National animal welfare charity Companion Animal Network Australia (CANA) is advocating for desexing, adoption and support amid a surge in surrenders of kitten and cats that are ‘no longer wanted’. “We are seeing a large spike in cats and kittens being relinquished to our member shelters around the country, intensifying the stress they are already […]
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Founder and CEO of VET.CT, Victoria Johnson, has been named as winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Bupa everywoman in Technology Awards 2024. The awards shine a spotlight on the tech industry’s most exceptional talent from the UK and beyond, bringing the industry together to recognise and reward outstanding performance in this […]
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While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could impair their vision and impact the survivability of the species. “We found several proteins important for vision that were affected by thermal stress,” Qiaz Hua, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Adelaide’s School […]
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Although the world’s largest living mammal was protected from commercial whaling in 1966 – 20 years before the 1986 global moratorium on whaling was implemented through the International Whaling Commission – the blue whale’s recovery has been slow. Researchers from Flinders University conducted a major new study to assess the status of blue whale populations […]
Continue ReadingWhen celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio take to social media to champion Tasmania’s swift parrots, a species that faces extinction, awareness of the threat becomes global. The seriousness of the threat to birds was confirmed in a study published recently in the journal Emu – Austral Ornithology. It found Australian birds living on islands are among the […]
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