Dubbed the Taurasian tur, the newly-identified lineage is best represented by a 14,000-year-old genome sequenced from a specimen found in Direkli Cave, a camp site in the Central Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey used by Paleolithic hunters-gatherers for the seasonal hunting and processing of game including large numbers of wild goats. This forgotten lineage is […]
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9 Things You Can Do Daily to Save Wildlife
Humans do not live on this planet alone. In fact, each and every species is an essential part of an ecosystem. It is our duty to protect them – especially as we are responsible for the disappearance of many wild animal and plant species. The statistics are terrifying. According to the World Wildlife Fund, around […]
Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex
Sudanese conservationists have accused trophy hunters of exploiting the country’s political transition to hunt the country’s unprotected rare animals. Photographs posted online of westerners posing with the body of a rare Nubian ibex angered Sudanese wildlife campaigners this week. They called for Facebook to remove the pages of tour groups promoting such hunts. While wildlife […]
Calls for Swiss ban on foreign ‘trophy hunters’ shooting the country’s iconic ibex
Tens of thousands of Swiss citizens are calling for an end to “trophy hunting” of the country’s iconic ibex by foreigners who pay up to £15,000 to shoot the long-horned ruminants at close range. Some 46,000 have signed a petition in the past two week in the wake of a TV investigation showing big game […]
Down below – too slow
A couple of weeks ago my mate Meidad found a stunning Wallcreeper inside the scenic Ein Avdat gorge – a site where it had not been seen for over 20 years. Many birders connected with it, but I had no time to make it down south till today. Before a meeting, Amir and I met […]
Video: Drones playing a crucial part in helping Spanish Ibex goats
High above the forest of the Sierra de las Nieves there is a saviour in the sky. It is s drone on a medical mission. Below it roam the Iberian wild goats known as the Spanish Ibex. But the population is being ravaged by scabies – sarcoptes scabiei is the medical name. It is a […]