Unesco adds Galapagos to endangered list
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The Galapagos Islands may have to be listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the chairman of Unesco's World Heritage Committee warned yesterday.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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Two years after denying Endangered Species Act protection to killer whales that live much of the year near Washington's San Juan Islands, the federal fisheries agency said Thursday it plans to list the struggling population as a threatened species.
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More than 16,300 species of animals and plants are on the verge of disappearing from the planet, with nearly 200 more species approaching extinction within the last year, according to the World Conservation Union&#39;s 2007 Red List of Threatened Species.
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Travel: Tower Hamlets has made a surprise appearance on a list of the world's 100 most endangered places.
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The brown pelican, once on the brink of extinction, has become so abundant that it should be removed from the list of endangered species, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said on Friday.
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The world's highest peak should put on a UN danger list to force action on global warming, campaigners say.
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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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By Arthur Max, Associated Press  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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The Tower of London and Westminster have escaped being listed as endangered world heritage sites this year, the British government said.
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New agreement on whales and dolphins conservation    WELLINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A new international framework to conserve Pacific Island whales and dolphins (cetaceans) and their habitats has been endorsed by nine countries.
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December 12 2004 0915 - In a press release, Nature Trust (Malta) voiced its concern over the exclusion of the Ta' Cenc site from Natura 2000, a list of 36 sites in Malta and Gozo having been targeted for ...
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The World Heritage Committee will soon pick another list of natural and human-made wonders most in need of protection
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The world&#39;s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, the recognized global watchdog on endangered species said Wednesday in announcing its annual list of most vulnerable wildlife.
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They say as many as 122 species may have become extinct since 1980 and a third of known amphibians face oblivion. Naturalists describe the creatures as sensitive indicators of the health of the wider environment.
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A total of 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, according to the so- called Red List of endangered species produced by the IUCN World Conservation Union.