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#118600
2018-10-19

Insects Are Rapidly Disappearing Around The World, Leaving Scientists Horrified

Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations.

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#125342
2020-04-30

Insects populations have been declining for nearly 100 years, study reveals

When did you last see a glow worm? Most likely, quite some time ago. Depending on how young you are, you may have never seen one at all. Those light-emitting insects, Wordsworth’s “earthborn stars”, have been declining in the UK for decades. That means that scientists now see them in fewer place ...

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Intergovernmental Meeting on Great Apes and First GRASP Council Meeting

5 - 9 September 2005, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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#134360
2022-05-11

International project aims to understand and protect endangered sea turtles

A partnership of organisations and universities in the UK and Grenada has launched a new project looking into the challenges and threats facing two endangered marine species.

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#122791
2019-10-30

Is conservation too focused on rarity?

The rarest, most endangered species get the most attention—but common species need help, too. Spurred by dismaying declines of once-abundant insects and birds, this principle is gaining traction in conservation circles. Now a study of plants in northeast Germany, where species abundant just a co ...

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#119845
2019-02-07

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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#127631
2021-03-09

Israeli oil spill hits Lebanon, threatening endangered turtles

The sandy shores of the Tyre nature reserve on the Mediterranean are home to several endangered turtle species. But after an oil spill off the Israeli coast early last month, beaches in southern Lebanon were also washed away by tar deposits.

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#124664
2020-03-13

It Would Take 50 Million Years To Recover New Zealand’s Lost Bird Species

It took less than one century for humans to wipe out 50 million years of evolution on New Zealand.Long before people arrived in New Zealand, it was dominated by multitudes of unique birds. They were absolutely everywhere: big birds, little birds, colorful birds, flightless birds. In the absence ...

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#118839
2018-11-08

It's time to take a stand for natur

The World Wildlife Fund has just released its 2018 Living Planet Report. Humans have wiped out 60 percent of animals between 1970 and 2014. The figures contained in the report are just a few symptoms of the dire state the planet is in.

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#133100
2022-02-10

It’s Arabian Leopard Day And AlUla, Saudi Arabia Is Working To Rewild The Endangered Species

February 10, 2022 is the first Arabian Leopard Day and it’s one of several initiatives to help save this critically endangered species from extinction.

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#128911
2021-05-31

It’s Time to Reimagine Our Relationship with Nature

Our natural earth is dying. It is on the brink of collapse. Due to human impacts the planet is losing species – its biodiversity – at a rate so alarming it’s said to be comparable to the 5th mass extinction 65 million years ago, bringing the era of the dinosaurs to an end. Just 15% of the world’ ...

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#126734
2021-01-27

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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#132216
2021-12-17

Japanese eel is so precious it’s called ‘white gold’, but its value on the black market has made it an endangered species, and scientists still don’t know how it breeds

Eaten worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Japan, where it’s prepared ‘kabayaki’ style: skewered, grilled and basted in soy sauce and mirin rice wine. But wild eel stocks are dwindling because of pollution and overfishing, and poaching and international trafficking are also having a major i ...

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#134897
2022-06-07

Kangaroos in the street and a suitcase of iguanas: India’s exotic pet problem

From the red-eared slider turtle, cockatoo and falcon to the yellow-cheeked gibbon, capuchin monkey and orangutan, nothing is too much for those demanding unusual pets in India.

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#130228
2021-09-02

Kenya Steps Up Efforts to Save Wildlife From Extinction

The black rhino, mountain bongo, roan antelope and sable antelope have been classified as critically endangered species in Kenya.

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#132152
2021-12-13

Key wintering areas identified for Europe's Greater Spotted Eagles

With fewer than a thousand breeding pairs in Europe and a tiny remnant population in the European Union, Greater Spotted Eagle is listed as Critically Endangered.

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#122012
2019-08-27

Killing endangered species to save them? Trophy hunters lobby at CITES

As conservationists and campaigners thrash out wildlife trade rules, a debate rages over whether trophy hunting helps or hinders the protection of endangered species.

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#125240
2020-04-22

King of the swingers: what Primates tells us about our locked-down world

From the orangutans that lived undisturbed for 700,000 years to the frolicking rhesus macaques of Kathmandu, the BBC’s new nature blockbuster brings us closer than ever to the planet of the apes.

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#130306
2021-09-07

Komodo dragon, 2-in-5 shark species lurch towards extinction

Trapped on island habitats made smaller by rising seas, Indonesia's Komodo dragons were listed as endangered on Saturday, in an update of the wildlife Red List that also warned overfishing threatens nearly two-in-five sharks with extinction.

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#132492
2022-01-14

LOOK: Endangered lappet-faced vulture nesting sites saw a 60% decline in 2021

Vulture populations across Africa and some parts of the world have seen a steady decline for decades with certain species such as the white-backed vulture listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the same threat level as the black rhino, and a co ...

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#120231
2019-03-06

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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#134059
2022-04-13

Launch of condors on tribal land marks the species' comeback, but a new threat looms large

A plan to return federally endangered California condors to a rugged and remote stretch of Northern California coastline and redwood forests is taking shape on Yurok tribal lands where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean.

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#131939
2021-11-25

Law Students Work to Protect Dwindling Bumblebees

Once the most commonly spotted bee in the United States, the American bumblebee has nearly disappeared from 16 states. But thanks to some law students and their professor, the important pollinator may earn protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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#123638
2020-01-09

Leaked report lays bare environmental devastation of Victorian fires

The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct – even as authorities brace for many more weeks of fires.

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#127998
2021-04-12

Leatherback turtles under threat as government considers ‘development’ in Little Andamans

A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, a think tank of the Government of India.

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#128589
2021-05-12

Liberia Forest Elephants Number 450 or Less

The Elephant Research and Conservation (ELRECO), a conservation project with support from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, has released a research report on Forest Elephants in Liberia putting existing forest elephants between 350 and 450.

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#132312
2022-01-05

Light-fingered monkeys threaten critically endangered Príncipe thrush

Conservationists using camera traps have obtained evidence that shows mona monkeys on the island of Príncipe off Central Africa are pinching the eggs of the Príncipe thrush, a critically endangered species whose entire population is estimated at less than 250.

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#134591
2022-05-19

List of endangered animal species to be displayed at public places in J’khand

A list of endangered and scheduled species found in Jharkhand will be displayed at public places like railway stations, airport and bus stands to check crime against wild animals, forest officials said on Thursday.

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#132491
2022-01-14

Local shell-ebrities: 19 eggs of critically endangered sea turtle bring joy to Cambodian conservationists

The Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Programme (WCS Cambodia) said it was delighted to see 19 Royal Turtle eggs in a single clutch on an artificial sand bank at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Centre (KKRCC) in one night last week.

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#125372
2020-05-01

Lockdown isn’t good news for all wildlife – many animals rely on humans for survival

From Venetian canals running clear, to herds of goats roaming around Llandudno, Wales, there have been claims of nature’s comeback since the start of lockdown. But recently, staff at the Meltham Wildlife Reserve in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, reported the arrival of a red kite that was found to b ...

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#121642
2019-07-19

Long-term plan to protect Asian elephants

A new research centre is being set up to study the endangered animals’ habitat, behaviour and genetics

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#119330
2019-01-11

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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#133638
2022-03-02

Loss of Sumatran rhinos leaves several plant species without a seed disperser

The critically endangered Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) plays a unique role in dispersing seeds in Southeast Asian forests, and its disappearance from these landscapes is already affecting the composition of the forests.

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#125898
2020-11-27

Lost species day: celebrities to champion threatened wildlife

Writers and activists including Emma Thompson, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh are to speak about their favourite endangered animals as part of a remembrance day for lost species.

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#129859
2021-08-10

Malawi: Lost to the World, Rare Chameleon Is Found in Malawi

The world's rare chameleon, lost to science, has been found clinging to life in a Malawian forest patch. At only 5.5 centimetres' or 2.1 inches) long, the critically endangered Chapman's pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) lives in the low-elevated rainforest of the Malawi Hills.

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#128023
2021-04-12

Malayan tigers to go extinct if no drastic action is taken

Malayan tigers will go extinct in the next five to 10 years if no drastic action is taken to address its population decline, said Taiping Zoo and Night Safari director Dr Kevin Lazarus.

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#123109
2019-11-25

Malaysia's last known Sumatran rhino dies

The Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia, with the death of the last known specimen.

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#126554
2021-01-11

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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#120461
2019-03-22

Many sharks closer to extinction than feared: Red List

Human appetites are pushing makos and other iconic sharks to the brink of extinction, scientists warned in a new assessment of the apex predator's conservation status.

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#121577
2019-07-15

Masai giraffes declared endangered

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants, announced Thursday that Masai giraffes, a subspecies spread throughout Kenya and Tanzania, are now endangered, primarily because of poaching and changes in land use.

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#123764
2020-01-16

Measuring avian extinction rates around the world

A recently published study on the a new method of measuring avian extinction rates has highlighted that conservation projects are working, but also how threats of extinction are accumulating more quickly than previously thought.

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#122112
2019-09-04

Meat-eating plants making a comeback in England

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline.

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#124000
2020-01-29

Mediterranean Shearwater: global project to protect an endangered seabird

Should the decline of Mediterranean Shearwater colonies keep their current rhythm, the reproductive population of this seabird could be reduced by more than 30% over the next fifty years. This seabird, mostly distributed over the western Mediterranean, is listed as vulnerable in the UICN Red lis ...

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#126962
2021-02-10

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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