Eleven new animal, plant species found in Vietnam: WWF
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Eleven new animal and plant species have been discovered in a remote area of central Vietnam, conservation group WWF announced Wednesday.
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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.    A team of researchers led by Lian Pin Koh of the National University of Singapore studied some 12,200 plants and animals considered threatened or endangered, and calculated that an additional 6,300 dependent insects, mites, fungi and other species could be considered endangered...
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Science & environment: Species found in remote Green Corridor region include a snake and two butterflies, WWF reveals.
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BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- The South China Tiger is listed as one of the ten most endangered animals by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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SHANGHAI, China - The birth of twin pandas at a research center brought the number of the endangered species born in captivity this year in China to a record 25, a news report said Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Oct 14 (IPS) -  The great white shark, Irrawaddy dolphin, minke  whale and the ramin tree were among the big winners at the  endangered species sweepstakes of the Convention on International  Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as its 13th Conference of the  Parties drew to a close in the Thai capital on Thursday.
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Description: A long-awaited assessment of frog, toad and salamander populations around the world finds nearly one-third of species are threatened with extinction.
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Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia's Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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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.
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Vietnam wants help from foreign epidemiologists, pathologists, toxicologists, veterinarians and lab technicians.
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A team of international scientists have found new fish and insect species, including a monster cockroach, living in caves in Indonesia's remote East Kalimantan province, the group announced Wednesday.
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Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly to help it stick to rocks, WWF International said Tuesday.
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The World Wildlife Fund says animals and trees from Asia dominate its list of the 10 species most likely to become extinct because of illegal trade.
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BANGKOK - The future looked brighter for leaf-tailed geckos and great white sharks after a UN meeting on trade in wild plants and animals.
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Great white sharks are among many endangered species to gain better international protection at a meeting of 166 countries in Thailand. Restrictions on black rhinos were eased.
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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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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.