Archive for the 'Wildlife' Category
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Wildlife ranger seriously hurt in elephant attack
KUALA TERENGGANU: A Wildlife Department ranger survived an attack by an elephant that he was trying to ride at Elephant Park, Hulu Terengganu, yesterday.
Mohd Hadzli Awang, 27, was trying to get on top of the elephant named Charlie when he lost his balance in the 8.55am incident.
Charlie became agitated [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
MIRI: The illicit and often-cruel trade in wildlife and wildlife-parts raked in more than RM100mil in profits for illegal hunters and smugglers in five South East Asean countries, including Malaysia, during the first three months of this year alone.
ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (Asean-Wen) said that the money-spinning illegal trade involved endangered animals on the verge [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
HANOI, May 27 (Bernama) — Nearly 150 wild animal species are categorised and described in “A Pictorial Guide for Quick Identification of Some Wild Animals Protected by Vietnamese Laws and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora”, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported Wednesday.
The book was put together to help [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia – Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world’s largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack.
The stories spread quickly across this smattering of tropical islands in southeastern [...]
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Modern Australia lacks big land predators, but until about 30,000 years ago, the continent was ruled by Thylacoleo carnifex, the marsupial “lion.”
Several well-preserved skeletons of the leopard-size beast have been found. Now, a newly discovered cave painting offers a glimpse of the animal’s external appearance.
In June 2008, Tim Willing, a naturalist and tour guide, photographed [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Nicholas Wadhams in Nairobi, Kenya
for National Geographic News
December 7, 2007
A new species of spitting cobra—now the largest in the world—has been named by researchers in Kenya and the United Kingdom.
The newly anointed Ashe’s spitting cobra, or large brown spitting cobra (Naja ashei), can reach lengths of more than 9 feet (274 centimeters) and is believed [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I found this news in the national geographic site… That is a very large snake! Didn’t imagine that there are snake that large exist or used to be exist in this world…
But well, since we talk about long time ago… many things is possible…
Here is the news:
Biggest Snake Discovered; Was Longer Than a Bus
The world’s [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
KUANTAN: With more allocations coming in, the turtle sanctuary and information centre in Cherating will have better facilities built to make it one of the main tourist attractions in Pahang.
The centre, which is under the Fisheries Department, has been criticised for the lack of facilities and its dilapidated exhibition area.
Its head, Abdul Karim Mohd Sham, [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
KOTA KINABALU: The orang utan and other endangered wildlife are making their presence felt at the Ulu Segama and Malua commercial forest reserves almost a year after the Sabah government slammed the brakes on logging at the two sites, giving up billions in potential revenue from timber.
Sabah Forestry Department director Datuk Sam Mannan said that [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
ROME: The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world’s oceans, UN officials and environmental groups said yesterday.
That sound pollution — everything from increasing commercial shipping and seismic surveys to a new generation of military sonar — is not only [...]
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