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Algae Bloom Kills Sea Birds, Other Sea Life In Southern California In Record Numbers (April 28, 2007) -- The staff of the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro, California braces for the dead and dying birds they know will come, every spring. This spring is different. It's much worse, ... > full story

Whales Entangled In Fishing Lines: What Can Be Done? (April 27, 2007) -- Since 2002 there have been at least 21 reports of right whales entangled in fishing lines, and scar analyses indicates as many as 45-60 right whales become entangled each year. A sinking line can ... > full story

Turtles Are Loyal In Feeding As Well As In Breeding (April 26, 2007) -- A research team has discovered that, after laying their eggs, sea turtles travel hundreds of miles to feed at exactly the same sites. The research shows for the first time that marine turtles appear ... > full story

Commercial Hunting May Be Largest Threat To Tropical Forests (April 26, 2007) -- Recent research considers the consequences of commercial hunting in the tropics, including its direct impacts on vertebrates and indirect impacts on plants. Using more than 100 forest sites scattered ... > full story

DNA Testing Reveals Continued, Illegal Trade In Fins Of Endangered Basking Sharks (April 23, 2007) -- Despite regulations by some countries to protect the behemoth basking shark from further population declines, a new study published in the current on-line edition of Animal Conservation reports that ... > full story

Amur Leopard Still On The Brink Of Extinction, Scientists Say (April 18, 2007) -- A new census of the world's most endangered cat, the Amur or Far Eastern leopard, shows that as few as 25 to 34 are left in the wild, renewing fears for the future of the species. The census was ... > full story

Climate Change Could Trigger 'Boom And Bust' Population Cycles Leading To Extinction (April 17, 2007) -- Climate change could trigger "boom and bust" population cycles that make animal species more vulnerable to extinction. Dramatic population fluctuations make species more vulnerable to extinction due ... > full story

Over Half The World's Magnolia Species Face Extinction In Their Native Forests (April 15, 2007) -- Experts say over half the world's magnolia species face extinction in their native forest habitats. Magnolias are among the most ancient groups of flowering plants and have long been cultivated by ... > full story

U.S. Recommends Delisting Of West Indian Manatee As Endangered Species (April 11, 2007) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the completion and availability of its five-year status review of the West Indian manatee, a federally-listed species protected under the ... > full story

One Of The World's Rarest Rabbits Spotted In Sumatra (April 10, 2007) -- Hippity, hoppity...click! So went the latest appearance of one of the world's rarest rabbits, captured on film by a camera trap in the rain forests of Indonesia, according to researchers from the ... > full story

Climate Change: Natural Wonders Of The World Face Destruction (April 5, 2007) -- From the Amazon to the Himalayas, ten of the world's greatest natural wonders face destruction if the climate continues to warm at the current rate, warns the World Widlife Fund. Released ahead of ... > full story

Global Warming: Research Shows Need For Protected Areas (April 4, 2007) -- On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release a report on how climate change will accelerate extinctions of species. New research in the journal Frontiers in Environment and ... > full story

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Black Rhinoceros -- The Black Rhinoceros is a mammal of the Perissodactyla order which lives in the eastern areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The black rhinoceros ... > full article

Endangered species -- An endangered species is a population of an organism (usually a taxonomic species), which because it is either few in number or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters, leaving ... > full article

Sea turtle -- Sea turtles are found in all the world's oceans with the exception of the Arctic Ocean, and some species travel between oceans. The Flatback turtle is found solely on the northern coast of Australia. ... > full article

Columbian White-tailed Deer -- The Columbian white-tailed deer is one of 30 subspecies of the white-tailed deer in North America, and one of two subspecies found in Oregon, the other being the Idaho white-tailed ... > full article

Giant Otter -- The giant otter is the largest of the world's otters. It is native to South America but is endangered and is also very rare in captivity. The Giant Otter can reach up to 6 ft (1.8 m) in length, and ... > full article

Conservation status -- The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when ... > full article

Black-footed Ferret -- TThe Black-footed Ferret is a small carnivorous North American mammal. The Black-footed Ferret is the most endangered mammal in North America, according to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ... > full article

Manatee -- Manatees are large aquatic mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The Trichechidae differ from the Dugongidae in the shape of the skull and the shape of the tail. Manatees' tails are paddle-shaped, ... > full article

Marine conservation -- Marine conservation, also known as marine resources conservation, is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. Marine conservation focusses on limiting human-caused damage to ... > full article

Leopard -- Leopards (Panthera pardus) are one of the four 'big cats' of the genus Panthera. They range in size from one to almost two metres long, and weigh between 30 and 70 kg. The leopard is a sexually ... > full article

Lemur -- Lemurs are part of a class of primates known as prosimians, and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. This type of primate was the evolutionary predecessor of monkeys and apes (simians). Lemurs are ... > full article

Tiger -- Tigers are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus. They are predatory carnivores and the largest and most powerful of all living cats. Most tigers live in ... > full article

Zoo -- A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is an institution where mainly wild and exotic animals are restricted within enclosures, bred and displayed to the public. Most of today’s non-profit and ... > full article

Decline in amphibian populations -- Dramatic declines in amphibian populations, including population crashes and mass localized extinction, have been noted since the 1980s from locations all over the world, and amphibian declines are ... > full article

Mountain Zebra -- Mountain Zebra consist of two species, namely the Cape Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) and the Hartmann's Mountain Zebra (Equus hartmannae). Previously they were seen as two subspecies of the Mountain ... > full article

Bonobo -- The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. The ... > full article

Cottontop Tamarin -- The Cottontop Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), also known as the Pinche Tamarin, is a small New World monkey weighing less than 1lb (0.5 kg). It is an endangered species found in tropical forest edges and ... > full article

American Alligator -- The American Alligator is a member of one of the three families of crocodile-like reptiles, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years. ... > full article

Biodiversity Action Plan -- A Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats, which is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus ... > full article

Japanese Crane -- The Red-crowned Crane is a large crane and is the second rarest crane in the world. In SE Asia, it is known as a symbol of luck and fidelity. The estimated population of the species is only 1,700 - ... > full article