Humans 'drive out large mammals'
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The number of large mammals has fallen sharply across most of the planet as a result of human activity, a study says.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said Thursday.
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HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe -- Wildlife guide Mike Scott followed footprints of one large animal after another -- elephant, buffalo, kudu, leopard, lion -- and then stopped suddenly, sniffing the air. ``Shall we follow our noses?" he said, heading toward a powerful stench that grew more noxious by the step.
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Apparently, the same things that makes large, toothy predators so good at hunting big game also make them more vulnerable to extinction - as is shown in a new study of a
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Failing that, try a shotgun Oz animal protection groups are none too impressed by a draft government guide to disposing of young kangaroos (joeys) by either "forcefully swinging" their heads against a vehicle towbar or blasting them with a shotgun, Reuters reports.â¦
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Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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A new study is the latest salvo in a long-standing debate over what wiped out the giant elephantlike animals.
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KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa  - There are no  easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land  mammal in check.
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.See photos >>Watch video >>
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Giant kangaroos and wombats bigger  than cars which once roamed Australia were killed by climate  change and not human hunters, Australian scientists said on  Thursday.
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Science & environment: Rising global temperatures could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, according to a  study.
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Sept. 22, 2004 - Belching and farting sheep and cattle, blamed by doomsters for driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, may have met their match.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal groups are opposing the move.
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Wild pigs are destroying farmland and forest. Controlling them is becoming serious business.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 14--KENTON -- Wildlife officials think they have seen the first case of a mountain lion preying on livestock in the state.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.