Tag: wild animals

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentina creates registry for activities involving wild animals

  

  Argentina's Environment Ministry Friday created a Registry for people involved in dealings with wild animals, it was announced.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Wild animals are slipping to explore empty streets of lock-downed cities

  

  With humans retreating into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of the biggest cities. Wild boar have descended from the hills around Barcelona in Spain while sika deer are nosing their way around the deserted metro stations of Nara in Japan.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Poachers in Kenya kill the only female white giraffe and her calf

  

  Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said on Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:42 UTC

  China fast-tracks ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals

  

  China's top legislature said it will immediately ban the trade and consumption of wild animals, in a fast-track decision it says will allow the country to win the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.