Botswana investigates ‘mysterious deaths’ of 275 elephants
GABORONE, Botswana — Botswana said it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses – 275 – found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks....
View ArticleAnother endangered owl turned over to Palawan authorities
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY –– Another Spotted Wood Owl (Strix seloputo) was turned over to the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD), marking the second of its species to be surrendered to the...
View ArticleVietnam bans wildlife imports, markets amid new health fears
HANOI, Vietnam— Vietnam announced Friday that it was banning wildlife imports and would close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals...
View ArticleZoo officials apologize for display of African man in 1906
NEW YORK — The organization that runs New York’s Bronx Zoo is apologizing for racism in the zoo’s past, including putting Ota Benga, a central African man, on display in the Monkey House in 1906. “In...
View ArticleWild elephants, monkeys in Thailand to be controlled with $14 million budget
BANGKOK — The Thai Cabinet today approved a budget of Bt435.289 million ($14 million) to reduce impacts of wildlife on people. More than three-quarters of the budget – Bt360.608 million – will be spent...
View ArticleQC suburb denies DENR access to ostriches who breached lockdown
MANILA, Philippines — A team from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was denied access to the Quezon City subdivision where two ostriches ran loose days ago, an official of the...
View ArticleBotswana elephant deaths tests inconclusive but poisoning not ruled out
Gaborone, Botswana — Botswana on Friday said initial tests to ascertain the cause of the deaths of hundreds of elephants in the famed Okavango Delta have been inconclusive but did not eliminate...
View ArticleBFAR bans harvesting, trading of 3 sea cucumber species
SAN FERNANDO CITY — Starting Aug. 28, catching and trading of three species of sea cucumber will be prohibited, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said on Wednesday. The species,...
View ArticleSpinner dolphin found dead on Biliran shore
TACLOBAN CITY – A male spinner dolphin was found dead on the shoreline of Barangay Masagawsaw, Kawayan town in Biliran province on Tuesday, August 11. Fisherman Janito Rosarion found the whale,...
View ArticleChina’s rat, cobra farmers feel coronavirus pain
Loudi, China — Bamboo rat farmer Liu Yanqun was just starting to make plump returns from the rodents in his farm in central China when the coronavirus broke out at the end of last year. The killer...
View ArticleGroup sets off alarm over forest turtle trade
A wildlife trade monitoring network has sounded the alarm on the massive illicit trading of the Philippine forest turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis), previously thought to be extinct until rediscovered...
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...
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