THE AUSTRALIAN – AFP
A FARMER faces 12 years in prison if found guilty in the Philippines of killing and then eating one of the world’s largest and rarest eagles, the government said today.
The three-year-old juvenile male Philippine eagle, which weighed more than four kilograms, was shot with an air rifle on the northern slope [...]
LISA JONES – WALES ONLINE –
PESTICIDES were last night blamed for a dramatic drop in the numbers of the nation’s birds.
A report reveals that almost half are struggling to breed, with a marked decline in species inhabiting farmland and woodland.
Species such as curlews, willow warblers, skylarks and pied flycatchers are among those deserting the [...]
SCIENCE DAILY – PRESS RELEASE
Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known as the “kipunji,” the large, forest-dwelling primate hovers at 1,117 individuals, according to a study released in the [...]
EXPRESS INDIA
A Gangetic dolphin, which got entangled in a fisherman’s net, was sold at a local market in Behrampore on Tuesday. This in complete violation of the Wildlife Protection Act since the Gangetic dolphin is an endangered species.
During fishing in Bhagirathi river, Naresh Haldar found the dolphin in his haul. Instead of releasing it back [...]
PRESS RELEASE – WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
Two reports from TRAFFIC, the world’s largest wildlife trade monitoring network, on traditional medicine systems in Cambodia and Vietnam suggest that illegal wildlife trade, including entire tiger skeletons, and unsustainable harvesting is depleting the region’s rich and varied biodiversity and putting the primary healthcare resource of millions at risk.
The results [...]
ABC AUSTRALIA
Vandals have damaged a sensitive wetland on the New South Wales far south coast that is home to one of Australia’s most endangered frogs.
National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers found the previously pristine area in Ben Boyd National Park, near Eden, churned up by four-wheel drive vehicles.
The wetland is home to the green and [...]
REUTERS – JAMES POMFRET
YIHUANG, China (Reuters) – Dragging on a cigarette between his wrinkled lips, Hou Fengqi fingered a dusty bamboo bow and rusty iron-tipped arrows, before recounting his days as a “tiger hunting hero” in the rugged hills of southern China.
“The first tiger was the largest, around 150kg, and when we carried it back [...]
UPI
BOULDER, Colo., July 8 (UPI) — A U.S. study finds species extinction threats are underestimated due to a math problem, with extinction risks underrated by possibly as much as 100-fold.
University of Colorado-Boulder Assistant Professor Brett Melbourne said current mathematical models used to determine extinction threat, or the “red-listed” status, of species overlook random differences between [...]
TIMES OF INDIA
PUNE/SATARA: State forest officials have seized the half-burnt skin, bones and other remains of a chinkara from the farmhouse of state minister for transport and tribal development Dharmarao Baba Atram. The raid on Atram’s farmhouse at Khingar in Mahabaleshwar taluka comes nearly three weeks after the poaching of the chinkara, an endangered species [...]
INDEPENDENT – STEVE CONNOR
A third of the world’s coral species are threatened with extinction, according to an international study that revealed rapid and alarming deterioration in the state of coral reefs over the past 10 years.
Many will have disappeared by the end of the century unless global warming, pollution and over-fishing are curbed, warned scientists [...]
