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First surveys of Tanzanian mountains reveal 160+ animal species, including new & endemic

...untain dwarf galago, two chameleons, the checkered elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon cirnei) and several birds. The Eastern Arc forests have the densest occurrence of endemic species in all of Africa. Over the course of the survey, researchers also observed some alarming encroachments into the forests where these ...

Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park

...ar in 1996. For instance, the park's once abundant elephant population--estimated at 4,300 in the 1960s--had been reduced to a few hundred individuals by 2003. The most recent census--conducted between 9-12 June 2006 and funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service--found that efforts to protect the park's wil...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...s); guinea pig (Cavia porcellus); African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana); tree shrew (Tupaia species); rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus); and a bat species that will be determined based on the availability of a high-quality DNA sample and the selected bat's promise as a biomedical model. NHGRI has recent...

Producing bio-ethanol from agricultural waste a step closer

...ted a gene (derived from a fungus that is found in elephant faeces) into baker's yeast, allowing it to convert an important sugar type, xylose, into ethanol, thereby making the production of bio-ethanol from supplies of leftover materials possible. During his recent PhD research, Marko Kuyper greatly improv...

Alarming decline in Nepal's rhinos and tigers in former Maoist stronghold

...e May 2006 assessment, done by a 40-member team on elephant back that included Bardia National Park staff, IUCN (the World Conservation Union) and WWF, also apprehended two poachers armed with locally made muzzle guns. Four weapons and a large cache of ammunition were seized along with more than 660 pounds of...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...orld than eastern Pacific gray whales and northern elephant seals, both of which came back from low numbers and now represent true conservation success stories. Similar efforts are needed urgently for the vaquita, a small animal living in a small area with a small, and ever-smaller, population....

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

...ccording to the World Conservation Union’s African elephant database, there were no reliable records of elephants in Sudan. “Although we were telling people that wildlife was still present in Southern Sudan, nobody believed us,” said Maj. Gen. Alfred Akwoch, undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environmen...

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