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WORLD ZOO CONSERVATION STRATEGY

The world zoo conservation strategies represent the foremost effort made by zoos and Aquaria throughout the world to join efforts in dedicating their potentials to conservation. Their strategies, which was developed by the world zoo organ [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Wildlife World Zoo Gets New Arrivals

A new year means some new arrivals at the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium. They might look like skunks with their black and white fur, but the new residents are actually colobus monkeys. The pair arrived at the zoo a few weeks ago. These [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Whale travels a quarter of the way around the world to find ...

The female whale's epic journey began off the coast of Brazil and ended at Madagascar, more than 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometres) away. It was photographed there two years after first being identified by researchers on Abrolhos Bank, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Worldwide warning earthy refugees make landfall

Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in north-west Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. US government scientists say this mass move to shore by walruses is unusual, although it has happened at leas [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Three Fast Tips To Breeding In Zoo World

Breeding in Zoo World is incredibly important. It is the sole way you will be able to make free Wildlife Points once you get to a certain point in the game, and while there is a cap on how many of those free points you can make, it is pr [...]

Posted On : Sep, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Famed Polar Bear Knut Enters Dating World

Forget John and Kate. Forget Brad and Angelina. There is a new celebrity couple Thursday morning. The celebrity polar bear circuit has a new star; Giovanna. She's been strutting her stuff on a temporary visit to the Berlin Zoo, where they [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Nearly one quarter of world's mammals face extinction, annua...

Nearly a quarter of the world's land mammal species are at risk of extinction, and many others may vanish before they are even known to science, according to a major annual survey of global wildlife. At least 1,141 of the 5,487 known speci [...]

Posted On : Jul, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Survey: mammals in danger worldwide

In the first comprehensive survey of the world's mammals in more than a decade, scientists have found that one in four mammal species are threatened by extinction. Over half of mammalian species worldwide are showing declining trends in pop [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

World 'to fail' on nature target

The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News. Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002. Ten leading conservationists asked here [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

New Report says One-Quarter of World's Mammal Species Risk E...

The Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature paints a bleak picture of the worldwide status of mammals.The group's most recent assessment, which took 1,700 scientists in 130 countries five years to complete, concludes ther [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Extinction Stalks One in Four of the World's Mammals

The world's mammals are in the grip of an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of vanishing forever, according to the latest scientific assessment revealed at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's World Cons [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Winnipeg zoo's polar bear, world's oldest, dying

The Assiniboine Park Zoo's polar bear Debby, famous for being the oldest living polar bear in the world, is dying from age-related medical complications, zoo officials said Thursday. Debby, now 41 years and eight months old, has suffered s [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

A Genetic Map for One of the Worlds Most Unusual Animals: th...

And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a genetic study of one of the world's most unusual animals. We will tell about a health threat to cattle and the people who eat their meat. And, we share findings from a new report about [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

wo unknown mammal species discovered in "lost world"

Two mammal species — a tiny possum and a giant rat — discovered on a recent expedition to Indonesia's remote Foja Mountains in New Guinea are likely new to science, report researchers from Conservation International (CI) and I [...]