This November, the first specialised workshop assessing the impacts of disasters on animals inside the Heart East and North Africa (MENA) space happened in Amman, Jordan. The workshop, launched in cooperation between IFAW and the Princess Alia Foundation, launched collectively representatives from the governments and civil society of Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan. This […]

Nonetheless yearly, calving season brings a little bit of little little bit of much-needed hope. From mid-November by the spring, the species welcomes new calves to their dwindling numbers. With solely 70 reproductive female North Atlantic correct whales remaining, IFAW and our companions maintain an in depth eye on their actions and train, monitoring and […]

Assassin bugs, current in Malaysia, have perhaps considered one of many strangest instinctual behaviours inside the animal kingdom. These bugs hunt ants, eat their insides, after which rework their exoskeletons into armour. They placed on this new outfit to trick and confuse predators, along with birds, rodents, and totally different bugs—along with totally different members […]

The waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) is an enormous antelope with a darkish, shaggy coat, found all through sub-Saharan Africa. Solely male waterbucks have horns, though females usually have small horn bumps. Their prolonged horns develop backwards and steadily curve forwards in a crescent kind.  The IUCN classes waterbucks as least concern, though their inhabitants is declining. […]

What’s human-wildlife battle? Human-wildlife battle refers again to the damaging interactions between individuals and wild animals. It generally occurs the place the territories and wishes of individuals and animals overlap, normally resulting in damaged livelihoods and habitats. It should most likely moreover lead to injury or lack of life of every animals and other people. […]

Wombats are relations Vombatidae, primarily probably the most well-known of which is the bare-nosed wombat (additionally known as the widespread wombat). Wombats truly do use their bottoms as a defence mechanism—after they’re threatened, their backsides’ 4 fused plates surrounded by fat, pores and pores and skin, cartilage, and fur could be utilized to dam the […]

Lifespan  Baleen whales are inclined to remain longer than dolphins. It’s thought that bowhead whales can keep as a lot as 200 years outdated. Blue whales keep between 80 and 90 years. Bottlenose dolphins keep for spherical 40 years. The standard lifespan for an orca is 30 to 50 years.  Weight-reduction plan  Relating to consuming […]

Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of wildlife and their habitats, and interesting communities in that work, is an environment friendly strategy to enhance every of us’s and animals’ resilience to the results of native climate change.  Native climate change can seem like a distant, large-scale issue to be dealt with at nationwide and world ranges, nevertheless […]

African buffalos are definitely one in every of three species of true buffalo, they normally keep in sub-Saharan Africa in rainforests, bushlands, and savannahs. Their horns develop out of the perimeters of their heads, curving upwards. Their inhabitants at current stands at spherical 400,000 mature individuals, nonetheless they’re listed as near threatened because of their […]

Rhino horns are product of keratin, a fibrous protein present in hair, fingernails, scales, and different elements of vertebrate animals. Elephant tusks are product of ivory, which consists of dentine, a calcified physique tissue additionally present in human tooth.  Like fingernails, horns develop repeatedly all through a rhino’s life and might be trimmed with out […]