Wildlife Conservation Society

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Sunset on the Tapajós River, deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil. Scientists are warning that if human beings continue to mine the world’s wildernesses for resources and convert them into cities and farms at the pace of the previous century, the planet’s few remaining wild places could disappear in decades. Photograph: Meridith Kohut/The New York Times
Last wilderness areas on earth disappearing at rapid rate - study

The last wilderness areas on earth are disappearing at a rapid and shocking rate, according to new findings published in Nature magazine. Global rese(...)

Scientists estimate that just 7,100 of the fleet-footed cats remain in the wild, occupying just 9 per cent of the territory they once lived in. Photograph: Sarah Durant/ZSL/PA Wire
Cheetah ‘more vulnerable’ than previously thought

Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah — the world’s fastest land animal — sprinting to extinction, experts have warned. Scientists estimate tha(...)

Africa’s elephant population fell about 20 per cent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, according to a new report. File photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
Africa’s elephant population fell by 20% over past decade
  • Africa
  • September 26, 2016, 15:00

Africa’s elephant population fell about 20 per cent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservati(...)

A screen-grab from CCTV footage of a leopard entering a Mumbai apartment block and carrying away a pet dog in its mouth. Image: Headlines Today/Youtube.
Leopard sneaks into Mumbai apartment and takes pet dog
  • World
  • June 28, 2013, 01:00

Chilling closed-circuit television footage of a leopard sneaking into the foyer of an apartment block in a Mumbai suburb and carrying away a pet do(...)