Kuta, Indonesia – NEWS AND OPINION: The Times reports on the rescue of two dozen green sea turtles from poachers. All sea turtles are protected in Indonesia. Green turtles are classified as endangered due to various forms of exploitative human activity such as overharvesting them …
This is a great decision by the current government. About 15 pairs of wild beavers are living on the River Otter in Devon, UK. It is not known how they got there but it is believed that they were released illegally. They’ve built 28 dams …
Satellite images made with a high resolution camera from space have located some as yet unknown colonies of Emperor penguins by detecting the vast reddish-brown poo stains on the ice (scientific word: guano). This, of course, is good news for conservationists. They found 11 new …
People buy aquariums for various reasons one which is to lower their blood pressure, reduce stress and to feel better. They are meant to have a calming effect. Is this true? I can refer to a study. It’s nice to refer to a bit of …
The argument by scientists who have published a research paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, is that if you poison an unwanted predator such as the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) they change and the change can undermine the desired outcome. It’s reported …
A team of experts have joined forces to try and save the scrotum frog from becoming extinct. One of the major threats is their consumption by humans. The scientific name is Telmatobius culeus. A better name is the Titicaca water frog. They mainly live near …
There is a fascinating write-up of a study about the declining numbers of small native mammal species, weighing up to 5 kg, in an area called Top End in Australia. Top End, as the name implies, is at the top of Australia, dead centre. It …
So-called “ghost nets” refers to abandoned fishing nets in large quantities on the seabed and sometimes wrapped around wrecks as is the case in this story which highlights the problem they pose to marine wildlife. A volunteer organisation who call themselves Ghost Diving has been …
Shaza Morani is the daughter of India’s renowned producer Karim Morani and his wife Zara Morani. Her sister, Zoa, is an actress in the Hindi film industry. She lives in Mumbai. One of her friends as a Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor who is also concerned …
