Living planet report 2022
<p>Wildlife populations monitored across the globe have declined by a massive 69 per cent between 1970 and 2018, according to this WWF's Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022</p>
Reptiles
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Wildlife comeback in Europe: opportunities and challenges for species recovery
This new and updated Wildlife Comeback Report commissioned by Rewilding Europe, which will provide the latest and state-of-the-art insights, opportunities and challenges for wildlife comeback at a European
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New snake species in Europe named after a long-forgotten Iron Age kingdom
An international team of scientists identified the snake and its range, which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, and Russia including a small region extending into the corner of
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Sri Lanka calls for increased protection for endemic lizards
Sri Lanka is seeking greater international protection for several lizard species found nowhere else on Earth. The country hosts the next meeting of CITES next month, where it will propose several
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To stop extinctions, start with these 169 islands, new study finds
New research shows that culling invasive, non-native animals on just 169 islands around the world over roughly the next decade could help save almost 10 percent of island-dwelling animals at risk of
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Climate change could devastate painted turtles, according to new study
An Iowa State University biologist is sounding the alarm for the painted turtle, one of many reptiles for which climate change could prove particularly threatening. Fluctuations in temperature driven
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Quantifying the effects of climate and anthropogenic change on regional species loss in China
<p>Human-induced environmental and climate change are widely blamed for causing rapid global biodiversity loss, but direct estimation of the proportion of biodiversity lost at local or regional scales
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Red List of flora, fauna species under analysis
The list, which is to be published on the World Environment Day (05 June), mentions the specific condition of each species. This move is a continuation of a work of the Ministry of the Environment
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SA lizard that inspired Tolkien’s Smaug ‘facing extinction’
When JRR Tolkien completed his sketch “Death of Smaug” for The Hobbit in the early 1930s‚ he was illustrating a work of fiction. But it turns out he was being prophetic‚ too. Tolkien‚ born in Bloemfontein
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Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
<p>The strong focus on species extinctions, a critical aspect of the contemporary pulse of biological extinction, leads to a common misimpression that Earth’s biota is not immediately threatened,