Conservation

Ivory, pangolin scales smuggled from Congo seized by Thai officials

Ivory and pangolin scales worth $355,000 smuggled from Congo have been seized in Thailand, Customs officials said on Thursday, November 9, 2017. Four elephant tusks...

Parks Service cautions against bush burning to protect wildlife, vegetation

The Nigeria National Parks Service has cautioned members of the public against bush burning in and around parks across the country to protect wildlife...

CITES, UN highlight links between corruption, wildlife crime

The Secretariat of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the UN Office on Drugs and...

National Parks Service arrests wildlife trafficker

Conservator-General, Nigeria National Parks Service (NPS), Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, says the service has arrested an international trafficker of endangered species of wildlife. The Conservator-General, who...

Why protecting chimps is in mankind’s self-interest, by Redmond

Chimpanzees - which share some 99 per cent of their DNA with us - are in trouble, despite national protection efforts across Africa, says...

CMS COP12: Momentum grows to save world’s migratory wildlife

World governments attending this year’s largest wildlife summit have collectively endorsed actions on the conservation of a wide range of migratory species, many of...

Urbanisation threatens European ferns with extinction

A fifth of European fern and lycopod species, a group of vascular plants that underpins healthy ecosystems, are threatened with extinction and declining, as...

Decline in bird species attributed to ‘towerkill’

Recent scientific advancements around the world have conflicted with some environmental systems; hence, there are many struggles to create a balance. One of the...

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Artemis II: Humanity’s presence in space, along with environmental challenges, is expanding – UNEP

If all goes as planned NASA’s Artemis II crew – fresh off a record-breakng orbit of the Moon – will splash...

Simon Stiell: Clean energy is solution to fossil fuel crisis, don’t depend on vulnerable shipping straits

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