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#1272802021-02-23
Ten rescued orangutans returned to the wild in Indonesia
Ten orangutans have been released back into the wild in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with helicopters used to ferry the critically endangered great apes deep into the forest from rehabilitation centres.
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#1272362021-02-22
Dozens of whales strand at notorious New Zealand bay
Rescuers were racing Monday to save dozens of pilot whales that beached on a stretch of New Zealand coast notorious for mass strandings, wildlife officials said.
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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.
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#1271552021-02-17
Aquariums hatch unusual plan to save endangered zebra shark
A leopard can’t change its spots, and a zebra can’t change its stripes. But the zebra shark has long delighted ocean divers and aquarium visitors with its ability to transform the white bands it is born with into spots as it grows. Now, the endangered shark is grabbing attention for another reas ...
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#1270972021-02-16
New hope for survival of the orange-bellied parrot
This year's breeding season for the orange-bellied parrot has been the best in Tasmania for decades. Environment Minister Roger Jaensch on Tuesday said there were 544 adult orange-bellied parrots in the state's breeding program, including 254 adult birds and 130 nestlings and fledglings housed a ...
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#1270982021-02-16
Two endangered golden-cheeked gibbons find new home at Sarajevo zoo
After arriving in Sarajevo from Slovenia, the pair — a male and a female — were placed under quarantine and are expected to make their public debut in mid-March.
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#1270822021-02-15
Wildlife trafficking driving 'severe declines' in traded species, finds study
Wildlife populations decline by an average of 62% in areas where species are traded, pushing some closer to extinction, according to a new report.
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#1270832021-02-15
Nearly 200 Florida manatees filmed basking in shallow waters with dolphins
Almost 200 threatened Florida manatees have been filmed together basking in shallow waters off the state’s west coast, the remarkable drone footage also showing a pod of playful dolphins swimming through the group.
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#1270342021-02-12
'Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction
They are the most extraordinary of fish, resembling "hedge trimmers with fins".The sawfish, which is a kind of ray, is also among the most endangered of the fish living in the oceans. Once found along the coastlines of 90 countries, the animals are now presumed extinct in more than half of these ...
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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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#1269852021-02-11
Britain's endangered willow tit needs vast area to thrive, research finds
The willow tit, one of Britain’s smallest and most endangered birds, requires a surprisingly large area of wild land to thrive, according to research.
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#1269572021-02-10
New whale species identified is considered critically endangered
Scientists have uncovered a new species of an endangered baleen whale that was previously misidentified.Found in the Gulf of Mexico, the Rice’s whale, which can grow up to 12.80 metres and weigh up to 27.21 tonnes, was previously thought to be a Bryde’s whale (pronounced “broodus"), before a rec ...
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#1269622021-02-10
Meet 'the girls': the last two northern white rhinos on Earth – in pictures
Najin and Fatu are the only two rhinos of their species in existence. Jack Davison visited Ol Pejeta in Kenya to document a story that transcends tragedy
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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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#1269462021-02-09
Why the platypus is starting to disappear
The platypus has been listed as endangered in South Australia and there has been a recommendation to list it as threatened in Victoria. Now researchers are pushing for nationwide threatened species status.
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#1268952021-02-08
The Case for Nature
We have brought the natural world and its diversity to a breaking point. Dinyar Godrej surveys the damage and explores how we need to act to repair it.
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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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#1269072021-02-08
Fruit famine is causing elephants to go hungry in Gabon
The behaviour and life cycles of the largest animals on the planet are incredibly important for the healthy functioning of our planet’s life support systems. Unfortunately, many big species now face extinction due to their value in the illegal wildlife trade, vulnerability to habitat degradation ...
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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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#1268422021-02-03
Threatened species at risk from Kangaroo Island bushfire in area untouched by 2020 inferno
A fire on Kangaroo Island is threatening a vital refuge for threatened species left untouched by last summer’s bushfires. The blaze is threatening one of the only patches of bushland on the west of the island to have escaped ecological devastation when bushfires burned more than a third of the i ...
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#1268542021-02-03
Counting Elephants From Space: Using Computer Algorithms in Conservation of Endangered Wildlife
Satellite images processed with the help of computer algorithms are a promising new tool for surveying endangered wildlife. For the first time, scientists have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with deep learning to count animals in complex geographical landscapes, taking conservationi ...
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#1268552021-02-03
Discovered Pathogen Kills Endangered Chimps: Is It a Threat to Humans?
On a Friday evening in mid-January, Jackson, a five-year-old chimp living at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, alarmed his keepers by ignoring his dinner.
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#1268252021-02-02
Global bee diversity is dropping — and our food systems depend on them
Almost a quarter of the estimated 20,000 bee species on Earth may be in decline, researchers have found. The January study is the first time the well-being of pollinators has been assessed on a global scale, with previous concerns of declining wild pollinator populations based on local or region ...
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#1267842021-02-01
World's smallest reptile fits on your fingertip
The Madagascar chameleon Brookesia nana measures half an inch long, and may be critically endangered.Meet Brookesia nana, an extremely tiny species of chameleon from the rainforests of northern Madagascar.
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#1267862021-02-01
Blue whales threatened by ship collisions in busy Patagonia waters
Endangered giants face potentially fatal encounters with the 1,000 daily fishing vessels moving through main feeding area off Chile, scientists warn
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#1267632021-01-29
Endangered Thames eels to benefit from the latest science
Critically endangered eels in the Thames will benefit from cutting-edge new work that sheds light on how the creatures swim up the river's estuary.
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#1267342021-01-27
It’s not too late – yet – to save the Philippine pangolin, study finds
Knowledge of the Philippine pangolin, the only pangolin species in the country, is scant. Sightings of the animal are rarer still. But unlike other pangolin species around the world that teeter on the brink of extinction, a new study suggests that with the appropriate conservation measures, the ...
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#1266882021-01-26
Blackbuck population increasing in Nepal
The total population of blackbucks stands somewhere near 50,000 in the world now. At present, Nepal and Pakistan are the only countries that have natural habitats for the endangered species. There are two sub-species of blackbucks in the world. The sub-species found in Nepal is called antelope c ...
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#1266502021-01-15
Final search for critically endangered Canterbury beetle turns up nothing
The last trip by researchers to hunt for a beetle threatened by a controversial dairy conversion has been unsuccessful. But they say it may still be too soon to write the species off.
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#1266142021-01-14
And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?
I watch these beautiful animals walk the path toward extinction every day,” keeper James Mwenda tells me. He’s out in the Kenyan bush, swatting flies. The anti-poaching K-9 dogs bark in the background.
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#1265542021-01-11
Manta rays and whale sharks now protected by new commercial fishing law in Mozambique
A new commercial fishing law passed in Mozambique enacts protections for several threatened species, including whale sharks, manta rays, and all mobula species. The new legislation went into effect on January 8th. This victory comes after 20 years of research and lobbying efforts by the Marine M ...
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#1265292020-12-30
Specieswatch: monarch butterfly needs urgent protection
Watching an American indie band is not the most obvious way to commune with a wonder of the natural world but look up Saint Simon by the Shins on YouTube.
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#1264622020-12-23
Five endangered species are stable in Seychelles, but conservations want more comprehensive studies
The status of five endemic species that have been classified as endangered in Seychelles is stable, but conservationists want a more comprehensive study to better protect these species.
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#1264042020-12-22
New Zealand village turns off street lights to stop birds crash-landing on to roads
In an attempt to save a rare bird species, a New Zealand village is trialling an innovative strategy: it is switching off all its street lights to stop baby birds becoming confused and crash landing on to the road.
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#1264272020-12-22
World’s most endangered turtle finds new hope in Vietnam
The Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in collaboration with the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have made dramatic progress to possibly prevent the extinction of the Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle
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#1263972020-12-21
Why Monarch Butterflies Aren’t Getting Endangered Species Status
Monarch butterflies will not be added to the federal endangered species list this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday. The agency found that the butterfly qualifies for the status but, for now, the species is precluded from protections and will be reconsidered annually ...
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#1263982020-12-21
Cambodia's giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries.
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#1263142020-12-17
31 species extinct, all freshwater dolphins threatened — IUCN releases updated Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of biological diversity of species, has released an updated Red List of Threatened Species this month. The new list documents an additional 31 species as extinct in the wild including species of fishes, ...
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#1262912020-12-16
Zoos Victoria trials 'guardian dogs' to help protect endangered bandicoots from foxes
For about a year, McKinnon and Quinta have been watching a flock of sheep in a nature reserve in western Victoria.But the two Maremma dogs aren’t really there to look after 146 sheep.
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#1262132020-12-14
‘Moving a giraffe is a delicate process’: rising waters threaten Kenya's wildlife
Marooned giraffes, fleeing flamingoes and stranded impalas: in recent years the rising water levels in east Africa’s Rift Valley lakes have become the norm, displacing people, threatening wildlife and submerging schools and hotels.
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#1262242020-12-14
Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly
Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.
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#1262272020-12-14
European bison sees conservation success, yet 31 other species declared Extinct
The latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species update has revealed that 26 species, including the European bison, have experienced a recovery as a result of continued conservation efforts. However, 31 species have been categorised as Extinct.
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#1262282020-12-14
Southeast Asia’s Endangered Primates
There are more than 400 species of primates across the world, and at least 98 species recognised in Southeast Asia. Living primates include humans, monkeys, lemurs and apes. As primates are related, they are genetically similar. Human DNA, is on average, 96 percent identical to the DNA of our mo ...
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#1261792020-12-11
More than 300 shark, ray species threatened with extinction, new report finds
Thirty-one animal and fish species have been declared extinct and more than 300 species of sharks and rays are now threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which published a report Thursday.
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#1261542020-12-10
Extinction: Conservation success set against 31 lost species
The European bison has moved a step back from the brink of extinction, according to an update of the official extinction list. Europe's largest land mammal was almost wiped out by hunting and deforestation a century ago, but numbers have now risen to over 6,000 in wild herds across the continent.
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#1261082020-12-09
Sexy beasts: animals with 'charisma' get lion's share of EU conservation funds
Money made available for wildlife conservation by the EU is based on a popularity contest, with vertebrates getting nearly 500 times more funding for each species than invertebrates, according to a new report.
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#1260722020-12-08
Why the fate of Scotland's salmon depends on its forests
Salmon are in decline around the world, from overfishing, disease and climate change. In Scotland, conservationists believe that forest restoration could be key to their survival.
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#1260752020-12-08
Forest ghost' on film: Endangered Caucasian lynx spotted in Turkey's Kars
A Caucasian lynx, a nocturnal and endangered species known for being discreet, was spotted Monday among the Scotch pine forests of Sarıkamış in eastern Kars province.
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#1260762020-12-08
Swift Action Needed to Save Critically Endangered Tasmanian Parrot
There could be fewer than 300 swift parrots left in the wild, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU). Lead researcher Dr. George Olah says this is much lower than previous estimates and shows we need to urgently address major threats like deforestation.
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#1260262020-12-07
A rope bridge is helping conserve China’s rarest primate species
A critically-endangered gibbon species in China has been thrown a lifeline – literally – with the creation of a simple rope bridge across a 15-metre gap in the forest.