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Pillaged Ivory Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade
AFP, Published on 31/10/2025
» COMOE NATIONAL PARK (IVORY COAST) - Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war and unrest between 2002 and 2011.
Australia investigates American influencer over croc wrestling
AFP, Published on 11/09/2025
» SYDNEY - Australian authorities are investigating an American influencer who filmed himself wrestling wild crocodiles in Queensland, condemning the “extremely dangerous and illegal” activity.
Mexican cartel war forces evacuation of exotic animals
AFP, Published on 22/05/2025
» CULIACAN, Mexico - Hundreds of animals including elephants, crocodiles, lions and tigers have been moved from a violence-torn Mexican cartel heartland to a new home in an operation described as a “21st-century Noah’s Ark”.
'Appetite for drumsticks': First prey found in a tyrannosaur stomach
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - Prey has been discovered inside the stomach of a tyrannosaur skeleton for the first time, scientists said Friday, revealing that the mighty dinosaurs had an "appetite for drumsticks" when they were young.
How Belize became a poster child for 'debt-for-nature' swaps
AFP, Published on 16/10/2023
» NEW YORK - When Covid hit Belize, its economy nosedived: closed borders meant fisheries and farmers had no export markets, and tourism centered on the tiny Central American nation's warm waters and wonders of biodiversity came to a halt.
Those protruding T Rex teeth? They were covered by lips: study
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Sorry, "Jurassic Park" and toymakers everywhere.
Costa Rica crocodiles survive in 'most polluted' river
AFP, Published on 26/11/2022
» TáRCOLES (COSTA RICA) - In one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, a vulnerable crocodile species is thriving despite living in waters that have become a sewer for Costa Rica's capital, experts say.
Shark fin hunters targeted, wildlife summit extends protection
AFP, Published on 18/11/2022
» PANAMA CITY: A global wildlife summit in Panama took an important step Thursday towards upgrading protection for sharks, the ancient ocean vertebrates targeted for their fins used in a status-symbol soup.
Trouser snakes: US smuggler admits carrying reptiles in pants
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - A man who hid snakes and lizards in his trousers as he tried to sneak them into the United States as part of a $750,000 reptile smuggling enterprise faces decades in prison, officials said Wednesday.
Over 21% of reptile species at risk of extinction
AFP, Published on 28/04/2022
» PARIS - At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global assessment of the world's so-called cold-blooded creatures.