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GLAND, Switzerland, March 26, 2021 (ENS) – Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat over the past five decades have taken a grim toll on African elephants. The African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant,
Loxodonta africana, is listed as Endangered on the authoritative Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN.
Before today’s update, African elephants were treated as a single species, listed as Vulnerable to extinction. This is the first time the two species have been assessed separately for the IUCN Red List, after the emergence of new genetic evidence.
Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
by James Fair on 4 May 2021
Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 hectares of forest over the past three decades.
Decades of environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when the Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for the development of commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.
NGOs in Cambodia are said to be unwilling to speak out against the destruction of Botum Sakor because they are afraid they will not be allowed to operate in the country if they do.
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The Atlantic Orca Working Group has issued new advice to skippers after over 45 interactions between boats and the killer whale off Spain and Portugal in the last year
Between July-November 2020, 45 interactions between orcas and boats were recorded between the Strait of Gibraltar and Galicia in Spain. Credit: Halcyon Yachts
New advice has been issued to skippers on how to deal with killer whale interactions.
It comes following reports of juvenile killer whales, also known as orca, touching, pushing and pivoting on boats off the Spanish and Portuguese coasts last year.
In some cases this disruptive behaviour by the orcas resulted in damage to the stern, mainly on the rudder.
St. John s Island is alive!
A short boat ride from the Central Business District on the main island of Singapore, are the amazing living shores of St John s Island!
Here, there are living rocky shores, reefs, seagrass meadows. As well as rare mangrove trees on the untouched western shore, which is part of the Sisters Islands Marine Park. Things were pretty much similar to our last survey here in Oct 2020.
It was great to see Clown anemonefishes in some of the Giant carpet anemones. I also saw one in a Magnificent anemone - but it was too shy for a photograph.