Category: Wildlife
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…
Koh Tao (Thailand) (AFP) – Record-high sea temperatures are bleaching coral reefs worldwide and putting a new focus on attempts to restore these key marine ecosystems. Conservation divers inspect an artificial structure for coral planting around Koh Tao island in Thailand ©…
BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists say is the world’s largest land…
Shimonoseki (Japan) (AFP) – The chef fires up the grill and bastes a chunky whale steak, a Japanese delicacy that could soon appear on more plates nationwide as a new whaling mothership sets sail despite criticism from conservationists. Fatty raw pink-and-white…
Cairns (Australia) (AFP) – Imagine feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, you can’t breathe, there’s a sense of impending doom and the pain is so intense you want to die. You’ve just been stung by a tiny Irukandji…
Wellington (AFP) – The King of New Zealand’s Indigenous Maori people made an impassioned call Thursday for whales to be granted the same legal rights as people in a bid to protect the hallowed yet vulnerable species. Kiingi Tuheitia Potatau te…
Conservationists raised the alarm on Tuesday as South Africa reported a sharp increase in rhino poaching, with almost 500 animals killed last year. A wild white rhino is seen at an undisclosed location in the North-West Province of South Africa,…
