Conservation

Australia’s duck-billed platypus could be on the brink of extinction, scientists said in a newly released study on Monday, January 20, 2020. The platypus, a beaver-tailed species...

Jewel Environmental Initiative (JEI), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has called on the Gombe State Government to enact stronger environmental laws to stop the indiscriminate...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity on Monday, January 13, 2020 released its “zero draft” text proposal for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Featured in the text is a...

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Wildlife Conservation, on Monday, January 13, 2020 said that the cabinet has agreed to recruit civil defence in areas worst affected by...

A U.S. federal grand jury has charged a New York man, Christopher Casacci, with trafficking in African wild cats. Assistant Attorney-General, Jeffrey Clark, and U.S. Attorney James...

Hundreds of bushfires in east and south Australia are wreaking havoc on native animals that have either died or are being severely impacted through lost habitat, starvation and displacement. In recent...

Conservationists and wildlife experts are anxious that raging bushfires sweeping through Australia have resulted in “catastrophic losses”, amid fears an entire species may have been wiped out. Populations of small marsupials called dunnarts...

The National Parks Service says it will partner with the Mothers of the International Foundation (MEIF), an NGO, on capacity building. Dr Ibrahim Goni, the Conservator -General, National...