Endangered species

By rss@youtube.com (Nzoocornwall) A new endangered species has arrived at Newquay Zoo in Cornwall,... Author: Nzoocornwall Keywords: cute baby deer philippine spotted newquay zoo cornwall wildlife conservation endangered animals bambi Added: March 4, 2009

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 (briancahnrs) WSU's department of natural resource sciences has been the lead research institution in an effort to reintroduce the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit to their natural habitat. The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is a long-isolated, genetically unique population of small rabbits. Similar pygm...

By rss@youtube.com (cokelivepositively) A webisode from the Real Savvy Families series that focuses on water conservation. This time we meet the Summers family and see how they live positively by spending their quality time together helping the Florida Manatee. Keywords: Coca-Cola Real Savvy Families Manatee lifestyle activ...

By rss@youtube.com (GeHOF) Please send this video to others and brighten their day!! In addition please check out my other vids, especially those concerned with endangered species such as the albatross. Author: GeHOF Keywords: relaxation baby animals music electric guitar conservation happy inspiration

By rss@youtube.com (FaunaFloraIntl) Fauna & Flora International is conserving the planets threatened species and ecosystems with the people and communities who depend on them. Author: FaunaFloraIntl Keywords: FFI fauna flora climate change species endangered animals conservation Added: January 21, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (JamesHGraff) The endangered tiger (Panthera tigris) (three subspecies are already EXTINCT) is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. Reaching up to 4 me...

By rss@youtube.com (JamesHGraff) There is a well-known mutation that produces the white tiger, technically known as chinchilla albinistic, an animal which is rare in the wild, but widely bred in zoos due to its popularity. Breeding of white tigers will often lead to inbreeding (as the trait is recessive). Many initiative...

By rss@youtube.com (Chilldogg) One in four mammals are at risk for extinction. This Thanksgiving we give thanks for the animals and all of the hard working people who have dedicated their lives to saving endangered species. Last October we traveled to the Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco to interview Rebecca...

By rss@youtube.com (ccfcheetah) CCF's Dr. Laurie Marker interviews Dr. Stephen O'Brien, Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity and head of the Section of Genetics, National Cancer Institute. Along with students, fellows and colleagues, Dr. O'Brien developed the discipline of Conservation Genetics by describin...

By rss@youtube.com (StorytellerMedia) Author: StorytellerMedia Keywords: shark whale-shark fish ocean sea endangered Exmouth Philippines Taiwan Seychelles giant Australia animals wildlife nature environment conservation bio-diversity Added: November 19, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (itsyournature) The case for keeping the Grey Wolf on the endangered species list. Author: itsyournature Keywords: Wolves wolf endangered species act protection conservation Added: November 17, 2008

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By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Biology, Comedy, Conservation, Environment, Nature, People, Science, Video, Wilderness Tagged: Aves, Bird, Birds, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Flightless Parrot, Kakapo, Mark Carwardine, Parrot, Recommended YouTube, Shagalicious...

By Jeremy Hance For millennia dogs have been helpers to humans: they have herded and protected livestock, pulled sleds, hunted game, led the blind, located people after disasters, and sniffed out drugs. Now a new occupation can be added: conservation aide. Working Dogs for Conservation (WDC) was begun...

By kusasi Busch Gardens are proud of their conservation efforts – primatologists and animal lovers tend to have mixed views on zoos, but this particular one (me) appreciates the job done by good zoos and the necessity to look after the world’s captive populations.

By Rhett Butler Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP) is a private conservation and endangered species breeding-center located in the Arabian gulf State of Qatar. Founded by Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, the facility focuses on work with threatened antelope and bird species. Although A...

By Jeremy Hance Founded in 2004 by legendary conservationist Richard Leakey, WildlifeDirect is an innovative member of the conservation community. WildlifeDirect is really a meta-organization: it gathers together hundreds of conservation initiatives who blog regularly about the trials and joy...

In its latest four-year assessment of endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added several new entries to the Red List of Threatened Species. Judging from the list's expansion, the report warns, the world is unlikely to meet a goal of reversin...

By Rhett Butler Bird conservation is misplacing its priorities by focusing on non-threatened bird species in developed countries, rather than threatened species from tropical nations, report researchers writing in Tropical Conservation Science.

AP) A conservation group has sued the federal government over the recent removal of most gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species ... and more »

Students in Erin Brickman's seventh grade class at Middle North take conservation very seriously. In addition to learning about endangered species and ... and more »

 Australia WA has more than 600 endangered species, including the critically endangered Gilbert's potoroo and the woylie. An auditor-general's report found only a handful of species are recovering and recommends more funding for conservation and an overhaul of ...

 ND AP) A conservation group has sued the federal government over the recent removal of most gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species list. Despite the predator's steady expansion across much the region over the last decade, ...

 CA In addition, a court decision to prohibit pumping water from the Sacramento Delta to protect an endangered species of salmon further reduced available water supplies. Those two events, coupled with the fact that the Colorado River, which supplies one ...

 UK blue parrot found in north-eastern Brazil, has been down listed from Critically Endangered (the highest threat category) to Endangered as a direct result of conservation action, revealed the 2009 update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ...

 MA During that week, representatives for Greenland will likely ask for permission to kill up to 50 humpbacks, 10 in each of the next five years, according to the conservation society. The humpback whale is an endangered species under the US Endangered ...

  USA Samantha Woods, executive director of the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, said the parcel was important since it is designated as priority habitat for rare and endangered species by Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife. ...

BBC News  NY From pandas to polar bears, animals have served as icons for wildlife conservation. Now a new documentary called The End of the Line has helped the bluefin tuna, an endangered species, swim into the limelight by highlighting the overfishing common in ...

 Taiwan Whale sharks _ the world's largest fish species _ are listed as a threatened species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the world's largest conservation network. Considered harmless, the whale shark can ...

Restoration will also benefit many threatened and endangered species, like the Indiana Bat and Bald Eagle." Illinois NRCS technical staff will work with private landowners, county Soil and Water Conservation Districts and other partners to ensure ...

 CO Road construction was slated near the Gunnison River and Escalante Creek and the agency needed someone to survey, and then transplant the threatened species. For eight years Rechel transplanted cacti for various organizations. ...

Regionally coordinated conservation breeding programmes exist in North America (SSP - Species Survival Plans) and Europe (EEP - European Endangered Species Programme) to help conserve some of the world´s most critically endangered wildlife.

The research focuses on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), which is the largest international agreement on species conservation. CITES is implemented through several EU regulations1. ...

  USA More than 160 bird species have been spotted there, including a great egret and a bobolink the day I visited, and the common tern, an endangered species in Wisconsin. In all, more than $2.5 million has been invested, mostly by the DNR. ...

JAKARTA: Investing in the conservation of tropical forests in order to gain billions from carbon credits could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants and other wildlife at risk of extinction, a report says. The study examined the potential role ...

The good news is that there's a new baby girl at the Smithsonian's National Zoo Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. — a rare white-naped crane that's an endangered species because of destruction of its native habitat, ...

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There may not be large specimens around much longer. The bluefin has been listed as an endangered species for over a decade by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino. ... Cornering the Endangered Fish Market AllGov

 ND Bonnie is a leading national expert on the use of markets as a means to reward stewardship on farms, ranches and forest lands, including carbon crediting and conservation banking for endangered species. ›Enzyme developer Genencor, a division of Danisco ...

 NY Tiffany also backs the reauthorization of a US Coral Reef Conservation Act and the addition of red coral to the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, which lists species that could become threatened with ...

 UK Wildlife group Buglife, based in Peterborough, has won the Conservation category of the Observer Ethical Awards. It competed against thousands of entries to win the accolade. The group is campaigning to save wildlife habitats for endangered species ...

Taking away Endangered Species protection from wolves in Montana and Idaho while keeping Wyoming's wolves under federal protection completely ignores the best population and ecosystem science," Franz Camenzind of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance ...

 NJ The park-and-ride would compromise habitat for threatened species -- such as the bald eagle, wood turtle and bobolink -- and is in a Highlands conservation zone, she said. Nick Corcodilos, a former township mayor, railed against the plan. ...

  USA The list includes threatened and endangered species. The species of concern strategies replace a draft habitat conservation plan that had been used to supply protective guidelines. The revision retains many aspects of the original plan, ...

 OH The day begins with a presentation on Lake Erie Water Snakes (LEWS), providing insight into the history and conservation of this state endangered species. Learn about the habitat and identifying characteristics of the LEWS and then roll up your sleeves ...

 Germany Tiffany also backs the reauthorization of a US Coral Reef Conservation Act and the addition of red coral to the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, which lists species that could become threatened with ...

The Multistate Sandhills Ecological Restoration project could help keep gopher tortoises off federal endangered or threatened species lists and provide for the long-term conservation of Southeastern sandhill species varying from southern hognose snakes ...

 GA The World Wildlife Fund has been one of the leading conservation organizations working to protect the panda and other endangered species. In working with the government of China, WWF helped rescue the species which was on the brink of extinction. ...

Conservation groups today filed suit to challenge the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Idaho and Montana. On April 2, 2009, the US Fish and Wildlife Service dropped the wolves from the Endangered Species list, ...

The Southern Ledger The Central Asian tortoise is listed as vulnerable on the list of threatened species produced by the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Eisenberger said that Poland, a European Union member since 2004, is committed to fighting ... Kyiv Post

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. ...

press release) ScienceDaily (May 29, 2009) — Climate change can have devastating effects on endangered species, but new mathematical models may be able to aid conservation of a population of bighorn sheep. The effects of a changing climate on a population of bighorn ...

Farms meant to aid conservation are trapping and laundering threatened species, according to undercover investigation

As this valuable forest disappears, so will many species that inhabit the area, such as the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros and the Malayan tiger. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has deemed 94 plant and animal species in the region threatened by extinction. In the face...

Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 220000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

 UK in other regions of Peru and Bolivia, as well as in other countries or ecosystems where there is a combination of community land ownership, and where small populations of endangered species are scattered across vast landscapes," said Arnal. ...

 UK Regarded as an endangered species since they were first discovered at Epping Forest station in 1937, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is currently listed as Critically Endangered under the World Conservation Union's Redlist of Threatened Species. ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Alameda Creek Alliance signed an agreement in December 2008 with Oliver de Silva, Inc. that will dramatically change the Apperson Quarry project, protect and enhance endangered species habitat, ...

The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 220000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY In addition, the District manages environmental habitats for sensitive, threatened and endangered species on a majority of its 2600 acres of property. "We are appreciative of the board members at West Valley who realize how important the Conservation ...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Conservation, Energy, Extinction, Fisheries, Law, Regulation Tagged: Army Corps, Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, Corps, Dams, Endangered Species, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fisheries Law, Hydroelectric Dams, Hydroelectric Power, Hydrop...

 UK The pygmy hog is a highly sensitive indicator for its grassland habitat, which is crucial for the survival of a number of other endangered species such as the swamp deer, wild buffalo, hispid hare and Bengal florican. The Pygmy Hog Conservation ...

 CA It's just one of many endangered species born at the zoo as part of its wildlife conservation program. In addition to this ring-tailed baby, the zoo recently welcomed a baby red ruffled lemur. Both species are endangered, in large part due to ...

 CA - Kraig Becker, Kraig Becker by Kraig Becker on May 3rd 2009 at 8:00AM One of the real successes in ecotourism over the past decade or so has been the use of tourist dollars to aid in wildlife conservation. Many countries have discovered that travelers are willing to pay a good ...

 UK Working with organisations such as The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), Common Ground, and local orchard groups will be the key to creating a new generation of orchards across England." To post a comment you must be logged in.

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Development, Environment, Environmentalism, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Endangered Speci...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Environment, Extinction, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Policy, Poverty, Science, Sustainability Tagged: Deforestation, Human-Tiger Conflict, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Indonesia, Palm Oil, Palm Oil Production, Sumatra, Sumatr...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Biology, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Science Tagged: Acinonyx Jubatus, Asiatic Cheetah, Camera Trap, Camera Traps, Cheetah, Cheetahs, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Iranian Cheetah, Northwest African Cheetah, Saharan Cheetah...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Biology, Conservation, Environment, Extinction, Nature Tagged: Cambodia, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Extinction, Noninvasive Research, Scat, Scat Research, Sniffer Dog, Sniffer Dogs, Tiger, Tigers, Wildlife Contra...

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 The Huffington Post News Editors But since each commission comes up with its own set of rules and they often conflict, conservation of a globe-trotting species like tuna is made even more difficult. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, for example, failed to agree last month on any measures to conserve deplete...

The spotted owl was declared a threatened species in 1990 primarily because of heavy logging in old growth forests. Lawsuits from conservation groups led to the creation of the Northwest Forest Plan, which cut logging on federal lands by more than 80 to protect habitat for the owl, salmon...

By Kriston Capps Jonathan Ballou is the population manager at the National Zoo. His work as a conservation geneticist focuses on the genetic and demographic problems pertaining to small populations -- in particular small populations from endangered species. This work has included analyses of the effe...

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...

The warning was issued during the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, as the IUCN issued the latest update in its Red List of threatened species.  The IUCN also lists other Coral Triangle species at risk of extinction, such as green turtles (Endangered), hawksbill turtles (Criti...

After surviving nearly unchanged for over 200 million years crocodiles and alligators were hunted to the brink of extinction between 1900 and 1967 in a period as brief as a single man's life, how sad. Also their habitats continue to shrink. Today due to conservation efforts the American al...