I really love birds, and I’m very fond of parrots that I consider really clever and jovial creatures, but meeting a 3 feet tall parrot, well…I can’t even imagine. Yet, according to a recent study it is exactly how tall a ancient parrot in New Zealand, use to stand. A group of paleontologists have recently […]
While everybody is talking about the endangered species list what gets larger every single day, there are also good news regarding wildlife species. And the most recent one surfaced a few days ago, when a group of researchers claimed they might have found a whole new monkey species. The information initially come into sight on […]
They are known as the fastest land animal and definitely the cutest of the big cats. But despite being so charming, the cheetahs are facing extinction. The last reports indicates there are around 7,000 individuals left in the wild. Unfortunately, the future doesn’t look well either as the in the next decade their numbers may […]
International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN) recently updated their Red List of Threatened Species and it looks terrifying. With around 9,000 species added only this month, now 105,732 species are classified as ‘threatened’ by the IUCN. And as it isn’t enough, at least 28,000 of these species are close to extinction. A hallucinating number thinking […]
After tigers, rhinos or elephants, another wildlife species was included on, already too small, endangered species list. Days ago, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) officially declared the Masai giraffes as endangered. The Masai giraffes is a subspecies what roams the lands of Kenya and Tanzania. There are still around 35,000 individuals […]
After the government in Tanzania declared zero tolerance to poaching, the great news have risen. According to the country’s officials, the rhino numbers ‘soar by 1,000%’ in the last four years. Therefore, if in 2015 there were only 15 rhinos, now the once critically endangered species has 167 individuals. Tanzania says #elephant, #rhino populations rebounding […]