Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans
Snow leopards range across Asia’s rugged mountains, where they face mounting threats from climate change, declining wild prey, and retaliatory killings from local herders. Today, on Oct. 23, International Snow…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds
- A study off Cornwall, England, found that nets fitted with bird-of-prey kites had 71% lower odds of catching guillemots and razorbills, and nets with spinning “looming-eye” buoys had 59%…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Mass sloth deaths prompt US bill calling for import ban
On Oct. 20, International Sloth Day, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. Congress to ban the import of wild sloths into the United States. The proposed legislation comes…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade
Wildlife traffickers are increasingly targeting critically endangered maleo birds from coastal Indonesia for the international exotic pet trade, according to a recent study. In 2024, enforcement agencies recorded three separate…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts
- Kavantissa was a much-loved elephant among residents in Galgamuwa in north western Sri Lanka and, despite a worsening human-elephant conflict in the area, had no record of attacking humans.-…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival
Twenty species of gibbons swing through the tropical forests of Asia, all are threatened by human activities like deforestation, hunting and trafficking baby gibbons for the exotic pet trade. In…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents
- Construction of an access road for the controversial Potássio Autazes potash project in Brazil’s northwestern Amazonas state has caused springs used by the Mura Indigenous people to dry up,…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Rare bird finding strengthens case to protect Congo rainforest across borders
- Scientists have made the first record of a rare bird in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo — inside a biosphere reserve that is severely threatened by…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season
- Hornbills in Bangladesh are being targeted during breeding season, when females remain in the nest and chicks are still unable to fly.- Rescue records from 2023 to 2026 show…
Đọc bài gốc →Mongabay — Wildlife · 30/10/2026In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot
- In Pakistan’s Punjab province, November typically brings a blanket of air pollution that exceeds global health guidelines and endangers both humans and wildlife.- Experts call for more data and…
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