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Genetic barcoding of fish in lake to aid future conservation suggests that species assumed to be Doctor fish, popular as tickly foot cleaners in beauty spas, is actually endangered

A state agency has begun identifying fish species in the Indian Ocean through a scientific exercise synonymous with Huduma Namba.

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 9:06 am A study of invasive wasps on an island off the coast of Coromandel Peninsula shows they are able to share resources such as food and habitat instead of competing with each other, a worrying result for conservation. Introduced social wasps are a major problem in New Zealand, competing for food and preying on native species. They are a particular problem in South Island beech forests where they eat large amounts of honeydew which would otherwise be available for ...

March 11th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Emily Leclerc Sylvester Musembi Musyoka, a Kenyan colleague and field crew leader, recording a large mammal fossil bone during a virtual field project to collect fossils in Kenyan excavation sites that were in danger of being damaged by severe weather. (Nzioki Mativo/Smithsonian) When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic one year ago, it brought much of the world to a halt. Countries closed their borders, internationa...