By Herp News More than 60 percent of Africa’s forest elephants have been killed in the past decade due to the ivory trade, reports a new study published in the online journal PLOS ONE. The study warns that the diminutive elephant species — genetically distinct from the better-known savanna elephant — is rapidly heading toward […]

Researchers have discovered fossils in Panama of species that may be the missing link between North and South American crocodilians. From LiveScience.com: The skulls belong to two new species of ancient crocodilians (a group that today contains alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials) that lived about 20 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. These new […]

By Herp News The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is often hailed by scholars and conservationists as the most effective international environmental agreement. On March 3, CITES celebrates its 40th anniversary. What accounts for its success? In the following interview, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon reflects on the convention’s strengths and weaknesses. Go […]

By Herp News Yesterday, Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, committed to ending the ivory trade in her country. Her announcement came during the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok, which seeks to regulate trade in biodiversity across borders. Wildlife groups say that Thailand’s […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Sometime in the late 1600s the world’s last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath passed by the last […]

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thayer Cueter, Snohomish county's very own “Frog Lady” (and sometimes “Turtle Lady”) poses a turtle while Blake Siegert, 8, of Lynnwood, snaps a photo with his portable game player Sunday at the Snohomish Public Library. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News Thousands of house fires are started each year by clothes dryers clogged with lint, but can an infomercial product called the Lint Lizard help reduce a fire risk? Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News The numbers are staggering — more than 4,600 sea turtle nests in 2012, the nests doubling in two years, three straight years of thousands of nests laid along the coast. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina paleontologist and others will unveil a 12-foot-long skeletal reconstruction of a prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found in a quarry in Durham. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links

By Herp News BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. Read more… Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. […]

By Herp News When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets from March 3-14 in Bangkok for its 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), elephants and rhinos will be at the top of the agenda. While there are no proposals to open up trade in either elephant ivory […]