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London, UK - 14th April 2021 -
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is gearing up for a potentially record-breaking breeding season as keepers care for more Critically Endangered pine hoverflies than ever before at Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore.
Led by the wildlife conservation charity since 2016, the pine hoverfly conservation breeding programme is now responsible for the majority of Britain’s known population of the rare native species, currently only found in one small forest in the Cairngorms.
Almost all of the 156 larvae that hatched at the park last year are now becoming pupae, entering the next stage of their life cycle on their way to becoming adults. Among them are
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Elephant Population In Kenya Has Increased By 2.8%, Poaching Declined By 96%: KWS
While more than 386 elephant were lost to poaching in 2013, this figure significantly shrank to just 11 elephant poached in 2020, Kenya Wildlife Service said.
Kenya’s elephant population has increased at an annual rate of approximately 2.8 percent over the last three decades, and there has been a 96 percent decline in poaching, Kenya’s Wildlife Research and Training Institute said in a report ‘African elephant Species New Listing to Endangered and Critically Endangered in IUCN Red list’. While more than 386 elephants were lost to poaching in 2013, this figure significantly shrank to just 11 elephants poached in 2020, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Sunday said. It further stated that the rise in the endangered elephants’ population was attributed to the Kenyan government’s rigorous anti-poaching and anti-trophy trafficking initiatives to stop the ivory trade in col
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Beijing, China – An annual consumer survey of the elephant ivory trade in China finds that demand for ivory continues to decrease since the country banned domestic trade in 2017 and is now less than half of pre-ban levels. Just 18 percent of consumers surveyed intend to purchase ivory in the future, a significant drop from 43 percent pre-ban.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and research organization GlobeScan, have conducted the largest consumer survey about the elephant ivory trade in China-2,000 people in 15 cities-for four consecutive years. This annual survey is the largest assessment of changes in attitudes to ivory consumption, purchasing rates and intention to purchase, as well as awareness of the Chinese ivory ban over time.
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