Contact: Richard Thomas, +44 1223 279 068 Olga Apostolova, +359 2 950 50 41 November 14 (WWF) – The highly endangered sturgeons of the Danube river basin are at risk because of the persistent illegal trade in their caviar involving Bulgaria and Romania, according to a newly published TRAFFIC report compiled for WWF. The two […]
By Camila Ruz, www.guardian.co.uk 16 November 2011 If the current rapid extermination of animals, plants and other species really is the “sixth mass extinction”, then it is the amphibian branch of the tree of life that is undergoing the most drastic pruning. In research described as “terrifying” by an independent expert, scientists predict the future […]
By Maggy Patrick4 November 2011 In an astonishing sight, 19 endangered black rhinos were lifted by their ankles over the South African landscape in an effort to save them from dangerous poachers. The World Wildlife Fund’s Black Rhino Expansion Project has moved 120 of the animals so far to one of seven participating partners’ land […]
By John R. Platt 25 October 2011 Sad news coming out of Vietnam today: the Javan rhinoceros subspecies (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), once endemic to Southeast Asia, has been confirmed as extinct, according to WWF International. There are now officially no rhinos left in Vietnam. This is the second of the three Javan rhino subspecies to […]
Contact: Elisabeth (Lisa) Lyons, elyons@cell.com 617-386-212127 October 2011 As the planet continues to warm, it appears that seaweeds may be in especially hot water. New findings reported online on October 27 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, based on herbarium records collected in Australia since the 1940s suggest that up to 25 percent of […]
[Update: Due to public outcry, Australia has backed away from this horribly destructive and short-sighted policy: Australia won’t cull sharks.] October 25 (Newstalk ZB/ONE News) – The Western Australian government has ordered any great white sharks spotted off the south west coast to be killed. The order comes after the third fatal shark attack in […]
By David A Gabel, ENN20 October 20 Colombian government officials have reported that as many as 2,000 sharks have been killed in a single incident for their fins. The slaughter occurred in the Malpelo Wildlife Sanctuary, a remote 8,570 square kilometer area of the ocean off Colombia’s Pacific coast. The sharks were found at the […]
Contact Info: Catherine Kilduff, (415) 644-858019 October 2011 WASHINGTON – An analysis of eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna trade data released Tuesday shows that harvests of the imperiled tuna are more than double the legal amount. This calls into question the National Marine Fisheries Service’s June decision, responding to a Center for Biological Diversity petition, that […]
CONTACTS:Kymberly Escobar, 202.441.9995Jamie Shor, 202.339.9598 Ten months after releasing a landmark report revealing the planet’s top 20 shark-fishing catchers, the Pew Environment Group is expressing concern about new images and video taken in Taiwan that detail the expansive and unregulated nature of shark fishing globally. The depictions show fins and body parts of biologically vulnerable […]
October 18, 2011 (AFP) – More than twice as many tonnes of Atlantic bluefin tuna were sold last year compared with official catch records for this threatened species, according to a report released on Tuesday. This “bluefin gap” occurred despite enhanced reporting and enforcement measures introduced in 2008 by the 48-member International Commission for the […]
