Endangered: islands, not just birds and bees
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Blog: The World Monuments Fund issues a list of the 100 most endangered cultural sites in world.
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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WASHINGTON -- Guam's tropical forests are silent. The rattling, screeching, and cawing of the island's native birds have been erased by the brown tree snake, a devastating predator accidentally introduced to the island shortly after World War II.
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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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When I first visited the Galapagos Islands Marine Reserve, I expected to see an untouched paradise. While it is still beautiful to the naked eye, behind the scenes, all is not well. While there, I learned that the famous sharks of the Galapagos were under siege for their fins.
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By BRANDY BENEDICT  Active nests of an extremely rare bird species have been found in Wisconsin, a first for the state.  The birds, Kirtland's warblers, are classified as an endangered species and have been observed nesting only in the northern part of lower Michigan.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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A tiny fish that no one eats or cares about may tell researchers a lot about the health of Caribbean coral reefs and where to focus conservation efforts.
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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.
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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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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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Though the US Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Tinian monarch from the list of threatened and endangered species earlier this year, it plans to continue to monitor the species&#39; levels on that island.
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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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When faced with extinction, butterflies on two South Pacific islands quickly developed genetic defences that helped them fight back, a team of international researchers said on Tuesday.
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Australia's island state of Tasmania risks losing its status as a &quot;Noah's Ark&quot; for rare species with the discovery that foxes have probably begun breeding there, environmentalists have warned.
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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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More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International.