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BSS, Dhaka The government has declared four rivers surrounding Dhaka City as Ecologically Critical Areas (ECA) as part of the plan to protect the rivers from encroachment as well as conservation of the biodiversity of the ancient water courses.
Tags: Dr Hasan Mahmud, Dhaka City, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Buriganga River, Extinction, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Ecologically Critical Area, Environment
Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil record suggests...
Tags: Milwaukee, Clovis culture, Mastodon, Quaternary extinction event, Paleo-Indians, Pleistocene extinctions, Woolly mammoth, Mammoth, Environment, Pleistocene, Megafauna, Canidae, Impact event, Stone Age, Extinction
For many years, paleobiological researchers interested in the history of biodiversity have focused on charting the many ups (evolutionary radiations) and downs (mass extinctions) that punctuate the history of life. Because the preserved record of marine...
Tags: mass extinctions, Arnie Miller, extinctions rates, ocean settings, Michael Foote, epicontinental sea, rates higher, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Impact events, Biology, Permian¬タモTriassic extinction event, Extinction, Permian, Extinction events, Planetary science, Evolutionary biology, Environment
Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct...
Tags: siamese crocodiles, Adam Starr, Cambodian, breeding programme, Nhek Ratanapech, purebred siamese, critically endangered, Cambodia, Phnom Pénh, Siamese, Purebred, Extinction, Morelet's Crocodile, Crocodiles, Crocodylidae, Alligator farm, Environment
A study published in the journal Science shows that woolly mammoths started to die out nearly 2,000 years before complex spears were invented. Fifteen-thousand years ago, large mammals dominated the North American landscape...The director of the University...
Tags: woolly mammoths, Australia, Sydney, Extinction, Quaternary extinction event, Pleistocene extinctions, Woolly mammoth, Mammoth, Environment, Clovis culture, Stone Age, Megafauna, Mammal, Evolutionary biology, Impact event, Dinosaur, Planetary science, Pleistocene, Canidae, Clovis California, Mastodon, Paleontology
Re “A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move” (Nov. 10): While I applaud the research efforts of scientists, I am deeply skeptical about the merits of assisted migration of plant species to new regions.
Tags: New York, Hobson, Entertainment Culture, Dreaming, Allan Hobson, Dream, Health Medical Pharma, Evolutionary biology, Ecosystem, Nature, Extinction, Systems ecology, Environmental science, Environment
Global policy makers could ultimately save more money if they step up investments to protect the Earth's biodiversity, according to a new report published on Friday (13 November). Current-day decisions to exploit areas of land and sea frequently ignore...
Tags: protects area, great extinction, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Deforestation, Extinction, Nature, Conservation biology, Environmental science, Biodiversity, Environmental economics, Environment
Four years ago the State Government started sending healthy devils interstate as an insurance population. But the 'Noah's Ark' plan has collected fewer than 200 devils over the past four years. The State Government has been urged to find an island for...
Tags: healthy animal, healthy devils, collect healthy, insurance population, Australia, Sydney, Extinction, Devil, Tasmania, Scavengers, Tasmanian Devil, Maria Island, Health Medical Pharma
L ocal conservationist turned TV star Jeff Corwin takes his animal-rescue message to the New England Aquarium this week with the release of a dramatic book and documentary on some of the world’s most endangered species. Corwin’s book, “100 Heartbeats:...
Tags: Jeff Corwin, star jeff, Marshfield, Tiger, Corwin, Endangered species, Wildlife, Extinction, Conservation, National symbols of India, Environment, Entertainment Culture
In an interview with the Herald, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, said the legally binding 2010 target to stop the decline in biodiversity would not be met...Biodiversity is the number and...
Tags: Dr Djoghlaf, Australia, Earth, Sydney, Sustainability, Ecology, Extinction, Ecosystem services, Biodiversity Action Plan, Biodiversity, Convention on Biological Diversity, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Environment