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#1219002019-08-15
Museum shrouds endangered wildlife exhibits in mourning veil
Bristol Museum to highlight biodiversity crisis after children demand true stories of exhibits
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#1234992019-12-18
N.S. won't protect land with 'globally rare' ecosystem that company eyes for golf resort
In the tiny community of Little Harbour on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore sits 285 hectares of coastal Crown land known as Owls Head provincial park. The name is misleading: it's not actually a provincial park and there are no obvious markings or trails to enter the coastal barrens and wetlands.
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#1259862020-12-03
Namibia to auction 170 wild elephants, saying rising numbers threaten people
Namibia has put 170 “high value” wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the southern African country’s environmental ministry has said
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#1276952021-03-15
National Panda Day 2021: How to Celebrate These Endangered Bears
Pandas are some of the most unique and beloved creatures on the planet. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone in the world who didn’t know what a panda bear looked like. Unfortunately, much of the panda’s popularity is due to the fact that they are one of the world’s most endangered animals.
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#1226582019-10-15
National census to assess endangered species in Seychelles
A national census is expected to start over the course of this month to assess the endangered species of Seychelles. The annual exercise is being undertaken by the Ministry for Environment, Energy and Climate Change with the assistance of local consultants.
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#1223972019-09-26
Nature group: 58% of Europe’s native trees are threatened
An international conservation group is warning that more than half of the trees in Europe that exist nowhere else in the world are threatened with extinction.
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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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#1319302021-11-25
Nearly 24 Species of Wildlife Are About to Be Declared Extinct
It’s a day of reckoning for the ivory-billed woodpecker and roughly two dozen other species of wildlife that are about to be declared extinct in a proposal issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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#1319852021-11-30
Nearly three dozen white rhino from SA flown safely to Rwanda
In a mammoth effort, 30 rhino have been moved from SA to Rwanda in the biggest-ever single translocation of the species.
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#1324132022-01-11
Neglected Elephant Rushed to India’s First Elephant Hospital for Critical Care [Video]
After a great effort by the rescue team at Wildlife SOS, Pari, or also known as “Angel”, a 20-year-old handicapped elephant is finally safe. She arrived at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Hospital, which happens to be India’s First Elephant Hospital located in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
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#1285352021-05-11
Nepal’s vultures: Between existence and extinction
On the grounds of a college campus in Nawalparasi, the great brown birds lay as if asleep. Strangely, the vultures were all lying in an almost a perfect circle around an animal carcass.
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#1274412021-03-02
New Breeding Site For World's Most Endangered Seal Discovered In Cyprus
Cartography has us near enough up-to-date on the lay of the land on Earth, but while we can view stretches of land from space, we can still miss out on nuggets of biological phenomena in the finer details.
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#1239062020-01-23
New Brunswick group concerned with salmon numbers in Miramichi River
A conservation group is calling for immediate action to address what it's calling "a dramatic decline" of Atlantic salmon in New Brunswick's Miramichi River.
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#1297442021-07-28
New IUCN green status launched to help species ‘thrive, not just survive’
A new conservation tool could help put thousands of threatened animal and plant species on the road to recovery, allowing creatures such as the Sumatran rhino and the California condor to flourish once again.
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#1223492019-09-24
New Zealand to protect endangered species from illegal trade
The New Zealand government is planning to strengthen measures to prevent international trade in endangered species, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage said on Tuesday.
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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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#1299462021-08-13
New Zealand's Sigh of Relief As Iconic Kiwi Bird Bounces Back
ew Zealand birdwatchers were ecstatic to hear the return of the famous kiwi in August, after fearing it had disappeared altogether from some regions. Twelve million kiwi birds once occupied New Zealand but their numbers have rapidly declined in recent years, especially outside of managed sanctua ...
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#1230852019-11-20
New hope for one of world's most endangered reptiles
Baby crocodiles found living in a remote region of Nepal give hope for the future of one of the rarest and strangest reptiles on earth.
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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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#1203962019-03-15
New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction
Animals around the globe are losing ground to farming and ranching, and their numbers are dwindling at the hands of human hunters. But the question of where to direct precious resources to protect that biodiversity remains vexing.
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#1311462021-10-25
New population estimate for right whales at its lowest in 20 years
A new estimate of the number of endangered North Atlantic right whales left on the planet puts the population at 336, the lowest in nearly 20 years.
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#1188182018-11-06
New report paints disturbing picture of humanity pushing nature to the brink
The report, which comes out every two years, presents a sobering picture of the impact of human activity on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and climate. It underscores the rapidly closing window for action and the urgent need for the global community to rethink and redefine how we ...
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#1286252021-05-14
New tech could help bring threatened species back from the brink
Nearly 1 million species face extinction — and humanity is largely to blame. However, a new tool provides a clear picture of where species are at the greatest risk of extinction — and helps guide conservation actions to protect them.
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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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#1303512021-09-09
New ‘green status’ launched to help endangered species
Currently, over a quarter (28%) of species studied by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - 38,543 out of 138,374 - are threatened with extinction, according to the latest edition of its Red List, published at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille that runs until Friday.
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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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#1256562020-11-11
Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'
A monkey that is new to science has been discovered in the remote forests of Myanmar. The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals. Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
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#1257922020-11-20
Nice to have known you? Newly discovered langurs are facing extinction
It's not every day that new species of non-human primates are discovered, but now and again they still are, especially in remote locations like the jungles of Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma.
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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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#1302712021-09-03
North Atlantic right whales critically endangered by climate crisis, new study finds
Climate change-induced warming in the Gulf of Maine has resulted in the population of the North Atlantic right whale to plummet, leaving the species critically endangered and conservationists desperate for safeguards, according to a study published this week in the journal Oceanography.
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#1188222018-11-07
Northern white rhino: New hopes for IVF rescue
A new study raises hopes of saving one of the last animals of its kind. A victim of poaching, the northern white rhino population has been reduced to just two females, which are both unable to breed. DNA evidence shows the rhino is more closely related than previously thought to its southern wh ...
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#1344452022-05-13
Not all is rosy for the pink pigeon, study finds
The authors of a major study on the once critically endangered pink pigeon say boosting the species’ numbers is not enough to save it from extinction in the future.
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#1283502021-04-30
Not two, only one species of hoolock gibbon in India: study
Fourteen years after reports noting that India has two separate species of the gibbon – the hoolock gibbon and the eastern hoolock gibbon – a latest genetic analysis has now proved that there is only one species of ape in India.
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#1252632020-04-28
Numbers of critically endangered orange-bellied parrot soar from low 20s to more than 100
There has been little good to say about the recent history of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot. Numbers of the small migratory bird, which makes a return trip from Tasmania’s south-west wilderness to the mainland’s coastal scrubland each year, have fallen so sharply scientists con ...
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#1216582019-07-22
Ocean snail is first animal to be officially endangered by deep-sea mining
Valuable metals and minerals pepper the creature's habitat, drawing commercial interest to the sea floor.
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#1259982020-12-03
Olive ridley turtles return to Odisha beach for nesting
Gahirmatha beach in Kendrapara district is acclaimed as the world’s largest-known nesting ground of these endangered marine species. Apart from Gahirmatha, these aquatic animals turn up at Rushikulya river mouth and Devi river mouth for mass nesting.
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#1189872018-12-12
Once thought extinct, bizarre horned frog reappears in Ecuador
Unseen for more than a decade, the enigmatic and endangered horned marsupial frog has reappeared in an Ecuadorian forest, to biologists’ delight.
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#1300432021-08-19
One airport, 1,300 snakes: San Francisco helps to save endangered species
Across from the San Francisco international airport, and past the bustling highway that hugs it, lies what appears to be an empty lot. But the 180-acre, airport-owned parcel of land, which sits beyond the tarmac, tucked against residential homes, isn’t quite empty. It’s home to roughly 1,300 snakes.
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#1225592019-10-08
One in seven plants and animals in SA threatened with extinction, new report shows
One in seven of the thousands of plants and animals assessed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in its latest four-year study is threatened with extinction.
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#1215932019-07-16
One of the Largest Subspecies of Giraffes Is Declared Endangered
Once the largest of nine subspecies, Masai giraffe numbers have dropped by an estimated 50 percent in the last 30 years
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#1274292021-03-01
One-hit wonder frog makes a comeback in the southern Philippines
In 1993, a lone stream frog was discovered once but never found again in the wild. Herpetologists thought the frog species went extinct before it could be studied. Then, last year, more than a quarter of a century since the frog was seen, two Filipino biologists rediscovered it in one of the lea ...
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#1238042020-01-20
Online campaign to save malnourished lions at Sudan park
Online calls grew Sunday to help save five "malnourished and sick" African lions held at a park in Sudan's capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat.
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#1278022021-03-23
Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex
Sudanese conservationists have accused trophy hunters of exploiting the country’s political transition to hunt the country’s unprotected rare animals.
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#1256572020-11-11
Orange-bellied parrot: best year in a decade for critically endangered bird
Scientists are cautiously celebrating the best year in a decade for what may be the world’s most critically endangered parrot after at least 40 birds returned to a breeding site in remote Tasmania.
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#1281842021-04-22
Orange-bellied parrots leave Tasmania in biggest ever numbers for annual migration
Nearly 200 endangered orange-bellied parrots have begun their annual migration from Tasmania to the Australian mainland, the largest number to make the trip since monitoring started in the early 1990s.
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#1234972019-12-18
Our Vanishing World: Birds
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds. The bird was immensely abundant, as illustrated by this passage written by the famous ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon.
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#1228322019-11-01
Our Vanishing World: Insects
About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which h ...
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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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#1342282022-04-28
Over 1 in 5 reptiles on the planet are endangered — especially those in forest
Thousands of species of reptiles are at risk of extinction all around the world. According to a new study, 21% of all reptile species are either vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. Crocodiles and turtles are at the greatest risk of extinction, with 57.9% and 50.0% of species being ...
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#1317052021-11-16
Over 1M species face threat of extinction: Global biodiversity body
More than one million species face the threat of extinction, a global biodiversity body said on Monday. The Geneva-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the only international observer organization in the UN General Assembly with expertise in the environment, particularl ...