Orangutan Habitat May Be Gone in 15 Years, UN Report Says
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Within decades, the vast majority of the orangutans' Southeast Asian rain forest home will disappear unless action is taken now to curb rampant illegal logging, the UN says.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- Ten percent of all bird species are set to go extinct by the end of this century, US researchers said on Monday.
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Global warming over the coming century   could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the   dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all   species, a scientist said on Thursday.
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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, conservationists and scientists said 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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The next century definitely will not be for the birds as the changing world takes a toll on many species. By 2100, about 10 percent of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting
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Almost a third of the world&#39;s frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are threatened with extinction within 100 years, according to a study.
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The fires have killed about a thousand orangutans, and experts say if the pace of destruction continues, the animals may be extinct within a decade.
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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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Â· Up to 900 threatened by 2050, says global analysisÂ· Habitat loss dwarfs effects of climate change
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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Scientists warn that the Malaysian populations of several species of sea turtles are on the brink of collapse and could disappear without urgent action to eliminate poaching and other dangers.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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By 2100, about 10% of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting and climate change, conservation biologists estimate.
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World Heritage sites such as Australia's   Great Barrier Reef or Kathmandu in Nepal could be taken off the   tourism map by 2020 due to the effects of climate change and   too many visitors, a think tank said on Friday.
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As part of the most comprehensive study on worldwide avian biodiversity to date, researchers from Stanford University predict that within a century, 10 percent of bird species in the world will be extinct, with an additional 15 percent endangered.