The authorities of Australian New South Wales announced the introduction of the state of emergency in port city Batemans Bay because a great deal of flying foxes have flown at its territory.
As the local citizens claim, the noise, excrements, and smell emanated by dozens of thousands of flying foxes that resemble bats made their life unbearable.
The authorities of the state told about the readiness to give 1.4 million dollars to move away the flying foxes.
As the zoologists consider, the wing-handed animals are attracted by the smells of flowers growing in the surroundings of Batemans Bay.
In Australia the flying fox is regarded as the vulnerable kind of mammals.
As the biologists convince, these animals consuming the fruit pulps play important role in spreading of plants’ seeds.
The tooth of an ancient giant shark was stolen from the Australian World Heritage Collection in a national park in Western Australia. It was reported by Australian authorities.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
Geologists defined the age of Australian analogue of Stonehenge that was nearly ten thousand years old what is twice more than British monument has. The edition The Guardian reports about that.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
