animals
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Would You Eat Insects to Save the Planet?
Producing meat pollutes and requires a lot of space and resources (water, grains…). To protect the planet, we must therefore find new sources of protein. One of the solutions is to replace, at least partially, meat by insects. The problem is that insects, as a food, are rejected by most countries as inedible, dirty and…
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These Lonely Animals Were the Last of Their Kind
Meet the ‘endlings’, the final individuals known to science before a species went extinct.
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California’s Brutal Storms May Have Killed Over Half Its Monarch Butterflies
California has been enduring a winter of wild weather, and it’s not just humans that have suffered for it. A new count of monarchs in the state turned up a disturbing low number of the endangered butterflies.
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Livestock Facial Recognition Could Help Prevent Farm Crime
Last week, it was reported that 700 sheep with an estimated value of $140,000, including nearly 200 valuable merino ewes, were stolen from a Victorian property in a highly sophisticated rural crime operation. Such large-scale rural theft is increasingly common. Rural crime is not isolated to certain states. Rather, stock theft is an Australian problem.…