Out Of The Borders Nature
Celebration of animal conservation by Mert Caliskan
The biggest threats to wildlife are habitat loss, overgrazing, farming and urbanization/devel-
opment. Habitat loss contributes to an eighty per cent loss of biodiversity. It is estimated that twenty per cent of the world’s species could be dead within the next thirty years. Nevertheless, in this article we are not going to focus just on the bad news but we are going to see also some amazing news for the biodiversity conservation in 2019.
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Seven eggs of the world’s last two remaining white rhinos were successfully fertilized! This may save the species!
Scientists have successfully fertilized eggs tak-
frozen and then later on transferred to southern white rhino surrogate mothers. Veterinarians and wildlife experts are hoping to use a surrogate mother rhino, as the two female northern white rhinos are unable to carry a pregnancy.
en from two female northern white rhinos, a year Source: https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-fertilize-eggsafter the last remaining male died. The proce- from-last-northern-white-rhinos/a-50167040 dure has raised hopes about saving the highly Norway refuses to drill for billions endangered animals.. “We expect some of them of barrels of oil in the Arctic, will develop into an embryo,” said Cesare Galli, a leaving whole industry surprised founder of the Italian assisted-breeding compaand disappointed. ny. The team used frozen sperm that had been harvested from two male northern white rhinos The largest party in Norway’s parliament has debefore they died. This is the next critical step in livered a significant blow to the country’s huge hopefully creating viable embryos that can be oil industry after withdrawing support for explorative drilling off the Lofoten Islands in the Arctic, which are considered a natural wonder. The move, by the opposition labour party, creates a large parliamentary majority against oil exploration in the sensitive offshore area, illustrating growing opposition to the polluting fossil fuel, which has made the country one of the world’s most affluent.
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Northern white rhinos
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source: The happy broadcast
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norwayoil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html
