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Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/habitat-destruction-illegal-trade-threaten-sri-lankas-endangered-agamid-lizards/

Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards
COLOMBO — In Sri Lanka, agamid lizard species are growing increasingly vulnerable due to three main factors: shrinking habitats, climate change and being traded as exotic pets. The Indian Ocean island is home to more than 20 species of agamid lizards and shows exceptionally high endemism with more than two-thirds of them found nowhere else […]

An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.
Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting yellow-backed duiker, an antelope species, in the central African country of Gabon when the incident occurred last Friday. While in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, he and his guide unexpectedly came across five female elephants accompanied by a calf.

Yep - we very much need to nip this in the bud: https://bendigo.nz
Multinational mining corporations suck. Universally. They're *never* good for the places they go. Not even a little bit. Never. Ever. The people running them are self-selected for being among the worst of our species.
These extractive indu…

The California marine heat wave is already having an impact on the Pacific Ocean’s food web.
Tammy Russell, a marine ornithologist at Scripps,
said that seabirds in particular are being impacted,
which is a warning sign about more serious impacts to come for other species as well.
Russell studies seabirds closely, and how they interact with the broader marine ecosystem.
“We have been seeing an increase in the number of seabirds coming into rehabilitation facil…

An intense marine heat wave has California in its crosshairs, with impacts set for land and sea
The unusually hot waters are lurking in the sea off the California coast, and they could wreak havoc on the state’s weather and marine food chain.