The UAE’s wildlife app Charles Darwin would have wanted
ABU DHABI // If Charles Darwin had a smartphone he would probably have downloaded the Collector for ArcGIS, a free app being used by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) to help record species of...
View ArticleSumatran rhinos likely to become extinct, conservationists warn
Conservation group IUCN wants Indonesia and international donors to take urgent action to save ‘weirdest of all rhinos’ Earth’s last remaining Sumatran rhinos are edging perilously close to extinction,
View ArticleGlobal nutrient transport in a world of giants
The past was a world of giants, with abundant whales in the sea and large animals roaming the land. However, that world came to an end following massive late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions on land
View ArticleEstimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree...
Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with...
View ArticleMore than a quarter of British birds at risk of local extinction
Over a quarter of the bird species in the UK are now of "highest conservation concern" according to a new report, Birds of Conservation Concern 4. A total of 67 of the UK's 244 bird species are now on
View ArticleCities Support More Threatened Species Than Wild Areas Do in Australia
When you think of wild animals, you usually think of the country or woodlands far away from human civilization. Now, though, researchers have found that cities may just host more threatened species than
View ArticleRarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems
The fossil record provides striking case studies of biodiversity loss and global ecosystem upheaval. Because of this, many studies have sought to assess the magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis
View ArticleExtinction of monkeys, birds could lead to more severe climate change
The extinction of large animals from tropical forests could lead to potentially stronger impacts of climate change, a new study warns. A decline in the number of fruit-eating animals could lead to lower
View ArticleTibet sees growth in wildlife population
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has seen its wildlife population increase in recent decades thanks to protective measures. The regional forestry department said Thursday that the population
View ArticleGigantopithecus, Asia's ‘King Kong,' died due to climate change
The biggest ape to roam the Earth went extinct 100,000 years ago because the species was not able to adapt to just consuming savannah grass after climate change hit its favoured diet of forest fruit,...
View ArticleMegafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
Large herbivores and carnivores (the megafauna) have been in a state of decline and extinction since the Late Pleistocene, both on land and more recently in the oceans. Much has been written on the
View ArticleExtinct plant species discovered in amber
Biologists have described a new species of extinct plant, based on two fossil flowers that were trapped in chunks of amber for at least 15 million years. Strychnos electri belongs to the genus whose...
View ArticleFish poachers push Mexico's endangered porpoises to brink of extinction
China’s lucrative black market for fish parts is threatening the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. The porpoises, who live only in the Gulf of California, are getting caught up as...
View ArticleGreat Indian Bustards 'extinct' in Nashik region, not spotted since...
Nashik: The majestic Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) are vanishing from sight, at least in the Nashik region. According to forest officials, not a single GIB has been spotted in the region since 2007.
View ArticleNo More Tigers in Cambodia! Government Plans to Reintroduce the Big Cats in...
The dry forests of Cambodia once serve as the home for a number of Indochinese tigers, but now, due to excessive human activities, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has declared tigers to be "functionally"...
View ArticleFilling in biodiversity threat gaps
The diversity of life on Earth—which provides vital services to humanity —stems from the difference between rates of evolutionary diversification and extinction. Human activities have shifted
View ArticleCheetahs racing towards extinction, fear researchers
Current estimates of the number of cheetahs in the wild are `guesswork', researchers, including those from India have found, amid fears that the fastest land mammal is racing to extinction. A study
View ArticleState of the world's plants 2016
This is the frst document to collate current knowledge on the state of the world’s plants. It represents a status report on our knowledge of global vegetation as it stands in 2016, including a
View ArticleWolf count fast dwindling in Rajasthan
Jodhpur: Wolf is in high demand at all the zoos of the country. The declining population has led this schedule I animal near extinction with presence in Gujarat and Rajasthan only. Recently, the Machia
View ArticleHangul, the rare Kashmir deer, may soon go extinct
The endangered hangul, also known as Kashmir deer, is in the throes of extinction, largely because of human intrusions and domestic livestock grazing at its only habitat here. Wildlife experts and...
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