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iol The debate on the future of the perlemoen industry does not adequately reflect that this popular marine species is in crisis and is facing imminent extinction, a coalition of leading local environmental groups has warned. If perlemoen becomes extinct, affected fishing communities will lose a source of income forever, they have emphasised. But one [...]

CI Another restaurant order of frog legs could mean another lost clue to global climate change. Believe it or not, scientists depend on frogs, toads and other amphibians to detect changes in the overall environment. These small aquatic creatures have highly permeable skin that easily absorbs particles and pollutants from their surroundings. Typically, amphibians are [...]

WWF Spanish authorities have announced the discovery of a previously unknown population of Iberian lynx, triggering hope for the world’s most endangered cat species, said WWF. It appears that the new population was discovered in previously unsurveyed estates in the Castilla-La Mancha region in central Spain. At present, the exact numbers and location of the [...]

AP A rare bird that breeds in a remote Russian province is facing extinction, conservationists warned Friday, after a survey found that the numbers of the spoon-billed sandpiper had dropped dramatically. Experts from the Britain-based conservation group BirdLife International blamed the decline of breeding pairs in Chukotka province on loss of key feeding sites during [...]

reuters A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Zhou Zhenglong took over 70 snaps of the young tiger lying in the grass near a cliff [...]

Another report of Endangered Gorilla been slained. Click here for previous report. ================================================================= AP Park rangers in Congo found a dead mountain gorilla after a raid on a suspected ring of gorilla traffickers in which authorities detained two people, conservationists said Tuesday. The dead female infant was found near east Congo’s Virunga National Park, where [...]

IUCN 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world’s most authoritative assessment of the Earth’s plants and animals, acts as a wake up call on the global extinction crisis Gland, Switzerland, 12 September, 2007, World Conservation Union (IUCN) – Life on Earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action [...]

AP The Chinese crested tern, a rare sea bird whose eggs are prized by some as a delicacy, is likely to be extinct in five years if authorities do not step up protection efforts, a conservation group said Friday. The bird looks set to be the latest ecological victim of China’s rapid 30-year economic expansion [...]

AP On the world’s list of weird foods, ortolan – a bite-size songbird roasted and gulped down whole – can claim a place of distinction. It’s an illegal place, though, since the ortolan is a protected species and hunting it is banned in France. Now the government is out to get poachers of the coveted [...]

reuters At least 20 tigers have resurfaced in a tropical rainforest in western India, almost three decades after it was thought that poaching had wiped them out there, experts said on Tuesday. The big cats were sighted over an 800 square kilometer (300 square miles) mountainous forest range in the western state of Maharashtra, bringing [...]