This art is created not by hands, but by paws and claws. Paintings featuring the brush strokes and paw prints of animals such as snow leopards and sea lions from zoos around the nation sold Tuesday for surprising amounts of money.
Just a few minutes into the auction, a painting by Cha Cha the Lion [...]
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The miserable summer has led to a decline in bugs, prompting concern for birds and other wildlife reliant on insects.
Wildlife conservation charity Buglife said dragonflies, ladybirds, bees, moths and mayflies have all been in short supply this summer because of the weather.
The insects are not only being washed away by the rain but can be [...]
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For the first time an international researcher team has developed a model, which identifies potential habitats and corridors for the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris). Using Rheinland-Pfalz as an example, it was demonstrated that almost half of this German federal state could be suitable for wildcats, enabling a maximum population of 1600 females.
The model can [...]
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Consider the effect of climate change on animals and it’s the polar bear that invariably comes to mind, majestically astride a thinning ice floe, watching its habitat disappear.
The species is a powerful conservation symbol. But how much is it, and the public’s dawning enviro-consciousness, being cynically exploited because of it?
The story of two German polar [...]
Tiger skins and rare caged primates openly sold at markets in the heart of Indonesia’s capital are the most brazen and visible aspect of a thriving illegal wildlife trade.
Indonesia is struggling to take on a multi-million-dollar industry that is stripping the archipelago nation’s vast forests of endangered species for enormous profit by selling them to [...]
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As the world drags its feet on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, respected scientists have proposed some crazy stopgap solutions, from orbital mirrors to manmade volcanoes.
Conservationists are taking a similar approach, but with animals.
A commentary published today in Science marks the center-stage debut of assisted colonization — saving vanishing species by picking them up and [...]
Conservationists yesterday attacked a decision by the international community to allow China to buy stockpiles of elephant ivory saying it would lead to more elephants being killed in Africa.
A meeting of the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), in Geneva, agreed that China could bid for up to 108 tonnes of ivory, collected [...]
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Global warming will allow exotic plants and animals to invade vulnerable Australian ecosystems, the WWF conservation group has warned.
Warmer temperatures will allow feral animals and invasive weeds to gain access to cooler and higher areas where they have not previously been able to exist, according to WWF’s Invasive Species Policy Officer Julie Kirkwood.
“Exotic species [...]
Paying rural landowners in Oregon’s Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won’t necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found.
The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed hypothetical payments that were given [...]
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The United States must protect endangered wildlife from global warming and other threats within its own borders and not rely on other countries, such as Canada, to do the job, according to a coalition of 10 conservation organizations that announced today its intention to file a legal challenge against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The [...]
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