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Like bees, butterflies are also crucial in pollination. | Rhett A Butler / Mongabay Colourful and delicate, butterflies are not only beautiful creatures but also play an essential role in the food chain as well as being indicators of the ecosystem. Of late, butterfly parks are emerging as a new trend with recent ones coming up in cities like Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh. States like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Bangalore, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh already have many such parks. “Around three dozen species including butterflies like blue tiger, pl...

Scientists explain mass deaths of endangered seals in Dagestan by natural causes Specialists of the territorial department of the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery in Dagestan found the bodies of 272 Caspian seals washed up ashore of the Caspian Sea on December 6-10 MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Scientists confirmed that mass deaths of endangered seals in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan were due to natural causes, the press service of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) told TASS. A study carried out by scientists did not confirm a theor...

World’s most endangered turtle finds new hope in Vietnam Tuesday, 2020-12-22 17:26:01  Font Size:    Font Size:     |   NDO – Scientists have released genetic results confirming a female turtle captured in October 2020 in Vietnam is definitively the near-extinct Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) – also known as the Hoan Kiem Turtle, raising hopes for the conservation of the world’s rarest turtle in Vietnam. The Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in collaboration with the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC) and the...

Great Norilsk Expedition results: Scientists forecast nature cleanup in Norilsk Region Despite alarming expectations, the tundra has not suffered greatly and rare species have not been affected The Great Norilsk Expedition surveyed very closely how the fuel spill had affected the tundra’s flora and fauna. Despite alarming expectations, the tundra has not suffered greatly, rare species have not been affected, and most probably in 2021 the nature will recover. Experts point to a peculiar fact: the sulfur dioxide contamination favors bigger numbers of animals. The Expedition’s leader of a te...

With his hands cupped to his ears, mouth open and his thick, long ponytail, Marius Burger looked, just then, remarkably like a surprised bat-eared fox. On the nearby highway a truck sledgehammered brute sound into the darkness and a motorbike sliced the night like a white-hot machete. “You hear that?” Burger demanded. “Ping-ping-ping-ping-ping like a tiny marble dropped onto a hard surface? Dainty frog – Cacosternum platys. Over there. Hang on, I’ll find it.” He squelched through the soggy wetland, his long-suffering jeans clinging to his wet calves, and crouched, all bewhiskered...