Wildlife experts warn that the world’s rarest great ape, discovered in 2017, will not survive the building of a $1.6 billion hydroelectric power plant and dam in the middle of its remaining habitat in Sumatra, Indonesia. Only 800 of the newly identified Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild
Local police chief Ruddi Setiawan said Zhestkov had confessed that he bought the orangutan for $3,000 from a street market on Indonesia’s main island of Java
A recent study of the illegal wildlife trade shows that trafficking in endangered species is increasing in volume and value, further fueling the global extinction crisis
Being surrounded by wild animals, feeding them and taking care of their little ones this is exactly what Tiffany Soechting wanted to do all her life
A method millions of women have used to get pregnant could be what saves northern white rhino from extinction. Scientists age extracting eggs from southern white rhinos in European zoos as they fine-tune the IVF – in vitro fertilization – procedure. One
The population of the white-backed vulture, which inhabits Africa and parts of South and Southeast Asia, has declined significantly over the past several decades to the point that it is now considered by conservationists as an endangered species
On Española Island, only 14 tortoises remained (2 males and 12 females). These were brought into captivity and a tortoise breeding program began. A third Española male was returned to Galapagos in 1976 from the San Diego Zoo
The adoption follows the committee’s two-day colloquium on captive breeding of lions for hunting and for lion bone trade
Which game reserve in Africa is four times bigger than Serengeti? Naturally the answer is Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania which is about 50, 000 square kilometers and is the home of about 350 species of birds and reptiles. The main attraction obviously the big herds of Tanzanian elephants gather at the river bank of …
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