Amazon and eBay hosted ads for banned invasive species Unregulated traders are using the sites to sell some of the world’s most invasive plants, with potentially devastating impacts on ecosystems …
Only 3 wild addax left in the world? Antelope is on the edge of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss. Mary Jo DiLonardo Could these be the last three …
What Does a Dying Forest Sound Like? As temperatures rise, scientists scramble to pinpoint trees in danger of drought Severe drought killed this stand of trembling aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, …
Oscar We are dropping the variegata from Tillandsia utriculata and Tillandsia xerographica. The trend these days is for variegates to be covered as Cultivars. They are only mutations anyway. Please …
David Attenborough at 90: a TV legend’s top 10 moments As the wildlife presenter approaches his 90th birthday, we take a look at some of his most awe-inspiring work – …
What’s the Most Painful Sting? An Interview with ‘the King of Sting’ By Douglas Main The bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) has the most painful sting in the insect world. Juan …
Science In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap By JOANNA KLEIN MAY 6, 2016 Red-sided garter snakes. Upon emerging from their eight-month slumber, they get down …
Malaria vaccine candidate shows longer protection, promise, direction of next steps By Antigone Barton on May 9, 2016. The quest for a vaccine that provides lasting protection against malaria took …
The war on elephants How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for ivory By Alastair Leithead WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC …
Who is the ‘Ivory Queen’? 9 May 2016 Image copyright AFP A 66-year-old bespectacled Chinese woman may not be most people’s idea of an ivory smuggling kingpin, but that’s exactly …