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#1220412019-08-28
Grassland biodiversity is blowing in the wind
Temperate grasslands are the most endangered but least protected ecosystems on Earth.
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#1205172019-03-26
Government of Canada takes steps to protect Aquatic Species at Risk
Canada's natural environment and wildlife are at the core of our national identity. Biodiversity is the cornerstone of our way of life - the health of the natural environment supports our culture, our well-being and our economy. Unfortunately, some of the species in our waters, rivers, lakes and ...
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#1285362021-05-11
Gorilla among 200 endangered species threatened by conflict-- conservationists
Civil unrest and military exercises pose heightened risks to more than 200 threatened species, including elephant populations and the critically-endangered Eastern gorilla, conservationists warned Wednesday.
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#1253712020-05-01
Global lockdowns spur worrying uptick in wildlife poaching
As the coronavirus pandemic diverts attention and funds from wildlife protection to public health and global lockdowns deprive rural poor of desperately needed income, countries around the globe are witnessing an uptick in poaching of endangered species.
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#1196882019-01-31
Global endangered mammals conservation needs to be priority
Mammals constitute an important section of global wildlife and biodiversity; and are distributed across all the continents and oceans. However, the situation of the mammals across the globe is not at all promising; and in some cases agonizingly morbid!
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#1268252021-02-02
Global bee diversity is dropping — and our food systems depend on them
Almost a quarter of the estimated 20,000 bee species on Earth may be in decline, researchers have found. The January study is the first time the well-being of pollinators has been assessed on a global scale, with previous concerns of declining wild pollinator populations based on local or region ...
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#1189822018-12-11
Giraffes just silently went to the endangered list of animals facing extinction
Giraffes have been widely overlooked in conservation practices for a little too long. They just made their entry into the Red List of endangered species.
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#1189582018-12-10
Giraffes facing threat of extinction, several species considered ‘critically endangered’
The world’s tallest land mammals may be slipping toward extinction, with three of the nine subspecies of giraffes now in serious trouble and considered “critically endangered.”
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#1192312019-01-03
Giraffes added to endangered species list of animals under threat of extinction
Two subspecies of giraffe have been added to a list of endangered animals under threat of extinction after a rapid decline in their populations. Numbers of the long-necked mammals have gone down by 40% over the last three decades, mostly as a result of human activity in their habitats.
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#1242642020-02-20
Giraffe extinct in 7 countries, warn experts
A century ago, more than one million giraffe used to roam across sub-Saharan Africa. But these gentle giants are now extinct in at least seven countries with only 100,000 left in fragmented populations across the continent, wildlife experts warned on Thursday. Their decline by 40 per cent over t ...
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#1294912021-07-09
Giant pandas no longer endangered in the wild, China announces
Giant pandas are no longer endangered in the wild, but they are still vulnerable with a population outside captivity of 1,800, Chinese officials have said after years of conservation efforts.
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#1249562020-03-31
Giant leap for toadkind after Yorkshire fell runs are cancelled
The cancellation of a series of cross-country running races in West Yorkshire because of coronavirus has apparently saved hundreds of migrating toads from being squashed underfoot.
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#1275542021-03-05
Giant clam shells worth $3.3 million seized in Philippine raid
Philippine authorities have seized illegally harvested giant clam shells worth $3.3 million as smugglers turn to the endangered creatures as a substitute for the illicit ivory trade.
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#1226282019-10-11
Germany: Endangered turtle dove is 2020 bird of the year
Known as a symbol of love, peace and happiness, the turtle dove, sometimes knowns as a love bird, is flirting with extinction.
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#1256112020-11-09
Genetic Evidence Confirms Two New Greater Glider Species
The bushfires in Australia have gotten worse every year, destroying the lives and homes of many species. However, with researchers paying more attention to preserving the nation's wildlife, it led to the DNA confirmation of two new greater glider species.
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#1336072022-03-01
Gang-gang cockatoo to become threatened species after large drop in bird numbers
The gang-gang cockatoo, the animal emblem of the Australian Capital Territory, will be officially listed as a threatened species after a large decline in its numbers due to the climate crisis and the bushfire disaster.
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#1236872020-01-13
Galapagos tortoise's sexual prowess results in 800 offspring, saving species from extinction
A Galapagos tortoise named Diego may have single-handedly saved his species with his fiery libido. France24 reported that the 100-year-old Don Juan was first brought to the US from his home island of Espanola, Ecuador to take part in a captive breeding programme in the 1960s.
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#1317902021-11-18
Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants
Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo River Basin remain a “last stronghold” of the magnificent creatures, according to new research that concluded the population is much hig ...
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#1227642019-10-28
GWC is Guarding The Future of Life on Earth
Global Wildlife Conservation forges new partnerships to protect the wildlife in Haiti and Honduras.Staving off the staggering loss of biodiversity recently predicted in the U.N.’s Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as that alarming summary made clear, will require m ...
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#2310GEO-4 Third Production and Authors Meeting
1 - 31 October 2006, To be determined
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#1269072021-02-08
Fruit famine is causing elephants to go hungry in Gabon
The behaviour and life cycles of the largest animals on the planet are incredibly important for the healthy functioning of our planet’s life support systems. Unfortunately, many big species now face extinction due to their value in the illegal wildlife trade, vulnerability to habitat degradation ...
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#1189242018-12-07
Friskier frogs: endangered species gets a sex appeal boost
Australian researchers have a new way to increase desire in the northern corroboree frog
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#1272712021-02-23
Freshwater biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, warns new report
One-third of freshwater fish are threatened with extinction, according to the World’s Forgotten Fishes report. According to the report which was published by 16 global conservation organisations, populations of migratory freshwater fish have fallen by 76% since 1970, with freshwater biodiversity ...
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#1248972020-03-26
Freshwater Species Are Disappearing Fast — This Year Is Critical for Saving Them
We’ve all seen photos of clear-cut forests with swathes of razed trees or deep scars in the ground from an open-pit mine. The damage to the species that live in these habitats isn’t hard to imagine.
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#1272722021-02-23
Freshwater Fish Population Is On The Decline Thanks To Us & Globally They Are Facing Extinction
Around the world, the population of freshwater fish is on the decline and we humans are to be blamed for it.A recent study of almost 2,500 rivers around the world showed that human activity has endangered freshwater fish biodiversity in significant ways in more than half of the researched waterw ...
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#1322112021-12-17
France is preparing to host 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES in Lyon, with the support of the Metropole, and ensuring safe sanitary conditions for the participants
The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the ...
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#1212812019-06-12
Framework predicts endangered species' pathogen risk
Four years ago, more than 200,000 endangered saiga antelope dropped dead on the remote steppe grassland of Central Asia in the species' worst recorded mass mortality event.
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#6468Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP14)
12 - 17 February 2024, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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#1217682019-08-01
Forest loss threatens territorial gibbons in southern Borneo
Gibbons living in southern Borneo have the largest territories of any of their close relatives, according to a new study.
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#1260752020-12-08
Forest ghost' on film: Endangered Caucasian lynx spotted in Turkey's Kars
A Caucasian lynx, a nocturnal and endangered species known for being discreet, was spotted Monday among the Scotch pine forests of Sarıkamış in eastern Kars province.
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#1297822021-07-29
For species in the red, IUCN’s new Green Status signals conservation wins
The California condor has been teetering on the brink of extinction for decades. When the species was first assessed in 1994 for the IUCN Red List, the global authority on the conservation statuses of species, it was listed as “critically endangered.” Nearly 30 years later, its status has not ch ...
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#1224322019-09-30
For our sake, we need to let them 'bee'
It is said that Albert Einstein prophesied that if bees die out, human beings will do so too within four years. Yet, it will come as a surprise to humans — especially some of them — that bees have been declared the most important living beings on our planet by scientists.
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#1211712019-05-23
For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters
Grassroots efforts are key to protecting eastern and western hoolock gibbons.
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#1298642021-08-10
Following pandas, Tibetan antelopes off endangered species list in China as population surpasses 300,000
The Chinese government has recently ticked Tibetan antelopes off the endangered species list as the species' population surpassed 300,000 across the country in 2021, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.
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#1283512021-04-30
Focus now on endangered species
The Borneo Rhino Alliance has rebranded itself to Breeding Our Rare Animals (Bora) as it shifts its focus to the conservation of other endangered wildlife, following the extinction of the Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia.
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#1188442018-11-08
Florida Monarch Butterfly Populations Have Dropped 80 Percent Since 2005
A 37-year survey of monarch populations in North Central Florida shows that caterpillars and butterflies have been declining since 1985 and have dropped by 80 percent since 2005.
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#1264622020-12-23
Five endangered species are stable in Seychelles, but conservations want more comprehensive studies
The status of five endemic species that have been classified as endangered in Seychelles is stable, but conservationists want a more comprehensive study to better protect these species.
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#1293152021-06-15
First release of African Penguins at De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa
The release of 30 juvenile African Penguins into the wild this week represents a big step forward to re-establish a penguin colony on the south coast of South Africa. BirdLife South Africa, CapeNature and SANCCOB have partnered together in this ambitious attempt to help this Endangered species.
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#1311562021-10-26
First endangered baby Grevy's zebra born in S'pore zoo, named Izara
It's time for Singapore's beloved panda cub to share the spotlight with another black and white mammal at the Singapore Zoo — a baby Grevy's zebra.
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#1319382021-11-25
First Endangered Tiger Footprints in 50 Years Found in Northeast Siberia
Amur tiger footprints have been discovered in the northeast Siberian republic of Sakha for the first time in 50 years, a signal that the endangered species’ population is recovering, the state-run TASS news agency reported Tuesday.
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#1294612021-07-07
Finland rallies to save one of world's most endangered seals
The serene, icy waters of Finland's Lake Saimaa are a boon to fishermen and tourists, but their presence also threatens one of the world's rarest and most endangered seals.
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#1266502021-01-15
Final search for critically endangered Canterbury beetle turns up nothing
The last trip by researchers to hunt for a beetle threatened by a controversial dairy conversion has been unsuccessful. But they say it may still be too soon to write the species off.
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#1200402019-02-21
Fighting to save pangolins in Viet Nam
Nearly 200 rescued pangolins were released into the wild in Viet Nam in 2018 thanks, in part, to collaboration between UN Environment and the country’s biggest coffee shop chain, Highlands Coffee.
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#1234982019-12-18
Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives
Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), has proven to be a precarious place for the ape. Just 800 individuals survive in a rapidly shrinking habitat, and the orangutans, which were only described as a new species in 2017, are al ...
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#1319942021-11-30
Fight against crime takes center stage at Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards
Environmental protectors and entities from Asia were today recognized for their work on prevention of environmental crime at the sixth edition of the Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards, organized virtually by UNEP, UNDP, UNODC, INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization and CITES.
Meeting
#6141Fifth Conference on Cetacean Conservation in South Mediterranean Countries (CSMC5)
13 - 15 April 2021, Online, Monaco
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#1218092019-08-06
Fertility experts aim to help save northern white rhinos from extinction
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Only two female northern white rhinoceroses are left, prompting Merck -- a science and technology company working with the BioRescue Project -- to offer assisted reproductive technologies to save the species from extinction.
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#1256292020-11-10
Fears for a million livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania as Mara River fish die out
Fish are being driven to extinction in the Mara River basin, putting the livelihoods of more than a million people in Kenya and Tanzania in jeopardy, according to WWF.
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#1319402021-11-25
Farmers tempt endangered cranes back – by growing their favourite food
In Cambodia’s fertile Mekong delta, rice farmers are switching to the varieties loved by the world’s tallest flying bird to help stop its decline.
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#1273322021-02-24
Farmers in developing countries can protect both profits and endangered species
Low-income livestock farmers in developing countries are often faced with a difficult dilemma: protect their animals from endangered predators, or spare the threatened species at the expense of their livestock and livelihood.