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timesonline.co.uk Five years after the hit film that endeared the clownfish to audiences the world over, Nemo is becoming increasingly difficult to find. The lovable tropical species, immortalised in the smash Pixar movie Finding Nemo, is facing extinction in many parts of the world because of soaring demand from the pet trade, according to marine [...]

Greenpeace Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods – it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan’s government-backed, sham scientific whaling [...]

http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/ The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities is making seawater more acidic, especially in coastal waters, according to a study published September 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Acid rain isn’t just a problem of the land; it’s also affecting the ocean,” [...]

BBC A new generation of medical treatments could be lost forever unless the current rate of biodiversity loss is reversed, conservationists have warned. They say species are being lost before researchers have had the chance to examine and understand their potential health benefits. : “While extinction is alarming in its own right, the book demonstrates [...]

CI Costa Rica is the ultimate trailblazer when it comes to protecting the natural world. In the 1980s, Costa Rica’s forests looked like a moth-eaten sweater, more holes than forest. At its worst, only 21 percent of the country’s legendary jungles remained. Staring down these problems, the Central American nation got creative and started providing [...]

Center of Biological Diversity Conservation groups challenged the federal government’s decision to exclude all national forest land from a recent endangered species ruling in federal court today. The suit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for Biological Diversity, Northwoods Wilderness Recovery, Michigan Nature Association, Door County Environmental Council, and the Habitat Education [...]

The Times online An illegal trade in live coral is being investigated by Customs officers after a steep rise in protected species being smuggled into Britain to decorate aquariums. Hundreds of rare corals covered by international conservation laws have been intercepted at airports en route to aquarium shops. Demand is being driven by the fashion [...]

WWF The penguin population of Antarctica is under pressure from global warming, according to a WWF report. The report, Antarctic Penguins and Climate Change, shows that the four populations of penguins that breed on the Antarctic continent — Adélie, Emperor, Chinstrap and Gentoo — are under escalating pressure. For some, global warming is taking away [...]

reuters A protected colony of rare fruit bats in Cyprus has almost been wiped out by unidentified gunmen using them for target practice, conservation groups and authorities said on Thursday. Dozens of the mammals, which are under threat of extinction, were killed in a shooting spree in a fenced-off cave in the western district of [...]

emagazine EDGE The long-beaked echidna does not share much in common with the golden-rumped elephant shrew, although both are endangered. Despite living on the edge of extinction, however, they’re both largely overlooked by the conservation world—mostly because they’re weird. : But thanks to a new program from the Zoological Society of London, a homely face [...]