Medical plants 'face extinction'
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening future cures for disease, experts warn.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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One in five herbal products tied to an ancient Indian form of alternative medicine could contain potentially toxic levels of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, a new survey finds.
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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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More than 15,000 species, from sharks to frogs to fir trees, are facing extinction and the total is rising faster than ever before, conservationists and scientists said Wednesday.
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An herbal medicine used in Asia for 2,000 years can reduce the impact of dementia, a small study suggests.
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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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By Steve Dube  A report by a wild plant charity warns today that agri- environment schemes are failing to help Britain's rare cornfield flowers.
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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 VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released yesterday that found a third of all amphibian species worldwide are threatened with extinction.
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Researchers have found harmful levels of lead, mercury, and/or arsenic in one out of every five ayurvedic herbal medicinal products mainly manufactured in India.
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The future of medicine in the UK is at risk due to the closure of university science departments, doctors say.
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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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Booming global trade in rare forms of wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African lizards is threatening many of them with extinction, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.
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By Nisha Sabanayagam; Ranjeetha Pakiam; Minderjeet Kaur; Teresa Yong;  THE tipping point is very close.   Environmentalists warn that once past it, our countrys environmental deterioration will lead to irreversible consequences.  It may already have happened.
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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.