![]() Høye has spent ten years studying the flesh-eating "wolf" spider Pardosa glacialis which lives in Greenland, north of the Arctic circle.ĭisturbingly, the Scandinavian spider specialist reports that over that period the polar arachnids have increased significantly in size - and correspondingly increased the thickness of their exoskeletal armour plates. The worrying yet exciting news comes courtesy of National Geographic, which has been speaking to top arachno-boffin Toke Høye of Aarhus University. ![]() Not only will there be sea level rises and massive flooding* there will also be a plague of enormous, invulnerable, heavily armoured meat-eating cannibal spiders. No exact ecological data on the population of the fishing cat in the park is available as of now.Danish boffins have uncovered an unforeseen, extra downside of the melting of the Arctic ice cap, according to reports. “These measures are expected to protect fishing cats in the park and its nearby areas,” Dash added.Ī census to find out the exact numbers of the fishing cat - a nocturnal species that is not easy to trace - will be conducted during night-time, according to Dash. The project will be funded by the department.Ī new management plan to conserve fishing cats at the national park, including mapping and survey of the cat population was devised, he said. One purpose of conservation measures was to create awareness among people for the species, said Bikash Ranjan Dash, Divisional Forest Officer at Bhitarkanika. The fishing cat, however, is not a well-known species and does not enjoy the same status as crocodiles do. This means it faces a high threat of extinction in the wild. The species is listed as ‘endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. The Odisha forest department has started a two-year conservation project for fishing cats in Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district. Odisha starts project to conserve Bhitarkanika fishing cats The lockdown, however, forced owners to leave beach areas and abandon their camels, said Ramesh Mohanty, a tour operator in Puri. Tourists are frequently offered the chance to ride camels for hours on end with little thought given to how this affects the camel’s well-being. Several people earlier enjoyed riding camels on the beaches. Few people have visited beaches in the state ever since the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was implemented.īeach tourism in Puri, Paradip, Gopalapur and other areas in the state have been affected, with several tourists, including those within the state, cancelling their holidays.īeaches across Odisha bear a deserted look. Several camels have been abandoned by former owners in Odisha. The plant usually grows on rocky slopes of evergreen forests.Ĭamels being abandoned in Odisha due to COVID-19 lockdown This was revealed in their paper that was recently published in international journal Botany Letters. The area is located in northern West Bengal. The researchers from Pune and Kozhikode discovered the plant in the Sevoke Hill Forest in July 2011. The Globe andersoni is commonly known as Dancing Ladies or Swan Flower. Researchers have rediscovered a plant that was last seen 136 years ago. Plant last seen 136 years ago rediscovered ![]() The researchers are concerned as to what impact will the increase in offspring of spiders have on food chains in the region in the future. This behaviour although observed in warmer latitudes, had not been observed this far in the Arctic. They found that in some of the short Arctic summers, the wolf spiders produced two ‘egg sacs’ in which they carry their eggs. Wolf spiders in the Arctic tundra are beginning to reproduce more as a result of the warming climate, a new study has said.Ī team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark analysed data of wolf spiders captured for 20 years by their counterparts at the Zackenberg Research Station in north-eastern Greenland. ![]()
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