Scientists from the University of Oxford and Fudan University, Shanghai, have invented a way to create fake rhino horn using horse hair. Published in Scientific Reports they hope their metho... Read more
One of the greatest challenges in saving endangered species is to predict if an animal population will die out. Accurate and reliable models are crucial for conservationists. What doe... Read more
A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching. Forensic fingerprinting techniques will now be used in the battle against illegal wildlife trade as new... Read more
A collaboration between astrophysicists and ecologists at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is helping to monitor rare and endangered species and stop poaching. Astrophysical software... Read more
The world’s first astrophysics-ecology drone project at Liverpool John Moores University could be the answer to many global conservation efforts. Four hundred years ago Galileo created a rev... Read more
Maps show species threat ‘hotspots’ to make connection between consumers, impacts The things we consume, from iPhones to cars to IKEA furniture, have costs that go well beyond th... Read more
The Wildsense iPad app, an initiative from a group of researchers at the University of Surrey, could change the way wildlife is monitored in the future Wildsense aims to use citizen science,... Read more
For under-resourced park rangers patrolling the porous, poacher-friendly borders of Africa’s national parks, conserving the ailing rhino and elephant populations is certainly a tall or... Read more
A new scientific study has identified the protected areas most critical to preventing extinctions of the world’s mammals, birds and amphibians. Resulting from an international collabor... Read more
Using a freeze-drying technique, Japanese scientists have created a living database to bring extinct species back to life. In Japan, a team of scientists from Kyoto University’s The Institut... Read more
Right now, cloning is not a viable conservation strategy. But some researchers remain optimistic that it will help threatened species in the future In 2009 the Brazilian Agricultural Researc... Read more
What if there were only a couple dozen police officers to patrol all of Manhattan? Now imagine that the borough protected something far more valuable than gold, something that heavily armed... Read more
The second robot of the naro project continues the concept of fin propulsion. The natural counterpart of this robot is the sea-turtle. Also a highly endangered animal! But the reasons to cho... Read more
If scientists in Brazil have their way, the populations of eight endangered species could soon expand through a mass effort to clone them. The project is spearheaded by the Brasilia Zoologic... Read more
