The world needs to do more to protect the Antarctic wilderness and its wildlife, scientists warned Tuesday, as they marked World Penguin Day. The flightless seabirds — a favourite with children for their clumsy, waddling…
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#Conservation: Australia sees second year of Barrier Reef bleaching
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching, scientists said Friday, warning many species would struggle to fully recover. The 2,300-kilometre (1,400-mile) reef suffered its most severe bleaching…
#Conservation: Bringing water to Kenya’s drought-stricken wildlife
In a wildlife sanctuary in southern Kenya the relentless sun has bleached savannah grasses and dried up rivers, turning water holes first into muddy pits and now, dust bowls. Herds of elephant, buffalo and zebra…
#Conservation: Kenya Airways joins UN campaign to help end wildlife crime
One of Africa’s largest airlines, Kenya Airways, have joined forces with UN Environment on World Wildlife Day to help put an end to the illicit international trade in wildlife driving myriad species to the brink of…
#Conservation: Prince Harry pleas for support to save the African rhino
Prince Harry has made an impassioned plea to save the African black rhino. The 32-year-old royal has asked for support in saving this “incredibly special” creature as he revealed numbers in the wild have been…
#Conservation: Race to save the cheetah as study reveals extinction threat
Lounging in the shade of a tree, Heathcliff the cheetah oozes sleek grace and power, but he is captive behind a wire fence — perhaps the only way that cheetahs will exist in a few…
Burning ivory, waging war: world battles poaching in 2016
It was one of the most momentous events in the battle against poaching: 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks going up in flames in Kenya as the world looked on. The largest-ever destruction of ivory,…
#Conservation: Record coral kill-off on Great Barrier Reef
A mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before, with more than two-thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site, scientists confirmed Tuesday. The 2,300-kilometre (1,400-mile)…
#Conservation: Sri Lanka bans use of young elephants for work
Sri Lanka unveiled tougher laws Wednesday, including a ban on using young elephants for logging and other physical work, as part of a crackdown on cruelty to domesticated wild animals. Wildlife Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera…
#Conservation: Kenya uses new technology to nab poachers at night
Twenty-six poachers have been caught at night after a new thermal and infrared camera and software system was introduced in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara and its other national parks, WWF said on Monday. The technology…