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Kenya

Boys in Kenya use slingshots to plant tree seeds

Schoolboys in Kenya are using slingshots for good: instead of rocks, they’re shooting charcoal-covered seeds to plant trees.

23/07/2018

Green News

Watch how these turtles are protected in Costa Rica

A controversial new management plan is helping to improve the survival of the sea turtles in a small town in Costa Rica.

18/07/2018

Italy

Italy 'turns blind eye' to more than 10,000 hours of illegal fishing

20 Italian bottom-trawling vessels were caught fishing within closed areas of the Strait of Sicily designed to protect young hake — the most overfished species in the Mediterranean.

12/07/2018

World News

Mediterranean is world’s most overfished sea: report

A third of the the world’s commercial fish species are being caught at unsustainable levels, with overfishing at its most severe in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, according to a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

09/07/2018

Spain

Great White shark spotted off Spanish coast

A great white shark has been spotted near Spain's Balearic Islands for the first time in at least 30 years.

01/07/2018

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Relocation of black rhino after increase in new births

Wildlife workers and conservationists in Nairobi National Park are busy rounding up eight black rhinos.

26/06/2018

Thailand

Whale dies in Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags

An autopsy found eight kilograms of plastic waste in the animal's stomach.

03/06/2018

Spain

Iberian lynx spotted in Catalonia for first time in over 100 years

The four-year-old lynx was last seen in southern Portugal in 2016.

02/06/2018

World News

Good news Friday!

Here's a roundup of some of the brightest stories from the week to cheer up your Friday.

18/05/2018

USA

Pregnant rhino sparks hope for subspecies

“The confirmation of this pregnancy through artificial insemination represents an historic event for our organisation but also a critical step in our effort to save the northern white rhino."

18/05/2018

World News

Euroviews. A better way to protect big animals | View

If local communities had property rights to large animals like whales, elephants or rhinos, would preserving them be easier?

18/05/2018

Bulgaria

Three little bears find sanctuary in Bulgaria

Staff say the trio were all alone when they were found in a mountainous region, with their mother nowhere to be seen

27/04/2018

United Kingdom

Rainforest lights up Buckingham Palace

A projection illuminated Queen Elizabeth's London home to celebrate a Commonwealth conservation initiative

16/04/2018

World News

Genital-breathing ‘punk turtle’ joins endangered species list

The new list ranks reptiles on a combination of how endangered and unusual they are.

13/04/2018

Kenya

World’s last male northern white rhino dies

There are now only two females of the subspecies left in the world.

20/03/2018

World News

Scientists spot secret penguin 'supercolony' from space

Some 1.5 million penguins have been found on the remote Danger Islands.

02/03/2018

Bolivia

Will Romeo find his Juliet?

Romeo faces extinction as the only Sehuencas frog in existence. To help him the Global Wildlife Conservation has added his profile to the dating site Match

13/02/2018

Kenya

"Sudan" misses out on Tinder as people swipe left on the world's last

Northern White Rhino's keepers put Sudan on Tinder as a money-raising stunt, and to raise awareness that the species will go extinct if Sudan does not father children soon.

19/01/2018

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Record number of cold-stunned turtles in Texas

A new state record has been set for the number of cold-stunned sea turtles found along the coast of Texas, according to the US National Park Service.

18/01/2018

France

France’s first panda makes public debut

Yuan Meng is five months old and weighs 11 kilograms.

14/01/2018