Environment Experts Warn Against Human Extinction

The Post Online – Kini Nsom & Leocadia Bongben
Environment experts have warned of a possibility of human extinction if nothing is done to contain the unprecedented environmental changes, stating that it takes sustainable development to reverse the tides.

This is the main preoccupation of the report known as Global Environment Outlook 4, Geo4, that assesses [...]

Tasmanian devil now officially endangered

ABC News
The status of the tasmanian devil has been upgraded from vulnerable to endangered.
The devil is one of the 51 species with a change of status because of increasing vulnerability.
Sightings of the devils have declined by more than 50 per cent and the devil facial tumour disease is found across half of Tasmania.
The changes are [...]

With eye on economy, India may be blind to endangered tigers

Environmentalists fear that the new Act could reverse decades of progress in preserving the tigers, forests.
LiveMint.com
Kailashpuri, India: A tale about the forest dweller and the tiger sounds like some ancient Indian fable, a parable of man versus beast handed down through the ages and adapted by Rudyard Kipling for Western consumption.
But this is a real-life [...]

Congo establishes nature reserve for endangered apes

International Animal Rescue
Congo is setting aside more than 11,000 square miles of rainforest to create a nature reserve designed to protect the endangered bonobo ape.
The Sankuru Reserve, established by the African country’s Ministry of the Environment in collaboration with environmental groups, will help to preserve numbers of the rare animal that is also one of [...]

USA. Scientists call for Lower Snake Dam removal to help endangered Orcas

BYM Marine Environment News
Leading Northwest scientists and orca advocates are urging NOAA Fisheries to consider removal of the four lower Snake River dams in order to protect endangered Puget Sound orca populations that need Columbia-Snake River salmon as a critical food source.
“Restoring Columbia River Chinook salmon is the single most important thing we can do [...]

Tay salmon stocks ‘facing extinction’

The Scotsman
SCOTLAND’S world-famous “queen” of salmon rivers is being fished to extinction, according to its ghillies, who are pleading with its fisheries board to implement new laws to save its depleted fish stocks.
Anglers from across the world have flocked to Perthshire for decades to fish for Atlantic salmon in Scotland’s longest and most renowned river, [...]

Bush administration strips 55 species of endangered status

Wildlifewatch
High-level Bush administration officials have stripped protections for 55 endangered species and 8.7 million acres of land.
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed simultaneous lawsuits to protect six endangered species ranging over hundreds of thousands of acres from Montana to Alabama. The suits are the first phase of a national campaign to challenge political interference [...]

Mediterranean sharks and rays in danger of extinction, says coalition

 Fish Update
THE Shark Alliance is repeating its call for a strong Plan of Action to improve the status of European sharks and rays in response to new IUCN findings that 42% of shark and ray populations in the Mediterranean Sea are threatened with extinction.
A report released today by the IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG) and [...]

Single-largest Biodiversity Survey Says Primary Rainforest Is Irreplaceable

 Sciencedaily
ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2007) — As world leaders prepare to discuss conservation-friendly carbon credits in Bali and a regional initiative threatens a new wave of deforestation in the South American tropics, new research from the University of East Anglia and Brazil’s Goeldi Museum highlights once again the irreplaceable importance of primary rain forest.
Working in the [...]

86% of sea turtle species threatened with extinction

Mongabay
Marine turtles have thrived for more than 100 million years. But only the last few hundred years have given the huge, spectacular, prehistoric reptiles serious trouble.
And that’s where people like Earl Possardt, an international sea turtle specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, come in. Possardt is part of a bigger effort to rescue [...]