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#1345902022-05-19
Extinction: Why scientists are freezing threatened species in
"He's gone," murmurs Chester Zoo vet Gabby Drake - holding a stethoscope to the feathered chest of a 28-year-old, bright red tropical parrot.
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#1261542020-12-10
Extinction: Conservation success set against 31 lost species
The European bison has moved a step back from the brink of extinction, according to an update of the official extinction list. Europe's largest land mammal was almost wiped out by hunting and deforestation a century ago, but numbers have now risen to over 6,000 in wild herds across the continent.
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#1337332022-03-07
Extinction crisis: Native mammals are disappearing in Northern Australia, but few people are watching
At the time Australia was colonized by Europeans, an estimated 180 mammal species lived in the continent's northern savannas. The landscape teemed with animals, from microbats to rock-wallabies and northern quolls. Many of these mammals were found nowhere else on Earth.
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#2426Expert Meeting on the Effective Implementation of the Inclusion of Ramin (Gonystalys spp.) in Appendix II of CITES
16 - 19 May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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#3064Expert Meeting on Animal Welfare (FAO)
29 September - 3 October 2008, Rome, Italy
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#1342652022-05-04
Exotic, rare wildlife species found in India
India is the world’s 8th most biodiverse region. Our country encompasses a wide range of biomes: desert, high mountains, highlands, tropical and temperate forests, swamplands, plains, grasslands, areas surrounding rivers, as well as an island archipelago.
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#1209662019-05-06
Even more amphibians are endangered than we thought
At least a quarter of the world's approximately 8,000 known species of amphibian are recognized as threatened and at risk of extinction.
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#1262272020-12-14
European bison sees conservation success, yet 31 other species declared Extinct
The latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species update has revealed that 26 species, including the European bison, have experienced a recovery as a result of continued conservation efforts. However, 31 species have been categorised as Extinct.
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#2492European Regional CITES Plants Meeting
18 - 21 October 2006, Perugia, Italy
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#1318612021-11-19
Europe's butterflies are vanishing as small farms disappear
Each week for the last 25 summers, biologist Constantí Stefanescu has walked a line through a series of fields in Catalonia, counting butterflies. On a sun-beaten day last July, near where the Pyrenees Mountains slip into the Mediterranean Sea, he stepped into what had once been the most butterf ...
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#1318892021-11-24
Europe's butterflies are vanishing as small farms disappear
Industrial farms and abandoned ones are both bad for butterflies. Researchers in Spain are trying to combat the trend, one "micro-reserve" at a time.
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#1238372020-01-21
Environment ministry releases standard procedure to deal with anthrax deaths in elephants
On January 19, 2020, a four-year-old elephant suspected to have died due to anthrax was found in Sambalpur in Odisha. According to a news report, a post-mortem was conducted on the carcass before burying it at the spot. Latest guidelines released by the environment ministry however, advise again ...
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#1244372020-02-28
Entangled right whale 'unable to close her mouth for months'
Researchers have discovered an entangled female North Atlantic right whale off the Massachusetts coast, underscoring calls for less harmful fishing gear. The news comes one day after Ottawa announced new measures to protect the endangered species. About 400 right whales remain, with only 100 bre ...
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#1325392022-01-17
Entangled humpback whale’s sad fate has researchers calling for action on fishing nets
A juvenile humpback whale has been spotted in the Antarctic entangled in fishing gear, leading to calls from conservationists for better protections along migration corridors.
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#1324752022-01-13
Ending Illegal Trafficking of Endangered Animals
Nigeria has emerged as the top transit point in the world for illegal ivory and pangolin scale trafficking from Africa to Asia. Between 2016 to 2019, over half of the pangolin scales seized globally came from Nigeria, Ugo Aliogo reports.
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#1262242020-12-14
Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly
Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.
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#1329882022-02-08
Endangered wildlife face perilous future as vital habitat loses protection in Cambodia
In 2017, an elephant in Cambodia’s Kirium National Park was electrocuted as it leaned against power lines in a formerly forested area. This wasn’t an isolated incident—another elephant reportedly died in the same manner the previous year— and prompted conservationists to point to the widening im ...
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#2777COP 11
2012-10-11
Endangered wetlands: comparative experiences on participatory strategic management to tackle socio-environmental conflicts.
This side event seeks to exchange valuable experiences regarding threatened wetlands and the use of environmental strategic tools (territorial planning, environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, public participation and litigation) as a means of preventing or putting a ...
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#1257602020-11-18
Endangered species: Gunshot detection technology deployed
Analysing recordings of gunshots could help save endangered species around the world by identifying poacher hotspots. New technology has been developed by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Google Cloud.
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#1192462019-01-04
Endangered species are key to our survival
Last week, India submitted its sixth national report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The report was a mixed one: While the country is on track to meet most of its national biodiversity targets, the bad news is that the list of animal species from the country under the i ...
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#1279402021-04-07
Endangered right whales have biggest baby boom since 2015
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than scientists have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all.
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#1215482019-07-11
Endangered rhino numbers ‘soar by 1,000%’ in Tanzania after crackdown on poaching gangs
President claims credit as elephant populations rise by nearly half in five years but British experts are wary
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#1340642022-04-13
Endangered pangolins get fresh chance in S.African clinic
The hospital room is air-cooled to feel like a pangolin's burrow. The patient, Lumbi, is syringe-fed with a protein-packed smoothie, given a daily dose of medicine and has his vital signs checked.
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#1253732020-05-01
Endangered ornate eagle rays make a splash off Queensland's Lady Elliot Island
Two endangered ornate eagle rays have been sighted off Lady Elliot Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef, a breakthrough for researchers studying the species dubbed "the unicorn of the sea".
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#1305492021-09-23
Endangered monkeys thrive amid harmony with human guardians in S China
A team of forest rangers has dedicated years to protecting white-headed langurs, with their conservation efforts helping to ensure a thriving population of the critically endangered species in a nature reserve in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
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#1342302022-04-28
Endangered insects are easy to purchase illegally online
A new study from Cornell University has found that endangered and threatened insects, spiders, and common species that provide ecological services can be easily purchased – without oversight – online.
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#1208572019-04-25
Endangered green turtles now increasing in numbers, study of Pacific coral reefs finds
Protective measures which began in 1970s could be paying off in allowing green turtle populations to rebound, researchers say
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#1296602021-07-23
Endangered giant clam gets much-needed lift
The Philippines’s true native giant clam species, scientifically called the Tridacna gigas, is about to get a needed lift to get it out of local extinction.
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#1342052022-04-27
Endangered eels enjoy improved river access
Endangered eels have had their access opened up to lengthy new stretches of waterways in the south of Scotland. A new "eel pass" has been put in place over the Milnby Weir to allow them to get into the upper reaches of the River Annan and its tributaries.
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#1204272019-03-19
Endangered duck species spotted in Inner Mongolia
An endangered and rare duck species has been spotted in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said Tuesday. Animal experts found six of the Baer's pochard, four males and two females, at a reservoir in Alxa League during recent field research, according to the region' ...
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#1319352021-11-25
Endangered deer's prion gene could protect it from chronic wasting disease
According to a University of Illinois-led study, Père David's deer has gene variants that may naturally protect the animals from the ravages of CWD.
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#1211722019-05-23
Endangered crested ibis returned to South Korean wild 40 years after extinction
SEOUL - An endangered bird was reintroduced to the wild by South Korean authorities Wednesday, four decades after it went extinct on the peninsula.
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#1301242021-08-24
Endangered bettong reintroduced in Australia after more than a century
Brush-tailed bettongs are back. These tiny endangered marsupials have been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after disappearing more than a century ago.
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#1220702019-08-30
Endangered bats: The manicure helping to save a species
One of the world's rarest bats is now confined to a single cave in Western Cuba with less than 750 remaining, according to a population survey.
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#1291192021-06-07
Endangered bamboo sharks get helping hand in Gulf of Thailand
Rayong Province, Thailand: In the Gulf of Thailand, fisheries researchers use a guideline to scuba dive to the ocean floor where they release baskets full of young bamboo sharks.
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#1200672019-02-22
Endangered armadillos are being turned into carnival rattle
Researchers worry that Andean hairy armadillos, poached in Bolivia and largely ignored by conservationists, may be headed toward extinction.
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#1257732020-11-19
Endangered animals get entangled in plastics that riddle US oceans – study
Endangered marine mammals and sea turtles are routinely being entangled in or are swallowing pieces of plastic that now riddle the oceans off US coastlines, a new report has found.
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#1318282021-11-19
Endangered Yangtze finless porpoises spotted frequently in E China
Yangtze finless porpoises have been spotted frequently in the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province recently. Many residents in the city as Jiangsu's provincial capital have seen the scene of the beautiful creatures playing or leaping out of water.
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#1259412020-12-01
Endangered Vancouver Island marmots are making a comeback
Vancouver Island marmots may just be the antidote required for the dystopian times we are living in. If you must be trapped inside during this current winter of discontent, alone at a desk, scrolling through hours of video - best it be watching one of the most endearing animals on the planet.
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#1267632021-01-29
Endangered Thames eels to benefit from the latest science
Critically endangered eels in the Thames will benefit from cutting-edge new work that sheds light on how the creatures swim up the river's estuary.
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#1278822021-04-05
Endangered Loggerhead Turtle Rescued
A Loggerhead Turtle was found caught in a fishing net at Al Qana in Abu Dhabi and has been nursed back to health.The turtle was saved by the Environmental Agency in Abu Dhabi and The National Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the Middle East, and is a breed of turtle not commonly found in the UA ...
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#1189352018-12-07
Endangered Hawaiian monk seals face new challenge: eels stuck up their noses
Picture of monk seal with eel up its nose shared by Noaa was only latest episode to occur in the past two years, baffling researchers
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#1320732021-12-07
Endangered Caspian seal habitat awarded important marine mammal area status
Special status has been awarded to the habitat of a species of seal left endangered due to human activity.
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#1345122022-05-17
Endangered Caspian Seals, Sturgeon Found Dead On Kazakhstan's Caspian Coast
Officials in Kazakhstan’s western Manghystau region say 64 endangered seals and five huge sturgeon washed up dead on the shores of the Caspian Sea over the weekend.
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#1301842021-09-01
Endangered Bengal tiger cub born at Nicaragua zoo
A Bengal tiger cub is being cared for by humans at Nicaragua's National Zoo after its mother was unable to produce the milk necessary to feed the latest little addition to the endangered species, the zoo's director Eduardo Sacasa said Tuesday.
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#1330392022-02-09
Endangered Animals Species Spotlight: Whale Sharks
Whale sharks are found broadly across tropical and warm temperate seas, with major subpopulations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
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#1229652019-11-11
Emperor penguins ‘could be wiped out by climate change within 80 years’
Emperor penguins could be wiped out by climate change within 80 years, warns a new study. The fate of the birds – some of the most striking and charismatic creatures on Earth – is largely tied to the fate of sea ice which they use as a base for breeding.
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#1219402019-08-19
Elephant protection debate to dominate conservation meeting
Different approaches to protecting elephants are set to dominate the debate at a key conservation conference starting in Geneva today.
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#1320922021-12-08
Eight wolves were found poisoned in Oregon. Police are asking for the public’s help
Conservation groups call the deaths ‘shocking and heartbreaking’ and have offered a $43,000 reward for any information
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#1193332019-01-11
Egypt’s Wildlife Rescue Team Saves Rare Wolf Species From Extinction
As part of the Ministry of Environment’s plan to prevent illegal wildlife trade and save animals from extinction, a group from Alexandria Turtle Rescue team succeeded in saving an endangered Egyptian jackal wolf and returning it to its natural habitat in Wadi El Rayan, Al Ahram reports.