Almost all species of lemur, the small saucer-eyed primates native to Madagascar, face extinction, an international conservation body warned on Thursday, adding to its growing list of animals and plants under threat.
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Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria’s Mbe mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts.
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NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) — Around 40 dorcas gazelles, an endangered species, have been slaughtered by poachers in one of Africa’s
Read moreWildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for unreasonably delaying and failing to comply with a 4-year-old court order to correct errors and revise its critical habitat for Canada lynx.
Read moreThe California State Water Resources Control Board’s emergency orders during a drought, which set minimum water flow requirements for three tributaries of the Sacramento River, were not unreasonable or arbitrary, an appeals court in the state ruled. The orders were necessary to protect Chinook salmon and steelhead trout — two threatened fish species.
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Activists in China have released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the armadillo-like animal whose numbers in the country have dropped to near extinction levels.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it would remove the Borax Lake chub, a fish native to Oregon, from the list of endangered wildlife. The agency said the threats to the species have been reduced to a point where it is no longer threatened.
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The Trump administration announced plans to allow oil and gas development on a national monument that is home to endangered species and unspoiled wilderness stashed in between the most populous parts of the state.
Read moreThe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sued Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross et al. in the Court of International Trade for failing to ban fish imports whose nets cause the death of Maui dolphins, an endangered species with only 57 in existence.
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The armed rangers set off at dusk in pursuit of poachers. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a new alertness, and a new fear.
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Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue.
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Fewer wetlands in the Great Plains have contributed to larger flocks of endangered whooping cranes during migration cycles, a phenomenon that could benefit the bird’s recovery or intensify risks from extreme weather and disease outbreaks, according to a study released Thursday.
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Toxic smoke killed endangered Australian mice far from raging summer bushfires, in what researchers say is the first confirmed example of animals dying from inhaling fumes outside burning areas.
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Rescuers in Mexico were partially able to free a humpback whale that became entangled in a fishing net illegally set inside a refuge for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, a conservationist group said Monday.
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Nearly wiped out by agricultural pesticides in the 1950s, Louisiana’s state bird the brown pelican has made a tremendous comeback. Now, thanks to 150,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand and help from $18.7 million of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for the catastrophic oil spill a decade ago, one of the pelicans’ essential nesting grounds is also coming back.
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The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said Friday.
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The federal government is asking vessels to slow down in an area south of Nantucket because approximately one eighth of the worldwide population of an endangered whale has been spotted nearby.
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Another endangered orca is missing and presumed dead in the Pacific Northwest, a large male who had fathered many of the population’s calves in the past three decades.
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The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday.
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Fewer sea turtles were found stranded on Maui last year than in 2018, although officials say most cases continue to be caused by fishing gear.
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