Rare leopard 'faces extinction'
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Russia is urged to reconsider a pipeline plan which it is feared could wipe out the world's rarest big cat.
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Researchers in Vietnam announced Friday they have caught one of the world's most endangered turtles in the wild, a development which could bolster efforts to protect the species from hunters and collectors.
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MOSCOW - Russian and Chinese conservationists began searching Thursday for signs of the last remaining Amur leopards in Russia's Far East and adjacent Chinese border regions, as part of a triennial census of the nearly extinct cats.
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Habitat destruction is forcing India's endangered tigers to new grounds, including high mountains which have a sufficient prey base but are not known to be the natural home of the big cats.
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Conservationists in Pakistan have for the first time attached a satellite tracking collar to a snow leopard with the aim of gathering crucial information for efforts to save the endangered big cats.
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The tiger population of India will vanish within a handful of years, and governments in India and China have not done enough to stem the rapid decline, environmentalists warned on Wednesday.
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Close to a third of the world&#39;s amphibians are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the first comprehensive global study of the creatures.
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Â· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants  Â· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction.
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A third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union.
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Skin and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in parts of Indonesia for traditional medicine and jewelry despite bans, a trend that could mean the big cats' eventual extinction, a conservation group warned Wednesday.
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BEIJING -- A species of rare, nearly blind white dolphins that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition said yesterday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
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Booming global trade in rare forms of wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African lizards is threatening many of them with extinction, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.
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South China tigers, among the rarest of the five remaining tiger subspecies, are on the verge of extinction in the wild with less than 30 remaining, Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing a recent survey.
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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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GENEVA - The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before.