One-third of amphibians face threat of extinction
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A third of the world&#39;s amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first-ever global survey of the animals.
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Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world&#39;s habitats in talks in
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Disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, according to the first global assessment of amphibians.
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More than 200 European bird species, including 70 in the UK, are under threat, a study warns.
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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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The rabbit-size rodents were once said to be headed for extinction, but now scientists say there are three times more of them on the African island than had been thought.
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Unique and endangered wildlife living on spectacular limestone outcrops in Southeast Asia face the threat of extinction due to mining and other human impacts, according to a new study.
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The global extinction crisis is worse than thought, because thousands of &quot;affiliated&quot; species also at risk do not figure in calculations.
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Science & environment: Almost half of common European birds are heading towards 'continental extinction', a new report warns
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A new study estimates that if the nearly 12,200 animals and plants currently listed as threatened or endangered disappear, another 6,300 "affiliate" species could also be lost.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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November 17, 2004 (Bangkok, Thailand) - The world&#39;s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and a companion study of the data, the Global Species Assessment (GSA).
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Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world's habitats in talks in Bangkok, but governments need to work harder to promote conservation, an international environment agency said Thursday.
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A recent census of the world's primate population finds that many of them are in danger of disappearing
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THE GLOBAL extinction crisis ignores thousands of affiliated species that are also at risk of being wiped out, making the list of endangered species much larger and more serious than originally thought, says a study produced in part at the University of
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More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International.
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As many as 122 species have disappeared since 1980, and 1,900 are in danger of becoming extinct.