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#1326822022-01-20
Critically Endangered Sumatran Orangutan Born at San Diego Zoo
It’s a bouncing, baby boy for Sumatran orangutan mom Indah at the San Diego Zoo. The 35-year-old great ape gave birth in early January to her third infant.1
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#1218072019-08-06
Critically Endangered hornbill becomes community flagship for forest conservation
In the Philippines, the Rufous-headed Hornbill has been driven to the brink of extinction by hunting and deforestation.
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#1259872020-12-03
Critically endangered Rothschild Giraffe rescued from ‘disappearing’ Island
The Kenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy have moved one Rothschild’s giraffe from Longicharo Island, on the eastern shores of Lake Baringo.
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#1313032021-10-29
Critically endangered condor chicks are species' 1st known 'virgin births'
Scientists have reported the first known "virgin births" in California condors — two chicks that hatched without any males involved in fertilizing the eggs.
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#1197622019-02-05
Critically endangered grey nurse shark mapped for the first time in landmark study
A study mapping the eastern Australian grey nurse shark population has found it has declined rapidly over the last few decades, with only 400 breeding sharks left, too few to maintain a healthy population.
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#1342292022-04-28
Critically endangered monkey born in Colombian zoo
Cotton-top tamarin monkeys are critically endangered primates, with less than 2,000 in the wild.
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#1298672021-08-10
Critically endangered orchid found in a backyard in South Cotabato
Two wildlife biologists found a Pahiopedilum haynaldianum, also known as lady’s slipper orchid, in a “local garden in the village adjacent to the forest somewhere in the Mount Busa Key Biodiversity Area.”
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#1246172020-03-11
Critically endangered snapping turtle program breeds hope for survival
The Bellinger River snapping turtle is one of the rarest turtles on the planet after a virus wiped out more than 90% of the adult population in 2015, but a captive breeding program is bringing hope that a healthy population can be restored in the wild.
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#1331612022-02-14
Critically endangered white-bellied heron spotted in Kamlang Tiger Reserve. Watch video
The white-bellied heron is mainly dark greyish with contrasting white throat, belly and vent, white-streaked scapulars, fore neck and upper breast.
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#1278552021-04-01
Croatia acts to save its iconic Istrian goat
With wavy horns and a sturdy build, the Istrian goat stands proudly on Croatia's national flag. But in the pastures where the white-furred animal hails from, the breed is almost nowhere to be seen.
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#1278242021-03-29
Crocodiles sacrés, les nouveaux résidents du Bioparc Genève
Depuis novembre, l’institution genevoise héberge trois spécimens. Taille, durée de vie et régime alimentaire: présentation d’une espèce qu’il faut protéger.
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#1202172019-03-05
Czech honey production lowest in four years
The Czech Republic’s honey production in 2018 was the lowest in the past four years, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office this week. Production of honey was four percent lower than in the previous year, dropping below 9,000 tonnes for the first time since 2014.
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#1297582021-07-28
Dangerous attraction: Amorous pursuit imperils Cuban croc
Being too coveted a mating partner can have its downside for a species faced with extinction, as the Cuban crocodile has learned.Arduous pursuit by its amorous American counterpart has seen survival of the island species, its numbers already dwindling, further threatened by hybridization.
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#1297782021-07-29
Dead, shrivelled frogs are turning up across eastern Australia. What’s going on?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a flurry of emails from concerned people who’ve seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
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#1205842019-03-29
Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’
An infectious fungal disease has driven mass amphibian die-offs worldwide and is responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity attributable to a single pathogen ever recorded, a global study has found.
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#1251142020-04-16
Decoy tactics: can fake concrete penguins help save the real thing?
It’s amazing to see wild creatures in their natural homes,” says Gaja Rojec, as she sits next to a group of African penguins that don’t seem at all bothered by her presence. It is late January 2020, and the Slovenian film-maker is just one of about 800,000 people who have visited Boulders Beach ...
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#1321252021-12-09
Deep-sea mining may push hundreds of species to extinction, researchers warn
New research sees two-thirds of mollusc types only found living by hydrothermal vents added to IUCN’s red list of endangered species
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#1199612019-02-15
Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study in Science.
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#1354492022-07-26
Density estimates reveal that fragmented landscapes provide important habitat for conserving an endangered mesopredator, the spotted-tailed quoll
Native predators are increasingly exposed to habitat loss and fragmentation globally. When developing conservation and management strategies, it is important to determine whether fragmented landscapes can still support similar predator densities to intact areas, and thereby constitute important ...
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#1274422021-03-02
Detection dogs effectively find rare animals and plants, providing important data for science and conservation
The lists of the world’s endangered animals and plants are getting increasingly longer. But to stop this trend, important information is lacking.
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#1286322021-05-14
Differently endangered: Why the lions are most vulnerable to Covid
Over the past month, reports have trickled in of lions testing Covid-positive—as many as eight Asiatic lions in Hyderabad zoo (April 29) and two at the Etawah Safari Park in Uttar Pradesh (May 6). According to officials, tests are on at other zoos and the number of cases of Covid among wildlife ...
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#1198082019-02-06
Dingoes could help solve Australia’s extinction crisis — if only people would let them
The continent of Australia has the world’s highest extinction rate; dozens of animal species are critically endangered, and hundreds more are declining. A primary culprit is predation by historically non-native cats and foxes, and killing those animals is central to conservation efforts — but th ...
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#1225002019-10-03
Disappearing birds: the ecological disaster society is ignoring
A report in the academic journal “Science” of the disappearance of three billion wild birds over 50 years in Canada and the United States ruffled the media for one day, maybe two, and went away.
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#1268552021-02-03
Discovered Pathogen Kills Endangered Chimps: Is It a Threat to Humans?
On a Friday evening in mid-January, Jackson, a five-year-old chimp living at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, alarmed his keepers by ignoring his dinner.
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#1278602021-04-01
Do you know the names of these rare birds found in China?
China is home to a variety of animal and plant species, both common and rare. Let's take a look of some of the precious bird species found in the country.
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#1272362021-02-22
Dozens of whales strand at notorious New Zealand bay
Rescuers were racing Monday to save dozens of pilot whales that beached on a stretch of New Zealand coast notorious for mass strandings, wildlife officials said.
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#1277102021-03-16
Dying of curiosity: Why people shoot harpy eagles
The rancher peers at an enormous bird high in the treetops. Reining in his horse, he squints upward. It’s not moving; maybe it will still be there when he gets back. An hour later, he returns with a gun.
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#1216932019-07-25
EU acts to protect future of bird facing extinction in UK
European commission moves to halt loss of habitat for migrating turtle doves
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#1283482021-04-30
Ecologists Saved Bald Eagles with Helicopter Parenting
Peter Sharpe dangled 100 feet beneath a helicopter, secured by a harness around his chest. In his hands, the research ecologist clutched a small box containing smooth oval objects sculpted from resin to resemble a bald eagle’s chalky eggs.
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#2297Ecology & Conservation of Butterflies in Europe
5 - 9 December 2005, Leipzig, Germany
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#1333132022-02-17
Efforts pay off on saving endangered plant species
Dozens of China's endangered plants have seen stable growth in their numbers over several decades thanks to improved conservation efforts, a survey on protected species said.
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#1233152019-12-06
Egypt thwarts attempt to smuggle 40 tortoises at Sudanese border: Ministry
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment said in a statement on Tuesday that it has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 40 Sudanese African spurred tortoises by two smugglers at the Egyptian-Sudanese border.
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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.
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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.