Endangered species

By rss@youtube.com (AnonymousViet) The Socialist Republic of Vietnam finds itself at a critical juncture in current efforts to survey and identify its rich floral and faunal resources, and to conserve them for coming generations. Stretching more than 1,650 kilometers north to south along Tonkin Bay and the South China Se...

By rss@youtube.com (mamoralesm) This part explains how Conservation International (CI) uses the "IUCN List of Threatened Species" to prioritize which species need urgent conservation actions to avoid their extinction. Keywords: Biodiversity priority species IUCN extinction threatened species endangered spec...

By rss@youtube.com (Seahorse1776) Author: Seahorse1776 Keywords: private property rights ownership land use environmental movement environmentalism communism karl marx united nations un agenda 21 biodiversity wetlands endangered species act helen chenoweth Added: January 6, 2009

In October of next year, COP(Conference of the Parties) of the Biodiversity Treaty will be held in Nagoya city of Japan. In line with the trend, destruction of Kitagawa Wetland has become a big issue in respects to conserving biodiversity. Now, it is the case that the company is being questi...

The mountain peaks provided a last green refuge above the glaciers, drawing species from across the eastern half of continent. Some 10,000 years later, many have stayed, and the mountains are home to one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity -- from flying squirrels to freshwat...

press release) how migrations work, and as a result many migrations have gone extinct," says Grant Harris of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, first author of the paper in Endangered Species Research. ...

“The flat-tailed horned lizard is severely threatened by urban and agricultural sprawl and needs protection as an endangered species to survive,” said Noah Greenwald, biodiversity program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

By Jo Adetunji Professor David Macdonald, conservation biologist in the wildlife conservation unit at Oxford University and co-author of the report, said: "Next year, the focus of biodiversity conservation in England will shift from individual species to a more integrated eco-system approach,...

By Juliette Jowit However farmland birds are considered by government and biodiversity experts to be a key indicator of the health of the countryside. Wildlife minister Huw Irranca-Davies said some species like the goldfinch and kingfisher were doing well, but called for "renewed action" to halt the de...

By Lynne Venart The directors of Smithsonian's conservation program added these thoughts on the partnership:“The Smithsonian-Mason program comes at a time when we are experiencing a global biodiversity crisis,” said Francisco Dallmeier, the head of the Center for Conservation Education and Sus...