Environment and Wildlife News

• US returns stolen dinosaur to Mongolia
• Sun’s blood pressure benefits ‘may outdo cancer risks’
• Billions of cicadas to invade US east coast
• Guadeloupe and Martinique: Pesticide contaminates food chain
• Biomass industry should come clean about environmental impact
• Solar Impulse plane lands in Phoenix
• Arctic Ocean ‘acidifying rapidly’
• White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral
• World’s rarest duck on the rebound in Madagascar
• Scientists make ‘bug-eye’ camera
• Illegal logging robbing people in Africa of livelihoods
• Greater Mekong countries ‘lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years’
• Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers
• Atoms star in world’s smallest movie from IBM
• Russia charges Nasa $70m per seat to fly astronauts into space
• Cory Holliday: the scientist saving America’s bats
• Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceship ignites engine in flight
• Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals
• Global Water Report shames SA companies
• Bee deaths: EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
• Global Water Report shames SA companies
• Bee deaths: EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
• Elephant poaching increases in CAR after govt overthrow
• Earth’s core far hotter than thought
• Expat bear rescuer lands another honour
• Clenching fists ‘can improve memory’
• Party tension erodes Mugabe’s power
• Mozambique’s elephants under threat
• Greenpeace activists board ship carrying Australian coal
• Making of Europe unlocked by DNA
• Happy Earth Day – from a not so happy earth
• Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe
• Philippines unveils building made from plastic bottles
• Herschel telescope images astronomical classic
• Google celebrates Earth Day with interactive doodle
• Lead threat grows for rare US birds
• Study backs ‘hobbit’ island dwarfism theory
• Italy waste campaigner wins 2013 Goldman Prize
• Science moves step closer to developing hydrogen as cheap and clean energy form
• Chinese fishing fleet in African waters reports 9% of catch to UN
• Hagfish slime: the new Lycra?
• Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer zeroes in on dark matter
• Obama proposes brain mapping project
• Melt may explain Antarctica’s sea ice expansion
• Deadly floods hit Mauritius capital Port Louis
• Ranger corruption ‘impeding global fight against poaching’
• Neonicotinoid pesticides ‘damage brains of bees’
• Zim mining may contaminate Zambezi water
• Huge scale of California pollination event
• Rare Australian possum could be first climate change victim
• Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms
• 10% of a single tortoise species’ population found in smuggler’s bag
• 2012 worst year ever for butterflies
• UN urges Africa’s leaders to put environmental health policies first
• World faces decades of climate chaos
• Why such a fuss about extinction?
• US government sued over use of pesticides linked to bee harm
• Zim Conservancy demands $269 000 compensation for rhino
• Planck satellite: Maps detail Universe’s ancient light
• Mystery over millions of dead shrimp washed ashore
• The Surge In African Elephant Slaughter
• Bangkok breakthroughs gives Cites a bigger stick
• Billions needed to plug SA water leaks
• UK air pollution is a public health crisis
• Deepest ocean ‘teems with microbes’
• Alligator receives prosthetic replacement tail
• Bee-harming pesticides escape proposed European ban
• Solar-powered mobile health centre rolls into Cape Town
• Gucci talks python at species meeting
• Worms detected by converted iPhone microscope
• ‘Green’ activist abducted in Laos
• Save a rhino and become a millionaire
• Deadly poison threat to tigers
• Neanderthals’ large eyes ’caused their demise’
• Environment secretary set to scupper plans to ban pesticides linked to bee harm
• Turtle ‘victory’ at wildlife meeting
• Japan extracts gas from methane hydrate in world first
• SA nabs Zim poachers
• S Africa fears 2013 rhino slaughter will break records
• Five shark species win protection against finning trade
• 13-Year-Old Boy Saves Kenya’s Lions And Cows
• Freddie Mercury’s Tribute Lion Set to Join Pride of Cape Town!
• Ecover to turn sea plastic into bottles in recycling scheme
• Polar bear cross-border trade ban defeated
• Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change
• Grim predictions for polar bears after ban on international trade rejected
• Why food riots are likely to become the new normal
• Stop ivory poaching or face sanctions, nations warned at Cites
• Ships to sail directly over the north pole by 2050
• Bloemfontein elephant to trumpet her freedom after 23 years in zoo
• Google shopping adverts fuel ivory trade
• Manta rays: how illegal trade eats its own lunch
• African forest elephants decline by 62% in 10 years
• Shark kills number 100 million annually
• Thailand’s promise to end ivory trade cautiously welcomed
• Paris chefs kick-start a horsemeat gastro-trend
• Forensic science in bid to combat species smuggling
• Update on release of 5 baby elephants
• China officials caught spray-painting grass green in Chengdu
• Politics at play in Sea Shepherd-Japan whaling wars
• Poachers kill 13 rare rhinos in India
• Beyonce accused of animal cruelty
• Poachers turned gamekeepers protect elephants
• Video: Whalers clash with Sea Shepherd activists in Antarctic
• Mars might still harbor life, say scientists
• Lions threatened by man and sham medicine
• Human speech evolved from birdsong
• Interpol seizes $8m worth of timber in illegal logging raid
• China admits pollution has caused ‘cancer villages’
• Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team
• One of biggest ever asteroid impact zones found in Australia
• Mosquito repellent Deet ‘losing its effectiveness’
• 102 rhinos killed this year in SA
• Carnivorous plant species glow blue to lure prey
• Anti-whaling activists clash with Japanese whaler
• Brecon Beacons wins protection for its dark sky at night
• Sri Lanka’s great elephant migration
• Shedding some light on dark matter
• Whales benefit from action on ocean noise
• Drug residues ‘alter fish behaviour’
• World’s reptiles at risk of extinction
• Meteor strike injures hundreds in central Russia
• Chinese appetite for shark fin soup devastating Mozambique
• Call to deem plastic waste a ‘hazzard’
• Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power
• Early life care shapes African elephants’ future
• Albatross astonishes scientists by producing chick at age of 62
• How do you persuade people to care about toilets
• Blood Ivory
• Dogs understand human perspective, say researchers
• Whale oil to fuel whaling ships is gruesome
• Horsemeat scandal blamed on EU
• Philippine town mourns largest captive crocodile
• Protection ‘insufficient’ for Yangtze porpoise
• Sockeye salmon ‘sense magnetic field of home’
• Tip-off leads to rhino horn arrest in Joburg
• WWF plans to use drones to protect wildlife
• Ethiopia dam project is devastating lives
• Sweden wolf cull divides wilderness opinion
• Poaching boom sees thousands of elephants killed in Gabon
• China ‘smuggles’ Mozambique timber
• Euro MPs back large-scale fishing reform to save stocks
• African elephants prefer Serengeti National Park
• Beyoncé under fire from Peta for Super Bowl costume
• Leading paper firm pledges to halt Indonesian deforestation
• India and Nepal begin Royal Bengal tiger census
• Concerns raised over ‘useless’ Arctic oil spill plan
• UK nuclear clean-up cost reaches £67.5bn
• After 30 years, is a GM food breakthrough finally here?
• How owls swivel their heads
• British moths in calamitous decline
• Tasmanian Tiger ‘was killed by man’
• Kenya: How to Win War Against the Poaching Menace
• France to force shops and offices to go dark overnight
• Ivory haul from Africa seized in Singapore
• China burns half of coal consumption worldwide
• UK stores to withdraw products harmful to bees
• Hedgehog population in dramatic decline
• Beijing smog: When growth trumps life in China
• World Bank spending on forests fails to curb poverty
• Pygmy elephants found dead in Borneo
• Vatican stance on ivory
• Do weird physics effects abound in nature?
• Heat from North American cities causing warmer winters
• Zim Conservation Taskforce report on elephant
• Baby Elephants Released – Hwange
• Gamma-ray burst ‘hit Earth in 8th Century’
• China has failed to protect environment
• Curious lioness gets up close and personal
• Fermi telescope may change to dark matter hunting
• Increasing global deaths from air pollution
• Wolf killings are based on the most cynical of premises
• Jo’burg’s R1bn ‘present’ to Zuma benefactor
• Crabs and other crustaceans feel pain
• Born Free: New ‘Lions’ Den’ in Cape Town
• Rhino bodies mount in Kruger National Park
• 600 pieces of ivory seized
• SA woman gored by rhino after posing for photo
• Saluting the death of the elephant Changila
• Genes link Australia with India
• African elephant poaching threatens wildlife future
• Elephants: Where have all the big boys gone?
• What is the lifespan of a laptop?
• Ecuadorean tribe will ‘die fighting’ to defend rainforest
• Malawi: Chinese nationals arrested for ivory
• Stranded killer whales break free from Hudson Bay ice
• Rhino poaching in South Africa reaches record levels
• Zambia bans hunting of lions and leopards
• Zambia: No more lion hunting
• Shark embryos ‘freeze’ to evade predators
• Overfishing causes Pacific bluefin tuna numbers to drop 96%
• The world throws away half its food
• Urgent call for help to free killer whales trapped in ice
• ‘Exocomet’ numbers nearly tripled in new study
• SA report will advise on legal trade in rhino horn
• West African lions on verge of extinction, report says
• Battle to save African elephants waged on a new front
• Kenya hunts ivory poachers after elephant family killed
• Zambia Cancels All Trophy Hunting Licences
• Environment ministry drops copper mine in Zambezi park
• Lead poisoning could be a cause of violent crime
• Second rhino killed in Madikwe reserve
• Kepler telescope: Earth-sized planets ‘number 17bn’
• Central Africa’s Wildlife Rangers Face Deadly Risks
• Fishermen back sanctions against Iceland
• SA school boy’s wildlife-tracking website
• The cows that are rarer than the Siberian Tiger
• Mars meteorite is in a class of its own
• South Australia sets heatwave record as temperatures soar
• Three easy environmental resolutions for 2013
• Warren Buffett to build world’s largest solar energy project
• Mauritania bans plastic bag use
• The closing of Tygerberg Zoo
• China’s taste for pork serves up a pollution problem
• Facebook CEO only eats meat he kills himself
• Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre faces eviction
• It’s time to cut the obscene amount of Christmas food waste
• We and the ancient Mayans share the same environmental concerns
• Nearest sun-like star has planets
• Human wellbeing can strengthen case for conservation
• 126 new species discovered in Mekong basin
• Revealed: why Rudolph’s nose is so red
• Ivory sales must stop or elephants could soon be extinct
• Vietnamese guards brave attack to reverse forest destruction of the forest
• Rhinos found to have secret liaisons at night
• Newly discovered slow loris species already threatened
• Evidence of world’s ‘oldest’ cheese-making found
• Common insecticide linked to decline in bees
• Ban helium balloons this Christmas, academic warns
• Hubble Space Telescope produces ‘baby picture of the universe’
• Millions of camera-trap images reveal Serengeti life
• Prehistoric rhino reveals secrets
• Live animal exports face tougher controls
• Sea Shepherd buys anti-whaling ship from Japan
• Costa Rica bans hunting as a sport
• Wildlife crime profound threat to nations
• South Africa signs rhino deal with Vietnam
• Honey bees’ genetic code unlocked
• China at the centre of ‘illegal timber’ trade
• Obama-named lizard was wiped out with the dinosaurs
• Antarctic ‘lost world’ to be explored
• It’s a dog’s life in China
• Partridges and turtle doves face risk of extinction in UK
• Apollo 17 commander left camera on moon 40 years ago
• World’s oldest and biggest trees ‘dying out’
• Drought in the Horn of Africa delays migrating birds
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ ‘coldest journey’ begins
• Suomi satellite pictures Earth in black
• Google cash buys drones to watch endangered species
• Experts alarmed by dramatic increase in elephant killings
• Birds use cigarette butts to line nests
• Africa’s lions being crowded out by people
• Africa’s largest solar power plant to be built in Ghana
• Voyager 1 on the brink of leaving the solar system
• Africa Cries – end of the rhino
• Plastic bulb development promises better quality light
• Japanese scientists develop humanoid to keep astronauts company
• Stem cells being made from blood
• Sea-level rise from polar ice melt finally quantified
• Botswana to ban hunting over wildlife species decline
• Giant black hole in tiny galaxy confounds astronomers
• Python skin trade worth a billion – and often illegal
• Ice Age warmth wiped out lemmings
• Antarctic lake find pushes known boundaries of life
• MEPs vote to close ‘shark finning’ loopholes
• Antarctic marine wildlife is under threat
• Giant Eocene bird was ‘gentle herbivore’
• SA Reserve dehorns rhino
• In pictures: Drag hunting in South Africa
• Norway’s plan to kill wolves explodes myth of environmental virtue
• Robert Redford’s new hope for climate change deal
• Samsung set to market bendable mobile screens ‘next year’
• World’s most expensive coffee tainted by civet abuse
• More than 1,000 new coal plants planned worldwide
• Power-saw wielding thieves steal ancient rock carvings
• Solar storm as desert plan to power Europe falters
• Australia creates world’s biggest marine park
• David Attenborough’s life lessons
• Ecuador drops poison on Galápagos Islands to eradicate rats
• Brazil’s environmental cops
• Urban grasshoppers change their tune for females
• Brazil aims to clone endangered species
• Mountain gorilla numbers rise by 10%
• Israel trains sniffer mice
• South Africa Exporting Rhinos to China
• Major flamingo breeding event begins on Lake Natron
• Cape Town baboons get paintballed
• Rhino butchers caught on film in SA
• Space experts say 95% of stars that will ever be already exist
• Satellites reveal why Antarctic sea ice grows as Arctic melts
• Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate change
• Rhino butchers caught on film at North West game farm
• Attenborough’s ark
• South Africa gives rhino poacher 40-year jail term
• US intelligence teams to track wildlife poachers in Africa and Asia
• Minister welcomes rhino sentence
• Facebook page for Presidential Elephants in Hwange
• ‘Super-Earth’ exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away
• Urgent funding appeal from Zim Conservation Taskforce
• Laos approves ‘mega’ dam on Mekong
• The elephant that speaks Korean
• First ever family tree for all living birds
• Why I live 60 meters up a tree
• Polar bear sanctuary on iceberg
• Mozambique: Wardens Seize Guns From Poachers
• Curiosity Mars rover finds soil similar to Hawaii’s
• Shark brains ‘similar to those of humans’
• 13 pups destined for Angola rescued in SA airport bust
• Zim Conservation Taskforce – destruction of wetlands
• South Africa okays R47 billion in clean energy projects
• Elephant personalities revealed by scientists
• SpaceX capsule returns with safe landing in Pacific
• China to approve new nuclear plants
• How Namibia turned poachers into gamekeepers
• Large numbers of hyenas and humans coexist, study finds
• Oil firms to reduce gas flaring
• Talking beluga whale named Noc is revealed
• Saudi Arabia reveals plans to be powered entirely by renewables
• Pesticides put bumblebee colonies at risk
• Images that highlight the trade killing our rhinos
• Hunter Exposes Elephant Poaching in Tanzania
• Curiosity Mars rover starts ‘to eat dirt’
• Environment groups challenge Osborne over Taliban slur claims
• Vietnam snubs SA on key rhino poaching agreement
• Madagascar palm trees at risk of extinction
• India lifts ban on tiger tourism
• UK wildlife crime laws a mess, MPs say
• The ‘astonishing’ close-up of Uranus
• Shaman embarks on rainforest campaign against oil threat
• Record number of rhinos killed illegally in South Africa in 2012
• Myths, More than Traditional Medicine, Driving Rhino Slaughter
• Tasmanian Devils dying out
• Planet with four suns discovered
• Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier
• Alarm over plan to pump acid mine drainage into the Vaal
• Scientists say billions required to meet conservation targets
• Shack living goes green
• Lead gunshot ‘poisoning UK birds’
• Cleaning up oil spills with magnets and nanotechnology
• Scientists blame warmer Atlantic for wet UK
• First commercial cargo ship successfully blasts into space
• Water shortage kills 17 elephants in Zimbabwe
• Making our office operations greener and leaner
• Re-framing the Wildlife Based Land Reform Programmes in Zimbabwe
• National Geographic Photo Contest 2012
• Climate change ‘may shrink fish’
• April Sumatra quakes signal Indian ocean plate break-up
• What is the legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring?
• Chinese Coal Mining Threatens Zambezi Water Project
• Shark conservation plan in the balance
• Clever jays switch food-finding tactics
• Fleeing poachers abandon 8kg elephant tusks
• Report slams failure to prevent toxic waste dumping in West Africa
• Illegal Ivory Trade – Graphic
• Air pollution still at dangerous levels in Europe
• UK anti-badger culling petition passes 100,000-signatures
• Plight of rescued baby gorillas raises fears in DRC
• Warning of global food insecurity as climate change destroys fisheries
• Congo could allow oil exploitation in parks
• Starlight from eight BILLION years ago
• Decorative spider webs attract dinner
• Japan drops plans to phase out nuclear power
• Sri Lanka farmers being poisoned by cadmium and arsenic
• Reindeer at risk from new extreme snow sport
• Crows can ‘reason’ about causes, a recent study finds
• Battle over mining in ancient forest goes to court
• Illegal rat meat ‘sold to public’ in London
• Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four
• In pictures: 100 most threatened species
• Tropical East Africa’s epic flora survey completed
• Arctic sea ice melt ‘may bring harsh winter to Europe’
• Mars only place in solar system with carbon dioxide snow
• Shale gas energises SA government
• Milky Way’s black hole to eat planet-forming cloud
• New Monkey Species Discovered In Africa
• Rwanda turns to peat for power
• Marvel at an aphid cloning itself
• Virgin births discovered in wild snakes
• Rhino Horn Poaching Fuelled by ‘Respectable’ Speculators
• “Perfect storm” for rhino poaching
• Antarctic molluscs ‘switch sex’
• Australia to impose two-year fishing ban on ‘super trawler’
• 100 most endangered species: priceless or worthless?
• Chiefs in KZN commit to stopping rhino poaching
• Caribbean coral reefs on the verge of collapse
• Arctic Sunrise reaches the edge of the ice cap
• Cheetah’s speed secrets are revealed
• South Africa ends fracking freeze
• The Bally Vaughan Sanctuary News Sept 2012
• Javan rhino clings to survival in last forest stronghold
• Arctic ice melting at ‘amazing’ speed, scientists find
• ‘Green’ Pope presented with electric car
• Whaling lingers on in South Korean town
• Sonic cooker uses sound waves to reduce energy poverty
• The sixth extinction menaces the very foundations of culture
• Pesticides could cost sub-Saharan Africa $90bn in illness bill
• Wildlife haven in the Korean DMZ under threat
• Emu underpass planned for Australia’s Pacific Highway
• Africa’s Elephants Are Being Slaughtered in Poaching Frenzy
• Tigers ‘take night shift’ to dodge humans
• Illegal wildlife trading in internet’s deepest, darkest corners
• Liberia sells almost quarter of country to logging companies
• How Killing Machines save endangered wildlife
• Damage to environment is a crime against peace
• Last stand of the Madagascan spider tortoise
• Wyoming drops federal protection of gray wolves
• World’s conservation hopes rest on Ecuador
• ‘A great silence is spreading over the natural world’
• The final wave of the Panamanian golden frog
• ‘Spineless’ animals under threat of extinction
• World Bank issues hunger warning after droughts in US and Europe
• Millions of black holes spotted
• ‘Vast reservoir’ of methane locked beneath Antarctic ice sheet
• Tiny Pacific island nations create world’s largest marine parks
• Sea Shepherd: Unmanned Aircraft Makes Test Flight Over Seal Colony
• Gravity waves spotted from white-dwarf pair
• The day the world went mad
• Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Nasa says
• Hunting ‘porn’ mags should be on the top shelf say animal rights groups
• World’s first rhino orphanage opens in Limpopo
• Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days
• Would anyone buy ivory if they had witnessed this cruel slaughter?
• Peru police seize thousands of dried seahorses
• Rogue South African hippo dies during rescue attempt
• Greenpeace scales Russian Arctic oil platform
• Tiger population of India facing ‘total disaster’ due to tourism ban
• Green Climate Fund to discuss $100bn pledged by rich countries
• Why are so many forests on fire?
• Curiosity Mars rover takes first drive
• Bugs sunbathe to ‘stay healthy’
• Britain’s insect population decimated by wet weather
• Cod and haddock demand ‘exceeds UK sea supply’
• Arctic sea ice set to hit record low
• SA farmers sentenced for rhino poaching
• Forget the Big Bang: The Universe ‘froze’ its way into existence
• Black Fish activists vow to confront illegal tuna fishing in Mediterranean
• Skydivers jump to rhinos’ rescue
• Sharks tracked by surfing robot
• Zebra virus kills polar bear in German zoo
• Galaxy cluster: Making new stars
• Ants ‘sow the seeds’ of the Cape
• Fight to save endangered Indian dolphin
• Jaguars among species ‘virtually extinct’ in Brazil’s Atlantic forest
• Bill Gates challenges scientists to reinvent toilet
• Neanderthal breeding idea doubted
• Fukushima ’caused mutant butterflies’ in Japan
• Tanzania: Country Loses 30 Elephants Daily
• Rate of Arctic summer sea ice loss is 50% higher than predicted
• Radical new aircraft that can reach Mach 6 set to be tested
• Jab for birth control gets jumbo roll-out
• Marine species’ deaths caused by UVB increases
• New human species identified from Kenya fossils
• Secrets of sticky feet revealed
• Humpback whales perform migration spectacle
• Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy cost
• Rangers locate first mountain gorilla families in rebel-held Congo
• Limpopo rhino orphanage gives calves a second chance
• Syria’s ancient treasures pulverised
• Mars rover Curiosity sends back its first COLOUR picture from Mars
• Philippines turned into ‘waterworld’ by Typhoon
• NASA’s rover Curiosity lands on Mars
• Australian spider named after Sir David Attenborough
• Satellite-tracked cuckoo takes surprise route to Africa
• Despite environmental objections Papua New Guinea’s seabed to be mined
• Scientists urge sustainable development of Namibia’s newly found aquifer
• Indian coal mining a threat to tigers, Greenpeace warns
• Nasa’s Curiosity rover on course for Mars landing
• Scientists begin final preparations for the Mars mission
• After lifetime of illegal logging families learn lawful ways to feed themselves
• Palm trees ‘grew on Antarctica’
• Mangrove conservation is ‘economic’ CO2 fix
• Réunion Island revokes order to hunt sharks
• Even in the dolphin world, the cool kids stick together
• Call for levy on single-use plastic bags in England
• Sahel region of West Africa ‘in permanent food crisis’
• Higgs boson results from LHC ‘get even stronger’
• ‘Earliest’ evidence of modern human culture found in SA
• New flu virus found in seals concerns scientists
• Net-casting spider hunt filmed in wild
• World closer to food crisis than people realise
• World’s largest butterfly disappearing
• South Africa at core of illicit ape trade
• Zim rhino poacher jailed 15 years
• Telescope finds solar system that mirrors ours
• Rhino bull killed in Mossel Bay
• Call for total ban on ivory sales
• Is a tiger tourism ban the answer in India?
• Central African nations launch joint initiative to tackle poaching
• Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ‘flees Germany’
• Protected tropical forests’ biodiversity ‘declining’
• Elephants killed by Maasai in row with wildlife services
• Loss of Arctic sea ice ’70% man-made’
• Cull and drought hit feral camels in Australia
• Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July
• North Kivu rebellion threatens Congo’s gorilla tourist trade
• Sally Ride, the first US woman in space, dies aged 61
• DNA race to unlock ageing secrets
• Two-toed sloths’ ‘lazy’ sex life revealed
• Rhino poacher lured into trap
• Let slip the dogs in rhino poaching war
• Affluent Vietnamese driving rhino horn poaching in SA
• Will UN meeting give the green light to future ivory trade?
• Storm petrel seabirds can smell their relatives
• Vast aquifer found in Namibia could last for centuries
• Iceberg breaks off from Greenland’s Petermann
• SA game farmers ‘dehorning, killing their own rhino’
• Don’t eat Mozzarella cheese
• UK’s front gardens paved over for parking creates environmental problem
• Solomon Islands ‘launders’ exotic birds
• Thailand customs seizes $700,000 in ivory from Kenya
• Whale warning over Western Australia gas project
• Thieving rodents are ‘rainforest saviours’
• Zimbabwe: Jumbos May Die of Thirst, Says Zimparks
• SA officials turn a blind eye to the smuggling of wild lions
• Senegal begins planting the Great Green Wall
• Amazon’s doomed species set to pay deforestation’s ‘extinction debt’
• Heroes are putting their lives on the line in the fight to save tuna
• Zim Conservation Taskforce: Elephant poaching in Hwange
• Ivory Burn Heralds Change
• First evidence of ‘dark galaxies’ discovered
• Nasa scientists discover fifth moon orbiting Pluto
• UK laws ‘spurring trade in endangered species’
• Nambian-Cuban ‘Noah’s Ark’ plan criticised
• ‘Noah’s Ark’ shipment of Namibian wild animals to Cuba disgusts welfare group
• Scientists to breed GM mosquitoes to stop spread of dengue fever
• Ivory smugglers nabbed in Cape Town tusk raid
• Sir Richard Branson will fly into space by the end of next year
• Kenyans and lions vie for territory
• MANA POOLS OBJECTION
• Mana Pools mining protest
• South Africa dune mining whips up sandstorm
• Call for UN debate rejected as whaling talks end
• Whales to gain Panama Canal traffic protection
• Liberia’s hasty forest sell-off risks more conflict
• Indigenous whaling bids granted after ‘racism’ claim
• Scientists find ‘God particle’ after 40-year search
• Okapis and conservationists killed by DRC rebels
• Proposal for whale sanctuary in South Atlantic, defeated at IWC
• Siltation a massive threat in Save Valley
• Zim Conservation Taskforce report on fundraiser
• Asteroid hunters announce private deep space mission
• US Navy’s ‘great green fleet’ sets sail for Pacific
• God particle is ‘found’
• New coal mine threatens historic South African site
• Gabon burns five tons of ivory
• Voyager 1 poised to cross solar frontier into interstellar space
• Nasa joins race to build successor to Corncorde
• Scientists to ‘hack’ Hawking’s brain
• Fly to the moon for £100m
• Rio+20 Earth summit talks turn into rubber-stamp job
• Rio+20: Sir Paul backs Greenpeace Arctic campaign
• Furious Greenpeace moves to ‘war footing’ at Rio+20
• Euclid telescope to probe dark universe
• Rhino poaching: KZN, N.West hardest hit
• Bally Vaughan Sanctuary news
• World’s fastest supercomputer
• Duke of Cambridge: rhino poachers make me angry
• Environmental activists killed at the rate of two a week
• Rio+20 deal weakens on energy and water pledges
• Video: Fears as DRC conflict threatens nature reserve
• Ignoring over fishing at our peril
• Stephen Baldwin loses BP oil spill case against Kevin Costner
• Little progress on protecting oceans
• Earliest cave art was ‘abstract’
• Massive asteroid to fly past Earth
• African nations agree to put a price on nature
• Cougars make a comeback after a century of decline
• Australia to create world’s largest marine park
• Europe votes to build world’s biggest telescope
• Fishing discards practice thrown overboard by EU
• China’s dirty secret – soil pollution
• Food prices will keep rising
• Human bones grown from fat in laboratory
• Lack of sleep may cause obesity
• Facebook to be integrated into iPhones and iPads
• Melting Arctic ‘blooms’ with algae
• Nasa extreme environment missions
• Olympic athletes vulnerable to bad air quality
• Vets for animal welfare Zimbabwe newsletter
• Honeybee decline linked to killer virus
• EU plans to increase fishing quota
• Zim conservation campaigner, Charlene Hewat, shares experiences
• BP accused of attack on academic freedoms after scientists subpoenaed
• The climate change deniers: influence out of all proportion to science
• South Africa: Young people urged to preserve the environment‎
• Uganda: African Parliamentarians Colloquium on Multilateral Environment Agreements
• Zimbabwe recovers 50 elephant tusks, poacher killed in clashes with rangers
• Earth’s environment getting worse, not better, says WWF
• Researchers protest over ‘death of British science’
• Rio+20 summit leaders ‘must improve nature protection’
• Risk of oil spill in Cape Town from stricken trawler
• Connected sky: Surfing the web above the clouds
• Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ‘arrested in Germany’
• Oldest Mayan calendar unearthed
• Nigeria lead poisoning: MSF urges government to do more
• South Africa seizes $7m in ‘rhino-poachers’ assets
• South African rhinos at mercy of global smuggling network
• Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car
• LED light bulb to last more than 20 years
• Lack of contact with nature ‘increasing allergies’
• Coding the future: HTML5 takes the internet by storm
• ‘Nomophobia’ – the fear of being without your mobile
• Peru issues public health alert over pelican and dolphin deaths
• Sierra Nevada range is getting higher
• Farming out SA’s water worries
• Curry’s ability to fight cancer put to the test
• MRI brain scans offer hope we might know what our pets really think of us
• Demand for Rhino horns undoing decades of conservation efforts
• How climate change has bamboozled Worldwide Fund for Nature
• Nepal forest fires ’cause big wildlife loss’
• Senegal revokes licences of foreign fishing trawlers
• Study finds even polar bear cubs can swim huge distances
• The world’s largest rubbish dump
• Implant of a ‘bionic’ eye could restore sight to the blind
• Why cockroaches need their friends
• Oetzi the Iceman’s blood is world’s oldest
• Slaughter of rhinos at record high
• Wind turbine now generates drinking water out of thin air
• Amateur astronomers take stargazing to Kabul
• London 2012: UN head backs 2012 green efforts
• Koala bear listed as threatened species
• Cut world population and redistribute resources
• UK to give £60m to developing countries to build CCS plants
• Population and consumption key to future, report says
• Zim Conservation Task Force newsletter 20th April
• The brain: a user’s guide
• Shell’s wildly inaccurate reporting of Niger Delta oil spill exposed
• Obama launches fundraising campaign to win back environmental voters
• First cargo resupply mission to the space station
• Can whales predict tsunamis?
• Kenyan environmental activist wins green prize
• Emperor penguins counted from space
• Space station astronaut, sends pictures to Earth via Twitter
• The illegal ivory trade threatening Africa’s elephants
• Baboons recognise words on a screen
• Would you do this to a panda?
• Iceland’s volcanoes may power UK
• Ivory trade at record high
• Ivory demand in Far East could see African elephant wiped out
• Could Lebanon’s capital become a garden city?
• The race to get rainforest frogs into arks
• Giraffes’ coats provide age clue
• ‘Geminoid F’ is most convincing ‘robot woman’ ever
• Study traces devastation of North American bats to Europe
• Ghana calls an end to tyrannical reign of the Queen’s English
• Wetlands Remain Under Threat in Harare
• Learn more about the Monavale vlei
• Vicious words mark the war between pro and anti-nuclear environmentalists
• Monkey’s social rank ‘linked to immunity’
• Earth cannot carry our load
• CO2 ‘drove end to last ice age’
• Scientists hatch plan to recycle eggshells into plastic
• Zimbabwe now part of world’s largest conservation area
• New UK attempt to make power stations greener
• South Africa: Fibreglass rhino dehorned by thief
• Sounds of Mars and Venus revealed by scientists
• ‘Global warming started over 100 years ago’
• Senegal’s fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn’t
• Pesticides linked to honeybee decline
• Kenya to host sub-Saharan Africa’s largest windfarm
• Rhino horn ultimatum: ‘Lift the ban on trade or killing goes on’
• French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste
• Climate change panel warns of severe storms, heatwaves and floods
• European supply vessel docks with International Space Station
• Genetically modified wheat that repels aphids grown by British scientists
• Far-flung galaxy’s carbon signal
• Fukushima reactor shows radiation levels much higher than thought
• Great Barrier Reef suffering from Australia’s decision to allow pesticides
• Billions of ‘habitable planets’ found in Milky Way
• Brazilian activists’ murders may be linked to land dispute
• BP oil spill seriously harmed deep-sea corals
• South Africa’s nightmare nuclear bill
• Mackerel fishing sanctions imposed after Iceland and Faroes breach quotas
• Scientists claim trees give off electricity – especially eucalyptus
• Our Milky Way galaxy hurls planets out into space at 30 million mph
• Water wars between countries could be just around the corner
• Does the planet have time to wait for austerity to end?
• Researchers solve Darwin’s copycat evolution puzzle
• Shell signs first shale gas production pact in China
• Born Free: Lions, Brian May, Virginia McKenna in Cape Town
• World Water Day: Action needed against droughts & floods
• Pledge to switch off your lights
• Drought hits wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve
• Illegal logging makes billions for gangs
• South Africa debates whether to allow fracking
• England faces wildlife tragedy as worst drought in 30 years hits
• Everyone must fight Zim deforestation
• ‘No more rhinos in SA game parks by 2015′
• Hibernating bears’ wounds heal without scars
• What should be done about plastic bags?
• Limpopo River Basin being reduced to a dust bowl
• ZIM Conservation Taskforce
• Air pollution ‘will become bigger global killer than dirty water’
• Putin’s fabled tiger encounter was PR stunt
• Shell boss took home £10m amid oil price surge
• Scientists clone cashmere goats in bid to increase wool production
• Zim Conservation Taskforce: Destruction Chiredzi River Conservancy
• Stray tiger in India evades ‘mating call’ lure
• Why is bread Britain’s most wasted food?
• Google search will ‘answer questions’
• Margarine makes you aggressive
• Australia passes controversial nuclear waste bill
• Microsoft unveils ‘Universal Translator’ which turns spoken English into other languages
• Donald Trump Sons’ Hunting Scandal
• Computer Aid demands greater e-waste accountability in Africa
• How the UK is handing control of its energy future to France
• Donald and Eric Trump pictured posing with their ‘trophy’ carcasses on big African hunt
• Ethiopia: Omo Valley under threat from dam
• Zimbabweans: Rocking for wildlife
• Meet the awesome dogs that are stamping out elephant poaching
• Dolphin cargo puts airline in hot water
• Ozone layer scientist who ‘saved the world’ dies
• Naked cyclists dare Cape Town to change
• Two KwaZulu-Natal farm managers arrested for attempt to poach rhinos
• World seabird numbers still falling
• Solar storm passes without incident
• Japan ends whaling season short of quota
• Barack Obama pushes for $1bn green tax credits
• Help Save Our Rhino Project – Kariega
• Three white rhinos found dead in Limpopo
• Huge solar flare to hit Earth
• Scientists shed light on antimatter
• Cheetah struggling to reproduce due to climate change
• Fourth Somali journalist murdered in four months
• Nasa probes begin mapping surface of the moon
• Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat
• SA vets charged for illegal use of tranquillisers
• ‘Six minutes of terror’ landing on another planet
• DR Congo employs dogs to tackle elephant poaching
• How do you rescue fish?
• Remote-controlled cameras get up close to lions in the Masai Mara
• The algae bloom so big it can be seen from space
• Poachers gunned down in shootout
• Zims Lake Chivero heavily polluted
• New device heralds potential to turn sewage plants into power stations
• ‘Twisted’ waves could boost capacity of wi-fi and TV
• Rhino horns replaced by fakes in Pretoria police lab
• Illegal ivory operation uncovered in Cape Town
• China bear bile farms stir anger among campaigners
• Wild animals in circuses WILL be banned
• Global mining boom is leading to landgrab
• Indonesia’s tiger habitat pulped for paper, investigation shows
• Rhino poaching: ‘These animals are all too easy to kill’
• Cote d’Ivoire: Illicit timber trade exposes the north to drought
• Ancient iceman ‘had brown eyes’
• South Africa rhino poaching: Kruger staff arrested
• Mexico City’s floating gardens threatened by urbanisation
• Windfarms that float – or fly – could be the future
• Climate change threat to rooibos tea
• ‘Rambo’ plant set to blossom as Africa’s top crop
• Nepal in new bid to finally settle Mount Everest height
• Hydrogen power looks to harness the energy of the Corsican sun
• King of the swingers: how orang-utans are like free-runners
• Arrests made in US rhino horn smuggling ring
• Illegal fishing scam: Law breaking on an industrial scale
• Zim Vets for Animal Welfare newsletter
• Amazon removes whale meat products from Japanese site
• Fish discarding ban shunned by MPs
• Ethiopia dam project rides roughshod over local tribespeople
• The ECO-warrior Princess boards oil drilling ship in Greenpeace protest
• Google is developing ‘Terminator’ glasses
• Protection ‘vital for Mediterranean’s wetlands’
• Chevron Nigeria gas well fire ‘may burn for months’
• 360-degree panoramas of Great Barrier Reef go online
• Rhino activists threaten global boycott on SA products
• Unesco to investigate toll plaza claims for Chapman’s Peak
• Nasa’s James Webb Telescope will let us look back tot he dawn of time
• Astronomers discover new type of planet – the water world
• Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’
• A bill of rights for dolphins
• Baby rhino blinded by poachers is able to see again
• South Africa deploys hundreds of troops tackle rhino poachers
• Poachers slaughter 200 elephants in Cameroon national park in six weeks
• New telescopes will unravel mysteries of how planets form
• ‘Oldest living thing on earth’ discovered in Mediterranean Sea
• Uganda’s disappearing glaciers
• Why haven’t animals evolved defences against humans
• Australia’s Koala Bears under threat
• More mobiles than humans in 2012
• Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade
• Bacteria used to fight sleeping sickness
• Now we can hear the sound of cells
• Tiny songbird traverses the world
• Cloaking device could make buildings ‘invisible’ to earthquakes
• Love gifts in the animal kingdom
• Lake Kivu gas: Turning an explosion risk into a power source
• Real-life science closes in on Star Trek
• Fish with ‘antifreeze for blood’ under threat
• Honeybees tell hornet predators to buzz off
• Bangkok: Shopper leads police to tiger butchers
• Donald Trump accuses Minister of wanting to destroy Scottish coast
• Lake Vostok: Russia scientists reach underground Antarctic lake
• Are dogs cleverer than chimps?
• Whales not slaves because they are not people
• Martian meteorite contains pockets of the red planet’s atmosphere
• SA’s Eskom to be investigated for fraud
• 70% of Europe’s power generation comes from renewables
• Mozambique: Flooding Increases Epidemic Risk
• Uganda: Charcoal Boon a Bust for Forests
• Tanzania: Salty Soils Drive Farmers Into Forest Reserve
• Mwanga lodge baby elephant dies
• ZCTF Report – January 2012
• Ghana’s cleaner production centre to serve west Africa‎
• SA losing rhino poaching fight
• Oldest dinosaur nest site found
• Solar storm’s effects to lash Earth until Wednesday
• Sumatran elephant upgraded to critically endangered status
• Mercury’s Harmful Reach Has Grown, Study Suggests
• Animals can’t keep up with climate change
• Babies with three parents possible within three years
• Rhino poaching trial to proceed in June
• ‘Extinct’ monkey rediscovered in Indonesia jungle
• Wildfires rage in Western Cape
• Time experts debate whether to abolish the leap second
• Stargazing viewer in planet coup
• Dark matter galaxy hints seen 10bn light-years away
• US joins EU effort to develop space ‘code of conduct’
• Oslo worried about shrinking whaler numbers
• Shangri-La hotels take shark fin soup off the menu
• David Attenborough urges business to protect nature from population boom
• Zim Conservation Taskforce newsletter
• Rhino bull killed near Mossel Bay
• River is winner in satellite image contest
• Kruger Park enlists 150 new rangers to protect rhinos
• SA to deliberate Moz fence re-erection to stop poaching
• Antarctic lake drilling mission edges closer
• Thousands of horses abandoned by UK owners last year
• Rhino lovers issue ultimatum ahead of poaching hearings
• Bubble-blowing stars seen in the thousands
• Bird flu empties South Africa’s ostrich farms
• Illegal South African rhino killings hit record high
• The Beyonce fly: Researchers name insect with golden behind after singer
• World’s smallest frog
• Rangers shoot poachers in Kruger Park
• Billions of habitable planets in Milky Way
• Call for ban on ivory trade after Cape Town shipment seized
• Do the right thing for the rhino
  • Anthrax outbreak claims the lives of wild animals in Zim
  • Brown Revolution Brings New Hope to Vic Falls
  • Eight dehorned rhinos found dead in Kruger Park
  • Wind and sunlight make Kenyan profits
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  • The waste mountain engulfing Mexico City
  • Obama holds strong to protect Grand Canyon from uranium mining
  • Human carbon emissions ‘will put off’ a lethal Ice Age, say scientists
  • Sea Shepherd supporters held on Japanese whaling vessel
  • Nigeria’s oil disasters are met by silence
  • Snowless winter a worry for US farmers
  • Singapore supermarket taking shark fins off shelves
  • Unique ‘moon mineral’ brought back by Apollo astronauts found in Australian rocks
  • Bluefin tuna fetches record $736 000 in Japan
  • Big bucks for SA game ranchers
  • Ousted Spanish government plotted to derail EU fishing reforms
  • Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU carbon tax
  • World’s largest solar plant powers up
  • China’s city dwellers to breathe unhealthy air ‘for another 20-30 years’
  • Pale octopus, hairy-chested yeti crab and other new species found
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  • Elephant poaching: ‘Record year’ for ivory seizures
  • Bleak future for Tripoli zoo animals?
  • Success for Nasa’s twin moon satellites
  • Campaigners use drones in the fight against Japanese whalers
  • SA businessman pays R960 000 to hunt rhino
  • Shell oil spill off Nigeria likely worst in a decade
  • The great milk robbery: Food and Land
  • Looking back on a major victory for whales
  • Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong
  • Shell shuts Nigerian oil platform after leak
  • Japan uses tsunami victims’ cash to shield whalers from activists
  • SA businessman helps crack rhino horn ring
  • Animals Asia rescues 14 more bears
  • Frankincense trees under threat
  • Can we afford eco-cities?
  • The impact of ecological limits on population growth
  • Extreme weather baffles British butterflies
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  • Japan PM declares ‘cold shutdown’ at Fukushima
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  • Dozens of beluga whales trapped among Bering Sea ice floes
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  • Eroding taboos see lemurs end up on dinner tables
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  • Canada pulls out of climate change protocol
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  • UN climate talks end with late deal
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  • Obama urges nations to follow lead of Wangari Maathai
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  • India dampens Europe’s hopes of a new climate change agreement
  • future of the planet is at stake, warns UN chief
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  One-year-old cubs at Xiongsen. The tigers are bred to produce tiger bone wine.

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  • Japan whalers head for Antarctica
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  • Nasa’s Kepler space telescope finds ‘new Earth’
  • Carbon dioxide emissions show record jump
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  • Sasol puts Karoo shale gas plans on hold
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  • George Osborne slams ‘costly’ green policies
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  • Zuma opens Durban climate negotiations with plea to delegates
  • Stop the wanton destruction of trees in Zim
  • ‘Last-ditch’ UN climate talks kick off in Durban
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  • ‘Cure for cancer’ rumour killed off Vietnam’s rhinos
  • Deferred deal may save COP17
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  • Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online
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  • Rich nations ‘give up’ on new climate treaty until 2020
  • Fukushima rice banned by Japan
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    Rwanda to import lions, rhinos from South Africa

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  • Eskom signs R1.9-billion green energy loan
  • World headed for irreversible climate change
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  • SA wetlands threatened
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  • On patrol with Bangkok’s pet rescuers
  • Western black rhino declared extinct
  • SA farmer in dock with Thai rhino poaching suspects
  • Arctic sea ice ‘to melt by 2015′ –
  • Two rhinos shot dead near Hectorspruit
  • SA rhino poaching rouses fury –
  • Fast-growing populations leading Africa to disaster
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  • SA arrests Greenpeace activists
  • Suspected poaching syndicate leader detained in Joburg
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    A herd of 70 elephants is under threat in Zimbabwe’s Chiredzi River Conservancy (CRC) which is located in the south eastern lowveld close to Gona re Zhou National Park. See ‘Save Zimbabwe’s endangered elephant herd’ and sign petition (click on the image above).

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  • East Africa drought ‘remains huge crisis’
  • Acid threat will leave Gauteng a wasteland
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  • Taiwan shark slaughter exposed
  • Russians consider moon bases
  • Zim: Healing hooves help African soil
  • Richard Branson christens Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space
  • Trafficking of baby gorillas poses new threat
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  • Wildlife: A Zim national asset under threat
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  • Rhino survives after being shot 11 times
  • SA: Conservation funding gap revealed
  • Are Gibson guitars killing the rainforest?
  • Japanese scientist unveils ‘thinking’ robot brain -
  • End of the Line fishing film nets documentary prize
  • BP to risk worst ever oil spill in Shetlands drilling
  • Billions of euros subsidise overfishing
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  • Elephant crisis situation in Zimbabwe escalates
  • Trial tests whether ‘ecocide’ could join genocide as global crime
  • Endangered dolphins near extinction
  • Vietnam: Rhino info sharing vital
  • China population to become world’s biggest polluters
  • SA’s new plane to combat poaching
  • Bolivian president suspends Amazon road project
  • ‘Invaders must leave Chiredzi conservancy’