Naked mole rats may have specific roles, such as cleaning the toilet chamber or transporting waste, rather than being generalist helpers. The findings suggest naked-mole-rat colonies are even more com...

More than 400 vultures have died in recent poisoning incidents in and around Kruger National Park, South Africa, with 2,400 deaths recorded in the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area since 2015, BirdGuides reports. Experts warn that intentional 'sentinel poisoning' alongside increasing poaching threatens local vulture extinction, particularly among Critically Endangered White-backed Vultures. Calls for urgent action include community engagement, stronger regulation and improved law enforcement.

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

Samoa's Critically Endangered Tooth-billed Pigeon, or 'little dodo', is facing imminent extinction due to deforestation, hunting and invasive species, reports BirdGuides. Conservationists warn that without urgent international funding for large-scale forest protection and monitoring, this unique and elusive bird could vanish forever. Tooth-billed Pigeon is one of the world's most evolutionarily distinct birds, yet remains poorly known, with no clear wild photographs and few recent sightings.

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