Conservation
By Glenda KWEK Ya'an (Chine) (AFP) - Après avoir enchanté des millions de visiteurs dans le monde entier avec leurs mimiques adorables, leurs démarches nonchalantes et leur air de peluches, des pandas nés à l'étranger rentrent en Chine et s'adaptent à leurs nouvelles vies. Ces ambassadeurs à poils sont prêtés aux zoos étrangers dans le cadre de la "diplomatie du panda" de Pékin. Quelques années après leur naissance, leurs petits sont ensuite envoyés en Chine pour participer à des programmes de reproduction. A les regarder dévorer avec insouciance des bambous dans leurs spacieux enclos d'un cen...
AFP (Français)
Pour la première fois depuis au moins 200 ans, des chevaux sauvages de Przewalski sont revenus dans la steppe dorée du Kazakhstan. Il s'agit des derniers chevaux véritablement sauvages de la planète, dont les habitats ont été détruits par l'agriculture et d'autres activités humaines. Aujourd'hui, le zoo de Prague les a ramenés dans leur habitat d'origine, dans les plaines d'Asie centrale. Qu'est-il arrivé aux chevaux de Przewalski d'Asie centrale ?Début juin, un avion CASA de l'armée tchèque a atterri dans le centre du Kazakhstan avec à son bord quatre de ces animaux menacés. Tessa, Wespe, Umb...
Euronews (French)
By Andy BallGerald FlynnVutha Srey This is the third part of a Mongabay series about challenges faced by Cambodia’s small-scale fishers along the coast. Read Part One and Part Two. KOH RONG ISLAND, Cambodia — The afternoon sun beat down on the azure sea off the coast of Koh Rong, the largest island in Cambodia’s first marine national park in the southwestern province of Preah Sihanouk. Mangrove forests skirted by lazily as Dy Chantha left Prek Svay, one of the island’s fishing villages, to patrol the waters of the community fishery, or CFi, off the northern tip of Koh Rong with a team of five ...
Mongabay
Indonésie (AFP) - Des gangs de braconniers sont soupçonnés d'avoir tué 26 rhinocéros de Java, une espèce menacée d'extinction, depuis 2018, a annoncé mardi la police indonésienne. Les autorités estiment qu'il ne subsiste que 82 spécimens de ce mammifère, une espèce endémique de Java, dans le parc national d'Ujung Kulon, dans l'ouest de l'île la plus peuplée d'Indonésie. La police a présenté mardi au cours d'une conférence de presse cinq braconniers présumés et leurs armes à feu confisquées, après avoir révélé la semaine dernière enquêter sur les déclarations d'un braconnier arrêté, selon leque...
AFP (Français)
By Molly Herring With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs. They’re specialist pollinators in tropical rainforests from Mexico to Brazil and are primarily responsible for the spread of the iconic Brazilian nut. But orchid bees might also provide a window into how deforestation and land-use change affect ecosystems and biodiversity, a recent study in Brazil’s state of Rondônia suggests. Although not the only pollinators affected by habitat loss, orchid bees, from the tribe Euglossini, are “among the most spectacular, peculiar, well-...
Mongabay
By Andy BallGerald FlynnVutha Srey This is the second part of a Mongabay series about challenges faced by Cambodia’s small-scale fishers along the coast. Read Part One. KOH KONG & PREAH SIHANOUK, Cambodia — By 11 a.m., the sun was already beating down on Daem Thkov. The chatter of tourists on the nearby beach floated on the gentle sea breeze through the fishing village on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong. But behind the tranquil scenes of turquoise waters, white sands and morning cocktails, an uncertainty has gripped those who call Daem Thkov home. What the tourists sipping cocktails on the be...
Mongabay
By Liz Kimbrough In a glimmer of hope for one of the world’s rarest fish, scientists have counted 191 Devils Hole pupfish this spring in their tiny desert habitat. This number marks the highest spring count for the critically endangered species in more than two decades. The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is found only in the upper reaches of a single deep limestone cave in the Mojave Desert in the western U.S. state of Nevada. The entire species lives on a shallow rock shelf measuring 3.3 by 4.8 meters (11 by 16 feet), making this the smallest known range of any vertebrate species o...
Mongabay
By Daniel Shailer The latest attempt to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise from being snagged in nets meant for the coveted totoaba fish may prove to be the most effective yet. But the way it’s being administered by the Mexican Navy is opaque and underhanded, local fishers say, and may even prove a threat to the species it purports to conserve. Over the past two years, the Navy has placed hundreds of long metal hooks attached in pairs to concrete blocks in the Upper Gulf of California, off the coast of San Felipe, a fishing town in the Mexican state of Baja California. At first, a...
Mongabay
In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colours flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects. This is the Butterfly Forest in the tropical mountain greenhouse in Trento, Italy, a project by the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), an Italian science museum. It's modelled on Udzungwa Mountains, a mountain range and rainforest area in south-central Tanzania that’s one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The Butterfly Forest features plant species endemic to the region, as well as birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and...
Euronews (English)
170 European Bison reintroduced to Romania’s Țarcu mountains could help capture and store the carbon released by up to 84,000 average US petrol cars each year. New research from Yale University, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, suggests these massive herbivores could have a role to play in mitigating the impact of climate change. By grazing a 48 square kilometre area of grassland in a wider landscape of 300 kilometres squared, they helped to capture an additional 54,000 tonnes of carbon each year. That is around 10 times the amount that would be captured by the ecosystem without the bison...
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