Looks like the Mekong region isn’t only home to this scary freshwater giant fish. Recent discoveries of new species the past 10 years has brought into light at least 1,068 animals, insects,and arachnids. The most unusual discoveries include a spider with legs spanning 11 inches and a pink millipede that can produce cyanide, the Yahoo [...]
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Note: There are comments below saying the fishes depicted here are NOT Chinese paddlefishes. TreasureNature wants to highlight endangered animals, not mis-inform people. So if anybody can help, links to real Chinese paddle fishes are appreciated. Thanks. Also called the “Giant Panda of the Rivers” due to its critically endangered status, live specimens are rarely seen [...] This is probably the most wonderful news for conservation and biodiversity this year. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.org) has reported an unusually large population of the scarce Western lowland gorilla in a swampy forest measuring 18,000 square miles in the Republic of Congo. Their census counted 125,000 individuals. That’s 8 gorillas per half square mile. It [...] As stated in Part 1, there are 34 regions through out the world with rich biodiversity as covered by BiodiversityHotspots.org. We have already tackled nine (9) for the Americas. Let’s get on with Africa, Europe, adn Centrtal Asia… Guinean Forest (West Africa). It is home to more than a quarter of West Africa’s mammals, including 20 [...] Biodiversity is a natural resource. Just like any resource we have to manage them carefully and avoid the issue of biodiversity loss. We have 34 regions scattered through out the world the serve as a reserve of the world’s total biodiversity. These regions are also the most threatened and are called our biodiversity hotspots. The site [...] Why does biodiversity matter? Let’s first have a closer look at the word. Biodiversity is a shortened and blended form of biology and diversity. The Encyclopedia of Earth has a brief but accurate definition of it: variety of living organisms. There are three kinds of biodiversity: (1) variety of genetic material within a species, (2) variety [...] A study in the Ecological Applications journal published by the Ecological Society of America takes a look at arctic animals and how global warming affects them. As discussed in our previous post on 10 effects of global warming, marine arctic animals are threatened by arctic shrinkage or melting of the ice. The study revealed that seven [...] |
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