Tag: wildlife

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:37 UTC

  By-catch scientific research identifies danger areas for wandering albatrosses

  

  Over half of wandering albatrosses breeding on Bird Island, South Georgia, in the sub-Antarctic, encounter fishing vessels when feeding, putting them at risk of being accidentally caught or killed in fishing gear, according to new research led by British Antarctic Survey and Birdlife International. The results will help conservation efforts for a species that is in decline.

• 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.

• Sunday, April 25th 2021 - 23:21 UTC

  World Penguin Day once again celebrated in times of Covid-19

  

  This Sunday, April 25, is World Penguin Day's celebration, a creation by researchers at the McMurdo Station, an American scientific center on Antarctica's Ross Island to mark every year's migration of Adeline penguins to the north.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2020 - 15:35 UTC

  New research shows sustainable fishing and conservation can coexist

  

  By surfbirds (*) – Our oceans are in trouble. Globally, poor fishing practices are directly damaging to marine wildlife, and overfishing can deplete food resources for animals such as seabirds and seals. However, research by BirdLife's Marine Program, in association with scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, (BAS) and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK), shows that under current climate conditions, sustainable fisheries can exist alongside conservation measures for seabirds and seals in a well-managed Marine Protected Area.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  Friends of the Earth ask China to permanently close wildlife markets for food

  

  Friends of the Earth and Friends for the Sea the preeminent worldwide food certifications have launched a petition asking the Chinese government to permanently close markets that sell wildlife for food. The petition is a response both to the recent outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus, which has been traced to China’s wildlife markets, and the overall environmental damage these markets are causing.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Only in bush fire ravaged Australia, a kangaroo spotted cooling off in a pool

  

  A kangaroo has been spotted cooling off in a backyard pool in a bush fire-ravaged region of Australia while elsewhere firefighters have been rescuing koalas from trees threatened by flames.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Precious fauna perished in weeks of wildfires in Bolivian forest and grassland

  

  More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swathes of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said on Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Falklands' wildlife recorded on the book “Britain's Distant Lands”

  

  The author of the bestselling book Britain’s Treasure Islands is releasing a new work, with a section dedicated to the Falkland Islands. Britain’s Distant Lands by Stewart McPherson is a 208 page, landscape-format examination of the wildlife of all the UK Overseas Territories.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Australia plans to cull two million feral cats to save native wildlife

  

  Australia's federal government is once again in the spotlight for a years-old plan to cull 2 million feral cats by 2020, this time after details emerged about the reported use of poison-laced sausages to reduce the island's wild cat population. 

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Thousands of emperor penguin chicks died in 2016 destroyed by severe weather, reports a BAS team

  

  Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather. The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. Scientists say the colony at the edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf has collapsed with adult birds showing no sign of trying to re-establish the population.