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Sea Shepherd activists are not the only ones concerned about the fate of vulnerable dolphins.
Leilani Munter, a well-known professional race car driver, has recently announced her eagerness to drive a customized car inspired by the Cove documentary, an Academy-Award winning production revealing Japan's dolphin... |
6 January 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Apart from being one of the most eco-conscious states when it comes to its strict GHG emissions standards, California is also scaling up efforts to preserve its marine biodiversity, by spreading its Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
The recently launched project highlights a partnership between scientists, conservation... |
3 January 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Big cats will be protected by the Majete Wildlife reserve, as a part of an ample reintroduction program.
The reserve occupying 70,000 hectares will become the new home of a small population of leopards, listed as "Near Threatened" species on the IUCN Red List, because of their rapid decline, Wildlife Extra informs.... |
21 December 2011
03:50 GMT |
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For only $668 (€513) you could spend an incredible night in one of the jaw-dropping suites from the Makanyane Safari Lodge, located in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve. Apart from the delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner, all included in this price, the hotel owners have thought about another feature ai... |
19 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Although China tries to display an eco-conscious attitude supported by numerous animal preservation campaigns, a recent tiger bone wine auction shows anything but respect for endangered creatures and vulnerable ecosystems. The Beijing auction has raised a lot of interest with its unusual, expensive exhibits, represe... |
6 December 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Eight hundred large carnivorous snails died in a fridge from the Department of Conservation, proving that what doesn't kill you, sometimes also fails to make you stronger. After they were rescued from their initial habitat, threatened by mining activities, the endangered large snails (Powelliphanta augusta) we... |
16 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) may dedicate some of the orbital capabilites aboard its satellites for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification schemes aimed at promoting responsible forestry.This issue was discussed recently at the general assembly of the FSC, which was held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The end... |
13 July 2011
08:33 GMT |
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The international society agrees that rainforests need to be saved at all costs. Yet, while this much is certain, what remains to be determined is the extent to which local communities will be affected. In most areas that contain rainforests, locals are extremely poor.One of the most widely proposed methods of reduci... |
30 May 2011
06:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States has recently demonstrated that it's possible to detect significant changes affecting ecosystems before they happen. This early detection method could be used to determine which habitats are the most likely to experience ecological catastrophes. University of Wisconsi... |
29 April 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Officials with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that Operation 'No Compromise' – this year's effort to stop the illegal Japanese whaling fleet from carrying out its mission in Antarctic waters – is officially over. According to reports, this was the most successful camp... |
7 March 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Scientists are currently working on a new method of producing new fuel out of energy that would otherwise be wasted. This time, they are going after the energy generated when cars break, which goes unused today. Experts believe they can convert it to compressed air, for later use. The compressed air could then be use... |
7 February 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Phosphorus is undoubtedly one of the most important chemicals in the world. It is one of the six elements that allow for life to exist here at all. At this point, experts say that resources are scarce, and this constituted the main subject of a new art exhibit at the Arizona State University.Sustainability and fertil... |
3 February 2011
06:30 GMT |
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The mountain range containing the world's tallest peak is also one of the most important bastions of biodiversity in the world. This is why Eastern Himalayan nations have recently decided to adopt a common, unified plan of promoting adaptations to effects of climate change.The region is bound to get severely aff... |
31 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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At this point, less than 4,000 wild tigers endure throughout Asia, despite the fact that the animals' habitats span no less than 13 nations. But conservationists say that the continent can support up to 10,000 of the animals by 2022, and they also provide a new strategy on how to do this. There are several obsta... |
25 January 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The Western North Pacific gray whale population could be severely endangered in the near future, if plans announced by the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company come to fruition. The corporation, which is partially owned by Shell, wants to construct a new drilling rig off Sakhalin Island.
But conservationists sa... |
18 January 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Most people living in the United States and Canada know very little about the musk oxen, a large herbivorous mammal that has roamed the land for millions of years. Only small populations endured to this day, and conservations are currently renewing their efforts to protect the species. Although it's listed as LC... |
29 December 2010
06:39 GMT |
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The latest issue of the esteemed journal Nature contains a paper showing that biodiversity loss can have negative consequences on the health of the general population. The correlation holds true for both animal and plant extinctions, the report indicates.In the new research, a team of experts examined the connections... |
2 December 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Humans are known for being picky when it comes to eating, as demonstrated by those who are willing to starve themselves rather than eat something they don't want. The same apparently goes on in the animal world as well, with great implications for ecosystem stability. Members of more than half of all species on ... |
30 November 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Coral reefs are some of the most important ecosystems in the world, and definitely some of the most remarkable in the oceans. A large concentration of them exists in the Coral Triangle, an area located in southeast Asia. Now, researchers have set to study its health.The Triangle is located in an area that can be foun... |
29 November 2010
03:11 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany, is getting ready to conduct one of the most comprehensive researches ever on the evolution of elephant ivory. The work is being carried out in collaboration with national and international partners. What the team is trying to accomplish is find o... |
27 November 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Researchers found many new animal species these past years and the latest in date is Pezoporus flaviventris – the ground parrot of Western Australia.A team of scientists from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and the University of Adelaide, analyzed DNA samples from 160-year-old museum specimens of ground par... |
25 November 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Marine biologists were surprised to discover that marine creatures living along shorelines, and especially invertebrates, appear to prefer living in waters that flow at high speeds. Wherever there are fast-moving flows, researchers can find the highest level of invertebrate biodiversity.The correlation was observed s... |
22 November 2010
11:06 GMT |
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Despite initial dissensions among the participants at the Conference of the Parties 10 (COP10) of the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), nations eventually managed to come to an important agreement regarding preserving biodiversity on Earth.The decision was made Friday morning, when representatives of nearly 2... |
1 November 2010
06:22 GMT |
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For several years now, there has been a decline in the Atlantic sea turtle populations and besides the obvious human cause, an international team of mycologists and ecologists who were studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have found that the species is also threatened by a fungal infection that attacks eggs.Th... |
29 October 2010
08:00 GMT |
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This almost unknown species of smooth-hound shark has been the object of a deep research carried out by scientists at University College Dublin, and might just take its rightful place as an endangered and in-need-of-protection species.These sharks grow over a meter in length, can reach 12 kg in weight and swim every ... |
5 October 2010
09:52 GMT |
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The decline of the Florida panther has been slowed down in some places, and stopped in its tracks in others, thanks to a last-minute conservation effort that sough to prevent the beautiful animals from being wiped out. The eastern panther population was 15 years ago estimated to include only several dozen animals, al... |
24 September 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Authorities in the South American nation announced last week that they plan to enact a new set of measures, taken with the explicit purpose of protecting the massive savanna known as Cerrado. This is a huge swath of land that features a magnificent diversity of animal and plant species. Its value for the world is ine... |
22 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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According to a new series of scientific studies, it would appear that even the small number of tigers that still exist today can provide a fresh start for future populations.The only conditions that need to be met is that the big cats are given enough protection, as well as dedicated conservation measures, experts sa... |
15 September 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Oysters differ from other marine animals that produce glue to affix themselves to each other via the fact that they produce cement to keep their colonies together. The conclusion, which belongs to a new study by experts at the Purdue University and the University of South Carolina (USC), may holds great importance fo... |
24 August 2010
02:56 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom is currently working on setting up the first ever visual biometrics database of Great White Sharks in the world.The tool is bound to help researchers in several fields conduct their investigations on the largest predators to roam our planet's oceans. Great White S... |
14 August 2010
04:44 GMT |
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Will Turner, an expert at Conservation International, argues in a new study that the reactions humans have to climate change and global warming could have effects that are just as negative as the ones caused by the devastating phenomena themselves. In the research, the expert details how humanity may be affecting the... |
6 August 2010
08:57 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that the organization will be supporting a team of researchers in developing computer models capable of predicting the effects and impact of sea level rise in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Knowing how the elevated water levels may affect... |
6 August 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Experts at the US Geological Survey (USGS) have just released the most detailed and up-to-date map of the vegetation cover in the United States. Given the encroachment of human activities in previously-pristine natural habitats, it stands to reason that conservations experts will require a new tool to assess where in... |
15 June 2010
10:18 GMT |
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All rare and endangered things apparently exert a certain type of fascination for certain types of people, who would pay large amounts of money just to have an object only a handful of other people already poses. Unfortunately, the same holds true for endangered plants and animals, according to the results of an inve... |
22 March 2010
07:42 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, the best possible ecosystems that could promote the conservation and recovery of endangered butterfly species are rugged, hilly landscapes that contain numerous and various types of habitats. These conclusions are based on data collected from the UK Land Cover Map data, a collecti... |
8 February 2010
06:00 GMT |
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One of the largest spiders of its class was recently discovered in Israel, by a team of biologists based at the University of Haifa-Oranim. Dubbed Cerbalus aravensis, the new arachnid is mostly nocturnal, and becomes most active in the hottest months of the year, for a reason still unknown to researchers. The creatur... |
12 January 2010
04:00 GMT |
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The United Nations has decided to take a stand against what can only be construed as international neglect of the world's species. While naturalists and biologists have been drawing attention to the fact that the planet is losing biodiversity at an alarming rate, authorities and governments seem more than unwill... |
11 January 2010
02:37 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that the Mayans were in the habit of practicing forest conservation, archaeological pieces of evidence point out. They also conserved the land and water on their territories, and historians now believe that the time when they abandoned these practices spelled nothing ... |
23 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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As I am trying to offer you, the readers, the most conclusive data on the threats of climate change, and the best possible ways of dealing with them, I thought I should enlist a second opinion, coming from one of the top environmental groups in the world. Dr. Neil Hamilton, the Director of the WWF International Arcti... |
11 July 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Scientists announced yesterday that they had just discovered the largest population of the critically endangered leatherback turtles, on the beaches of Gabon, in West Africa. Anywhere between 15,730 and 41,373 females inhabit the beaches of the area, land and airborne surveys of the region have shown, which means tha... |
19 May 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Wednesday could very well go down in history as one of the days when nature conservation efforts won an important victory in the United States. The Congress has passed a set of some 160 bills, setting the basis for more accurate and protective environmental regulations, which will affect millions of acres of land thr... |
26 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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More than 500,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert are currently the target of extensive bidding on the part of renewable energy companies, which want to construct either solar power plants or wind farms here. However, their plans may be upset by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said last Friday that the respective land ... |
25 March 2009
04:52 GMT |
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