The audacious plan that could save a species

Scientists Say Global Plan to Protect Endangered Species Has Major Flaw  SciTechDaily

After years of foot dragging, the three countries sharing Lake Victoria are all set to impose six-month annual fishing shut-downs in a bid to save the dwindling Nile perch and other fish species effective next month, The Citizen can reveal today.

Sometime last year I received a short video clip on my WhatsApp. I was in a bus. Since there was no explanation or warning and because the vehicle was crawling in a long traffic jam, I was excited. 

We've just discovered two new shark species  The Conversation UKBrand new shark(s), doo doo, doo doo doo doo  Phys.orgScientists discover two rare new sharks with saw-like snouts  CNETTwo new shark species have been identified and they look like nothing you've seen before  CNNTwo new shark species identified and they look like nothing you've seen before  msnNOWView Full coverage on Google News

Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new human-like species, which could change ideas about our early relatives.

A new species of ancient human has been unearthed in the Afar region of Ethiopia, scientists report.

If seeing is believing – reluctant to be a latter-day doubting Thomas – what I witnessed along Tabata Road in Dar es Salaam recently, was something I would have almost certainly not believed was true, if the event had been communicated to me by someone else.

"The human race and everything in the world will be poorer for ever" if poaching is allowed to eradicate endangered species, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.