Wildlife

Helmeted hornbill, on verge of extinction, finds respite in new zone outside of known range

A recent survey has found a high concentration of near-extinct helmeted hornbills in a conservation area in western Borneo.

Publication Date: 
23/10/2017
Mongabay
Tags:
Wildlife, Birds, Poaching, Endangered Species, Indonesia
Air Pollution

Sooty birds' reveal hidden US air pollution

Soot trapped in the feathers of songbirds over the past 100 years is causing scientists to revise their records of air pollution.

Publication Date: 
10/10/2017
BBC (UK)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, United States Of America (US), Birds, Scientists
Wildlife

More than 120 birds dead at Suncor-owned Canada oil sands mine

More than 120 birds in Canada’s oil heartland of Alberta were killed after getting caught in a pond of oil sands byproducts operated by the country’s largest producer, Suncor Energy Inc, the local

Publication Date: 
20/09/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Wildlife, Canada, Birds, Environment
Biodiversity

Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale

Research of the past decades has shown that biodiversity promotes ecosystem functions including primary productivity. However, most studies focused on experimental communities at small spatial scales, and little is known about how these findings scale to nonexperimental, real-world ecosystems at large spatial scales, despite these systems providing essential ecosystem services to humans.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2017
Jacqueline Oehri, Bernhard Schmid, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Tags:
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Flora, Birds, Butterflies, Climate Adaptation, Switzerland, Europe
Animal Care

South Africa's RCL Foods finds bird flu at poultry farm

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s RCL Foods has found the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at one of its poultry farms, it said on Tuesday, as it reported a 34 percent drop in full-year earnin

Publication Date: 
30/08/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Animal Care, Influenza, Avian Flu, South Africa, Poultry, Birds, Africa
Animal Care

Germany reports outbreak of H5N8 bird flu in swans

PARIS (Reuters) - Germany reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in the central state of Saxony-Anhalt, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2017
Reuters
Tags:
Avian Flu, Influenza, Germany, Animal Care, Poultry, Birds
Animal Care

South Africa: New Bird Flu Cases Reported

South Africa has reported eight new cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N8 to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Publication Date: 
29/08/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Animal Care, Avian Flu, Influenza, Birds, Poultry, South Africa, WHO, Africa
Wildlife

Britain’s seabird colonies face catastrophe as warming waters disrupt their food supply

Bempton Cliffs bird reserve was in fine fettle last week.

Publication Date: 
21/08/2017
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Wildlife, Birds, Marine Life, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Europe, United Kingdom, Food Supply
Animal Care

Uganda declared free of bird flu

KAMPALA - Uganda has been declared free of bird flu after tests of samples from poultry and wild birds proved negative, according to Christopher Kibazanga, the minister of state for agriculture.

Publication Date: 
21/08/2017
New Vision (Uganda)
Tags:
Animal Care, Influenza, Avian Flu, Birds, Uganda, Poultry, Africa
Wildlife

New study: Bird species blossom in stable climates

A team of scientists from Sweden and the United States found that more bird species inhabit stable climates.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2017
Mongabay
Tags:
Wildlife, Birds, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation

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