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Rhino poaching down a third during lockdown in South Africa

The eye of a rhino calf is seen at the Rhino Orphanage at an undisclosed location near Mokopane, Limpopo Province, South Africa, January 9, 2021. /CFP The number of rhinos killed in South Afri

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Villages in SW China step up monitoring against wild elephant invasion

01:14 Local authorities in Jiangcheng County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, have strengthened monitoring and early warning mechanisms to prevent wild elephants fro

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'Unexplored Land' – A groundbreaking 8K documentary by CMG

Golden takins in the Qinling Mountains in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. /CGTNThe Qinling Mountains in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. /CGTNThe documentary ser

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Study finds close relatives to coronavirus in samples collected 2010

A scientist at Chulalongkorn University samples bats in a research laboratory in Thailand, September 12, 2020. /CFP Cambodian scientists have found "close relatives" of the pathogen, SARS-CoV-

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World's first cheetah smart park established in Namibia

The world's first cheetah smart park equipped with new technology to monitor animals and assets of Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) has been established, a statement said. /Xinhua The

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Virunga park elephants kill two farmers in DR Congo

The Virunga National Park hopes to extend an electric fence to prevent elephants straying into farmland. /AFP Two stray elephants from the famed Virunga wildlife reserve in northeastern Democr

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Bats living in Cambodia in 2010 carried 'nearly identical' pathogen to COVID-19 virus, scientists discover

Scientists say the discovery could be crucial in finding where the disease started and to prevent further pandemics.

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Masks that choked our oceans: abandoned masks threaten environment

Masks and other garbage polluting the Adriatic Sea, July 31, 2020. /CFP Editor's note: According to the latest report released by the marine conservation organization OceansAsia in December 20

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Namibia to proceed with planned auction of 170 elephants

African Elephants at a water hole, Etosha NP, Namibia. (Photo by: David Tipling/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Namibian government on Friday said it is going ahead with plans to

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Nasdaq ends at records but Biden actions slam oil shares

The New York Stock Exchange is seen in the financial district of New York, U.S., January 13, 2021. /Reuters The Nasdaq pushed to a fresh record Thursday on lingering optimism over the U.S. pre

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Changbai Mountains Nature Reserve releases wildlife footage

00:40 Changbai Mountains Nature Reserve administration recently released footage of wildlife activities in the region from last year.The camera captured a group of wild

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Hundreds of oriental white storks spend winter in central Chinese city

01:04 With the improvement of the local water environment, hundreds of oriental white storks have arrived in Shangqiu City of central China's Henan Province to spend th

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Israel studies new forest home for endangered mountain gazelle

Israel is one of the last places in the world where endangered mountain gazelle roams in the wild but, as development shrinks their natural savannah habitat, ecologists are studying if they can also

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Gorillas test positive for coronavirus at San Diego Zoo in the U.S.

Members of the gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are seen in their habitat on January 10, 2021. /AP Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the

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From macaques to crabs, wildlife faces threat from face masks

A macaque monkey attempts to eat a face mask, used as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19, left behind by a passerby in Genting Sempah in Malaysia’s Pahang state on October 30

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World lost California-sized forest in over a decade: WWF

The world has lost more than 43 million hectares of forest – the size of California – along the tropics and subtropics in over a decade, adversely impacting local communities and global efforts to

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Scientists surprised to discover dwarf giraffes in Namibia and Uganda

Being tall is the giraffe's competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa. "It's fasc