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Apes to stay at home as Malaysia tweaks ‘orangutan diplomacy’

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Malaysia is inviting countries that buy its palm oil to adopt orangutans but leave them in their natural habitat, local media...

Reclaimed by floods, wildlife returns to Romania’s Danube Delta

Mahmudia (Romania) (AFP) – Tour guide Eugen Grigorov steered his boat past half-underwater combine harvesters and last year's flooded crops in a part of Romania's...

Giraffes bring peace to Kenyan communities once at odds

Baringo (Kenya) (AFP) – On a vast farm in Kenya's Rift Valley, a veterinarian carefully takes aim before shooting a tranquiliser dart and sending another...

How restoration can help coral reefs

Koh Tao (Thailand) (AFP) – Record-high sea temperatures are bleaching coral reefs worldwide and putting a new focus on attempts to restore these key marine...

South Sudan says its 6M antelope make up world’s largest land mammal migration, but poaching on rise

BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing...

Japan’s new whaling mothership sets sail on first hunt

Shimonoseki (Japan) (AFP) – The chef fires up the grill and bastes a chunky whale steak, a Japanese delicacy that could soon appear on more...

Milking venom from Australia’s deadly marine animals

Cairns (Australia) (AFP) – Imagine feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, you can't breathe, there's a sense of impending doom and the...

New Zealand’s Maori King calls for whales to be given personhood

Wellington (AFP) – The King of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people made an impassioned call Thursday for whales to be granted the same legal rights...

S.Africa sees sharp rise in rhino poaching with nearly 500 killed last year

Conservationists raised the alarm on Tuesday as South Africa reported a sharp increase in rhino poaching, with almost 500 animals killed last year. The country...

Shark bites and deaths up even as species faces crisis: study

Washington (AFP) – Shark bites and fatalities ticked up worldwide last year, with Australia accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths resulting from heightened contact...

Ivory trade in Nigeria puts Elephants in extinction risk

Mayar Alkhatieb ALBAWABA - Since the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species implemented a ban on the ivory trade in 1989, it's disheartening to...

China’s animal lovers fight illegal cat meat trade

Suzhou (China) (AFP) – When Han Jiali's beloved cat Dabai was taken from her Shanghai home last year, she embarked on a hunt for her...

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