Baby dead and 23 people missing after hippo collides with boat in Malawi
Police in Nsanje say canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River when incident took place A baby has died and 23 people are...
Category : Animals
Calls for action on Colombia’s hippo scourge after animal dies in road crash
Dead creature was one of 150 descendants of four hippos imported by drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1980s Colombia has logged its first hippopotamus-caused road...
World’s biggest single eradication operation aims to remove mice from island
Invasive house mice threaten endangered seabirds and wildlife on Marion Island in Indian Ocean Non-native house mice are to be removed from Marion Island in...
Florence and her cubs give hope that west African lion can come roaring back
National park in Senegal shows off three surprise new recruits in fight to save critically endangered species from extinction A lioness in one of the...
Canadian minister calls for emergency order to save country’s last spotted owls
Steven Guilbeault wants to block logging of critical old-growth forest to prevent owls from going extinct in British Columbia Canada’s environment minister plans to use...
Bird flu: 11-year-old girl in Cambodia dies after being infected
Case is the country’s first known human infection with H5N1 strain since 2014, health minister says An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died after being...
Sint Maarten approves plan to cull entire population of vervet monkeys
The Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the proposal The government of Sint Maarten...
Kenya declares war on millions of birds after they raid crops
Toxic pesticides used to eradicate grain-eating quelea may harm the country’s endangered raptors, say conservationists A drive by the Kenyan government to kill up to...
