After years of construction, Safari Park’s massive new elephant habitat is opening

After years of construction, Safari Park’s massive new elephant habitat is opening ...
The Conversation

Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them

Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...
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African great apes are in danger of losing their natural habitats

Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are already listed as endangered and critically endangered wildlife, but the climate change crisis, the destruction of wild areas for minerals, timber, food, and ...
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African Open Habitats Existed 10 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Estimated

Scientists have long hypthesized that apes living in Africa more than 20 million years ago had a diet largely comprised of fruit while living in a continet-wide ecosystem comprised of thick, closed ...
AOL

The Dark History of Africa’s “Big Five” and Their Conservation Status

Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much darker history. Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, ...
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Africa's elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE – Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...

Leopards adapted to South Africa's Cape so successfully that they're genetically unique

Animals of the same species don't always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or ...
AOL

Humans adapted to diverse habitats before trekking out of Africa

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...
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African lion habitat opens at Minot zoo

MINOT, N.D. — Visitors to Minot's Roosevelt Park Zoo now can view the new habitat for African lions. Severson Ahart African Lion Savanna, the new home for the zoo's two African lions, Kiota and ...
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New outdoor African penguin habitat to open at The Florida Aquarium

TAMPA, Fla — Just in time for Spring Break, The Florida Aquarium has announced it will be opening a brand new outdoor African penguin habitat. According to the aquarium, the habitat will open Saturday ...
WHDH

Africa’s elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union ...
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Africa's elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...