Endangered species

Nov. 27: A South Florida man made it his mission to save an endangered species from extinction. Kerry Sanders reports. video.aol.com

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 (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 (crebsC) Author: crebsC Keywords: endangered species animal human nature environment wildlife activism passion extinct biology ecology extinction evolution Added: November 22, 2008

By Buck Denton The critically endangered duck is so rare that it was declared extinct in the late 1990s until scientists found a few of the birds by chance during a trip to Madagascar in 2006. To stop the beautiful cinnamon-coloured diving duck slipping permanently into extinction a team of bird special...

The 2009 edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released today, and the news isn't good: 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction. [More]

featuring selected wildlife preservationists who devote their lives to saving endangered species from extinction. It is aired on Discovery Channel ... vids.myspace.com

The latest regional update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds bad news for mammals living around the Mediterranean. One in six species in the area are now threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN report, " The Status and Distribution of Mediterranean Mammals ,"--t...

Urban growth is quickly driving one of the world's most bizarre creatures into extinction. According to a new study, the axolotl ( Ambystoma mexicanum ), a Mexican amphibian that never metamorphoses past its larval stage, has seen a 90 percent population drop in the last four years. Only a...

Rising temperatures also shrink the cloud forests, which forces species to live more densely, causing the spread of disease and a fungus that kills some frogs. The harlequin frog is on its way to extinction and we need to act now to reduce the harmful effects of global warming on our valuabl...

By Jeremy Hance Eight Chinese environmentalists and scientists have composed a letter warning that a new dam under consideration for the Yangtze River could lead to the extinction of several endangered species. The letter contends that Xiaonanhia Dam, which would be 30 kilometers upstream from the c...

 HI This has resulted in an international trade of coral that is often unregulated and illegal, driving some species toward extinction. According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the United States is the largest importer of ...

 GA The St. Catherines Island Wildlife Survival Center is now a last resort for endangered species of birds and animals, some on the brink of extinction. Zoologist Debbie Belgio said, "We have three areas of exotics. The Asian hornbills, primates which are ...

 MA The riffle snaketail is listed by the state as a threatened species or a species that is likely to reach the point where it is endangered with extinction. On the state's endangered species list are three categories. Species on the list can be ...

 Kenya And so dire is their survival status that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has listed them under Appendix I, which offers them the highest form of protection against poaching. Spotted hyenas are also facing extinction. ...

In January 2007, after a five-year review, the US Fish and Wildlife Service determined that while the American eel was declining in some locations, it did not warrant protection as an endangered species, said Heather Bell, a FWS biologist. ... Eels may go extinct in Lake Ontario Newswatch 50

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 ...

 UK By Simon Duke Final-salary pensions are becoming an endangered species. For the past century, British companies guaranteed their long-serving staff a comfortable lifestyle during their twilight years. The reward for 40 years of hard service was ...

New Zealand Herald  UK Actor and writer Stephen Fry said: 'It's astounding lunacy to serve up endangered species for sushi. 'There's no justification for peddling extinction, yet that is exactly what Nobu is doing in restaurants around the world. 'Nobu's customers should be ...

 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. ...

animals found on RPI land were two females and a calf. Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephant and can live up to 70 years in captivity. They are listed as facing extinction by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

 UK The consequences of such an outbreak could be catastrophic for many already endangered species. A similar threat is already at large in Hawaii, dubbed by many the extinction capital of the world, where dozens of endemic bird species are being wiped out ...

 WA “Only recently have they begun to commit the kind of financial and political capital necessary to save these threatened and endangered species, some of which are on the brink of extinction. We simply cannot afford to waste another decade. ...

guardian.co.uk  UK Credit RZSS. extinction in the 16th Century. The trial is mostly funded thanks to private donations and grants, including up to £1 million from Biffaward and support from People's Postcode Lottery and People's Trust for Endangered Species. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Among the creatures circling the drain toward extinction in California is a black salamander with yellow spots that figured in the downfall of a Bush administration official who oversaw the US Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species program. ...

By Buck Denton People tend to associate the rhino with Africa. However, rhinos are found from India down through Southeast Asia, and some of the most endangered species of rhino are found outside of Africa (although all species of rhino are threatened with extinction).

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 Animal Welfare, Animals, Biology, Environment, Extinction, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, News Picks, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush Endangered Species Regulations, Critically Endangered Spe...

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 Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Extinction, Nature, Science   Tagged: Arkansas, Critically Endangered Species, Extinction, Florida, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Woodpecker    Researchers have used modeling to determine that the ivory-billed woodpecker could have survived the unchecked d...

This week's decision not to protect the Mexican garter snake under the Endangered Species Act underscores just how much time, money and effort is required to declare a species officially "endangered" -- and also how little priority the current administration has placed on species pro...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Kevin Zippel is helping to coordinate the the Amphibian Ark, a global effort to collect amphibians in zoos and aquariums in order to save certain species from extinction.

By Mike Millikin Approximately one in four species of land mammal and one in three marine mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a major new study carried out by some 1,800 scientists in 130 countries. The results, in the form of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, were presented at the I...

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...

Edith's Checkerspot butterfly is an example, Parmesan said. At the southern end of its range in Mexico, the species appears to be going extinct at a rate four times higher than at the northern end in Canada. The extinction rate is also 2.5 times greater at lower elevations than above 8,000 fee...