Forest exploitation puts endangered rhinos at risk

VIETNAM NEWS
LAM DONG — The residents of two villages near Cat Tien National Park in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong where a group of endangered one-horned rhinos live have yet to be relocated out of the area, despite a government programme that called for their resettlement.
In 2003, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural [...]

Salmon Collapse Affects Another Endangered Species

KCBS
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Salmon fisherman are not the only ones whose livelihood depends on a healthy Chinook salmon population. The sharp drop in king salmon adults returning to Central Valley rivers to spawn also poses a problem for the endangered Orca whale.
Salmon are the primary food source for the predators also known as killer [...]

Poachers put Balkan lynx on brink of extinction

AFP
GALICICA MOUNTAIN, Macedonia (AFP) — The camera sits hidden in a field ready to track every move of the Balkan lynx, a wild cat both revered as an icon and reviled as a pest that has teetered on extinction for nearly a century.
“The lynx has no natural enemy except man,” said Georgi Ivanov, an ecologist [...]

Bat extinction inevitable: Garrett

WESTERN AUSTRALIA TODAY

Federal Environment Minister concedes Christmas Island pipistrelle bat will inevitably become extinct.
The Federal Environment Minister has conceded the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat will inevitably become extinct after he received advice from a group of Australian threatened species experts.
The group has recommended actions to address the continued decline of Christmas Island biodiversity but has [...]

Saimaa ringed seal extinction likely without massive conservation measures

HELSINGIN SANOMAT
The Saimaa ringed seal is very likely to become extinct if measures to preserve the species are not upgraded considerably, says Metsähallitus, the state institution concerned with regulating natural resources. The ringed seal population in the Saimaa waterway in the southeast of Finland has been calculated at 260, [...]

Extinction alert on vultures and eagles – Cachar

THE TELEGRAPH INDIA
Feb. 10: Eagles and vultures have disappeared from Cachar’s skyline, confirming a suspicion that ornithologists and birdwatchers long held — that deforestation is robbing the district of its bird heritage.
Not just Cachar, there has also been a sharp decline in the population of these birds in the other south Assam districts of North [...]

Harbour seals’ decline ‘alarming’

BBC
Harbour seals, or common seals, are familiar faces along coastlines across the northern hemisphere.
But they are now vanishing in the UK at an alarming rate, warn scientists from St Andrews University.
Numbers have halved in the hardest hit area, the Orkney Islands, since 2001 – falling almost 10% each year.
There will soon be “no harbour seals [...]

Sparrow numbers ‘plummet by 68%’

BBC
The population of house sparrows in Britain has fallen by 68% in the past three decades, according to the RSPB.
A report by the charity said the paving over of front gardens and removal of trees had caused a big decline in insects that the birds eat.
It suggests sparrows are now disappearing altogether from cities such [...]