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Wildlife
Beetle attack
July 4, 2008 09:48 AM - The Economist
OVER the past 14 years, a tiny insect no bigger than a grain of rice has laid waste a swathe of British Columbia’s forests so vast that the rust-red wasteland is visible from space. The mountain pine beetle has infested and killed over half the lodgepole pine forest in the centre of the province—an area larger than England.
Poaching gangs blamed for tiger density tumble in Nepal park
July 3, 2008 09:22 AM - WWF
A Nepal wildlife reserve that boasted the highest density of tigers in the world is just half a decade later struggling to hold a few remaining tigers.
Condemned to single-sex life by climate change
July 2, 2008 10:54 AM - Nature News
All tuatara could be born male — and thus doomed to extinction — within decades.
Smart camera keeps an eye on rare penguins
June 30, 2008 08:43 AM - New Scientist
You may think penguins all look the same, but a computer system on a South African island knows better. It can identify individual birds from subtle differences in their plumage. The technology could help researchers monitor threatened populations without using more invasive methods that can distress or harm the birds.
Foreigners threaten Afghan snow leopards
June 27, 2008 09:10 AM - Reuters
Afghanistan's snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat -- foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country. Despite a complete hunting ban across Afghanistan since 2002, snow leopard furs regularly end up for sale on international military bases and at tourist bazaars in the capital. Foreigners have ready cash to buy the pelts as souvenirs and impoverished Afghans break poaching laws to supply them.
Looming tropical disaster needs urgent action
June 25, 2008 09:56 AM - The University of Adelaide
A major review by University of Adelaide researchers shows that the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss with potentially disastrous implications for biodiversity and human well-being. Published online today in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the review concludes we are "on a trajectory towards disaster" and calls for an immediate global, multi-pronged conservation approach to avert the worst outcomes.
Fisheries, not whales, to blame for shortage of fish
June 25, 2008 09:46 AM - WWF
The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said today as the International Whaling Commission opened its 60th meeting in Santiago, Chile.
EU to fine, blacklist illegal fishing operators
June 24, 2008 10:39 AM - Reuters
European Union ministers agreed on Tuesday to tighten inspections on illegal fishing in EU waters and slap stiff fines on lawbreakers and to compile blacklists of boats and countries. The EU has one of the world's largest fishing fleets and is the top market and importer of fisheries products, worth around 14 billion euros ($21.7 billion) a year.
Frog species sprout claws on demand
June 24, 2008 10:08 AM - Reuters
At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. When threatened, the frogs can puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes that they then use to claw their attackers, David Blackburn and colleagues at Harvard University reported.
U.S. Government Issues Shark Finning Ban in Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Waters
June 23, 2008 08:43 AM - , Oceana
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today filed new rules that will require federal shark fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico to land sharks with their fins still naturally attached. Previous federal regulations required only that fins and carcasses be brought to dock in a specific ratio, allowing shark fins to be cut off at sea.