Prague zoo hopes rare Asiatic lion insemination sows seed for survival
After two suitors failed to get a rare Asiatic lioness pregnant, Prague zoo now hopes that artificial insemination will finally plant the seed for her species' survival. "Ginni, our female Asiatic lion from Gujarat in India, underwent artificial insemination on Wednesday evening," the zoo said ...
It's a girl: Moscow zoo welcomes rare western lowland gorilla baby
Moscow zoo has welcomed its latest tiny inhabitant, a rare baby lowland gorilla who spends her days nestled in her mother's arms, feeding and sleeping. The baby was born to 23-year-old Kira and 20-year-old Vizuri, weighs 1.5 kg and at just 40 cm tall is ...
Eel trafficking in EU called the 'largest wildlife crime on Earth'
Billions of euros worth of critically endangered eels are being trafficked each year from Europe, ending up on tables in China and Japan in what campaigners say is "the largest wildlife crime on Earth." Stocks of European eel (anguilla anguilla) have plummeted 90 percent in ...
Four of 6 rare black rhinos die after move to Chad, possibly from starvation
Four out of 6 endangered black rhinos that were relocated to Chad from South Africa have died, possibly of starvation, the two countries and an NGO said. The six rhinos were transferred from South Africa in May, re-introducing the species into Chad for the first ...
Japan's sei whale meat sales deemed to be in violation of Washington convention
An international conservation committee ruled on Tuesday that Japan's domestic commercial distribution of meat from sei whales caught for scientific purposes violates the so-called Washington convention and advised the country to take corrective steps. The pact, formally called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...
Nations supportive of commercial whaling block South Atlantic sanctuary bid
Pro-whaling nations on Tuesday blocked a near two-decade effort to create a South Atlantic haven for the endangered marine mammals, deepening divisions at an already fractious International Whaling Commission meeting in Brazil. The South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary was backed by 39 countries with 25 voting ...
About 300 endangered sea turtles found dead in apparent net off Mexican coast
About 300 endangered sea turtles were found dead off the southern coast of Mexico on Tuesday, trapped in fishing nets, shortly after more than 100 dead turtles were recovered. Fishermen in the southern state of Oaxaca discovered the turtles in the seaside community of Barra ...
Malaysia seizes rhino horns worth $12 million in largest such haul
Malaysia has seized rhinoceros horns worth nearly $12 million bound for Vietnam, the Southeast Asian nation's largest haul of such contraband, officials said on Monday. Wildlife experts say Malaysia is a major transit point for the illegal trafficking of endangered species to other Asian countries. Officials ...
'Paws crossed!' Giant panda may be pregnant at Washington zoo
One of the U.S. capital's resident giant pandas may be pregnant, officials at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo said on Monday, but warned fans of the black-and-white mammals not to get baby fever just yet. Mei Xiang, who was artificially inseminated on March 1, is ...
Endangered bat, believed to be extinct locally, discovered in former U.S. training area in Okinawa
A former U.S. military training site in Okinawa Prefecture provided a precious refuge for a critically endangered bat unseen on the prefecture's main island for 22 years. The Yanbaru whiskered bat (Myotis yanbarensis) was captured by a research team two months ago, Kyoto University ...
Some whales are taking jazz riffs to new depths. For the first time, scientists have eavesdropped year-round on the songs of bowhead whales, the little-heard whales that roam the Arctic under the ice. They found that bowheads — the bigger, more blubbery cousins of the ...
Rwanda expects census to show surge in ranks of highly endangered mountain gorillas
A census of mountain gorillas due in March will likely show numbers have risen this decade, experts said during a ceremony to mark Rwanda's expansion of its Volcano National Park. The last global survey in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda in 2010 ...
