Eighteen Madagascan pochards – the world’s most endangered duck – have hatched in a captive breeding centre. This brings the world population of the ducks to just 60. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the groups leading the captive breeding programme, say this “builds hope that the bird can be saved […]
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Hunters ‘insulted’ by decision to open spring hunting
FKNK Secretary General slams government’s announcement that the spring hunting season will open on 12 April and the bag limit is established at not more than 11,000 turtle doves and 5,000 quails. The Federation for Hunting & Conservation secretary general Lino Farrugia slammed the government’s decision to open the spring hunting season on 12 April […]
New Voluntary Wind Guidelines Will Fail to Protect Birds
American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, has called the final, voluntary wind guidelines released today by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) unenforceable, and charged that they will do little to protect millions of birds from the negative impacts of wind energy. “ABC supports wind power when it is ‘bird-smart.’ […]
Disappointment at size of Shetland’s consented ‘Viking’ wind farm
The Scottish Government has approved the construction of 103 turbines by the Viking Energy developmenton Shetland – this has been greeted with disappointment by RSPB Scotland. Whilst the developer has made welcome and considerable effort to reduce the potential impact of the initial proposal – reducing the number of turbines from an initial proposal of […]
Bottlenose dolphins: ‘Gangs’ run society, scientists say
Male bottlenose dolphins organise gang-like alliances – guarding females against other groups and occasionally “changing sides”. A team studying dolphins in Shark Bay, western Australia, say the animals roam hundreds of square kilometres, often encountering other dolphin groups. The researchers observed the dolphins there over a five-year period, recording their movements. They report their findings […]
Grey-crowned Crocias crops-up in new location
One of the rarest birds in Vietnam, has just been discovered at a new location in Kon Tum Province significantly extending its known global range and offering hope that the species may not be as threatened with extinction as scientists fear. Grey-crowned Crocias Crocias langbianbis is one of the least known birds in Asia. It […]
Extinct frog rediscovered in Burundi
Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Burundi in December 2011. The frog was last seen by scientists in 1949 and was feared to be extinct after decades of turmoil in the […]
Walruses Move Ashore as Sea Ice Melts
The beaches of Alaska’s northwest coast are getting crowded. Giant aggregations of walruses are an increasingly common sight on the lands adjacent to the Arctic Sea, where warming temperatures have caused sea-ice—an important walrus habitat—to retreat farther into the Arctic Basin, and largely out of reach. In both 2010 and 2011, walruses hauled out onto […]
