Gorillas now 'critically endangered'
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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 Wednesday by the World Conservation Union.
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Rebel troops who killed and ate two critically endangered mountain gorillas in Central Africa earlier this month have agreed to end the slaughter, conservationists say.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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A rare species of mountain sheep could face extinction if it is not given a safe haven from the conflicts tearing apart its natural habitat in central and south Asia, conservationists say.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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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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Almost 16,000 species are now threatened by extinction, according to the World Conservation Union&#39;s annual Red List released today.
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study 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 UN meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity&#39;s closest living relatives, the orangutan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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Four gorillas at the center of a five-year international tussle will finally return to Cameroon at the end of November, the South African government said Friday.
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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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Park rangers in Virunga National Park, home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas, are on the front lines of Congo's war. More than 120 rangers have been killed in this lush sanctuary over the last decade.
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Washington - About one third of amphibians are under threat of extinction, according to researchers who carried out a global census.
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Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.