Baillie the Border Collie stands motionless, eyeballing her handler, then springs into action when he gives the command: “Find it!” The four-year-old is part of the Canada Task Force 2 Disaster Response Team, among the thousand delegates at the 5th Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas. She is one of an elite of […]
Administrative officials and development activists at a post-rally discussion there yesterday mentioned dissemination of science-based information can be an effective means of substantially reducing loss of lives and property caused by the natural disasters, reports BSS. They viewed there is no scope of preventing occurrence of natural catastrophe but there is scope of reducing damage […]
The recent killing of a rhino in a Paris zoo marks a shocking new development in this ruthless global trade but rhino experts remain optimistic that the situation can be reversed. On the black market it is reputedly worth more than its weight in gold or cocaine, and this week the lure of rhino horn […]
In the remote Altai mountains, camera traps are shedding light on the secret lives of these elusive animals, enabling researchers to identify individual leopards in the first ever nationwide census. The snow leopard is so rare and elusive that it’s commonly known as the “ghost of the mountains”. But researchers in the Altai mountains, where […]
The citizens of four major European countries think the impacts of climate change such as severe floods and storms are already affecting them, according to a major new polling study. The research dispels the idea that global warming is widely seen as a future problem, and also shows strong support for action to tackle global […]
Police are visiting every zoo and wildlife park in the UK that houses rhinos to offer security advice after poachers shot dead a white rhinoceros and sawed off its horn at a zoo in France. The head of Britain’s National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) said the French attack, the first of its kind in Europe, was a wake-up […]
The idea that pesticides are essential to feed a fast-growing global population is a myth, according to UN food and pollution experts. A new report, being presented to the UN human rights council on Wednesday, is severely critical of the global corporations that manufacture pesticides, accusing them of the “systematic denial of harms”, “aggressive, unethical marketing […]
The amount of solar power added worldwide soared by some 50% last year because of a sun rush in the US and China, new figures show. New solar photovoltaic capacity installed in 2016 reached more than 76 gigawatts, a dramatic increase on the 50GW installed the year before. China and the US led the surge, with […]
Habitat destruction, indiscriminate killing and poaching and scarcity of food have put country’s wildlife at risk of extinction. A total 31 species have been extinct in the country and 390 more are threatened species, according to the latest Red List of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Habitat destruction and indiscriminate hunting and killing […]
Twenty-five-year-old green sea turtle nicknamed Bank swallowed money thrown into her pool by tourists seeking good luck. Tossing coins into a fountain to bring good luck is a popular superstition, but the practice brought misery to a sea turtle in Thailand from which vets have removed 915 coins. Vets in Bangkok operated on Monday on the 25-year-old […]
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