Tag: biodiversity
On the Côte d’Azur, the mimosa, a treat for tourists, poison for the massifs: News
Every winter, the blooming of its thousands of small yellow flowers illuminates and perfumes the Côte d’Azur, but the mimosa, an invasive and highly flammable exotic plant, also represents a…
Warm February allows birds to breed earlier – Bavaria
The mild weather in February allows birds to sing and breed earlier. According to the nature conservation association LBV, the first migratory birds such as starlings have already returned to…
Lost short-eared mouse reappeared in Bavaria – Bavaria
As soon as it was discovered, it was considered lost again: Now experts have tracked down the rare Bavarian short-eared mouse again in this country. One of these underground voles…
Lost short-eared mouse reappeared in Bavaria – Bavaria
As soon as it was discovered, it was considered lost again: Now experts have tracked down the rare Bavarian short-eared mouse again in this country. One of these underground voles…
Threatened diversity: The new Red List of cicadas in Bavaria has been published – Bavaria
Around three millimeters small, slim, light-colored head and wings with dark spots and a black-yellow scutellum: This is the marjoram leafhopper, one of 568 species of leafhoppers currently known in…
Munich: Five years of the “Save the Bees” referendum – Munich
With legs still heavy from winter, a queen bumblebee stalks through the grass on the edge of Prinz Eugen Park in Bogenhausen. If you didn’t know better, you’d think the…
Nuremberg Zoo: Killing for species protection
Zoo director Dag Encke is preparing the Nuremberg city council for a drastic step: for “necessary killings of baboons”, i.e. the removal of primates. He speaks of an “ethical dilemma.”…
Environmental protection: Albania is draining water from Europe’s first wild river national park
It was not until spring 2023 that the Vjosa and its tributaries were placed under protection. Construction work has now begun on one of the springs – also financed from…
Why does France want to legislate on hunting trophies (and the end of cheetah crawls)?
Last year, a Frenchman brought home a addax that he had just “shot” in Africa. Although few know about this spotted-snouted antelope, those lucky enough to observe one are even…
Species protection: Why it is questionable to save a single animal species
A lot of money is invested in spectacular rescue operations for individual subspecies such as the northern white rhinoceros. The biodiversity crisis certainly cannot be solved this way. source site