California 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 ArticleBattle on to save Brazil’s tropical wetlands from flames
BRASILIA, Brazil — A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. Preliminary figures from the Federal...
View ArticleRare leopards reappearing in habitats near Beijing
TAIYUAN — North China leopards, once on the edge of extinction, have been spotted again in their traditional mountainous habitats near Beijing after more than two decades, according to wildlife...
View ArticleRescuers race to save 180 stranded whales in Australia
SYDNEY — Rescuers faced a race against time to save nearly 200 whales stuck in a remote Australian harbor on Tuesday, hoping to prevent the toll of 90 dead from rising further after managing to free “a...
View ArticlePoverty, joblessness drives wildlife poaching in South Africa — study
Most people convicted for wildlife poaching and trafficking in South Africa commit the crimes due to poverty and joblessness, a study by an international wildlife conservation group has shown. A report...
View ArticleEndangered Javan leopard dies after days in snare
BANDUNG, Indonesia — A female Javan leopard that was caught for days in a snare in Ciwidey Forest in West Java has died after being taken by authorities to the Bandung Zoological Garden (Bazoga) for...
View ArticleScientists propose tax on livestock, meat to help avert future pandemics
ROME — Policy makers should consider levying taxes on livestock production and meat consumption to reduce the risk of future deadly pandemics, international experts said on Thursday, as they published...
View ArticleIndonesian authorities discover smuggled parrots stuffed in plastic bottles
Fakfak, Indonesia — Dozens of parrots stuffed into plastic water bottles have been discovered on a ship docked in Indonesia’s Papua region, authorities said Friday. Police in the town of Fakfak said...
View ArticleWATCH: PETA protests Thailand’s forced monkey labor in coco industry
MANILA, Philippines — Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Wednesday called for an end to monkey labor in Thailand’s coconut industry. The animal rights advocates denounced...
View Article‘World’s loneliest elephant’ flown from Pakistan to Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — The world’s loneliest male elephant, Kaavan, arrived at the Siem Reap International Airport from Pakistan at 2:30pm on November 30, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of...
View ArticleLOOK: Endangered foxes photographed in Inner Mongolia
BEIJING — In Erguna city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, groups of corsac foxes were captured by the camera of a local photographer recently. The species can be found in central Asia, Russia,...
View ArticleCimatu urges to continue wildlife conservation amid pandemic
MANILA, Philippines — Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu on Tuesday said the country’s wildlife preservation should continue even with the COVID-19...
View ArticleArctic drilling foes seek to block seismic surveys, lease sales in Alaska refuge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Environmental and Alaska Native groups asked a federal court in Anchorage on Tuesday to stop the U.S. Interior Department from opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to...
View ArticleFrom macaques to crabs, wildlife faces threat from face masks
KUALA LUMPUR — Masks that helped save lives during the coronavirus pandemic are proving a deadly hazard for wildlife, with birds and marine creatures ensnared in the staggering number of discarded...
View ArticleMonkey that attacked baby killed
BUTTERWORTH — A monkey was shot dead some 45 hours after it brutally attacked an infant who is now in serious but stable condition. North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Noorzainy Mohd Noor said the...
View ArticleAustralian carer mothers orphaned kangaroos back to health
SYDNEY — Wearing pink surgical gloves, animal carer Christie Jarrett gently wraps the foot of an orphaned seven-month-old kangaroo with surgical tape at a facility set up at her rural home near the...
View ArticleBOC intercepts 25 live reptiles concealed in Taiwan-bound parcel
MANILA, Philippines — Twenty-five exotic animals with an estimated value of P300,000 were seized inside a parcel consigned to a Taiwanese national, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Saturday....
View ArticleUSAID turns over wildlife ambulance to DENR
MANILA, Philippines — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) turned over a new wildlife ambulance to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to “strengthen...
View ArticlePandemic crippling nature conservation efforts
Geneva, Switzerland — The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had devastating effects on humans, it has also heavily impacted efforts to safeguard natural ecosystems and habitats around the globe,...
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