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#1198772019-02-11
Over 40 percent of insect species face extinction: study
From butterflies to bees, nearly half of all insect species are threatened with extinction "over the next few decades." Scientists have warned of the devastating impact it could have on the future of humankind.
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#1269642021-02-10
Pablo Escobar's hippos must be culled to halt biodiversity disaster – scientists
Hippos imported illegally into Colombia for Pablo Escobar’s private zoo have gone feral in the lush tropical countryside and must be culled before their invasive presence starts to wipe out indigenous flora and fauna, scientists have warned.
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#1193772019-01-15
Pak: Magnificent Beasts
Remember Blu? That loveably awkward macaw from “Rio”? As of 2018, the Spix’s macaw, upon which Blu was based, has been declared extinct in wild habitats.
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#1213552019-06-20
Pakistan struggles to save pangolins from poachers
Despite efforts of local conservationists, demand from China for scales, meat and traditional medicine has made the endangered pangolin the world's most trafficked animal.
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#1332332022-02-15
Pandas true mascots for Games, biodiversity
Chinese people's love for the giant panda can never be overestimated. The cuddly, peaceful, bamboo-eating creatures have come to symbolize China.
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#1297232021-07-27
Pandemic gives breathing room to endangered sea turtles
Nikoletta Sidiropoulou and her colleagues in the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (Archelon) are huddled together on Marathonisi beach, carefully digging in the sand. Eventually they find what they’re looking for: a turtle nest, containing upwards of 100 eggs. “It’s really exciting,” says ...
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#1218612019-08-09
Pangolin scales are not a party drug, say researchers
Rumors about the protective armor of the threatened mammal are debunked, as poaching decimates their numbers.
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#1268922021-02-04
Pangolins need stricter protection in Ghana
A Pangolin is not an animal that ordinary Ghanaians think about every day. But for the ultra-rich who deem it as a delicacy and those who need its curative and spiritual abilities.
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#1353762022-07-20
Peru’s safe haven for threatened species – in pictures
Endemic frogs of captivating beauty, mammals and wild birds are among the species to be found in Peru’s Cordillera Escalera conservation area, a protected highly biodiverse area between the Andes and the jungle in the east of the country
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#1298652021-08-10
Photographer captures images of endangered parrotbills
A pair of reed parrotbills with their babies were recently observed in the wetlands of the Naolihe National Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang province.
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#1251982020-04-21
Photos of wild tiger cubs in Thailand rekindles hope for species
Camera traps in eastern Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai (DPKY) forest complex have yielded photos of tiger cubs, providing long-awaited evidence that the big cat is breeding in this part of Southeast Asia.
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#1274872021-03-03
Pig in clover: how the world's smallest wild hog was saved from extinction
The pygmy hog is still endangered but a reintroduction programme in Assam, India, has given it a greater chance of survival
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#1205912019-04-01
Pillars of Sabah 2.0 highlights threatened animal species
The newly revamped Pillars of Sabah 2.0 was launched on Saturday night in conjunction with Earth Hour 2019. This time, another 30 Sabah artists have come together to highlight threatened animal species found in the state and featured animals include the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), Sumatran ...
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#1247182020-03-17
Plants and insects ignored in Bhutan’s conservation efforts
A lack of focus on less visible but extremely diverse smaller plants and insects in Bhutan has left conservationists with little idea of the risks they face. Threatened by rapid urbanisation and climate change, these species – such as smaller birds, or wasps and bees, or lichens and fungi – find ...
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#1342662022-05-04
Please don't croak: Scientists set mood to save Venezuelan frog
ENORMOUS expectations rest on a tiny endangered amphibian perched on a rock in a plastic box: the Mucuchies’ Frog needs to produce offspring if its species is to survive.
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#1213822019-06-25
Poachers’ Poison Kills 530 Endangered Vultures in Botswana
Circling vultures bring attention to poachers, so the scavengers were likely poisoned by illegal hunters hoping to evade detection
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#1310742021-10-22
Poaching is altering the genetics of wild animals
Sometime in the distant past, well before humans walked the Earth, the ancestors of modern-day elephants evolved their iconic tusks. Elephants use their bleach-white incisors — they’re technically giant teeth, like ours but longer — to dig, collect food, and protect themselves.
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#1299762021-08-16
Pollinators: First global risk index for species declines and effects on humanity
Disappearing habitats and use of pesticides are driving the loss of pollinator species around the world, posing a threat to "ecosystem services" that provide food and wellbeing to many millions—particularly in the Global South—as well as billions of dollars in crop productivity.
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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.
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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.