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#759292010-12-17
'Lost world' of rare species in Highlands' forest
A forest in the Highlands holds a "lost world" of rare and endangered spiders, ants and flies, according the charity that owns the woodland.
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#759522010-12-17
Orphaned gorillas find a safe haven
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (CNN) -- In a remote, rural area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has opened the country's first rehabilitation center for Grauer's gorillas.
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#759532010-12-17
To save tigers we need tough action, not more of this talking
The political will to save the species has been abysmal despite its drastic decline in numbers
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#759562010-12-17
The snow leopard: ghost of the mountains
Snow leopards face the threats of poaching, habitat loss and diminishing prey. In remotest Mongolia, a research team is keeping tabs on this iconic and elusive species
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#758202010-12-13
WWF to move critically endangered rhinos to new habitats
As part of its successful range expansion programme, WWF will translocate an additional 20 black rhinoceros to new landscapes in 2011, according to an agreement with a South African wildlife agency.
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#757792010-12-09
Mountain gorilla numbers soar
The increase in population from 380 to 480 is due to efforts to reduce poaching and disease, say scientists
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#757062010-12-07
Saving the maleo, a geothermal nesting bird, in Sulawesi
More species are threatened with extinction in Indonesia than any other country on Earth.
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#757162010-12-07
Census finds increase in critically endangered mountain gorilla population
A census of the world’s largest mountain gorilla population has counted 480 animals, an increase of 100 - more than a quarter - since the last count in 2003.
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#755912010-12-01
Gray wolf no longer endangered?
DENVER, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. and state officials are trying to determine what a healthy number of gray wolves is for the species in the northern Rockies.
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#754992010-11-26
Rare potoroo cursed by the pox
Australia's most endangered marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo, is suffering from a severe case of syphilis, according to a long-term study.
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#754542010-11-25
Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots
While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things -- like working to save endangered species.
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#753942010-11-24
Summit agrees tiger recovery plan
Governments of 13 countries where tigers still live have endorsed a plan to save the big cats from extinction.
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#754032010-11-24
If we falter, we will lose the wild tiger
As Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book begins, Mother and Father Wolf are troubled to learn that the tiger, “Shere Khan, the Big One”, has shifted his hunting grounds.
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#754042010-11-24
Government moves to protect southern bluefin tuna
The Federal Government has announced it will formally protect the southern bluefin tuna by listing it as a threatened species.
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#754052010-11-24
Double victory for the Tiger
Governments of 13 countries that host tiger populations on Monday agreed to double tiger numbers by 2022 and endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in a historic effort to save the Asian big cat from extinction.
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#754062010-11-24
Slaughter of Rare Antelopes Threatens Conservation Efforts in Kazakhstan
The Kazakh Agriculture Ministry has sounded an alarm over the fate of the saiga, a critically endangered antelope that roams the steppes of Central Asia.
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#753532010-11-23
Illegal wildlife trade: World's police 'must learn from environmental groups'
Police forces across the globe need to learn from environmental NGOs in investigating and exposing poachers and smugglers, according to the chief enforcer of global efforts to halt the illegal wildlife trade.
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#753712010-11-23
Tigers' demise linked to organized crime: UN
Demand in China poses the greatest threat to tigers in the wild and organized crime runs the illicit trade in the world's largest felines, international experts said.
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#753242010-11-22
Vladimir Putin and World Bank chief stage summit to save the tiger
A campaign to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022 was on the agenda todayat the highest level political meeting to ever discuss a single species.
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#752892010-11-19
Nature's 'ugly ducklings' teetering on the edge of extinction
A tiny bushbaby with over-sized ears and an almost blind dolphin that swims upside down have joined a list of the most unusual and important mammals that are teetering on the edge of extinction.
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#752952010-11-19
Endangered frogs bred in captivity
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Researchers say they've successfully bred an endangered Panamanian tree frog, notoriously difficult to care for in captivity, in an effort to save the species.
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#752962010-11-19
Paw prints and poo could save the tiger
Paw prints and poo could be used to help save tigers and other endangered species from extinction, say conservationists.
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#752982010-11-19
Monitoring the Health of Endangered, Wild Chimpanzees
ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2010) — Siv Aina Jensen Leendertz has studied wild chimpanzees living in the tropical rain forest in Ivory Coast at close quarters for a year, and her doctoral thesis describes the health monitoring of this endangered species.
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#752992010-11-19
India under spotlight at tiger conservation conference
NEW DELHI — Efforts to save the tiger, set to be addressed at a conference in Russia next week, will depend in large part on the effectiveness of the shield India has tried to throw over the animal.
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#752442010-11-18
The Race to Save Haiti's 50 Endangered Frog Species From Extinction
The devastation and tragedy that has beset Haiti seems to have to limit. Deforestation, mudslides, hurricanes, and the earthquake earlier this year have destroyed what few resources remained there and left the people with no choice but to rebuild their lives from the rubble.
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#752482010-11-18
Endangered status urged for Hawaiian whale
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The dwindling population of a whale in Hawaiian waters has led the Obama administration to propose classifying the species as endangered, environmentalists say.
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#752492010-11-18
National Zoo and partners first to breed critically endangered tree frog
As frogs around the world continue to disappear—many killed by a rapidly spreading disease called chytridiomycosis, which attacks the skin cells of amphibians—one critically endangered species has received an encouraging boost.
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#752502010-11-18
Russia to send three Siberian tigers to S. Korea
Russia is expected to send three young Siberian tigers, an endangered species, to South Korea next year, a ministry official here said Tuesday.
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#752542010-11-18
‘Bad start’ as EU rejects quotas in summit to save the giant bluefin tuna
Europe’s Mediterranean fishing nations have rejected measures to protect the endangered bluefin tuna proposed last month by the European Union fishing chief Maria Damanaki, EU officials said on Thursday.
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#752202010-11-17
Breakthrough in rhino conservation
RUSTENBURG - In a development that might have far reaching benefits for Zimbabwe’s fight against rhino poachers, scientists and conservationists in neighbouring South Africa have developed a first of its kind GPS device that will enable game rangers to be made aware of poachers when they strike, ...
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#751872010-11-16
World leaders must pledge to double tiger numbers in a decade
World leaders must pledge to more than double the numbers of wild tigers in the world by 2022 in order to bring the big cats back from the brink of extinction, conservation groups have said.
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#751402010-11-15
Would legalizing the trade in tiger parts save the tiger?
Just the mention of the idea is enough to send shivers down many tiger conservationists' spines: re-legalize the trade in tiger parts.
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#751022010-11-12
Virus threatens endangered parrot species
ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- One of the world's most endangered birds could become extinct, as a virus threatens its vitally important captive breeding program, Australian researchers say.
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#751172010-11-12
Last flight of our endangered butterflies: Native species being forced from their natural habitats
Some of our most beautiful and popular butterflies could vanish from the countryside within years, experts warn.
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#750792010-11-11
Illegal tiger trade 'killing 100 big cats each year'
The illegal trade in tiger parts has led to more than 1,000 wild tigers being killed over the past decade, a report suggests.
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#750352010-11-10
Can endangered Mexican wolves be conditioned to dislike the taste of sheep?
Reintroducing critically endangered Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) to the U.S. Southwest has never been easy.
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#750112010-11-09
State drafts plan for eagle recovery
A draft of the plan to restore and manage Vermont’s bald eagle population is available for public review. The public is invited to comment on the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s Bald Eagle Recovery Plan until Nov. 30.
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#749572010-11-08
Planning for worst case, scientists building gene bank of wild Israeli plants in danger of extinction
The Agriculture Ministry's research institute at the Volcani Center at Beit Dagan has a major project underway to build a gene bank of wild Israeli plants that are in danger of extinction
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#749582010-11-08
Pink river dolphins at risk from drought
An endangered species of pink dolphin has suffered devastating declines in its population due to a drought in the Amazon.
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#749202010-11-05
Rare orchid successfully relocated
Scientists are celebrating the unexpected emergence of an endangered orchid, saved from the blade of a bulldozer on the New South Wales central coast.
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#749412010-11-05
Ssssuccessss: World's rarest snake is back from the brink
Fifteen years ago, the future looked bleak for the Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae), the world's rarest snake.
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#747942010-11-04
Is the Yangtze River dolphin extinct?
Last week at the global biodiversity conference in Nagoya a study revealed that one fifth of the world’s vertebrate species continue to move closer to extinction.
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#748002010-11-04
Rats targeted in mass poisoning to save endangered birds
British scientists are to mount a £1.7m operation to save a seabird from extinction by eradicating rats from one of the world's most remote islands.
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#747822010-11-03
Grizzly bear numbers hit new high in Yellowstone
BOZEMAN, Montana — Grizzly bear numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park have hit their highest level in decades, driving increased conflicts with humans as some bears push out of deep wilderness and into populated areas.
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#747842010-11-03
World's rarest snake making a comeback
The Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) shares a similar story with many highly endangered island species.
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#746162010-10-27
The decline of the eel
Our rivers once teemed with eels but each year fewer make the 3,000-mile trip to get here. Jon Henley reports on the fight to save this unique creature from extinction.
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#746172010-10-27
One-fifth of world's back-boned animals face extinction, study warns
One species of vertebrate is added to the endangered list each week, IUCN report warns at biodiversity summit.
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#746262010-10-27
La hecatombe de las especies
El 41% de los anfibios, el 25% de los mamíferos, el 22% de los reptiles y el 13% de las aves está en peligro de desaparecer.
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#1931COP 10
2010-10-26
Alliance for Zero Extinction
The Alliance for Zero Extinction helps countries achieve their CBD targets while halting the loss of species most at risk of extinction.
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#1752COP 10
2010-10-26
Vanishing Tiger - Will the iconic species and Asian Biodiversity survive the Asia century?
This side event will explore the relationship between the strengthening position of Asian countries and the survival of its rich biodiversity, including the Tiger. The 21st Century is commonly regarded as the Asia Century. The Asian Development Bank estimates that about $750 billion per year wil ...