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Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
Turtles and see-through frogs on agenda at wildlife summit
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» PANAMA CITY - A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.
Gorilla among 200 endangered species threatened by conflict
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» GENEVA: Civil unrest and military exercises pose heightened risks to more than 200 threatened species, including elephant populations and the critically-endangered Eastern gorilla, conservationists warned Wednesday.
Hell in high water: Braving the monsoon to save India's rhinos
AFP, Published on 05/07/2019
» KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, Assam, India: The monsoon may bring respite from the scorching heat, but for the rangers and animals at Kaziranga National Park it also brings danger as poachers take advantage of greater camouflage and flooding.
Prosecutor among trio jailed for $1.4m rhino horn haul
AFP, Published on 20/11/2018
» A public prosecutor and two people were sentenced for four years Tuesday after they were caught attempting to smuggle more than a dozen rhino horns worth $1.4 million through Suvarnabhumi airport last year.
How a plan to save Kenya's rhino left 11 dead in historic blunder
AFP, Published on 30/08/2018
» NAIROBI - It was a disaster that left wildlife lovers around the globe appalled and baffled.
Scientists create embryos to save the rhino
AFP, Published on 05/07/2018
» PARIS: Months after the death of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhinoceros, scientists said Wednesday they have grown embryos containing DNA of his kind, hoping to save the subspecies from extinction.
People are pillaging the world's protected areas: study
AFP, Published on 18/05/2018
» TAMPA - Highways are being paved, oil is being drilled and entire cities are sprouting up inside many of the world's nature preserves, imperiling the very creatures they are meant to protect, researchers said Thursday.