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Technology, economics can help save endangered species: Research
Bioeconomic research is a multidisciplinary effort between economists and biologists to work together to see how human behavior interacts with...
Dangerous Precedent: Vulnerable jumbos in Africa in earshot of...
26 March 2021 7:44 PMWhile some African elephants parade across the savanna and thrill tourists on safari, others are more discreet. They stay hidden in the forests,...
Shrinking elephants once called Sicily their home
2 July 2021 7:28 PMElephants today are confined to the African and Asian continents. But their extinct relatives once roamed far and wide across the planet.
Extinction mystery solved by computers mounted on critters
15 July 2021 1:03 AMIn 2017, a rosy wolf snail crawled along a sunlit trail in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid, screwed...
Mass extinction of a pre-historic kind
31 Dec 2021 3:51 AMThere are currently 142,500 animal and plant species on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — 40,000 of which...
Wild species can help feed the world
10 July 2022 10:20 PM“Almost half the world’s population actually depend to a greater or lesser extent on the use of wild species. And it’s much more prevalent than most...
Committee to prevent vulture extinction formed in TN
19 Oct 2022 2:47 PMBird watchers and those into vulture conservation have welcomed the move.
81 bird species in Sri Lanka at risk of extinction
23 Jan 2023 9:01 AMThe Red Data Book is a public document recording endangered and rare species of plants, animals, fungi as well as some local subspecies that are...