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According to new numbers, lynx populations in the Balkans are teetering on the brink of extinction, threatened by poaching, tree cutting and an overall lack of food. Although they are iconic to some regions, it's the same people that like them who kill them, especially for their wonderful fur, which is highly-va... |
23 February 2009
05:30 GMT |
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Two rare and endangered jaguars have made their appearance over the past week in two different locations across the Americas, in Arizona and Mexico, respectively. This is excellent news for animal rights activists, who feared that the large felines no longer existed in the US at all. The American jaguar has been capt... |
23 February 2009
03:00 GMT |
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With the number of species that will go extinct over the next few years in mind, researchers at the Durham and York Universities have decided to try a new approach to saving them, by something they call “assisted colonization.” Basically, this is the process of artificially transplanting the creatures fro... |
18 February 2009
08:39 GMT |
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On February 8th, small Jeremy Doble disappeared while playing with his brother and their dog on the banks of a flooded mangrove swamp, in Australia. Since then, parents have been looking for him like crazy, turning the swamp upside down and scouting every corner. In the end, authorities started examining the bellies ... |
18 February 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Iceland's proposed law of increasing its yearly quota of whales culled has sparked both environmental and diplomatic protests, as evidenced by the fact that, on Monday, diplomats from the United States and five other countries urged the newly-appointed government of the island nation to drop its intention, even ... |
17 February 2009
04:24 GMT |
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One of the rarest species of mammals, thought to have gone extinct in the Holocene, a geological epoch that started some 10,000 years ago, was recently discovered in recessed corners of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, although months of trapping efforts only yielded a single individual. One of the most amazing feat... |
9 January 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Little (or fairy) penguins are very small birds, unable to fend for themselves in the harsh climate of the wild, where they often succumb to the claws of foxes, wild dogs, and other predators. For this reason, environmentalists brought two Maremmas sheepdogs to a small fairy colony in Australia's Middle Island, ... |
7 January 2009
07:47 GMT |
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Approximately 15,000 people in India protested on Tuesday against the expansion of protected areas, inhabited by the endangered Indian tigers. Despite governmental insurances that existing homes will not be destroyed or moved, people still went out and protested, even if this type of tigers can only be found there, a... |
30 December 2008
10:58 GMT |
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While there still are those who say that global warming is a hoax or an elaborate “plot” for some obscure reason, the reality is that the world is currently facing one of its biggest challenges since the last major extinction, and the United Nations warns that, if something is not done to repair the situa... |
16 December 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Angry farmers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula region say that the gray wolves eat their livestock and make a dent in the deer populations of the forests in the vicinity. But environmentalists say that this is not true, because the wolves are too few to do notable damage to either. On the other hand, the species is... |
15 December 2008
10:48 GMT |
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In 1985, when the Turkey Point nuclear power plant opened in Florida, managed by the FPL company, around 19 saltwater crocodiles lived in the canals around the facility. Now, in 2008, more than 400 inhabit the intricate networks of small water courses that provide the plant with cooling water for its main reactors. T... |
15 December 2008
07:30 GMT |
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If in doubt as to whether staying home is the best solution for the winter holidays, plenty of other tempting ideas should be considered. For the ones who love traveling as much as they love nature, there are many volunteering programs being developed, particularly aimed at animals in need or those struggling on the ... |
13 December 2008
06:13 GMT |
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Just six weeks before Obama is sworn in, Bush seems to be desperately trying to do as much harm as possible to the environment, for reasons known only to him and, most likely, to those who fund these actions. In just 4 months, the White House revised legislation protecting endangered species and decided that they wer... |
12 December 2008
07:37 GMT |
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The shipping lanes of the US East Coast are located directly in the path of the migratory routes that right whales take every year, from their breeding grounds in the Southern Atlantic, to their feeding grounds off the coasts of Massachusetts. A recent settlement, between environmental groups and the Coast Guard, for... |
8 December 2008
05:57 GMT |
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, along with Interior Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, were sued by the Center for Biological Diversity, for failing to qualify one of their petitions as having merit or not. The legal time for the FWS to reply has passed, so the organization, which successfully petitioned for the adding of... |
8 December 2008
02:27 GMT |
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Between 20 and 170 million migratory birds, from all over North America, set their nests in Canada's northern (or boreal) forests each year, as part of their breeding season. Some of them are already endangered, due to hunting or other factors, and the risk of them disappearing entirely is increased by numerous ... |
3 December 2008
08:44 GMT |
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The recent fighting that broke out in Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands also took its toll on the Virunga Park natural reservation, one of the few habitats in the world where forest gorillas can be seen today. It is estimated that no more than 700 members of this species are alive today, and that around 170 o... |
2 December 2008
08:26 GMT |
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The town of Paragominas was home to incredible scenes on Sunday, as a mob of approximately 3,000, protesting against the federal government's crackdown on illegal logging in the region, took to the streets and opened fire on a shed housing the cars of the federal inspectors. They also stole back the trucks that ... |
25 November 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Our ever-increasing demand for electrical energy may be our downfall as a civilization, energy economists announced in IEA's report 2008 World Energy Outlook. More and more burnt fossil fuel means increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which in turn trap sunlight and create the warming effect ... |
7 November 2008
03:40 GMT |
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The problem of unsustainable fishing was prompted on the West Coast of the United States decades ago, as fishermen and authorities alike noticed severe decreases in fish populations throughout the region, and started working on legislations to prevent this. But, thus far, bills aimed at tackling this issue have not b... |
6 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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The official numbers released recently by the Brazilian government show a bleak statistical representation of species dynamics throughout the country. As opposed to 1989 numbers, when some 218 animals were classified as about to go extinct, the newest list, compared with data collected this year, shows that approxima... |
5 November 2008
10:14 GMT |
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New international pressure adds to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), in regard to closing the bluefin tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea, as Italy and Spain requested the protection of the fish and the creation of tuna sanctuaries throughout breeding grounds, respective... |
4 November 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the United Nations constantly released numerous reports regarding the danger coastal cities are in, on account of rising global temperatures, which significantly increase the risk of flooding in Low Elevation Coastal Zones (LECZ). These areas house some 634 million people, which is about 10 p... |
27 October 2008
03:39 GMT |
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Pollution has been known to play a role in the deterioration of both dry land and maritime wildlife for quite some time now. But scientists say that seals are most affected by its effects, because their immune systems are virtually destroyed by a form of mercury - Methylmercury (MeHg) – associated with human ac... |
21 October 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Increased international pressure and support for the preservation of leatherback turtles and sharks prompted the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to move for more direct approaches in its efforts to conserve several endangered marine wildlife species. As a result, special underwater "corridor... |
18 October 2008
05:45 GMT |
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The number of chimpanzees in the populations living in Africa's Cote d'Ivoire has diminished by more than 90 percent over the past 18 years, when the last survey was conducted. Researchers analyzing them were stupefied of this find, as only one viable population of the West African chimpanzee subspecies is ... |
14 October 2008
10:06 GMT |
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The state of Earth's wildlife is bleak at best, say researchers. More than 50 percent of all mammal species are endangered and a quarter of them are in immediate danger and face extinction. Out of the 5,487 mammals studied in this year's edition of the Red Book, a publication that keeps track of the danger ... |
7 October 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Once, the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal held one of the biggest populations of Siberian Tigers in the world. Now, the Siberian Tiger is on the list of countless endangered species around the world, with as little as 20 tigers in the respective reserve in 2005 and up to one third or less in 2008. There is no d... |
3 July 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Red Rover Games has recently made available the full version of its match-three puzzler for Mac, Safari Sketch. While the game has nothing to do with Apple's standard web browser on Leopard-running machines, the title has players visiting exotic places around the globe and encountering endangered species from th... |
3 June 2008
05:51 GMT |
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