mammals
In her three decades of working with elephant seals, Dr. Marcela Uhart had never seen anything like the scene on the beaches of Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula last October. It was peak breeding season; the beach should have been teeming with harems of fertile females and enormous males battling one another for dominance. Instead, it was […]
One of the largest wild mammals in Missouri, the American black bear KOMU 8 Source link
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Popov, who has worked for 20 years on the Bulgarian coast, also criticises the failure of environmental authorities to take action on damages to wetlands and cetacean bycatch, primarily in the turbot fishery. Even if Rusev succeeds in winning official support for his idea of a marine national park, other difficulties remain. Dolphins and porpoises […]
The IUCN Red List now includes 150,388 species, of which 42,108 are threatened with extinction. Over 1,550 of the 17,903 marine animals and plants assessed are at risk of extinction, with climate change impacting at least 41% of threatened marine species. “Today’s IUCN Red List update reveals a perfect storm of unsustainable human activity decimating […]
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