Wildlife

'If you can't stand the heat' - how climate change could leave some species stuck in the kitchen

African bird species could struggle to relocate to survive global warming because natural features of the landscape will limit where they can move to, according to new research published in June in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. As the global climate changes, some land bird species will be forced to move to new habitats, expanding and shifting their natural geographical 'range', in order to maintain suitable living conditions.

A 'Livestock Meltdown' Is Occurring As Hardy African Farm Animals Face Extinction

Scientists Call for Rapid Establishment of Livestock Genebanks To Conserve Indigenous Breeds. With the world’s first global inventory of farm animals showing many breeds of African, Asian, and Latin American livestock at risk of extinction..

Effect of Feline AIDS and TB on KNP lions

Tests on lions in the Kruger National Park (KNP) have shown that both antibodies to the virus that causes feline Aids (Feline immunodeficiency virus or FIV) and the bacterium (Mycobacterium bovis) that causes bovine tuberculosis are present in the lion population.

Bats: Nature's Agricultural Allies

Dr Peter Taylor Bat colonies living in the roofs of farm buildings are at best a barely tolerable nuisance to many farmers. What they overlook is the fact that bats are the major predators of night-flying insects, including many that are important agricultural pests. Some 70% of the world's almost 1000 species of bats eat insects. Bats display a fascinating variety of adaptations for feeding on different groups of insects. Species of slit-faced bats have long ears to detect the sounds made by crickets and other sound-producing insects and their wing-shape enables slow flight and hovering...

A century of survival for the Mountain Gorilla

Despite wars, poaching, disease, and dramatic shrinking of their mountain habitat, one hundred years after their discovery, dedicated conservation initiatives have ensured that numbers of the critically endangered mountain gorilla are slowly increasing, WWF said here today.

360-million-year-old fossil fish

The 360-million-year-old fossil of a species of fish with elegant needle-like spines - previously unknown to science - has been made in a deposit on the outskirts of Grahamstown, South Africa.

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