22 Jan, 2025
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Strengthening disaster response for animals in MENA

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 […]

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Unbelievable pure instincts

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 […]

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African animals with horns: info and pictures

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. […]

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Human-wildlife battle in Kenya

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. […]

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Prime 10 most fascinating animals in Australia

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 […]

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Recovering and reconstructing habitats after Black Summer season season

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 […]

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Very good animals with horns: information and pictures

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 […]

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11 enjoyable info about rhinos

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 […]