SURFBIRDS.COM
Conservationists trying to prevent the extinction of Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita are distraught that one of the last remaining wild birds in the Middle East has been shot by a hunter in Saudi Arabia, bringing the known wild Middle Eastern population of this Critically Endangered species to just four individuals.
Formerly, the range of this [...]
PRESS RELEASE – SCIENCE DAILY and WWF
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2009) — A bird-eating fanged frog, a gecko that looks like it’s from another planet, and a bird which would rather walk than fly — these are among the 163 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year that are now at risk of [...]
THE AUSTRALIAN
CONSERVATIONISTS say koalas are on the brink of extinction in southeast Queensland and more needs to be done to protect them.
Hundreds of protesters are expected to rally in Brisbane and march on Parliament House at noon (AEST) today y to raise awareness of the plight of the marsupials.
Rally spokeswoman Carolyn Beaton said there had [...]
PRNEWSWIRE
Today the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) filed a petition with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) to protect two North Pole-residing caribou species under the Endangered Species Act. While caribou, more commonly known as reindeer, are threatened globally by climate change, the two specific sub-species in this petition, Peary and Dolphin-Union [...]
BARCELONA REPORTER
Bats are one of the endangered species that is begin to lose it place in the Mediterranean.
One in six mammals endangered in countries around the Mediterranean.
The expansion of industrial agriculture and the destruction of their ecosystems are reasons that put them on the list of endangered species. Trees, that serve as refuge in forests [...]
PRESS RELEASE
In the late 1920s, people intentionally introduced birds known as Japanese white-eyes into Hawaiian agricultural lands and gardens for purposes of bug control. Now, that decision has come back to bite us. A recent increase in the numbers of white-eyes that live in old-growth forests is leaving native bird species with too little to [...]
GREENPEACE PRESS RELEASE
Brussels – Opposition from Mediterranean governments at a meeting of EU national representatives in Brussels today has postponed a decision on whether to place bluefin tuna on an endangered species list and effectively ban its trade. EU environment ministers are now expected to reach a final position by the end of the year.
Opposition [...]
SURFBIRDS.COM
One of the world’s most enigmatic mammals, the Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), could be on the brink of extinction, according to a group of experts who held an emergency meeting in Lao PDR to try to save the animal.
The Saola, which was only discovered to world science in 1992, resembles the desert antelopes of Arabia, but [...]
ASIA ONE
MADRID, SPAIN – One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said Tuesday in a new study.
Of the 320 mammal species assessed by the Geneva-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature, [...]
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