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Earlier this month, Malaysia announced plans to gift orangutans to countries that buy its palm oil. Dubbed “orangutan diplomacy,” the strategy aims to mitigate the environmental damage of palm oil production. The commodity is found in over half of supermarket packaged goods from ice cream to lipstick and plantations are a major driver of deforestation in Malaysia. But clearing land for palm oil plantations is destroying orangutan habitats. The southeast Asian country’s proposed orangutan policy is the latest example of “animal diplomacy,” where living animals are used by governments in their i...
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Participants in Spencer, Massachusetts, enjoyed a 50-minute vinyasa flow class where the animals' antics provided both joy and stress relief. Organized by Beyond Yoga & Wellness and led by owner Ashley Bousquet, these sessions are so popular they often sell out within 24 hours, attracting attendees who travel long distances for this unique experience.
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Despite efforts to curb wildlife trafficking worldwide over the past 20 years, more than 4,000 species are still affected, a new report reveals. The majority of them are endangered. The World Wildlife Crime Report, released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today, says this inflicts “untold harm upon nature”, including driving some rare species to extinction. The impact of wildlife crime stretches far beyond the direct threat to species, devastating delicate ecosystems, removing a key source of income for nature-dependent communities, and undermining the Earth’s capacity to mitigate ...
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Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other for the first time. They hope the research could one day help better protect them. Like many whales and dolphins, sperm whales are highly social mammals and communicate by squeezing air through their respiratory systems to make strings of rapid clicks that can sound like an extremely loud zipper underwater. The clicks are also used as a form of echolocation to help them track their prey. Scientists have been trying for decades to un...
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Originally appearing after the 1989 earthquake, these marine mammals have become a beloved tourist attraction, drawing crowds to witness their playful antics. Biologists attribute the surge to an abundance of anchovies in the Bay, attracting the sea lions as they make a pit stop before heading south for mating season. While the surge tests the limits of the pier's barges, local businesses are hopeful that the increased foot traffic will boost tourism in the area.
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Emerging cicadas are so loud in one US county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant. "We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar. The sound is cicadas," it reads. Some people have even flagged down deputies to ask what the noise is all about, Newberry Co...
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New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death. Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more. In New York City, the idea to distribute rat contraceptives got fresh attention in city government last week following the death of an escaped zoo owl, known as Flaco, who was found dead with rat poison in his system. City Council Member Shaun Abreu p...
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Firefighters from the Sumy region branch of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service rescued five puppies while they were battling a blaze at a non-residential in the city of Sumy. The puppies escaped the blaze unharmed and were returned to their mother.
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The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was home to Lolita, the beloved Orca that died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history of violations” in a lease termination notice sent on Thursday to the chief executive officer of The Dolphin Company, which owns the Seaquarium. The company was told to vacate the property by 21 April, according to the letter from the mayor's office. “They have been the subject of continuous violations, including decaying an...
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A panda couple currently living in a zoo in Madrid are to be sent home to China in an attempt to help them produce new cubs. Hua Zui Ba, 20 and Bing Xing, 23 will be sent home to the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in southwestern China to take part in a breeding programme. The panda couple have lived in Madrid since 2007. They will be replaced by a new panda sent by the China Wildlife Conversation Association. Three cubs they have already birthed will stay in Madrid. The giant panda is native to central China and is loaned to zoos around the world as part of a conservation programme.
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