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Controversial proposals by the Australian government would mean shooting more than 650,000 camels from helicopters – and even making camel burgers. Camels have become a problem in Australia’s remote Outback. There are now about a million camels, and the population doubles every nine years. The animals were introduced to the Australia in the 1840′s by [...]
The fragile ecosystems of the Eastern Himalayas have been proven to harbor incredible biological diversity in recent years — a diversity now threatened by global climate change, a new report finds. A new report (pdf) by the WWF, The Eastern Himalayas: Where Worlds Collide, describes more than 350 new species discovered in the last decade [...]
India’s tiger conservation efforts have suffered a multitude of major setbacks, and threats from inside and outside the country may lead to extinction of the wild tiger. Can the tiger be saved? When Project Tiger was launched in 1973, India reported a tiger population of 1,827 tigers – a decline from 40,000 tigers in India [...]
Below are some excerpts from the field journal of Roland Goetz, Warden of Kissama National Park. The WILD Foundation, an EcoWorldly media partner, was one of the first international conservation organizations to take help re-establish Kissama in the late 1990’s, after 25 years of tragic civil war left the region in great need. WILD continues [...]
