The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says trafficking in persons and irregular migration are now endemic across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria.

The Beddagana Wetland Park, sitting on an 18-hectare area about 3 km east of the Colombo commercial hub in Sri Lanka, provides a home for a wide ...

Ecologists Reveal Key Genetic Insights for the Conservation of Iconic Cockatoo Species Jan. 13, 2025 — Ecologists have made valuable discoveries that could transform the conservation of two ...

The flora of Uzbekistan includes 4500 species of vascular plants, of which about 400 species are endemic, rare, and relict. Many of the animals and higher plants are included in the Red List of the ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

Sabah is a beacon of biodiversity, located within one of the mega-biodiversity hotspots in the world. It is the extraordinary diversity of habitats from mountain top to ocean deep that harbours such a ...

Biodiversity is the complex web that sustains all life, including human existence. Yet, this web is unravelling – 1 million of the world’s estimated 8 million species of plants and animals are ...

The Philippine warty pig, Oliver’s warty pig, and bearded pig are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as vulnerable, the Palawan bearded pig as near threatened, and ...

JOHOR BAHRU: A new “one-stop” enforcement agency aimed at streamlining Malaysia’s border control measures is expected to officially begin its operations on Saturday (Feb 1), with the move ...

The human diet and dietary patterns are closely linked to the health status. High-calorie Western-style diets have increasingly come under scrutiny as their caloric load and composition contribute to ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...