One of California’s leading salmon experts warns that most of California’s native game fish face extinction unless action from the state comes soon. California Trout, a fish advocacy group, conducted...
A reevaluation of the Red List of Threatened Species, last assessed 10 years ago, has found that over half of all mammalian species' populations are falling and that at least 25% face the risk of extinction. ...
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We have heard about rare birds heading towards extinction but now a report tells us that even our most common birds are dwindling in numbers as their habitats are lost. These common birds though not in danger...
We will empty the oceans shortly if we go on like this. All around the globe fish stocks are being depleted at an alarming rate. Europe's North Sea's coast is home ground for a number one sport fish ánd the most...
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With one in three of all the world's amphibians on the endangered species list a new report predicts that over half of European toads, frogs and newts could be extinct in 50 years time. Climate change is predicted to...
Sea eagles were being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of lambs in the UK countryside, but the accusation was rebuffed by the RSPB.However, Britain's biggest bird of prey is still being blamed for causing the...
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Scientists and conservation experts said yesterday that Palawan, Phillippines is in danger of becoming the area where some of the country's most important species are going to go extinct due to the destruction of...
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What used to be a fairly common bird of prey in the UK, the Hen Harriers, have had such a bad breeding season this year that they could be wiped out altogether.They are England's most threatened bird of prey, and...
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African elephants are now being slaughtered for their ivory at a rapid pace, unseen since the international ban on ivory in 1989. However, scientists are saying that what is missing is the outcry on the ivory trade...
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It's a good news ...humpback whales have been taken off the danger list. The humpback is safe from the threat of extinction which was feared by conservationists forty years ago. The latest count stands at...
A new report says that about half of the world's primates are facing extinction, saying that the destruction of rainforests is the biggest threat to primate species."Some 300 of the 634 different types of ape and...
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Yea for Lonesome George! George may have finally mated after 36 years in captivity. George lives in the Galapagos Islands and is the only Pinta Island tortoise left in the world. Park rangers found...
The South China tigers are verging on the brink on extinction from hunting and deforestation, and these magestic animals are so close to being gone forever."Historically revered as an archetypal Chinese cultural...
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"Sun Mao leans forward in the boat, shades his eyes with his hand, and squints across the wide expanse of the Mekong River where it twists through the town of Kratie. He is looking for one of the world's rarest mammals - the Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin. Older people in this...
It appears that models used to calculate future species extinction rates have not included pertinent data which, when factored in alters results by two orders of magnitude."Extinction risks for natural populations of...