Endangered species News
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Less than 90 individuals remain in this population of gentle fish-eating orcas. Low salmon supply and toxins are suspected as contributing causes, but the recent death of a young orca has raised questions of the safety of naval practice in a sanctuary.
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Hollywood -
The existence of a new shark species discovered in 2005 is endangering the scalloped hammerhead shark. At the same time scientists say, the shark – almost the hammerhead's double, is itself at risk from shark finning.
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Sydney -
Four critically endangered white rhinos have mysteriously died within two weeks of one another at a New South Wales zoo.
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Coram -
Two nights ago I came face-to-face with my first Montana wolf as he returned to a juvenile elk killed in our pasture. It was an eerily calm experience for both of us.
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Art comes in many forms, shapes, colors and even scents. But using an endangered species in an art piece will only bring trouble to the artist.
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Los Angeles -
As part of a nationwide, multi-agency effort to tackle black rhino horn smuggling, seven people have been arrested in the US. The latest, taken into custody last night at Los Angeles International Airport, was a Chinese national.
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Jakarta -
The sickening cost of animal trafficking was on full display yesterday, as almost 1,500 protected pig-nosed turtles were discovered crammed into two suitcases at Mopah Airport, Indonesia.
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One day after President Obama rejected the Keystone tar-sands XL pipeline, a report released by a coalition of environmental and conservation groups lists what it believes, is the top ten U.S. species most at risk from fossil fuel consumption.
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Predation by other birds and mammals and disturbance by humans in their nesting grounds brought the Piping Plover into the list of endangered bird species in Canada and the US; can protective actions help the recovery of this species’ population?
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Managua -
Army soldiers and Navy personnel have taken positions in wildlife refuges on the beaches of the Pacific coast of Nicaragua with the mission of protecting nesting sea turtles from egg looters.
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 Researchers in Nova Scotia are hoping a new $700,000 fish ladder outside Bridgewater will help an endangered and landlocked fish species escape to the sea and escape extinction.
Demand for leaves from an endangered palm, found in Central and South America is threatening the species' long term survival, a study warns.
Filmmaker John Varty is one of the most controversial wildlife conservationists in Africa and has caught heat for his radical ideas on how to save endangered species, from the tiger to the rhino. While most conservationists and biologists take great pains not to intervene with...
Some of the most expensive perfumes include a compound extracted from whale vomit. But new research from the University of British Columbia may eliminate the need to use waste products from an endangered species to make humans smell better.
A baby panda enjoys itself in a breeding room at Ya'an Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda Dec. 28, 2011 in Ya an, China. As the world's largest panda park, Bifengxia plays an important role in the protection and breeding programs for an animal which remains one of the world's most endangered species.
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Endangered species Blogs
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Climate change may occur too quickly for many animals, according to a [url=http://...
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amazing Humpback whales can be found in oceans and seas around the world, and typically migrate up to 25,000...
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There is a very interesting ‘opinion editorial’ by Edward N. Trifonov on The Scientist website about what...
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The story begins in early 20th century in the year 1815. That times the area, which is now a day known as Jim Corbett...
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Researchers based at the University at Buffalo, led by Thomas Russo, have put forward evidence that a more potent...
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