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#1230862019-11-20
Rare bird’s detection highlights promise of ‘environmental DNA’
Researchers are increasingly using traces of genetic material in the wild to track endangered species.
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#1338812022-03-31
Rare birth of endangered Sumatran rhino sparks hope for conservation efforts
A rare Sumatran rhino was born at an Indonesian sanctuary in a win for the extremely endangered species, environmental officials said.
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#1201562019-02-28
Rare grassland pastures resembling 'what the Prairies used to look like' declared important bird area
An exceedingly rare kind of grassland in Manitoba and Saskatchewan — and the endangered birds and plants that call it home — are getting a little symbolic protection.
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#1348002022-05-31
Rare saiga antelope population now over a million in Kazakhstan
The population of endangered Saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan is now over 1.3 million, the ecology ministry said Tuesday, in the latest boost to a species threatened by poaching and disease.
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#1246332020-03-11
Rare white giraffes killed by poachers in Kenya: conservationists
Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.
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#1202572019-03-07
Red wolf: the struggle to save one of the rarest animals on Earth
Attempting to locate one of the rarest animals on the planet, US government scientist Joe Madison pointed an antiquated VHF tracking antenna at a tangle of thick vegetation and twiddled some dials on the receiver. A red wolf, judging by the beeps, was in the vicinity but well-hidden.
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#1335312022-02-25
Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation
Perched in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) near the borders of Uganda and South Sudan, Okapi Wildlife Reserve quietly encompasses some 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of rainforest habitat.
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#1322752021-12-22
Remote areas are not safe havens for biodiversity
Remote localities are generally considered as potential reservoirs for biodiversity, but this is just part of the story. With regard to fish communities, researchers have produced a global map of risk that shows that no place is safe, regardless of distance from humans.
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#1187542018-10-31
Report says experts should monitor B.C.’s efforts to protect at-risk species
B.C. government efforts to protect species at risk should be monitored by a special independent scientific body, a team of conservation and biodiversity experts said in a study released Tuesday.
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#1227142019-10-24
Rescuing the world's endangered river dolphins takes cutting edge science and community
River dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco are under ever increasing pressure from the impact of hydropower dams and mercury contamination from small-scale gold mining, according to results from the first ever river dolphin satellite tagging program released today to mark World River Dolphin Day.
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#1259922020-12-03
Reversing the Biodiversity loss on Earth
Biodiversity is the diversity of life on Earth. It’s such a hallmark of nature that varies with the variability of living species like microorganisms, plants, animals to coral reefs, forests, rainforests, and deserts with their specific existence on Earth.
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#1216842019-07-24
Rewilding in Argentina: the giant river otter returns to Iberá park
The first attempt to reintroduce an extinct mammal in Argentina brings hope for restored ecosystems and increased ecotourism opportunities based on wildlife watching.
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#1227262019-10-24
Rewilding': California man's mission to save honeybees
The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.
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#1271222021-02-17
Rewilding: Jaguars return to Argentina’s wetlands 70 years after local extinction
Rewilding efforts are returning jaguars, the largest predator in South America, to areas where the species has been driven to local extinction due to hunting and habitat loss.
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#1277782021-03-23
Rhino census starts in Nepal
The Nepali government started census of the rhinoceros population on Monday in Chitwan National Park and Parsa National Park in central Nepal.
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#1213902019-06-25
Rhino release: Endangered animals despatched to Rwanda
"These animals were taken from Africa decades ago to display to the public [in European zoos] and now have a real conservation role in Rwanda," Mark Pilgrim, Chester Zoo's chief executive says proudly.
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#1279412021-04-07
Ringed seals under consideration for listing under Species at Risk Act
Fisheries and Oceans Canada will begin consultations this fall on whether to list ringed seals under the federal Species at Risk Act. The consultations will begin nearly two years after the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, declared the animals a species of s ...
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#1193902019-01-15
Romeo, once the loneliest the frog in the world, finds a mate!
More than ten years ago, biologists collected Romeo — a Sehuencas water frog — from a stream in Bolivia. They knew that the species was in big trouble and a conservation effort had to be urgently ramped up, but despite numerous subsequent searches, no other specimen had been found.
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#1229672019-11-11
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh working to save rare and endangered alpine blue-sow thistle
Conservationists at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh working to ensure the survival of the rare and endangered alpine blue-sow thistle in Scotland are attempting to establish a new population of the species. The beautiful but elusive flower has now been planted along a small gorge at the Water of ...
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#1194652019-01-17
San Diego’s Frozen Zoo Offers Hope for Endangered Species Around the World
The largest animal cryobank in the world is a rich source of genetic knowledge that may one day be used to bring endangered species back from the brink.
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#1190502018-12-14
Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Every other hour, Sonja Krüger logs onto her website and checks the birds’ status. Pharoah is taking a mud bath in the mountains, Jeremia is on a roost site viewing the Maloti mountain range, and Mollie is scouring the grasslands for a fresh carcass.
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#1206772019-04-08
Satellites used to protect endangered sharks
Satellites scanning the oceans are a valuable new tool to protect sharks, according to scientists. A review of evidence suggests endangered sharks can be protected from threats such as illegal fishing, using the technology.
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#1319292021-11-25
Saving Australia’s rarest tree after Black Summer catastrophe
It’s such a rare species there are only two known trees left, one mature and one juvenile tree growing in the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.
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#1244622020-03-02
Saving endangered species: Now we must focus on ecosystem health
It’s been almost a decade since nations from across the globe convened in Aichi Prefecture of Japan for a meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at which targets were established to halt to the biodiversity crisis.
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#1226062019-10-10
Saving rare hornbills: Philippines launches conservation plan
Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Foundation (PBCF) and the local government of Tawi-Tawi have joined forces on a conservation plan in hope to improve the critically low population of Sulu hornbill.
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#1252992020-04-28
Saving tigers is a marathon, not a sprint
I have done nonstop interviews about the shameful commercial breeding of tigers in the United States in the past few weeks since the Netflix series Tiger King first aired. As someone who’s devoted my entire career to saving this magnificent species in the wild, I find exploitation in the name o ...
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#1255562020-11-05
Scatalogical science: how poo analysis could help save endangered species
Across the world, conservationists, scientists and volunteers are racing to save thousands of endangered species. And for some, their efforts have not been wasted. A recent report found that conservation programmes have saved several bird and mammal species from extinction in recent decades.
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#1248442020-03-25
Scientists call for independent review of dam project in orangutan habitat
Critics and supporters of a dam that threatens the only known population of Tapanuli orangutans are at loggerheads over whether to carry out an independent scientific study of the project’s impact.
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#1281612021-04-21
Scientists develop new mapping model to save Africa’s cycad plants from extinction
Cycads, the world’s oldest seed-producing plants, are facing extinction. Africa is home to a variety of cycad species and South Africa is regarded as a global hotspot for cycad diversity.
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#1196692019-01-29
Scientists name 66 species as potential biodiversity threats to EU
North America’s fox squirrel, the venomous striped eel catfish (SN: 4/29/17, p. 28) and 64 other species are now considered invasive threats to existing species in the European Union, scientists report online on December 12 in Global Change Biology. Emphasis on the word ‘threat.’ None of these o ...
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#1282962021-04-28
Scientists sound alarm about Australia’s 26 most endangered butterflies
It might sound like an 18th century fashion statement but the “pale imperial hairstreak” is actually an extravagant butterfly. This pale blue (male) or white (female) butterfly was once widespread, found in old growth brigalow woodlands that covered 14m hectares across Queensland and New South W ...
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#1220172019-08-27
Scientists successfully fertilize northern white rhino eggs
Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Researchers have successfully fertilized several northern white rhino eggs with the sperm of the last two bulls, Suni and Saut, both now deceased.
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#1331782022-02-14
Scottish wildcats: Kitten release plan to save critically endangered species
Sixteen wildcats are being paired up to have kittens that will be released into the wild in Scotland next year.
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#1235302019-12-19
Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report
In myths and carvings, sea turtles are reverent creatures, carrying wisdom and worlds on their backs. In Hindu cosmology, the earth is supported by four elephants on the back of a turtle, while Chinese myths celebrate the tortoise as a celestial beast. Today, sea turtles are endangered and in de ...
Meeting
#6312Second Meeting of the Range States of the Joint CITES - CMS African Carnivores Initiative
1 - 4 May 2023, Entebbe, Uganda
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#2489Second Mekong sub-regional CITES implementation and enforcement workshop
4 - 7 July 2006, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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#4815Second World Biodiversity Congress (organized by The Century Foundation Bangalore, India)
8 - 12 September 2011, Kuching, Malaysia
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#1341002022-04-18
Second chance: 80 critically endangered spotted tree frogs to be released into Kosciuszko national park
Two years after the 2019-20 summer bushfires nearly wiped out the species, 80 critically endangered spotted tree frogs are jumping back into the wild in NSW.
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#1345432022-05-18
Second endangered cheetah cub dies in Iran: state media
The second of three Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity in Iran has died in a blow to conservation efforts for the critically endangered subspecies, state media reported Wednesday.
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#1217062019-07-25
Secretive and colorful dryas monkey isn’t as rare as once thought
In 2014, biologists discovered a population of critically endangered dryas monkeys (Cercopithecus dryas) living 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of their only known range in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Side Event
#2520COP 11
2012-10-17
Securing Wildlife Corridors as an avenue to halt the loss of biodiverstiy
Securing wildlife priority corridors and habitat linkages to enable natural migration and genetic exchange is an important conservation element for successful implementation of the CBD Strategy 2020. At the side event success factors and challenges of examples from India and Southern Africa wil ...
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#2640COP 11
2012-10-17
Seven Wonders of Conservation presented by the Alliance for Zero Extinction
The purpose of this event will be to raise awareness of some of the globe’s most threatened species through the Seven Wonders of Conservation campaign. Presentations will include national governments sharing their succesful experiences combating species extinctions through the protection of the ...
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#1261082020-12-09
Sexy beasts: animals with 'charisma' get lion's share of EU conservation funds
Money made available for wildlife conservation by the EU is based on a popularity contest, with vertebrates getting nearly 500 times more funding for each species than invertebrates, according to a new report.
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#1333632022-02-21
Seychelles conducts census on critically endangered sheath-tailed bat
A census is underway by the Ministry of Environment to determine the current situation of the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat, an endemic species which is on the brink of extinction.
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#1205212019-03-27
Shared responsibility to care for natural world more important than ever
People from across Ontario are declaring solidarity with species at risk and calling for urgent change in the way we affect the natural world that sustains us. Twenty-eight authors, musicians, Indigenous Peoples, businesses and environmental organizations issued a joint statement today emphasizi ...
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#1205592019-03-28
Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?
Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon.Their eradication on more than 100 islands could save some of the rarest animals on Earth, says an international team.
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#1348482022-06-02
Should we protect nature for its own sake? For its economic value? Because it makes us happy? Yes
As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering the sixth mass extinction in its history.
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#1251512020-04-17
Sighting of endangered monkeys using rope bridge to cross road gives hope their numbers will expand.
The sight of a monkey climbing a rope bridge to cross a road may not be noteworthy to most people. Most would not have noticed the bridge across Old Upper Thomson Road, which was built by the National Parks Board (NParks) in October 2019 to help animals cross from the vegetation in Thomson Natur ...
Meeting
#2392Sixteenth meeting of the Plants Committee
3 - 8 July 2006, Lima, Peru