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Nsanje First Grade Magistrate has convicted and sentenced four people to spend three year imprisonment or to pay k150,00 each for allegedly opening farms in Mat ....
Lost to the world, rare Chameleon is found in Malawi nyasatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nyasatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rare chameleon, lost to science, found clinging to life in Malawi forest patch zmescience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zmescience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A species of tiny chameleons presumed to be extinct due to deforestation has been found, but it is clinging to survival. Up to only 5.5 centimeters (2.2 inches) long, the critically endangered Chapmanâs pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) is native to the low-elevation rainforest of the Malawi Hills in southern Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa, according to a study published Monday in OryxâThe International Journal of Conservation. First described by herpetologist and author Colin Tilbury in 1992, Chapmanâs pygmy chameleon is one of the worldâs rarest chameleons. âThey are mostly brown but they can change to quite beautiful blues and greens with little dots all over them and thatâs probably a way of communicating with each other,â said the studyâs lead author Krystal Tolley, a professor and research leader in the Leslie Hill Molecular Ecology Laboratory at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, in a stat ....
Advertisement One of the world s rarest chameleons is facing EXTINCTION because its natural habitat is being converted to farmland, experts warn as they call for urgent conservation measures to save the species Chapman s pygmy chameleon grows to 2.1 inches and was first seen in 1992 It is found in the hills of Malawi with its population down 80 per cent since 1992 Researchers thought it was extinct due to massive deforestation in Malawi A survey started in 2016 found small pockets surviving in patches of rainforest ....