Juma couldn’t bear being kept in a cage and being subjected to humiliations and deprivation, but this led her to face death. Juma was a female jaguar (Panthera onca), America’s largest feline threatened with extinction mainly because of deforestation, poaching and human-wildlife conflicts. Why Juma was killed Juma was used – chained up – in
Dopo l’inspiegabile moria che lo scorso anno aveva ucciso metà dell’intera popolazione dell’Asia centrale, il numero di esemplari è tornato a crescere.
La Cambogia ha istituito una nuova area protetta di 65mila ettari. La zona è considerata un hotspot importante per molti animali minacciati come l’ibis gigante e il leopardo nebuoloso.
The Bramble Cay melomys was the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef. The rodent has gone extinct because of rising sea levels.
Gli incidenti stradali sono la principale causa di morte degli ocelot in Texas, il Paese ha dunque deciso di realizzare un attraversamento sicuro.
Lo sbiancamento avrebbe ucciso il 35 per cento dei coralli che compongono il sito australiano classificato Patrimonio mondiale dell’Umanità.
There are about 391,000 plant species known to science. They’re vascular plants, which have a vascular system to conduct water and minerals throughout the plant and include all plants except for algae, moss and hepatics. A recent study has assessed for the first time ever the conservation status of the world’s plants. The report on the state of the world’s plant
The government of Indonesia has declared a new moratorium on the expansion of the palm oil and mining industries in the Leuser ecosystem. This area, located on the island of Sumatra, is the last place on Earth where Sumatran orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild. As well as being a biodiversity hotspot,
New research contradicts the widely held belief that world leopard populations remain high compared to other big cats. The species (Panthera pardus) has lost as much as 75 percent of its habitat range, according to the study published in the scientific journal PeerJ. The findings are the result of a three-year effort and provide the
Finding someone who doesn’t like penguins is quite impossible. These birds – with their funny gait and impossibility of flying – inevitably trigger fondness. British scientists are relying on such liking to find volunteers to look at thousands of pictures of penguins. Researchers are trying to figure out the effective impact climate change has on penguin populations
