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The migratory birds that we massacre in Malta each year, are the same birds that would otherwise ‘get back home safely’, and – in an eggshell – ‘BREED’! Therefore, killing them as they fly over Malta, also means ‘weakening the genetic stock of the surviving breeding populations, of the entire species concerned'

Photographer Graeme Green explains his years-long process of organizing 146 photographers to produce a single photo book.

Egbert was carefully hatched in a specialised vulture incubator

The zoo announced that mother leopard Satka gave birth to twins, the third set of Amur leopard twins to be born at the zoo.

The San Diego Zoo on Tuesday announced the birth of twin Amur leopard cubs, a leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of southeastern Russia and northern China.

New research led by the University of Oxford has revealed that the most endangered turtle and crocodile species are those that are most unique. Their loss could have widespread impacts on the ecosystems they live in since they carry out critical processes important for many other species. The results have been published in Nature Communications.

The next time you see a turtle think of what life on earth might have been like 220 million years ago.

• New study demonstrates that the most endangered turtles and crocodile species are those that have evolved unique life strategies. • Many of the most threatened species carry out important ecosystem functions that other species depend on. • Habitat loss was identified as the key overall threat to turtles and crocodiles, followed by climate change and global trade. • Unique species faced additional pressure from local consumption, diseases, and pollution.

The Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), also referred to as the Black Vulture, Monk Vulture, or Eurasian Black Vulture, is the biggest bird of prey in Europe. The Cinereous Vulture, which is globally classified as Near Threatened, has seen a substantial drop in its populations in southern Euro

Some 100,000 Chinese sturgeons were released from their normal captive breeding environment to the Yangtze River in Yichang, Central Chinas Hubei Province on Saturday morning in a bid by the China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) to boost aquatic biodiversity conservation.