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#747842010-11-03
World's rarest snake making a comeback
The Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) shares a similar story with many highly endangered island species.
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#746162010-10-27
The decline of the eel
Our rivers once teemed with eels but each year fewer make the 3,000-mile trip to get here. Jon Henley reports on the fight to save this unique creature from extinction.
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#746172010-10-27
One-fifth of world's back-boned animals face extinction, study warns
One species of vertebrate is added to the endangered list each week, IUCN report warns at biodiversity summit.
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#746262010-10-27
La hecatombe de las especies
El 41% de los anfibios, el 25% de los mamíferos, el 22% de los reptiles y el 13% de las aves está en peligro de desaparecer.
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#1931COP 10
2010-10-26
Alliance for Zero Extinction
The Alliance for Zero Extinction helps countries achieve their CBD targets while halting the loss of species most at risk of extinction.
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#1752COP 10
2010-10-26
Vanishing Tiger - Will the iconic species and Asian Biodiversity survive the Asia century?
This side event will explore the relationship between the strengthening position of Asian countries and the survival of its rich biodiversity, including the Tiger. The 21st Century is commonly regarded as the Asia Century. The Asian Development Bank estimates that about $750 billion per year wil ...
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#746102010-10-26
Boom des naissances chez les pandas
La population de pandas géants de Chine explose cette année, grâce au nombre record de naissances en captivité, un phénomène rare pour cette espèce menacée, connue pour se reproduire difficilement.
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#2053COP 10
2010-10-25
National Red Lists - challenges and opportunities
Accurate extinction risk assessment is vital in determining conservation priorities and establishing biodiversity management plans at all governance levels. By applying the reputed IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria at the regional level, regional and national Red Lists provide the most pract ...
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#1882COP 10
2010-10-22
A REPORT FROM THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT – 1) BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE, AND; 2) A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE GENETIC DIVERSITY
Presentations addressing the issue of biodiversity will be given from the macro and micro perspectives. 1. Australia currently conserves more than 13 per cent of the country through the protected area network. Threats to reserves, however, go beyond boundaries and influences are often landscap ...
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#2229COP 10
2010-10-22
Threatened Ecosystems, Vulnerable People
This event will showcase two of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management’s latest flagship products: the recently-initiated process to develop categories and criteria for assessing the conservation status of ecosystems, and a new publication on ecosystems and climate adaptation – the latest i ...
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#744962010-10-22
Les rhinos sud-africains équipés de puces GPS
JOHANNESBURG - Des puces électroniques donnant la position GPS ont commencé à être installées dans les cornes de rhinocéros sud-africains pour lutter contre la recrudescence du braconnage, a annoncé jeudi un responsable des Parcs nationaux du pays.
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#745002010-10-22
Hand-reared endangered spiders released into the wild
Conservation programme releases thousands of rare fen raft spiders into a Suffolk nature reserve in a bid to boost their numbers.
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#745042010-10-22
Le tigre pourrait disparaître d'ici 12 ans
Les tigres pourraient disparaître d'ici douze ans en l'absence de mesures pour contrer leur extinction, a mis en garde jeudi le Fonds mondial pour la nature (WWF), formulant l'espoir qu'une réunion internationale prévue en novembre en Russie renverse cette tendance.
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#743912010-10-20
Biodiversity: Variety as the spice of life | Editorial
Conservation is quite literally vital. This is a challenge that calls for serious science, serious action - and serious money.
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#744002010-10-20
Already Critically Endangered, bluefin tuna hit hard by BP oil disaster
Using satellite data from the European Space Agency, researchers estimate that over 20% of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Mexico were killed by the BP oil spill.
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#743212010-10-18
River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction
Environment Agency survey finds more than 1,500 rivers with signs of otter presence - a ten-fold increase on thirty years ago.
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#743242010-10-18
Russian tiger summit offers 'last chance' to save species in the wild
Last 13 countries with wild tigers to meet in St Petersburg, as deforestation and poaching push animal to extinction.
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#743262010-10-18
Persecution wiping out hen harriers on UK's grouse moors, report finds
Just 1% of threatened bird of prey species bred successfully on grouse moors in Britain between 2003-07, data from Scottish Natural Heritage shows.
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#742692010-10-15
British birds in danger
Grey partridge, corn bunting and turtle doves have continued to fall in numbers in the last 16 years despite Government promises to halt the decline, according to new figures.
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#742952010-10-15
Guatemala : le roi des animaux d’Amérique est appelé à disparaître
Autrefois considéré comme un dieu dans de nombreuses cultures sud-américaines, le jaguar souffre aujourd’hui de la disparition de son habitat et de la chasse indiscriminée. L’UICN estime que sa population a été divisée par deux au cours des huit dernières années.
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#742252010-10-14
Tropical species decline by 60 per cent
The exotic birds and animals of the tropics are disappearing at a catastrophic rate as the rich world strips poor countries of their natural resources, the WWF has warned.
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#741822010-10-13
Japanese village kills dolphins but frees young
The village notorious for the hunt in the film The Cove has killed a pod of dolphins but spared the young, activists say.
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#741842010-10-13
Un nuevo mamífero carnívoro en Madagascar
Ha sido bautizado como mangosta de Durrell y está en grave peligro de extinción. Tiene el tamaño de un gato, es de color marrón y vive en el Lago Alaotra. Leer . Escuchar
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#741852010-10-13
Pictures: "Scruffy" New Carnivorous Mammal Found
Likened to a "scruffy ferret," an odd mammal on Madagascar may be the first new species of meat-eater found in 24 years.
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#741912010-10-13
Slaughtered elephant served up at Zimbabwean rally with president
On the menu at the most recent rally for the Zimbabwe African National Union Political Front (ZANU-PF): 3 African buffalo, 3 elephants, and a lot of smaller game according to SW Radio Africa. Attended by Zimbabwe's President and founder of ZANU-PF, Robert Mugabe, the rally also celebrated the op ...
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#741652010-10-12
Les loups de la mer en danger
Parmi les espèces en péril que l'on retrouve dans l'estuaire maritime, nous recensons trois espèces de poisson qui appartiennent à la même famille, soit les anarhichadidés. Loin d'être les plus charmantes créatures du monde sous-marin, elles sont mystérieuses et piquent la curiosité des amateurs ...
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#741032010-10-08
Sea cow, origin of mythical mermaid, threatened with extinction, UN warns
7 October 2010 – Dugongs, or sea cows, believed to be the source of mermaid legends, are threatened with extinction within 40 years, and an arsenal of measures, from replacing fishing nets that trap them to setting up marine reserves, are vital for their survival, a United Nations-backed forum h ...
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#741212010-10-08
MEPs: EU must act to save species
The European Union needs to adopt a leadership role in the battle to halt global biodiversity loss, say MEPs.
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#740742010-10-07
Gangetic dolphin most endangered species
VARANASI: The wildlife week is being celebrated across the country from October 1 to 7 to create awareness about protection and conservation of wild animals. However, a vital link between fresh water and people-- the Ganga river dolphin-- is still being neglected.
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#740822010-10-07
Saving species: our requests for action
We have written to environment ministers around the world to consider proposals for protecting biodiversity.
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#740332010-10-06
UK's five rarest bumblebees make a comeback
Conservationists say wildlife-friendly farming schemes in Kent and East Sussex have restored habitats that support endangered species.
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#739202010-10-04
Tigers now thriving in Sathyamangalam forest
New Delhi: Officials in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have claimed that the number of tigers have risen in forests once used as a jungle hideout by the dreaded bandit, Veerappan.
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#739402010-10-04
Endangered species listing could hit Malaysian Borneo's timber trade
Sarawak fears its timber industry may be adversely affected by a proposal to list three genera of Dipterocarp trees as threatened, reports The Star.
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#738732010-10-01
U.S. Law Protects African Penguin
The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), a bird native to Namibia and South Africa, is now listed as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973.
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#738832010-10-01
Twenty Percent of World's Plants at Risk
A new global analysis of the world's known plant species concludes that one-fifth of them are at risk of extinction due to human activities.
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#738912010-10-01
1000 rare tortoises poached each week in Madagascar
One thousand endangered tortoises are being illegally collected each week in southern Madagascar, reports WWF.
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#738622010-09-30
Pygmy rabbit won't get species protection in U.S.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The hardships facing the pygmy rabbit of the western United States don't warrant protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Wednesday.
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#738012010-09-29
One in five plant species face extinction
First ever comprehensive study of plants, from giant rainforests to common snowdrops, finds 22% of all species at-risk.
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#738022010-09-29
This seal was declared extinct in 1892. So what is it doing alive and well today?
• More than third of missing animals are rediscovered • Bahian tree rat found 180 years after last sighting
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#738062010-09-29
Une plante sur cinq menacée de disparition
Une plante sur cinq dans le monde est menacée de disparition, et l'homme est responsable à...
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#738082010-09-29
Mass extinction fears widen: 22 percent of world's plants endangered
Scientific warnings that the world is in the midst of a mass extinction were bolstered today by the release of a new study that shows just over a fifth of the world's known plants are threatened with extinction—levels comparable to the Earth's mammals and greater than birds.
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#738142010-09-29
Tiger number doubles in Kalakkad, pictures show
Sept. 28: More tigers are on the prowl the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Tirunelveli district.
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#738152010-09-29
Malaysia passes wildlife protection law
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A Malaysian law intended to deal with animal traffickers and poachers may be too late to save some of the country's endangered species, wildlife activists say.
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#737292010-09-28
Un 'Gran Hermano' de alimoches
WWF pone un marcha un sistema de seguimiento por satélite a cuatro alimoches que muestra su ruta migratoria "plagada de amenazas". Leer . Escuchar
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#737322010-09-28
Climate Change Blueprint for U.S. Wildlife
Identifying threatened species and mapping life-or-death changes in snow pack, soil moisture and stream temperatures.
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#737332010-09-28
Tigers successfully reintroduced in Indian park
Poachers killed off the last Bengal tiger in India's Sariska Tiger Reserve in 2004. Four years later, officials transferred three tigers from Ranthambhore National Park to Sariska in an attempt to repopulate the park with the world's biggest feline
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#737552010-09-28
Revealed: the secret world of the panda
New research has revealed that, contrary to popular beliefs, pandas are surprisingly well-equipped for survival.
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#737592010-09-28
One-fifth of world's plants at risk of extinction
One-fifth of the world's plants - the foundation of life on Earth - are at risk of extinction, a study concludes.
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#736682010-09-27
Leonardo DiCaprio se porte à la défense des tigres indiens
L'acteur hollywoodien Leonardo DiCaprio va mettre sa célébrité au service du tigre indien, une...
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#735452010-09-24
Hope yet for orang utan
KOTA KINABALU: There is hope yet for the endangered orang utan in forest plantations and sustainably logged forests, according to a joint study by two wildlife specialists in Sabah and Kalimantan