China bans wild animal trade until viral outbreak eases
BEIJING — China on Sunday ordered a temporary ban on wildlife trading as the country struggles to contain a deadly virus believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild animals as food....
View ArticleCalifornia patient is 3rd US case of new virus from China
SANTA ANA, California — A patient in Southern California is the third person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China, health officials said. The Centers for Disease...
View ArticleFlight readied for Japanese to come home from Wuhan
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that he is making arrangements to fly Japanese people home from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new viral illness...
View ArticleChina’s wildlife trade, consumption to bring more outbreaks, say experts
SHANGHAI — The animal-borne SARS virus 17 years ago was supposed to be a wake-up call about consuming wildlife as food, but scientists say China’s latest epidemic indicates that the practice remains...
View ArticleLOOK: Australian soldiers use rest periods to care for koalas affected by...
A group from the Australian armed forces lent a helping hand to a local wildlife park by taking care of koalas affected by the bushfires. The post LOOK: Australian soldiers use rest periods to care for...
View ArticlePangolin identified as potential link for novel coronavirus spread
BEIJING — The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said Friday. At least 31,000 people have been infected and 630...
View ArticleUS judge cancels oil and gas leases on some sage grouse land
BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has cancelled more than $125 million in oil and gas leases on public lands that are home to the declining bird species greater sage grouse, in a ruling that said the...
View Article12-year prison term not enough for wildlife traffickers–DENR
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is backing a House bill imposing stiffer penalties on wildlife crime. In a position paper submitted to the House committee on natural...
View ArticleRare white giraffes killed by poachers in Kenya—conservationists
NAIROBI — Kenya’s only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world. The bodies of...
View ArticleWildlife photographer Peter Beard found dead near his home
NEW YORK — Artist, adventurer and celebrated wildlife photographer Peter Beard was found dead in woods near his cliff-side home at the tip of Long Island nearly a month after his family reported him...
View ArticleAnimals at Singapore’s wildlife parks monitored for signs of COVID-19
SINGAPORE — Wildlife parks here, including the Singapore Zoo, are monitoring its captive animals for Covid-19 infections after a recent episode in the New York City Bronx Zoo, where a tiger tested...
View ArticleChina offers farmers cash to give up wildlife trade
Farmers in China are being offered cash to quit breeding exotic animals as pressure grows to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that has been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak. Authorities have...
View ArticleEndangered Sumatran tiger found dead in Indonesia
A Sumatran tiger has been found dead in an apparent case of poaching, underscoring the threats to the critically endangered species. The post Endangered Sumatran tiger found dead in Indonesia appeared...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: an unexplored Eden of biodiversity
BOMA, South Sudan — The light plane banked sharply to circle back over the plains. The pilot had spotted something below: antelope, first one, then many, the stragglers of a million-strong migration...
View ArticleWATCH: Australian park rejoices in birth of first baby koala since bushfires
A wildlife park in Australia celebrated the birth of its first baby koala since bushfires ravaged the country’s ecosystem. The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales saw the birth of the baby koala...
View Article6 elephants killed by poachers in single day in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — At least six elephants were killed in a single day by poachers in Ethiopia last week, wildlife officials said, the largest such slaughter in memory in the East African nation....
View ArticleCoronavirus disrupts global fight to save endangered species
WASHINGTON — Biologist Carlos Ruiz has spent a quarter-century working to save golden lion tamarins, the charismatic long-maned monkeys native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Thanks to painstaking...
View ArticlePangolin released into wild under China’s new protections
BEIJING— Activists in China have released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the armadillo-like animal whose numbers in the country have dropped to near extinction levels....
View ArticleSilverback gorilla Rafiki killed with spear; culprit arrested
An endangered silverback gorilla named Rafiki died after getting pierced with a spear by a poacher in Uganda, East Africa. The post Silverback gorilla Rafiki killed with spear; culprit arrested...
View ArticleIllegal peddler of exotic animals nabbed again
MANILA, Philippines – A notorious online peddler of exotic and endangered animals has been arrested by agents of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the National Bureau of...
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