Tag: Biodiversity
Russia closes whale prison
This is great news for animal advocates, and of course for the animals themselves: Russia by court order has permanently closed a set of cetacean captive ponds on the country’s…
Climate change leads to chain divorce among albatrosses
Albatrosses are monogamous, but divorce occurs when a couple struggles to have or raise young. A study shows that climate variability also pushes females to divorce. You will also be…
When the ocean advances… – It’s in your nature
The Moëze-Oléron Nature Reserve, on the Atlantic coast, is one of the main sites for migrating birds in France. But since the storm Xynthia, in 2010, we understood that the…
Maud Lelièvre, President of IUCN: “The protection of pollinating insects is an emergency”
The city of Tours, in central France, is hosting the first Biodiversity University this Saturday, November 27. The meeting organized by the OLB, the French Biodiversity Office, is intended to…
Cyril Dion, defender of biodiversity with “Animal”
What distinguishes humans from other mammals on Earth? Laughter, wrote Rabelais in the 16th century … The philosopher Descartes estimated that this creature, the highest in the animal kingdom, had…
The disappearance of large herbivores has encouraged fires
Specific richness of late Quaternary herbivores. Pre: before the extinction period, post: after the extinction period. Yellow: grazers, blue: herbivores foraging on trees and bushes, green: diet intermediate between the…
Beekeepers against pesticides, the fight continues
While the Ministry of Ecology has just launched a pollinator plan intended to protect biodiversity, beekeepers are afraid for their bees. Because between the provisional authorizations of neonicotinoids and other…