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#872882012-04-18
Hail Mary effort aims to save the world's most endangered turtles
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has pledged to work with all of its institutions to save at least half of the world's most 25 endangered turtles as listed in a report by WCS and the Turtle Conservation Coalition last year.
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#872462012-04-17
Endangered lynx in Spain gets help
MADRID, April 16 (UPI) -- Three Iberian lynx are being released into the wild in Spain from a captive breeding program in an effort to save the endangered species, researchers said.
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#872362012-04-16
Russia to protect endangered big cats
MOSCOW, April 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. wildlife advocacy group says a Russian decision to create a "Land of the Leopard" national park is "great news" for endangered big cats.
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#871592012-04-12
Global effort to save turtles launched
NEW YORK, April 11 (UPI) -- The U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society says it's launching a global effort to save some of the world's most endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles.
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#871712012-04-12
iPad app helps mariners save endangered right whales
Once considered the “right” whale to kill, these marine mammals are gaining protection from an unlikely source: a free iPad app.
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#871102012-04-10
World's rarest ducklings Madagascan pochards hatch
Eighteen Madagascan pochards - the world's most endangered duck - have hatched in a captive breeding centre.
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#871162012-04-10
How a crippled rhino may save a species
On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her.
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#870572012-04-04
Groups urge New Zealand dolphin protection
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, April 3 (UPI) -- Conservationists say they're stepping up pressure on New Zealand's government to protect two endangered dolphin species.
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#870062012-04-02
Guizhou golden monkey's population doubled in last three decades
GUIYANG, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of the endangered Guizhou golden monkeys has doubled over the past three decades, according to a protection bureau official in southwest China's Guizhou Province who spoke to Xinhua on Monday.
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#869532012-03-29
How to Save Europe's Most Threatened Butterflies
ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2012) — New guidelines on how to save some of Europe's most threatened butterfly species have been published by a team of scientists co-ordinated by Butterfly Conservation Europe.
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#869602012-03-29
Rare Sumatran orangutans dying as fires rage in Indonesian swamp forest
A third of the population of 200 might already be dead – with the remainder in severe danger, say conservationists
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#869352012-03-28
Orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh forest may die out in weeks
(Reuters) - Forest fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could kill off within weeks about 200 orangutans in a forest in western Indonesia, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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#868862012-03-27
NZ dolphin survival boosted by Marine Protected Area
Hector's dolphins living off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand have benefitted from the area's special designation, say scientists.
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#868992012-03-27
How to save Europe's most threatened butterflies
The report entitled "Dos and don'ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union" was published in the form of an "Applied Conservation" paper in the newly launched open-access journal Nature Conservation (press release on the journal launch).
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#868182012-03-23
World's smallest dolphin: only 55 left, but continue to drown in nets
The world's smallest dolphin is also the closest to extinction. New Zealand government figures show that Maui's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) are down to just 55 mature individuals, falling from 111 in 2005.
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#867112012-03-19
Seabird species face extinction as invaders storm empire's last outcrops
RSPB warns Foreign Office of threat to wildlife without tenfold increase in spending
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#866792012-03-16
Bonsai tree trade closing net on near-extinct Vietnamese monkey
One of world's rarest primates, the white-headed langur, numbers around 70 as increasing deforestation uproots habitat
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#866392012-03-15
Global flower trade threatens rare palm
Demand for leaves from an endangered palm, found in Central and South America, is threatening the species' long term survival, a study warns.
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#866172012-03-14
Endangered Australian Cockatoo Loses One Third of Population in Just 1 Year
It’s been a rough year for Western Australia’s iconic but endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus latirostris), which are endemic to the state and live nowhere else in the world.
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#865792012-03-13
Without data, fate of great apes unknown
Our closest nonhuman relatives, the great apes, are in mortal danger. Every one of the six great ape species is endangered, and without more effective conservation measures, they may be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
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#865812012-03-13
A Growing Illicit Trade Threatens Jamaica's Wildlife
KINGSTON, March 12, 2012 (IPS) - News of Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo's newest attraction shocked Jamaican authorities.
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#866062012-03-13
Feds, Conservationists Clash Over Endangered Species Act Definition
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to define a five-word phrase in the Endangered Species Act has conservation groups and scientists up in arms.
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#864582012-03-08
Tree planting saving Peruvian bird species
LIMA, March 7 (UPI) -- A tree-planting campaign in Peru may have avoided the extinction of a number of endangered bird species in and around two nature reserves, conservationists say.
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#864612012-03-08
Genetic Survey of Endangered Antarctic Blue Whales Shows Surprising Diversity
ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2012) — More than 99 percent of Antarctic blue whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century, but the first circumpolar genetic study of these critically endangered whales has found a surprisingly high level of diversity among the surviving population of ...
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#863962012-03-06
Project to protect rare Burmese monkey gets new funding
A conservation project to help protect the rare Burmese snub-nosed monkey is one of 33 to get a share of UK Government funding.
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#863482012-03-02
At Least 356 Indian Leopards Killed in 2011, Half by Poachers
India’s leopards are dying at a rate of at least one per day, according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI).
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#860802012-02-23
Study: Habitat 'clusters' could save birds
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say providing a close network of suitable habitats can improve the long-term survival of an endangered Florida bird species.
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#860342012-02-22
Fungus hits endangered snakes in Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a rare fungus not normally found in the wild is killing endangered rattlesnakes in southern Illinois.
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#860372012-02-22
Extinction Looms for Rare Frog Species, Now Down to One Individual
And then there was one. The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum) now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the only other member of its species.
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#860702012-02-22
Twelve Percent of Marine Species in Tropical Eastern Pacific Threatened
Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction, according to a study by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Na ...
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#858552012-02-16
Researchers fight time to save 'secretive' alpine frog
FIFTEEN tadpoles hatched since Christmas might not sound exciting. But for those who know about the plight of the Baw Baw frog, it is a big deal.
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#858682012-02-16
'Immortal Devil' tied to Tasmanian deaths
HINXTON, England, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Researchers say a female Tasmanian devil who died more than 15 years ago is the source of a contagious cancer that is killing off the species.
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#858392012-02-15
Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade
Crime chiefs from countries with populations of wild tigers have agreed to work together in order to combat the illegal trade in the big cats.
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#857892012-02-14
Tiger countries to tighten controls
Poachers and economic growth are endangering the tiger's livelihood. In Bangkok, police and customs authorities from countries home to wild tigers have agreed to tighten controls to curb the trade in tiger parts.
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#857932012-02-14
Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade
Crime chiefs from countries with populations of wild tigers have agreed to work together in order to combat the illegal trade in the big cats.
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#857302012-02-13
Endangered butterfly making a comeback
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- An endangered species of butterfly has been showing signs of a comeback in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.
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#856872012-02-10
Artificial Beaks Helping to Save Hornbills from Extinction in India
For centuries the tribal Nyishi people in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh have worn the magnificent beaks of hornbill birds as a part of their traditional headgear, called pudum, which are considered a sign of manhood and tribal identity.
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#856592012-02-09
Critically Endangered Cross River Gorillas May Have More Room to Grow
With a population numbering fewer than 300 individuals, Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli) are the rarest and most endangered of the world’s four gorilla subspecies.
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#855582012-02-07
Crossed Fingers for a Threatened Butterfly
If you stand with your back to the sun and inspect the place on the ground where your shadow is cast, you might spot the tiny larvae of the threatened Bay checkerspot butterfly.
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#855622012-02-07
Turtles tracked to feeding 'hot spots'
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Satellite tracking of threatened loggerhead sea turtles has revealed two previously unknown feeding "hot spots" in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. researchers say.
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#855782012-02-07
Nepal's vulture "restaurants" for endangered birds
(Reuters) - In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down.
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#855832012-02-07
18 endangered dolphins spotted off Borneo: WWF
JAKARTA — Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island Tuesday and called for greater protection of the species' habitat.
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#855842012-02-07
Pregnancy of rare rhino being monitored
JAKARTA, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Wildlife scientists say they are carefully monitoring the pregnancy of a Sumatran Rhino, one of the world's most endangered species, at an Indonesian sanctuary.
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#855422012-02-06
Aussie icons now species in danger
We are sentimental but no Australian brand is going to survive simply because it is Australian.
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#854922012-02-03
Accidental Kakapo Death Lowers Population of Rare, Flightless Parrots to 127 Birds
The death of an adult female kakapo (Strigops habroptila) on New Zealand’s Anchor Island this past weekend brings the population of these rare flightless parrots down to just 127 birds.
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#854432012-02-01
China streams live panda video to foster conservation
China began Wednesday streaming live video footage of its pandas around the world via webcam in an attempt to boost awareness of conservation efforts for its beloved but endangered animal ambassadors.
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#854462012-02-01
Satellite study reveals critical habitat and corridors for world's rarest gorilla
The Cross River gorilla, the most endangered great ape in Africa, is seen here in Cameroon's Limbe Wildlife Center. Images of wild Cross River gorillas are rare, due to the rugged terrain in which they exist and the great ape's elusive behavior. Credit: Nicky Lankester
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#854492012-02-01
Officials call for wildlife protection
DA NANG — Authorities at central Da Nang City's Ba Na Nature Reserve have been urged to build more zoos and aviaries to ensure better protection for endangered species in the area.
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#854132012-01-31
Rhino debate charges ahead
An intense debate is under way about whether the ban on rhino horn trade should be lifted as a way of tackling poaching.
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#853862012-01-30
Near-Extinct Monkeys Found in Colombian Park
A new population of one of the world's rarest primates—the brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus)—has been found in Colombia's Selva de Florencia National Park, conservationists announced this week.