Sétif (Algeria) (AFP) – With its vivid plumage and sweet trill, the goldfinch has long been revered in Algeria, but the national obsession has also driven illegal hunting, prompting calls to protect the songbird. Keeping goldfinches is common in Algeria, but…
Wellington (AFP) – New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. The spade-toothed whale pictured on July 5 by the New Zealand…
Paris (AFP) – Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70 percent in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of a landmark assessment by WWF published on Thursday. The report found that populations under review had fallen…
Jakarta (AFP) – Indonesian authorities arrested a man trying to sell elephant tusks and the horns of critically endangered rhinos via social media. This undated handout picture released by Ujung Kulon national park in 2011 shows a Javan rhino captured by…
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Malaysia is inviting countries that buy its palm oil to adopt orangutans but leave them in their natural habitat, local media reported, tweaking a plan that originally sought to send some abroad. A Sumatran orangutan rests at…
Mahmudia (Romania) (AFP) – Tour guide Eugen Grigorov steered his boat past half-underwater combine harvesters and last year’s flooded crops in a part of Romania’s Danube Delta reclaimed by the great river. While many welcome the return of wetland wildlife to…
Baringo (Kenya) (AFP) – On a vast farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a veterinarian carefully takes aim before shooting a tranquiliser dart and sending another giraffe sinking slowly to the ground before it is roped and blindfolded. The number of giraffes…
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