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Body part by body part, Sumatran tigers are being sold into extinction
Laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being openly sold in Indonesia, according to a TRAFFIC report launched today.   view more (2008-02-13)

Invitation to the Press - Science Minister to launch Star Tiger Project
Science Minister Lord Sainsbury will be officially inaugurating the European Star Tiger project on Monday 24 June at 2pm, and you are invited to attend the ceremony and talk to team members and guests. The ceremony will take place at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, where... view more (2002-06-13)

Threats to wild tigers growing
The wild tiger now occupies a mere 7 percent of its historic range, and the area known to be inhabited by tigers has declined by 41 percent over the past decade, according to an article published in the June 2007 issue of BioScience.   view more (2007-06-01)

Viable tiger populations, tiger trade incompatible
In the cover story of this month's BioScience journal, leading tiger experts warn that if tigers are to survive, governments must stop all trade in tiger products from wild and captive-bred sources, as well as ramp up efforts to conserve the species and their habitats.   view more (2007-06-06)

Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and their Russian colleagues from the Russian Far East recently fitted three wild 40-day-old Siberian tiger cubs with tiny radio-collars, marking the youngest wild tigers to be tracked by scientists.   view more (2005-10-26)

Thriving Hybrid Salamanders Contradict Common Wisdom
A new UC Davis study not only has important findings for the future of California tiger salamanders, but also contradicts prevailing scientific thought about what happens when animal species interbreed.   view more (2007-09-27)

Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo, despite poaching
World Wildlife Fund today released the results of a field survey from the island of Borneo which found that poaching has significantly reduced Borneo's population of Sumatran rhinos, but a small group continues to survive in the "Heart of Borneo," a region covered with vast tracts of rain... view more (2006-03-20)

Study says 2000 tigers possible in Thailand
Thailand's Western Forest Complex - a 6,900 square mile (18,000 square kilometers) network of parks and wildlife reserves - can potentially support some 2,000 tigers, making it one of the world's strongholds for these emblematic big cats, according to a new study by Thailand's Department of... view more (2007-12-21)

Tigers get a business plan
The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched an ambitious new program that calls for a 50 percent increase in tiger numbers in key areas over the next decade, according to an article in this week's journal Nature.   view more (2006-07-10)

Morphology of fossil salamanders reflects climate change
A fossil record of the Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) shows population-wide changes in body size and morphology in response to climate change over the last 3,000 years.   view more (2005-09-13)

Destruction of Sumatra forests driving global climate change and species extinction
Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.   view more (2008-02-27)

Wild tigers need cat food
A landmark study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says tigers living in one of India's best-run national parks lose nearly a quarter of their population each year from poaching and natural mortality, yet their numbers remain stable due to a combination of... view more (2006-12-14)

Wanted: innovative minds for Star Tiger
ESA is looking for 10 scientists to participate in Star Tiger, a new approach for conducting research and development (R&D) which aims to achieve a quantum increase in a promising technology within a short period of time. Bring together a small group of highly motivated researchers, grant them... view more (2002-04-02)

Siberian tigers hang tough
Results of the latest full range survey indicate that tiger numbers in Russia appear to be stable, say the coordinators of a 2005 winter effort to count the animals, led by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.   view more (2005-06-17)

UT researcher sheds new light on hybrid animals
What began more than 50 years ago as a way to improve fishing bait in California has led a University of Tennessee researcher to a significant finding about how animal species interact and that raises important questions about conservation.   view more (2007-09-18)

First Far Eastern leopard captured in southeast Russia by international team
Just three days after catching a Siberian tiger in the Russian Far East, an international team led by biologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society captured another species last week that carries the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered big cat: an extremely Far Eastern... view more (2006-11-15)

The Endangered Orangutan and Tiger: PLoS Biology Press Release
Tracking orangutans from the sky From the hundreds of thousands of orangutans that once ranged throughout southeast Asia, only two orangutan species now inhabit just two countries: Indonesia and Malaysia. The Sumatran orangutan is listed as critically endangered, the Bornean, endangered. In a new... view more (2004-11-30)

Star Tiger to unveil submillimetre wave secrets
The Star Tiger team today begins a four-month pioneering research and development project at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), which could lead to a real breakthrough for submillimetre wave imaging. For the first time under the ESA Star Tiger initiative, eleven scientists and specialists... view more (2002-06-05)

Logging road threatens rare peat dome, tigers
In an investigative report published today by Eyes on the Forest, evidence shows that a new logging road in Riau Province -- strongly indicated as illegally built by companies connected to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) -- is cutting into the heart of Sumatra's largest contiguous peatland forest, a... view more (2008-03-26)

'Genetic corridors' are next step to saving tigers
The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long "genetic corridor" from Bhutan to Burma that would allow tiger populations to roam freely across landscapes.   view more (2008-02-14)

UK science minister inaugurates Star Tiger project
An innovative project known as Star Tiger was officially inaugurated at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire this week by Lord Sainsbury, Science and Innovation Minister for the UK. The Star Tiger concept puts together a highly motivated team with solid scientific background and... view more (2002-07-02)

Parasites trigger healthy eating in caterpillars
Some parasites trigger their own destruction by altering their hosts' behavior, researchers at The University of Arizona and Wesleyan University report in Nature.   view more (2005-07-29)

The hidden danger in used tyres
The international used tyre trade is bringing unwanted visitors to Europe - exotic mosquitoes. Species such as the Asian 'Tiger Mosquito' are able to survive in temperate climates, spread diseases (such as dengue and West Nile virus, among others) and may be poised to take Britain by surprise,... view more (2002-03-26)

A new project to test a pioneering method to advance technology
Technological advances take place all the time – driven by need. But can these advances be speeded up in quantum leaps? The European Space Agency thinks they can, and is launching a pioneering project to test this.   view more (2002-03-27)

Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
Zambian water authorities are integrating information based on satellite imagery to alleviate water shortages.   view more (2007-08-06)
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