The longest living species of bird is the iconic Albatross. Short tailed Albatross. Image via Jlfutari at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org ...

In this dietary study, scat from colony birds and stomach contents from necropsy samples (commercial fishing mortalities) were used to detect taxa consumed by 10 albatross species using DNA ...

The Species at Risk Act (SARA) establishes Schedule 1, as the official list of wildlife species at risk. It classifies those species as being either extirpated, endangered, threatened, or a special ...

Assessments of cold-water corals recently started; 22 species out of a total of more than 4,000 have been assessed so far. What percentage of warm-water reef-building corals worldwide are threatened ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of ...

There are many potential factors why we have seen declines of up to 60% in some albatross species from across South Georgia. One factor is being caught in fishing operations in waters much further ...

Find out everything you need to know about the IUCN Red List, how species are classified by the level of threat they face, and how the Red List helps animals. Established in 1948, the International ...

Kiwa is named after a guardian of the ocean. He fledged on 23 September and has a GLS fitted. Toroa/northern royal albatross are one of the largest seabirds in the world, with wingspans up to 3 m.

Hundreds of leaders, experts, partners, and supporters of the International Union for Conservation of Nature gathered on the sidelines of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention ...

An exceptional spell of seabirding saw reports of a wandering albatross species, two Black-browed Albatrosses, Pink-footed Shearwater and ...