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#1192572019-01-04
Here's All The Incredible Species That Went Extinct In 2018
In a year where arguably more people became aware of the damage humans are doing to the environment by using palm oil and single use plastics we were unable to stop some amazing species becoming extinct.
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#1246872020-03-16
Holistic Thinking for Global Threats
Although there is a general consensus about the biggest threats facing humanity and the planet, the complex links between individual risk categories have so far received too little attention. Any realistic strategy to move toward a more sustainable future cannot treat these risks in isolation.
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#1320602021-12-06
Honeybees Survived for Weeks Under Volcano Ash After Canary Islands Eruption
For roughly 50 days, thousands of honeybees sealed themselves in their hives, away from deadly gas, and feasted on honey. “It is a very empowering story,” one entomologist said.
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#1245612020-03-06
Hooded vultures 'on brink of extinction' in Africa after mass poisoning
Accidental ingestion of strychnine believed to be cause of nearly 1,000 deaths in Guinea-Bissau
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#1334112022-02-22
Hope for hedgehogs as numbers in Britain’s towns show signs of recovery
Britain’s urban hedgehogs are showing signs of recovery, according to a new report, but rural populations have fallen by as much as 75% in some regions in just 20 years.
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#1218972019-08-14
Hope to save critically endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction is dwindli
The vaquita in the Gulf of California is the most endangered cetacean in the world. Most likely, no more than 10 animals are left. Its extinction is imminent — and some even say, it's for the best.
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#1252012020-04-21
Hopes of saving Kangaroo Island dunnart raised after endangered marsupial captured on camera
Hopes that Kangaroo Island’s unique mouse-like dunnart can be saved from extinction have been boosted after the tiny marsupial was captured on camera at a new location.
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#1244862020-03-03
Horrifying rise in ‘jaw bombs’ brings agonising death to jumbos
The female elephant calf was thirsty. Standing in the shallows of a water hole at dusk, it hurriedly sucked water into its trunk. It then curled its little trunk toward its mouth in an attempt to quench its thirst but there wasn’t a proper mouth to take in the trunk: the calf had lost his tongue ...
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#1317142021-11-16
House sparrow population in Europe drops by 247m
There are 247m million fewer house sparrows in Europe than there were in 1980, and other once ubiquitous bird species have suffered huge declines, according to a new study.
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#1273482021-02-25
How 30,000 elephant 'selfies' will help in conservation
Zoo keepers have compiled the world's largest collection of thermal images of elephants. The pictures show elephants in every pose as they play, eat and hang out in their enclosure at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
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#1347882022-05-31
How Countries ‘Import’ and ‘Export’ Extinction Risk around the World
In the dense jungles of Cameroon and nearby countries, the population of the iconic and critically endangered western lowland gorilla declined by nearly 20 percent between 2005 and 2013 to about 360,000 individuals—and their number is expected to plunge by another 80 percent over about the next ...
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#1242872020-02-21
How Do We Protect Our Unique Biodiversity From Megafires?
Australia’s season of bushfires shows us just how easily our unique biodiversity and ecosystems could be wiped out. Now is the time for long-term planning for climate change to protect them
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#1281982021-04-22
How Endangered Species Are Responsible for Trillions of Dollars in the Global Economy
The federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects about 1,600 plants and animals. This piece of legislation enhances our ecosystems, provides clean drinking water, and generates a significant amount of money.
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#1227632019-10-28
How Laos lost its tigers
The last tiger in Lao PDR likely died in terrible anguish. Its foot caught in a snare, the animal probably died of dehydration. Or maybe, in a desperate bid to free itself from a snare crafted from a simple and cheap motorbike cable, it tore off a leg and died from the blood loss.
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#1330402022-02-09
How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat
Conservationists hope to protect the Mexican long-nosed bat by working with ranchers and other locals to preserve the plant it needs.
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#1274092021-03-01
How Turkey’s endangered mountain gazelle was saved from extinction
Behind a heavily armoured Turkish military vehicle on patrol near the Syrian border, mountain gazelles give chase in a spectacular display, reaching speeds as fast as 80km per hour.
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#1251532020-04-17
How a Pudgy Porpoise May Save Other Animals From Extinction
LORENZO ROJAS-BRACHO WAS in mourning. Beyond the windows of his hillside house in Ensenada, Mexico, the sun glinted brilliantly off the waters of the Pacific, but he'd drawn the curtains closed. In his living room, hanging above plush leather furniture, were whimsical paintings of the subject of ...
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#1258162020-11-24
How are jaguars different from leopards? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the most iconic species of the Americas: the jaguar.
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#1238502020-01-21
How drones could help save our most endangered species
With funding from Cabot Institute for the Environment, BZS and the EPSRC's CASCADE grant, a joint team flew to Cameroon in December to trial the use of drones, sensor technologies and deployment techniques to monitor populations of the Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe at Bénoué National Park.
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#1196902019-01-31
How eavesdropping on elephants is keeping them safe
A low rumble reverberates from a rainforest clearing in the Central African Republic. Occasionally, piercing roars and haunting wails emanate from among the trees. These are the calls of forest elephants that inhabit this tropical landscape.
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#1215762019-07-15
How helping people could protect endangered species
People and animals - like Rwanda's mountain gorillas - are under increasing pressure as the climate changes.
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#1336062022-03-01
How one of Florida’s most beloved animals may be close to climate extinction
When Hurricane Irma ravaged south Florida in September 2017 it inundated homes, knocked out electricity for millions and killed more than 30 people.
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#1231022019-11-25
How species in the wild are managing the risks and rewards of sharing space with humans
Endangered monkeys living in the wild are intelligently adapting their lifestyle to fit with their human neighbors, learning to avoid manmade risks and exploiting increased contact with people, new research has revealed.
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#1216542019-07-22
How this rare, good-luck fish is thriving in Bhutan
Despite severe population declines elsewhere, the golden mahseer is flourishing—thanks to the king’s protection.
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#1247682020-03-20
How to help koalas recover after Australia’s fires? Q&A with Rebecca Montague-Dra
As part of the World Wildlife Day celebrations, experts from around the world gathered in New York to participate in the Wild Ideas panel (powered by the UN and Jackson Wild Film Festival) to discuss the global biodiversity crisis and the impacts of climate change
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#1201642019-03-01
How to stop an insect apocalypse
We might not love creepy-crawlies, but if insects were to vanish within a century, as some scientists predict, there would be dire consequences for us humans. Is it too late to save bees, bugs and butterflies?
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#1290112021-06-02
Human activity disturbs quiet habitat of black-necked cranes in Arunachal Pradesh
Locally known as Thung Thung Karmu, the black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is not simply a bird but an emotion for the inhabitants of Sangti and Zemithang valleys in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India.
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#1187182018-10-29
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds
The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists.Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency ...
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#1331922022-02-15
Humans are driving a rare Texas plant that serves as an important food source for bees and butterflies "to the edge of extinction"
Prostrate milkweed, a rare plant native to Texas and northeastern Mexico, is part of an import support system for bees and monarch butterflies. But now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering naming the plant an endangered species as humans destroy their critical habitats.
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#1237922020-01-17
Humans risk living in an empty world, warns UN biodiversity chief
Ahead of the World Economic Forum, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema urges governments to take definitive action on climate, deforestation and pollution.Humanity will have given up on planet Earth if world leaders cannot reach an agreement this year to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and destruction o ...
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#1336002022-02-28
Humpback Whales Were Moved From Australia’s Endangered List — Are They Still Endangered?
These last 60 years have been completely monumental for Australia's marine life. Over the last six decades, humpback whale populations have drastically increased by several thousands, thanks to authorities cracking down on poachers.
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#1201072019-02-26
Humpback whale found washed ashore in Brazil
A young humpback whale has been found dead after being washed ashore on a remote swamp in the Amazon River.The humpback whale should have migrated thousands of miles to Antarctica by this time of year, but members of the conservation group Bicho D’Água said they found it at Marajó Island in Braz ...
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#1222682019-09-18
Hurricane Dorian was also a catastrophe for the Bahamas’ unique birds
Hurricane Dorian was the second most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record and the fifth to reach the highest hurricane category (five) in the past four years. After it first made landfall, it hovered over the northern Bahamas for more than 50 hours.
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#1285862021-05-12
Idaho is going to kill 90% of the state’s wolves. That’s a tragedy – and bad policy
Nothing embodies wildness like wolves, our four-legged shadow, the dogs that long ago refused our campfire and today prefer freedom and risk over the soft sofa and short leash. The dogs that howl more than bark, add music to the land, and – if left alone to work their magic – make entire ecosyst ...
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#1270442021-02-12
If Not Saved In Time, The World Will Lose Its Parrots
The world's most admired group of birds, the parrots (Psittaciformes), are also the most threatened. A new study warns that the current protected areas are not sufficient to save these birds from extinction.
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#1233572019-12-10
Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation
The world has long associated plummeting populations of Southeast Asian wildlife with news of forest degradation and poignant images of deforested lands. Recent studies, however, bring to light another human practice that’s been driving the decline of wildlife numbers in these ecosystems.
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#1235702020-01-06
Illegal hunting and bushmeat trade threatens biodiversity and wildlife of Angola
Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction of wildlife for subsistence and commercialisation has become a major biodiversity threat in recent decades. Meanwhile, over-exploitation is reported to be the second most important driver of change a ...
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#1301262021-08-24
Illegal sand mining a threat to the shrinking Chandubi lake
Chandubi lake was formed in 1897 as the result of a major earthquake in the region during which a forest area went down and became a lake. Since then, the lake has evolved to become a critical habitat for flora and fauna.
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#1224312019-09-30
Illegal wildlife trade thrives on Facebook, internet forums
The lizards are frantic and the turtles plodding, but both scrabble to escape the perspex containers that hold them. The reptiles, some in small boxes and fetching prices of up to thousands of euros, are on sale at the Terraristika — Europe's largest reptile trade fair and a suspected wildlife-t ...
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#1226572019-10-15
Images offer glimpse into life of endangered Florida panther
The discovery of a female Florida panther lying with a broken leg on a verge outside the town of Naples, south of Tampa, triggered a widespread rescue dash. Conservationists, who had previously fitted a tracking collar to the animal, were aware she had recently given birth. The kittens would not ...
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#1209902019-05-08
In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction
SENKELE, Ethiopia — In the tall-grass woodland of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia lies the Senkele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. The area has long been a home to the Swayne’s Hartebeest, an endemic subspecies of antelope known locally as Qorkey.
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#1309672021-10-19
In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees
On July 19, Australian mining firm Predictive Discovery posted a breathless press release on its website. “Bonanza”-grade gold had been discovered at its Bankan exploration site in a remote part of eastern Guinea. Drilling samples were indicating that the deposits at the site were massive — 3.65 ...
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#1297592021-07-28
In Spain, Iberian lynx claws back from brink of extinction
At a nature reserve in southern Spain, four baby Iberian lynxes sleep peacefully beside their mother, part of a captive breeding programme that has brought the species back from the brink of extinction.
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#1276302021-03-09
In World First, English Museum Successfully Breeds Endangered Harlequin Toad
The scientists successfully recreated the habitat in which harlequin tadpoles grow up following years of meticulous work. The breeding program will ensure that at least one of these charismatic amphibians—the veragoa stubfoot toad, has a failsafe mechanism for its survival should something happe ...
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#1286522021-05-14
In Zimbabwe they are using deep learning to identify giraffes and understand why their population is declining
The giraffes They are one of the most emblematic animals on the African continent, but their population continues to decline. According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, from 1980 to now, the giraffe population has decreased from 155,000 animals to 117,000, 30%. There are six subspecies an ...
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#1200092019-02-19
In decline globally, rare goose makes surprise visit to wetl ..
GURUGRAM: It’s listed as ‘vulnerable’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) but this species of bird was spotted in Dighal wetlands last week. It was the second confirmed sighting in Delhi-NCR of the lesser white- fronted goose (Ansererythropus), which was first seen in In ...
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#1321082021-12-09
In wildlife traffickers, the internet finds a cancel target everyone agrees on
But as more tech companies join the cause, and algorithms to weed out trafficking keywords grow more sophisticated, traffickers are becoming savvier and evolving new ways to keep operating in the internet’s vast gray zone.
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#1268972021-02-08
India readies blueprint for protecting endangered turtles
Home to four turtle species — olive ridley turtle, green turtle, hawksbill turtle, and leatherback sea turtle, India has finally outlined a blueprint for the protection and conservation of endangered marine turtles found on its coastal zones.
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#1217202019-07-26
India's tiger population rises to nearly 3,000 animals
India's tiger population has grown to nearly 3,000, making the country one of the safest habitats for the endangered animals.
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#1231802019-11-29
Indigenous animal tracking saving Australian marsupials from extinction
CANBERRA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A smartphone application that allows indigenous Australian rangers to track endangered species' in their own language has been hailed a success.