A study carried out by researchers from the Forest Technology Center of Catalonia and the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), and published in the Journal of Biogeography, shows that the improvement of environmental conditions has allowed the expansion of the otter (Lutra lutra) in Andalusia in the last 20 years.
There are many indications that suggest that the Earth could be on the verge of a mass extinction similar to those that have occurred five times during the last 540 million years. In each of these extinctions, three-quarters of the planet's species disappeared.
A team of scientists has described two cladocerous crustaceans, which could be endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, and which were found in two lagoons, one in the lower Guadalquivir basin and the other in a pasture in Extremadura. Both could currently inhabit more regions of the Mediterranean area.
In the last 30 years, the number of beaches where sea turtles nest, the number of females that come to lay their eggs, the number of eggs that hatch and the survival rate of the young have decreased. A fungus could be the culprit, according to a study by the CSIC.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone to the British naturalist Edward O. Wilson in its third edition, considered the father of the term biodiversity, as well as "one of the most important thinkers influential of our time ".
Genetic analysis has allowed an international team of scientists to discover a new species of wolf that lives in Africa. Researchers have shown that the mysterious animal, known as the Egyptian jackal, often mistaken for the golden jackal, is not a sub-species of jackal, but rather a gray wolf.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has declared 2011 the "Year of the Bat" to raise awareness of the importance of the world's only flying mammal. During the next 12 months, conservation, research and education will be promoted on this animal, one of the most misunderstood and persecuted in the world according to UNEP.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
