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Endangered species in Canada face extensive delays receiving protection

For more than 20 years, Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) has protected wildlife that are at risk of being lost from Canadian lands and waters. Once a species is listed as extirpated, endangered or threatened under the act, it becomes illegal to kill, harm or capture it or damage…

The Conversation · 1h ago

‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success

The Guardian - UK · 8h ago

The Night Frogs of Kerala: Species Found Nowhere Else on Earth

A Family Older Than the HimalayasThe family Nyctibatrachidae, Kerala's night frogs, diverged from all other frog lineages somewhere between 70 and 86 million years ago, when the Indian subcontinent was still a drifting landmass moving north across the Tethys Sea. The Himalayas did not exist yet. The frogs were already…

Times Life · 12h ago

Indonesia relocates 8 orangutans into protected forest after rescue from wildfires

Eight endangered orangutans rescued from areas of Indonesia’s Borneo ravaged by wildfires have been released into a protected forest

The Independent UK · Oct 13

Barbs and Loaches of the Western Ghats: India's Uncounted Ornamental Fish Trade

Fish That Live in One River and Nowhere ElseThe Western Ghats mountain range runs roughly 1,600 kilometres along India's western coast, and the streams that tumble down its eastern and western slopes carry one of the highest concentrations of freshwater fish endemism on the planet. Of the approximately 290 freshwater…

Times Life · Oct 13

California’s artificial seeps reach 90% soil saturation, but no flycatcher nests appear

California's initiative to restore habitat for the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher includes artificial seeps and birdsong broadcasts. Soil saturation at seep sites was significantly higher than at reference sites during the study in 2025. Eight transient Willow Flycatchers were detected, but no evidence of nesting was observed. Invasive species and…

The Times of India · Oct 13

‘Could you...’: Last words of man killed in Yorkshire Wildlife Park tiger attack revealed

In a shocking incident at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a young man trespassed into a restricted area, seeking a photograph with a tiger. Tragically, he entered the tiger enclosure just before a fatal encounter with the animal named Altai occurred. Although Altai was unharmed, the man was attacked and died at…

The Economic Times · Oct 12

Yorkshire tiger latest: Man killed was visiting park alone, say police, as investigation launched

A council responsible for licensing Yorkshire Wildlife Park, where the man was killed by a tiger on Saturday, has started a health and safety investigation

The Independent UK · Oct 12

Yorkshire Wildlife Park: Where is it and what happened there? Inside the reserve housing endangered Amur tigers, with just 500 left in the wild

Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster is under investigation after a man died following a tiger attack. A man was mauled to death by a tiger after entering its enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England. Here's where the park is located, what to know about its Land of the Tigers…

The Economic Times · Oct 11

Tiger who attacked man in Yorkshire enclosure ‘was endangered species who had joined from zoo in Norway last year’

Amur tiger Altai arrived at the wildlife park last year

The Independent UK · Oct 11