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#733862010-09-21
Wild tigers filmed in Bhutan mountains
BBC crew claims footage is first evidence that jungle-dwelling animals can live and breed at high altitude, offering hope for conservation.
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#733872010-09-21
First Asian 'Unicorn' Sighting in Last Decade Confirmed
The Saola, a rarely-seen animal which lives in the Annamite Mountains bordering Laos and Vietnam, was captured by Laotian villagers in late August. The animal subsequently died in captivity.
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#733332010-09-20
Treize pays asiatiques préparent un programme pour sauver les dernières populations de tigres sauvages
Il reste moins de 3 500 individus, mais la communauté internationale commence à se mobiliser
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#733342010-09-20
Scientists warn little known gibbons face immediate extinction
It's not easy to be a gibbon: although one of the most acrobatic, fast, and marvelously loud of the world's primates, the gibbon remains largely unknown to the global public and far less studied than the world's more 'popular' apes.
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#733032010-09-17
'Asian unicorn' dies after capture in Laos
Rare saola caught by villagers and shown to conservationists was thought to be one of only a few hundred left in the wild.
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#732312010-09-16
RI calls for world action to stop trade of rare species
Indonesia called on parties to the UN biodiversity convention to stop receiving illegally traded endangered species, or loss of biodiversity would continue.
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#732592010-09-16
Pictures: Turtles Hunted, Traded, Squeezed Out of Their Habitats
Nearly 40 percent of freshwater turtle species are at risk of extinction, some with only a few members left, according to a new report from Conservation International Conservation International - Extinction - Species - Freshwater - Flora and Fauna
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#732612010-09-16
Vietnam’s legendary turtle tops the list endangered turtle species
VietNamNet Bridge – US-based Conservation International (CI) has made public the list of ten endangered species of turtles in the world. The turtle species in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake is most endangered.
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#732652010-09-16
Planes de conservación perjudiciales para el tigre
Los actual estrategia desvía recursos hacia grandes áreas descuidando los últimos grupos de tigres que quedan. Leer . Escuchar
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#732172010-09-15
Goats, cats trigger near extinction of Hawaiian bird in past 7 years
A new survey by the United States Geological Survey shows the population of the Palila (Loxioides bailleui), a beautiful songbird found only in Hawaii, has fallen from 4,400 birds to 1,200 birds since 2003, a decline of nearly 75 percent.
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#731412010-09-14
Shark attack survivors fight to save endangered species
Nine victims want a ban on killing the fish just for the fins to make soup.
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#731452010-09-14
Menacé d'extinction, le requin trouve des défenseurs inattendus
Ils ont été mutilés à vie en se retrouvant face à face avec un requin, mais, loin d'être...
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#731542010-09-14
Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic species in danger of extinction
Polar bears are not the only species in danger from global warming, a new report has warned.
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#731592010-09-14
Endangered Ibis rebounding
The largest number of White-shouldered Ibis ever recorded in the world, a total of 429 of the birds previously estimated to number only few hundred globally, have been counted in Cambodia by a coalition of conservation groups and university researchers.
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#731652010-09-14
Pricetag set for tiger conservation
The cost of keeping tigers alive in the wild is about $80m (£50m) per year, say conservationists - but only about $50m (£30m) per year is being pledged.
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#731092010-09-13
Especies amenazadas que quedan sin protección
Cetáceos, tortugas, coral rojo y praderas submarinas, fuera del nuevo catálogo español de especies amenazadas. Leer . Escuchar
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#730782010-09-09
Deepwater doom: Extinction threat for world's smallest seahorse
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill this year and subsequent cleanup efforts could drive the world's smallest seahorse into extinction, warns the Zoological Society of London and its marine conservation organization Project Seahorse.
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#730822010-09-09
Early Warning for Endangered Species?
Ecologists have long wondered how to tell when a population of animals is about to slide toward extinction.
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#730832010-09-09
China's nature reserves club together to protect endangered Tibetan antelopes
XINING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Four leading nature reserves in western China have vowed to work together to protect Tibetan antelopes, an endangered species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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#730582010-09-08
World's smallest seahorse faces extinction after BP oil spill
Habitat loss could cause a dramatic fall in dwarf seahorse populations, warn conservationists.
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#730012010-09-07
After 20 years of protection, owl is declining but forests remain
WASHINGTON -- Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest where t ...
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#730032010-09-07
A penguin species faces extinction
A YEAR ago, as I walked Boulders Beach, 45 minutes south of the metropolis of Cape Town, South Africa, I had no idea that I was staring extinction in the face.
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#730092010-09-07
Congolese chimpanzees face new 'wave of killing' for bushmeat
Scientists say chimps face 'major and urgent threat' as the bushmeat trade expands in country's north.
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#730122010-09-07
Inbred bees 'facing extinction'
Some of the UK's rarest bumblebees are at risk of becoming extinct as a result of inbreeding, research suggests.
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#729602010-09-03
African livelihoods at risk as species threatened: IUCN
GENEVA — Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday.
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#729792010-09-03
Panda still endangered despite baby boom
China's giant pandas remain still an endangered species despite the birth of 23 cubs in zoos across the country in the past two months, panda researchers have said.
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#729882010-09-03
Vultures rebound in Cambodia; only Asian country with rising population
The number of threatened vultures in Cambodia is on the rise according to a new survey by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other members of the Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project.
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#729252010-09-02
Kenya asks celebrities to save its endangered wildlife
Kenyan conservationists ask celebrities to adopt local endangered animals in order to provide much-needed wildlife preservation funding.
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#728222010-08-30
The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink
San Diego Zoo began collecting ski samples from rare animals in 1972 in the hope they might be used to protect these endangered species in the future. A breakthrough in stem-cell technology means that day is getting closer.
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#728262010-08-30
A slow comeback for the endangered Eurasian otter in France
In the late 1970s, the fate of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) in France was very gloomy. By just looking at the otter's range map, one could see that most of the country was left with vast regions devoid of a species that was once found in every region. Estimations barely reached 1,500 otters ...
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#728372010-08-30
China, Russia boost efforts to save tigers
BEIJING — China and Russia have agreed to set up the first cross-border protection zone for Siberian tigers, as they try to boost efforts to save the endangered species, state media reported Monday.
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#728012010-08-27
Ballenas en Tarifa
Toda clase de cetáceos imaginables surcan las aguas del Estrecho de Gibraltar. Leer
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#728032010-08-27
Protection sought for San Bernardino flying squirrel
Environmentalists want the nocturnal glider native to Southern California mountains to be listed as an endangered species threatened by climate change. Environmentalists have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the San Bernardino flying squirrel, a nocturnal glider native to S ...
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#728092010-08-27
Wild porcupines under threat due to illegal hunting
Research from the University of East Anglia, published in Biological Conservation, has shown that the consumption of the Southeast Asian porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) as a speciality food is having a devastating effect on wild populations.
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#727542010-08-26
Une saison historique pour le saumon sockeye?
Le saumon sockeye, dont la disparition mystérieuse en 2009 fait l'objet d'une enquête officielle...
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#726962010-08-24
Kenya makes massive ivory seizure
Some two tonnes of ivory and five rhino horns are seized in Kenya's main airport in boxes labelled as avocados for export to Malaysia.
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#726572010-08-23
Whooping cranes may return to Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS — The whooping crane — one of the world's most endangered birds and one of the first animals on the U.S. endangered list — could be back in Louisiana's wetlands as early as February under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal.
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#725692010-08-18
High-tech poachers who target rhinos
The South African wildlife service says poaching of rhinos is escalating at an unprecedented rate.
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#724892010-08-16
Rothschild giraffe added to Red List of endangered species
Fewer than 670 Rothschild giraffes now exist in the wild, following the loss of their traditional homeland.
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#724942010-08-16
Descubren una nueva especie de mono tití
Según los investigadores, el animal se encuentra en extinción debido a la destrucción de su hábitat, los árboles. Tiene el tamaño de un gato. Leer . Escuchar
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#724662010-08-13
Endangered snow leopard clawing its way back
Innovative conservation project in Pakistan sees a slow but sure rise in the number of the endangered big cats.
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#724312010-08-12
Orangutan populations collapse in pristine forest areas
Orangutan encounter rates have fallen six-fold in Borneo over the past 150 years, report researchers writing in the journal PLoS One.
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#724452010-08-12
Endangered Snow Leopard Clawing Its Way Back
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) - For more than 10 years, Shafqat Hussain has been on the trail of the endangered snow leopard.
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#724202010-08-11
San Diego Zoo sending panda sisters to China as part of effort to save the endangered animals
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Zoo will send two giant panda sisters to a reserve in China to help in the effort to save the critically endangered species
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#723652010-08-10
Govt to set aside 30 million ha for rare species
The government plans to set aside 30 million hectares of protected forests for habitats for endangered species in order to prevent their extinction.
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#723732010-08-10
Gray wolf relisted as endangered
If you were planning on hunting gray wolf in Idaho or Montana this year, you will now have to risk doing so illegally or find some other way to amuse yourself.
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#723742010-08-10
BP oil spill: Endangered species still at risk
US officials recorded a big jump in the numbers of dolphins and endangered brown pelican and sea turtle injured or killed by the BP spill over the past week, even as officials were proclaiming that the oil was rapidly disappearing from the Gulf.
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#723752010-08-10
Rarest of the rarest: top 10 lost amphibians
With many amphibians under threat of extinction due to environmental change, conservationists are appealing for anyone who has spotted a missing species to get in touch
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#723772010-08-10
Cranes return after 400 year absence
Cranes are being reintroduced to the West Country 400 years after they were last regularly seen in the area.
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#723782010-08-10
To the circus: conservationists warn of elephant exodus from Laos
Once worshipped as gods, the endangered elephant population of Laos is under threat from a legal loophole