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Building on the success of similar schemes in Asia, a number of conservation organisations across southern Africa have come together in a single alliance, launching a series of Vulture Safe Zones across the region. These encourage owners of large tracts of land to keep vultures safe, with anti-poisoning measures, education projects and ways to prevent habitat loss, yet another factor in the birds’ decline. … [Read more...] about The vultures aren’t soaring over Africa – and that’s bad news

Watch the Premier League live on Sky Sports64 live games on Sky Sports25 games to be made freely availableNew Sky Sports digital innovations to enhance fan experienceWatch 39 Premier League & 45 EFL games exclusively liveSky Sports are broadcasting 64 live Premier League games for the 2019/20 season resumption. In addition to the 39 matches already scheduled to be broadcast exclusively live on Sky Sports before the coronavirus interruption, 25 more matches are being broadcast on both Sky Sports Premier League and Sky's free-to-air Pick channel, allowing the whole nation to be part of the return of live sport. … [Read more...] about Leicester City vs Crystal Palace preview, team news, prediction, kick-off, channel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Buddha’s teachings can show the world a way ahead as it is fighting extra-ordinary challenges and urged the country’s youth to follow his teachings, which are relevant in the present as well as the future. Read more … [Read more...] about News updates from Hindustan Times: Pak committed to ‘One China’ policy’, says foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and all the latest news

MUMBAI: At a time when Covid-19-related coverage has dominated the news agenda in newsrooms across the globe, the BBC properties—BBC World News and BBC.com—have seen an unprecedented spike in global viewership but that increase in audience hasn’t translated into commercial impact and the advertising prices have actually gone down, said Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News. “There has been a bit of a negative short term impact of the crisis and of course so many brands and marketers are not active right now. So it's definitely been quite a tricky period,” he told ET. The challenge, for those in the news business, Egan said, will be how do you hold on to the new users, while ensuring it's not just a one-off spike due to the Covid-19 crisis, and how to convert those new users into meaningful revenues as and when economic conditions normalise. Talking to ET over video conferencing from London, Egan said that by virtue of being a global organisation and having … [Read more...] about Global viewership has spiked, but revenues low: Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News

It is understood police have thoroughly combed through the likely area the pair went missing and have not found a trace of them, leading some to suspect they may have been removed from the site by their potential murderer.    … [Read more...] about Fresh twist in hunt for missing camper and his ‘beauty queen’ friend as it emerges his wife had NO IDEA police were treating the mystery as a murder investigation – until her daughter saw the news on TV