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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#1229342019-11-08
Rare baby giraffe makes public debut at Czech zoo
An endangered baby giraffe made his public debut at a northern Czech zoo earlier this week, 12 days after being born in the enclosure.
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#1305082021-09-22
Rare Rhino Species Sees Dramatic Population Growth – From Just 100 to 3,700 Today – as Poaching Falls
The populations of several species and subspecies of rhinoceros are increasing, some dramatically, while poaching rates in east Asia have plummeted over the decade, a new report from the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) reveals.
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#1333792022-02-21
Rare Persian leopard held in Kurdistan zoo faces uncertain future
A rare Persian leopard being temporarily held in an Iraqi zoo faces an uncertain future, wildlife specialists fear. Six weeks ago the male leopard was caught in a trap set by a villager who had recently lost dozens of goats in the mountainous Batifa area of northern Duhok province, in the autono ...
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#1253702020-05-01
Rare Parrots Rebound In New Zealand And Australia
Bringing some good news for bird lovers. Populations of New Zealand's orange-fronted parakeet and southern Australia's orange-bellied parrots, both critically endangered species, are recovering- thanks to conservation efforts concentrated on bringing them back from the brink. However, there is s ...
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#1259402020-12-01
Rare & Endangered Indian Pangolin Rescued Near Agra, Released Back Into Its Natural Habitat
A rare and endangered Indian pangolin was rescued by the Wildlife SOS after it was seen wandering across a field in Bichpuri village, around 10 km from Agra city. Being the world’s most trafficked animal, pangolins are under constant threat from poachers and sometimes they even fall victim to ro ...
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#1237572020-01-16
Race to save animals on Australia's fire-ravaged 'Galapagos'
On an island famed as Australia's "Galapagos" for its unique and abundant wildlife, rescuers are racing to save rare animals in a bushfire-ravaged landscape.
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#1225452019-10-07
Rabbits, plovers, bees and a bear? Toronto adopts strategy to preserve its biodiversity
Rabbits share the West Toronto Railpath with runners and cyclists. A pair of endangered piping plovers nested on the Toronto Islands last summer, producing three fledglings. Within the last 20 years, two of Canada’s most at-risk bumblebee species were both spotted along the Humber River, near Ol ...
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#1234282019-12-12
Rabbit now in danger of extinction – along with 30,000 other animals, birds and plants
Rabbit – more precisely the European Rabbit, found in Portugal, Spain and France – is in danger of extinction, along with over 30,000 animal, bird and plant species. The age-old expression “breeding like rabbits” has fallen foul of the scourge of RHD (Rabbit Haemorrhagic disease) a virus that or ...
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#1345892022-05-19
Quebec beekeepers call for emergency aid as hives suffer catastrophic losses
Quebec beekeepers are calling on the federal and provincial governments for emergency aid as bee populations see a mortality three times higher than the average.
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#1237332020-01-15
Príncipe's Obô snail population declined by more than 75% in the last 20 years
On the island of Príncipe a forest giant, known locally as the Obô snail, has undergone a population decline of more than 75 percent within the last 20 years and its range has decreased by approximately 40 percent, according to a recent report.
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#1277662021-03-22
Protection of honey bee should be ethical concern.
Albert Einstein once said, " If the bees disappeared off the surface then man would have only four years of life left." Many people who understand the cruelty involved in factory farming and are morally opposed to eating meat find it less obvious that the lowly honeybee should also be of ethical ...
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#1249272020-03-30
Protecting tropics could save half of species on brink, report says
In 2019, a landmark UN report revealed that nearly 1 million species face extinction due to human activities and climate change. A ground-breaking new study offers a solution to save more than half of these doomed species, while slowing climate breakdown: Conserve just 30 percent of tropical lands.
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#1319372021-11-25
Protecting the Pacific's endangered marine species using artificial intelligence
Using artificial intelligence, scientists are making progress toward protecting endangered species that are not meant to be caught.
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#1244322020-02-28
Protecting humanity’s safety net
The world is facing a biodiversity crisis. We have lost more than 60 percent of species populations in the last 50 years, and, if we do nothing, we stand to witness a million species going extinct within the next 30 years.
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#1320782021-12-07
Protecting Slender Loris in India
The small nocturnal slender loris of India’s rainforests is an endangered species. Hunted for fabled superstitious properties its habitat is also dwindling. Conservationists are trying to safeguard the tree dweller.
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#1233592019-12-10
Previously extinct Guam rail saved in rare conservation success
The Guam rail, a flightless bird typically about 30cm long, usually dull brown in colour and adorned with black and white stripes, has become a rare success story in the recent history of conservation.
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#1345822022-05-19
Presence of rare piping plover pair sign of 'healthy ecosystem'
Straight from Birds Canada, Tiny council heard that the bird is the word. Nesting on the shores of Woodland Beach for their fourth straight year, a pair of piping plovers have made their impact and mobilized conservation efforts to help produce a healthy clutch and increase their population.
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#1204042019-03-18
Possible vaquita death accompanies announcement that only 10 are left
On March 13, scientists announced that around 10 vaquitas (Phocoena sinus) are left on Earth, just as the environmental group Sea Shepherd said it had found one of the porpoises that had drowned in a gillnet that was probably set to catch a totoaba fish.