Wildlife

Proximity to unconventional shale gas infrastructure alters breeding bird abundance and distribution

Unconventional shale gas development is a rapidly expanding driver of forest loss and fragmentation in the central Appalachian region. The researchers evaluated the relationship between breeding passerine abundances and distance from shale gas development at a long-term (2008–2017) study site in northern West Virginia, USA.

Publication Date:

11/06/2019

Author(s): Laura S. Farwell, Petra B. Wood, 2 Donald J. Brown & et al

Source: The Condor

pp:

1-20

Tags:

infrastructure, Birds, Land Use, United States Of America (US), Roads, Wildlife

Wildlife

Reducing demand for illegal wildlife: choosing the right messenger

These Good Practice Guidelines identify principles for choosing the right messenger for communications aimed at reducing demand for illegal wildlife products.

Publication Date:

04/06/2019

Source: TRAFFIC

Tags:

Illegal Trade, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife

Wildlife

Nearly 60 per cent of mammals extinct in 44 yrs

The report ‘Living Planet’ is released every two years, and keeps track of around 4,000 species spread across nearly 17,000 population of the planet.

Publication Date:

03/06/2019

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)

Tags:

WWF, Amazon, Mammals, Birds, Wildlife Act 1972, Wildlife

Health

Primary structural differences at residue 226 of deer and elk PrP dictate selection of distinct CWD prion strains in gene-targeted mice

Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. While deer and elk

Publication Date:

30/05/2019

Author(s): Jifeng Bian, Jeffrey R. Christiansen, Julie A. Moreno & et al

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

pp:

1-10

Tags:

Animal Diseases, Health Effects, Wildlife, Research

Wildlife

30 turtles spotted in Neknampur lake this year, count likely to rise

Hyderabad: There has been an increase in the number of turtles at the Neknampur lake.

Publication Date:

30/05/2019

Source: Times Of India (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Turtles, NGO, WWF, Poaching, Wildlife

Wildlife

CS holds meet over shifting of villages from 3 tiger reserves

Jaipur: Chief secretary D B Gupta on Tuesday took a meeting of the wildlife officials to discuss relocation of villages from three tiger reserves in Rajasthan.

Publication Date:

29/05/2019

Source: Times Of India (Jaipur)

Tags:

Rajasthan, Displacement, Compensation, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife

Wildlife

World Health Organisation’s recognition of traditional Chinese medicine ‘could push species into extinction’

Conservationists have accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of rubber-stamping the extinction of endangered species by adopting hundreds of traditional Chinese remedies in its international g

Publication Date:

29/05/2019

Source: Independent (United Kingdom)

Tags:

Wildlife, China, WHO, Endangered Species, Rhinoceros, Tiger, Asia

Wildlife

Africa's elephant poaching rates drop 60% in six years, study finds

African elephant poaching rates have dropped by 60 per cent in six years, an international study has found.

Publication Date:

29/05/2019

Source: Independent (United Kingdom)

Tags:

Wildlife, Elephant, Poaching, Africa, Illegal Trade, China, Asia

Wildlife

Namibia translocates 6 elephants to tourism game park in DRC

Namibia translocated six elephants to a tourism game park in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia's Port Authorities (Namport) said Tuesday.

Publication Date:

29/05/2019

Source: Xinhua

Tags:

Elephant, Wildlife, Namibia, Congo, Relocation, Africa, Wildlife Management

Environment