BBC is currently accused of misleading the audience, encouraging its public to believe that a footage of a newly-born polar bear cub was filmed in the wild, when it was actually produced in an animal park from Germany.
Even though the creatures were not born in their natural habitat, born “beneath the snow&rdq... |
12 December 2011
03:57 GMT |
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It seems that genuine polar bears are far from being those cute creatures we spot in TV commercials resting on banks of ice. A recent study shows that these animals eat their cubs and climate change might be behind this rare case of cannibalism. Photojournalist Jenny E. Ross has identified a disturbing incident of t... |
9 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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A team of researchers from Durham University and the Zoological Society of London, have carried out a study on eleven species of carnivores and concluded that larger species are more vulnerable than small species, to environmental changes.The reason for this is that besides habitat change and over-hunting, these anim... |
25 November 2010
02:58 GMT |
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, along with Interior Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, were sued by the Center for Biological Diversity, for failing to qualify one of their petitions as having merit or not. The legal time for the FWS to reply has passed, so the organization, which successfully petitioned for the adding of... |
8 December 2008
02:27 GMT |
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Zookeepers at Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, had the surprise of their life, when they noticed that the bear they took care of for more than 4 years was actually a female, instead of a male, as the medical certificate said. The cream-colored animal lived with his designated pair – another female –... |
26 November 2008
11:00 GMT |
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A new international report details the Arctic situation more thoroughly, pointing out the changes that the North Pole region has undergone since 2007, in terms of ice movement and marine/wildlife developmental trends. According to the new study, this year's amounts of molten ice in the area are second only to th... |
17 October 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Arctic ice is at a second lowest level this year, further limiting the natural habitat of the polar bears, which hugely affects their behavior as they are now prone to drowning and starving. As we've recently shown, Arctic ice levels are in a constant free fall, as according to Walt Meier, a research scien... |
24 September 2008
10:38 GMT |
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