TEHRAN TIMES via THE GUARDIAN
The majority of the most threatened species live in Mediterranean regions, which are expected to become warmer and drier. Island species, such as the Mallorcan midwife toad and Sardinian brook newt, are especially at risk because they are unable to move to cooler climates.
In Britain, where viruses are [...]
NZ HERALD + AAP
SYDNEY – Australia’s iconic koala is headed for extinction unless there are changes in how populations are managed, a leading academic says.
Zoologist and author Stephen Jackson will detail the threats to the marsupial at a seminar tomorrow at the University of Newcastle, north of Sydney.
“Previously hunted to near extinction in the 1920s, [...]
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE
Mon 22 September 2008 14:03 UK — Asia,Birds
Hundreds of Buddhist Indian villagers performed a unique funeral ritual for more than 800 endangered storks, after the 200-year-old tree in which the birds were nesting collapsed.
The Asian open bill storks died after the banyan tree that served as their colony crashed into an adjacent pond [...]
TIMARU HERALD
COMMITTED volunteers have been carrying out predator control on Lochaber Station to protect the highly threatened blue ducks/whio.
Over the past weekend, coinciding with the end of Conservation Week, Orari River Protection Group laid more predator traps to conserve this native species.
A small number of these birds live in the Orari catchment. Volunteer co-ordinator Bruce [...]
ALLAFRICA.COM
Absalom Shigwedha
URGENT and concerted action is needed to save Namibia’s African wild dog population from extinction.
This was spelled out by Robin Lines of the Wild Dog Project after the release of the project’s 2008 report.
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Lines said the report shows that Namibia has only about 300 wild dogs left and the population [...]
REUTERS
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – South Asia’s endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said on Thursday.
A meeting of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group in Nepal said that the massive animal’s feeding grounds were being invaded by “exotic species” [...]
MUSKEGON CHRONICLE
About four out of 10 freshwater fish species in North America are in peril, according to a major study by U.S., Canadian and Mexican scientists.
And the number of subspecies of fish populations in trouble has nearly doubled since 1989, the new report says.
One biologist called it “silent extinctions” because few people notice the dramatic [...]
Source: European Commission, Environment DG
Published Sep. 12, 2008
Coral reefs harbour the highest concentration of marine biodiversity in the world, form the basis of ecosystems and food webs that sustain communities and provide coastal protection. However, according to recent research, climate change and human impacts are placing one-third of reefs at serious risk of [...]
ABC AUSTRALIA
The Environment Department says ongoing drought is significantly affecting the almost-extinct mallee emu-wren.
The tiny bird is found in South Australia in Ngarkat Conservation Park, south of Pinnaroo.
The department is keen to draw attention to the bird as World Threatened Species Day in marked on Sunday.
Ecologist Peter Cale says dried-out vegetation and bushfires have reduced [...]
AFP
SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country’s northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
The environmental body warned that unless urgent action was taken to stop trees being felled, some species would be pushed to the [...]
