Articles in the Endangered & Extinction Category

Coral Restoration Foundation hosts Earth Day 2010 Event at the CRF Nursery
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Coral Reefs, Endangered & Extinction, Protected Sites on 29 April 2010
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Coral Restoration Foundation
CRF is a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to to develop coral nurseries and reef restoration programs for critically endangered Acroporid corals at the local, national and global level. Their mission is to develop affordable, effective strategies for protecting and restoring coral reefs and to train and empower others to implement those strategries in [...]

Clouded leopard: First film of new Asia big cat species
By solonavi
Posted in Discovery, Endangered & Extinction, Habitat on 11 February 2010
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BBC
cloudedleopard.org
The Sundaland clouded leopard, a recently described new species of big cat, has been caught on camera.
The film, the first footage of the cat in the wild to be made public, has been released by scientists working in the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysia.
The Sundaland clouded leopard, only discovered to be a distinct species three [...]

Species’ extinction threat grows
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, General on 3 November 2009
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BBC
More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned.
Out of the 47,677 species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk.
These included 21% of mammals, 30% of amphibians, 70% of plants and 35% of invertebrates.
Conservationists warned [...]

Whale shark caught and hacked into pieces in Johor
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Endangered & Extinction, General on 25 August 2009
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STOMPer Eric was having lunch at a seafood restaurant in Johor when he saw a whale shark being hauled into the jetty and hacked to pieces.

“Seeing the poor guy being chopped up, I was quite sad.

“What you see in picture is very different from the actual situation. There was the noise from the hack saw, blood flowing out etc.”

Pangolin pushed to edge of extinction
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, Habitat on 24 July 2009
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Because of growing demand for pangolin meat and scales, the toothless creature is now being hunted to the edge of extinction, according to a July 14 report by the international conservation group WWF and the wildlife-trade watchdog group TRAFFIC, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Help Protect Pikas From Global Warming
By solonavi
Posted in Discovery, Endangered & Extinction, Habitat on 1 July 2009
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Center for Biological Diversity
Pint-sized rabbit relatives, pikas live in high-elevation boulder fields surrounded by mountain meadows throughout the western United States. Specially adapted to cold alpine conditions, they cannot tolerate high temperatures. Rising temperatures and drier conditions in summer can expose the animals to heat stroke, reduce food in mountain meadows, and make conditions too [...]

Beluga Whale on Track to Gain Habitat Protection
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, Habitat, Protected Sites on 16 April 2009
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biologicaldiversity.org
The federal National Marine Fisheries Service today took the first steps towards protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska. In October 2008 the Fisheries Service listed the whale as endangered. The listing occurred following petitions and litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity and other organizations.
However, [...]

Rare reptile hatchling found on New Zealand
By solonavi
Posted in Discovery, Endangered & Extinction, Protected Sites on 20 March 2009
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AP
A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found in the wild on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, a wildlife official said Thursday.
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Tuatara are the last lizard-like descendants of a reptile species that walked the Earth with the dinosaurs 225 [...]

Rare vine in Hawaii designated endangered species
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, Habitat on 20 March 2009
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AP
A rare Hawaii vine has been added to the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday. It’s the second species to be classified as endangered by the Obama administration. The first was the reticulated flatwoods salamander, an amphibian native to south Georgia, north Florida and coastal South Carolina. It was put [...]

Stop Palin’s Attack On Beluga Whales
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Climate, Endangered & Extinction, General on 24 January 2009
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Center for Biological Diversity
Governor Sarah Palin won’t give wildlife a break. Last week, she announced the state of Alaska will sue to strike down Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Cook Inlet beluga whale. This rare white whale’s population has already plummeted from thousands to just 375 in the last two decades. They will [...]