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#5252Council of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
24 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
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#525410th World Wilderness Congress (WILD10)
4 - 10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain
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#943012013-06-18
Diamond Mining Could Push Angola’s Antelope to Extinction
DUBAI, Jun 18 2013 (IPS) - Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world’s last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable.
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#942682013-06-14
Hope for Endangered Butterfly Species
Newly collected eggs give the Schaus butterfly a chance
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#942362013-06-13
A Critically Endangered Beauty: The Passion Flower Passiflora Kwangtungensis
June 12, 2013 — Passiflora is a genus of beautiful plants commonly known as the passion flowers or passion vines.
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#942152013-06-12
Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird
The eastern population of northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) has likely fallen to a single breeding bird, reports conservationists monitoring the dwindling flock.
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#940982013-06-04
Sheepdogs Save Australia's Endangered Penguins
Penguin-snatching foxes are no match for Maremma sheepdogs, bred to guard against wolves in Italy's mountains.
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#939402013-05-27
Rwanda: Kamanzi Calls for Protection of Endangered Species
More efforts are needed to preserve endangered animal and plant species in the country, the Minister for Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, has said.
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#939232013-05-24
China reports rise in humans encountering wild Siberian tigers
Villagers in rural Hunchun have mixed feelings about initiative's initial success in boosting population of endangered big cat
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#937252013-05-16
Leonardo DiCaprio raises record $38.8M for endangered species
Leonardo DiCaprio raised a record breaking $38.8 million from a charity art auction on Monday. The 38-year-old actor requested specially-made work from 33 artists - including the elusive Banksy - as well as offering one of his own paintings by Andreas Gursky to sell at his 11th Hour auction at C ...
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#937312013-05-16
World's most distinct mammals and amphibians mapped
Scientists have developed the first map of the world's most unique and most endangered mammals and amphibians.
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#936352013-05-13
Sumatran tigers may go extinct in 10 years
JAKARTA, May 11 (UPI) -- Conservationists said the critically endangered Sumatran tiger may go extinct from the Jambi province on Sumatra, Indonesia, in a decade.
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#935412013-05-06
Lemur has unexpectedly wide range, diversity of color variations
An endangered lemur has a larger range than originally believed but is still at risk due to forest fragmentation and land clearing, reports a study published in the journal Primate Conservation.
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#935302013-05-03
Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests
What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely different environments.
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#933342013-04-19
Draft regulations on endangered species published
Cape Town - Changes to regulations governing threatened or protected species (ToPS) have been published, and the public invited to comment on them.
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#933372013-04-19
Wildlife scientists urge less focus on endangered species
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- A paper by U.S. scientists takes the international conservation community to task for ignoring abundant wildlife, treating them as environmental "stepchildren."
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#933122013-04-18
Extinction debt suggests endangered species are doomed
From dragonflies to bears, when it comes to lost species we ain't seen nothing yet.Biologists are getting rattled about growing evidence of "extinction debt" – the idea that there is a delay of decades or even centuries between humans damaging ecosystems and the demise of species that live there.
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#933182013-04-18
Resurgence of Endangered Deer in Patagonian ‘Eden’ Highlights Conservation Success
Apr. 16, 2013 — The Huemul, a species of deer found only in the Latin American region of Patagonia, is bouncing back from the brink of possible extinction as a result of collaboration between conservationists and the Chilean government, says a new study.
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#932952013-04-17
Threatened iconic deer in Chile on the way back to recovery
SANTIAGO, Chile, April 16 (UPI) -- Conservationists say a resurgence of Chile's iconic but endangered Huemul deer represents a victory for environmentalists and the Chilean government.
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#932972013-04-17
Lead bullet fragments poison rare US condors
Conservationists in the United States say that fragments of lead ammunition continue to take a desperate toll on one of the country's rarest birds.
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#932002013-04-11
Rare Malaysian orangutans to be protected
KUCHING, Malaysia, April 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. group says it applauds the government of the Malaysian state of Sarawak for its efforts to protect a globally significant population of rare orangutans.
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#931792013-04-10
Amur leopard population rises to 50 animals, but at risk from
In the remote Russian far east, amid pine forests and long winters, a great cat may be beginning to make a recovery.
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#931282013-04-08
Zoos evolve to protect endangered species
There are more than 10,000 zoos worldwide. In the U.S., there are more than 200.And like the animals they hold, they're evolving to survive.
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#930812013-04-04
Eat it to Save it
When most people think of endangered species, images of giant pandas or snow leopards likely come to mind.
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#930232013-03-28
Endangered garden birds continuing to decline in the UK, RSPB survey shows
House sparrow and starling numbers dropping at alarming rate, but prolonged winter brings new species to backyards