Nagpur: A new study shows several benefits of conserving the large wild animals in India. Megaherbivores — animals weighing over 1000kg — play a vital role in enhancing biodiversity ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

Animals equipped with modern sensors could be seen as the 21st ... And benefits are not limited to purely wild areas of the world, researchers say. With many regions enduring extreme heat this summer, ...

The concept champions the role that healthy populations of wild animals, both terrestrial and marine, can play in boosting the ability of ecosystems to store carbon, helping the planet stay within ...

They say the captive animals could serve as a genetic life raft should the species go extinct in the wild. Nijman used information ... that can come into play when deciding whether to acquire ...

Scientists have studied these hairs and found that they play a powerful role in keeping these ... opportunities to add surface area. However, these tall animals have a sophisticated trick up ...

Unlike the cramped cages that housed wild animals in sideshow spectacles of ... and aquariums prompt individuals to reconsider their role in environmental problems and see themselves as part ...

Health officials are asking residents to make sure their pets' vaccinations are up to date and to avoid touching bats or wild ...

Natural selection may also come into play: If animals have severe allergies, they might not survive long enough to breed. That said, wild animals that reside in ... and thinks environment plays an ...

and one of the first ways we know what kind of virus is out there — to figure out that link — is to find dead wild birds in the area,” said Yuko Sato, ISU Extension’s poultry veterinarian ...

In September, the village of San Colmede was spared from a fire that ripped through 270 hectares of Eucalyptus and scrub in the surrounding hills thanks to grazing by animals and by the native ...

Police say two more lynx have been spotted in the same area where a pair of the wild ... RZSS condemns the illegal release of wild animals in the strongest possible terms. The two animals trapped ...