European WILDLIFE

Air polluted by traffic and energy sources kills seven million people worldwide each year, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report. Air pollution annually kills more than 600,000 people in Europe.

According to the conservation organization European Wildlife, the revolutionary emission-free transport and energy technologies developed and produced by Tesla, the company of American billionaire Elon Musk, have the potential to save millions of lives every year. ‘No other person in the …

Ground-breaking results have been yielded by the research of a three-member team of scientists from the University of South Bohemia and the Czech University of Life Sciences. Their article published in the prestigious magazine Animal Cognition brings surprising conclusions from the area of wild horse behaviour, specifically, the fatherly behaviour of stallions.

“Even though we expected that the behaviour of stallions towards foals would be positive to a certain extent, the results were surprising even …

This year, a unique reserve of large herbivores, also known as the European Serengeti, recorded the highest increases in bison since its establishment in 2015. Six European bison calves were born this year in a protected area, which is located in the former military area of Milovice, near Prague.

“In some years, baby bison were born during the summer, so the numbers of increments may not be complete. In female bison, pregnancy is very difficult …

To date, the Covid-19 pandemic death toll in Europe stands at 195,549. The European Union thus continues to be the most afflicted area in the world and also surpasses the United States of America, with 126,8390 dead, and Brazil, with 55,054 dead. Just the four worst afflicted EU countries, i.e., the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France, have for the present registered 135,990 victims.

In spite of this, experts point out that as compared with …

The probable source of coronavirus Covid-19 at an overcrowded market with exotic animals in the Chinese city of Wuhan has drawn attention to the conditions that animals in this Asian country are subjected to. Footage of animals in a sorry state in cages and poor hygiene conditions that prevail at these markets could lead people to believe that animals suffer in a similar way only in faraway Asia. However, there is also room for improvement …