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#1192312019-01-03
Giraffes added to endangered species list of animals under threat of extinction
Two subspecies of giraffe have been added to a list of endangered animals under threat of extinction after a rapid decline in their populations. Numbers of the long-necked mammals have gone down by 40% over the last three decades, mostly as a result of human activity in their habitats.
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#1192462019-01-04
Endangered species are key to our survival
Last week, India submitted its sixth national report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The report was a mixed one: While the country is on track to meet most of its national biodiversity targets, the bad news is that the list of animal species from the country under the i ...
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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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#1192712019-01-07
Bluefin tuna are back around the UK and a new study explains why
Bluefin tuna are back in the sea around the U.K. after decades of absence and a new study says that warming seas can explain why.
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#1193302019-01-11
Losing some species may matter more than losing others
Canada risks losing its polar bears in the North. And many runs of Chinook salmon on the Southern West Coast. And the black ash tree , currently widespread from Manitoba to Newfoundland.
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#1193332019-01-11
Egypt’s Wildlife Rescue Team Saves Rare Wolf Species From Extinction
As part of the Ministry of Environment’s plan to prevent illegal wildlife trade and save animals from extinction, a group from Alexandria Turtle Rescue team succeeded in saving an endangered Egyptian jackal wolf and returning it to its natural habitat in Wadi El Rayan, Al Ahram reports.
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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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#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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#1194162019-01-16
Watch an endangered eagle take its first flight in rare video
With only an estimated 400 left in the wild, the race is on to save the Philippine eagle—one of the biggest and strongest raptors in the world.
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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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#1194692019-01-17
Cellphones are still endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help
You probably use it every day and don’t think once about gorillas. In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to get by without a mobile phone, but they’re wreaking havoc for these primates. The critically endangered Grauer’s gorilla has lost 77 percent of its population in the last 20 years, part ...
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#1195142019-01-21
Great Plains Bison Were Brought Back From The Brink Of Extinction—A Remarkable, Century-Long Conservation Success Story
Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean.
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#1195242019-01-21
Tanzania is finally protecting its “globally unique” endangered rainforest
Tanzania’s government has announced it will protect a tropical forest long recognized for its high biodiversity value and as home to numerous endangered primates and plants.
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#1195292019-01-22
Hawaii's Snail Extinction Crisis: "We're Just Trying to Stop the Bleeding"
George, the last individual of a Hawaiian tree snail species known only as Achatinella apexfulva, died New Year’s Day in a laboratory on Oahu, where he had been a bit of a local celebrity.
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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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#1196882019-01-31
Global endangered mammals conservation needs to be priority
Mammals constitute an important section of global wildlife and biodiversity; and are distributed across all the continents and oceans. However, the situation of the mammals across the globe is not at all promising; and in some cases agonizingly morbid!
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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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#1197002019-01-31
Aussie plants facing extinction
The top 100 Australian plant species at risk of extinction have been identified by Threatened Species Recovery Hub research.University of Queensland researcher Dr. Jennifer Silcock said three quarters of Australia's threatened species were plants.
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#1197342019-02-01
Special airlift for baby flamingos in peril in South Africa
A special airlift for thousands of baby flamingos is under way in South Africa as drought has put their breeding ground in peril.A reservoir that hosts one of southern Africa's largest flamingo populations is drying up.
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#1197612019-02-05
Our wetlands are worth saving
The theme of World Wetlands Day 2019 on Saturday – Wetlands and Climate Change – was aimed at encouraging people to conserve wetlands to mitigate climate change, said U Thein Aung of the Myanmar Bird and Nature Society. Myanmar has many wetlands, which consist of marshes or swamps, either man-ma ...
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#1197622019-02-05
Critically endangered grey nurse shark mapped for the first time in landmark study
A study mapping the eastern Australian grey nurse shark population has found it has declined rapidly over the last few decades, with only 400 breeding sharks left, too few to maintain a healthy population.
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#1197632019-02-05
Nigerian woman saves a leatherback turtle in Lagos
The leatherback turtle is an endangered species that came to lay eggs on the beach when a hoard of young Nigerians saw steamy meat to consume.
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#1197962019-02-06
Newly discovered hummingbird under threat
International wildlife conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT) has launched an urgent appeal to raise £30,000 and save the hillstar’s habitat from being destroyed by mining.
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#1198082019-02-06
Dingoes could help solve Australia’s extinction crisis — if only people would let them
The continent of Australia has the world’s highest extinction rate; dozens of animal species are critically endangered, and hundreds more are declining. A primary culprit is predation by historically non-native cats and foxes, and killing those animals is central to conservation efforts — but th ...
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#1198202019-02-07
The killing of large species is pushing them towards extinction, study finds
The vast majority of the world’s largest species are being pushed towards extinction, with the killing of the heftiest animals for meat and body parts the leading cause of decline, according to a new study.
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#1198442019-02-07
Why We Should Care About Parasites — and Their Extinction
Parasite. To most people, the very word is cause for fear or disgust—which is a shame, because most parasites don't actually harm their hosts. In fact their very existence is a sign of a healthy ecosystem, as I discussed on a recent segment of the Green Divas podcast. We also talked about the va ...
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#1198452019-02-07
Is the Urban Jungle the Answer to Helping Some Endangered Species?
At sunset every day, an almost deafening sound from the sky can be heard in a community just east of Los Angeles. It is the sound of parrots that have become a familiar part of life here.
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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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#1198812019-02-11
We Are Eating The Planet's Last 'Megafauna' to Extinction
Humans are in the process of herding the world's largest animals right over the brink of extinction, and the main driving force is our insatiable appetite for meat.It's a dire warning, and it comes from the first analysis to look at how humans have impacted the world's "megafauna".
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#1199612019-02-15
Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study in Science.
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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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#1200202019-02-19
The six steps urgently needed to save Irish biodiversity
One in four species in Ireland is under threat of extinction – radical action must be taken. The Living Planet Report 2018 reported that there has been an astonishingly steep fall of 60 per cent in biodiversity across the globe over the last 40 years. More than 50 experts from academia, policy, ...
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#1200402019-02-21
Fighting to save pangolins in Viet Nam
Nearly 200 rescued pangolins were released into the wild in Viet Nam in 2018 thanks, in part, to collaboration between UN Environment and the country’s biggest coffee shop chain, Highlands Coffee.
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#1200672019-02-22
Endangered armadillos are being turned into carnival rattle
Researchers worry that Andean hairy armadillos, poached in Bolivia and largely ignored by conservationists, may be headed toward extinction.
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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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#1201272019-02-27
Specieswatch: farmers fight to save Britain's disappearing earthworms
There are three types of earthworm: those that live on the surface, others that feed and dwell in the soil, while a third group makes deep burrows and comes to the surface to feed on dead leaves.
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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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#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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#1201682019-03-01
These endangered bats are being killed by the thousands—here’s why
Mauritius, a Small island nation east of Madagascar, is known for its postcard-perfect beaches, warm hospitality, and cultural diversity. And it’s known for the dodo, the poster child for human-driven extinction. Mauritius has also lost more than 130 other lesser known plants and animals, from g ...
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#1201772019-03-01
Biodiversité. Le Message Politique Des Insectes Doit Résonner Plus Fort
Même un trentenaire peut facilement se rendre compte que beaucoup moins d’insectes s’écrasent sur son pare-brise, aujourd’hui, que sur celui de ses parents quand il était enfant. Alors qu’on les pensait si nombreux et si résistants qu’ils survivraient même à un conflit nucléaire mondial, c’est, ...
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#1201832019-03-04
B.C. beekeepers suffering after grim year for colony die-offs
It was late September when commercial beekeeper Mike Munro was checking on his hives in Delta, and giving the bees some food. It was getting cool in the evenings, but the days were still warm and it was awhile before he would close up the hives for winter.
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#1201982019-03-05
Sixth mass extinction could destroy life as we know it -- biodiversity expert
Alarming declines in the number of insects, vertebrates and plant species around the world have raised fears that we are in the midst of a sixth major extinction that could cause a collapse of the natural ecosystems we rely upon to survive.
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#1202032019-03-05
Bird extinctions 'driven' by global food trade
About 100 bird species are predicted to go extinct based on current farming and forestry practices, according to a new global analysis. This number has increased by 7% over the first ten years of this century alone, say scientists.
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#1202172019-03-05
Czech honey production lowest in four years
The Czech Republic’s honey production in 2018 was the lowest in the past four years, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office this week. Production of honey was four percent lower than in the previous year, dropping below 9,000 tonnes for the first time since 2014.
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#1202312019-03-06
Last chance to see? Five species under threat in the age of Trump
The Trump administration is eroding protections for America’s endangered species. Here are five species under threat in the age of Trump.
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#1202362019-03-06
Africa: Act Fast to Halt the Declining Insect Numbers
Researchers, policymakers and donors should act fast to halt the diminishing insect numbers, writes Wei Zhang. Insects are among the most diverse and successful organisms on our planet, and their significant contributions to vital ecological functions including pollination, pest control and main ...
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#1202382019-03-06
More Than 300 Species in Myanmar Endangered: Report
Myanmar is home to 331 endangered species, according to the latest report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), including birds, orangutans, elephants, deer, freshwater turtles, pangolins and tigers.
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#1202542019-03-07
Why extinct species seem to be returning from the dead
Like something out of a zombie movie, species that were once thought extinct seem to be rising from the dead. Between February 21 and March 4 2019, three notable rediscoveries were announced – the Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus), which was last seen in 1906; Walla ...
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#1202552019-03-07
14-foot fish spotted in river, giving hope to vanished giant’s return
One day last June, two researchers were towing a special sonar system up and down the Hudson River near Hyde Park, New York, the site of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s home, when they saw something pleasantly shocking.
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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.