. The Guardian, 19 Junuary 2020
State-space models reveal a continuing elephant poaching problem in most of Africa, Scientific Reports 23 June 2020 FULL test available in Open Access