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A historic global treaty to protect the world’s forests, coral reefs and other threatened ecosystems within 10 years was sealed at a UN summit on Saturday. Rich and poor nations agreed to take “effective and urgent” action to curb the destruction of nature in an effort to halt the loss of the world’s biodiversity on [...]
Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said recently. The bleaching, triggered by a large pool of warm water which swept into the Indian Ocean in May, has caused corals from Indonesia to the Seychelles to whiten and [...]
Snake Sathish displaying the king cobra which he rescued. DH Photo Ironically when the real snake is found in the vicinity it is done to death by petrified bunch of people. In Gonikoppa lives a herpetologist, who rescued an injured king cobra, treated it for over 60 days and released it to the woods. The [...]
THE ‘Tigers’ of Maybank went all out in support of conservation of the majestic four-legged animal at a recent event held in conjunction with World Environment Day. Spearheaded by the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), the event in Kiara Park in Taman Tun Dr Ismail drew public attention to several environmental issues currently in the limelight, [...]
A vulnerable coastal dolphin species has nowhere to hide from scientists, who are using DNA and satellites to track and learn more about the rare animal. Conservationists are using these tools to gain new insights into the world of a poorly known coastal dolphin species of eastern South America called franciscana, or the La Plata [...]
A new species of giant lizard has been discovered in the Philippines. The 2m-long reptile is a monitor lizard, the group to which the world’s longest and largest lizards belong. The monitor, described as spectacular by the scientists who found it, lives in forests covering the Sierra Madre mountains in the north of the country. [...]
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