2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals 15,589 species at ...
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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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MORE than 6000 plants, insects and animals should be added to the list of the world&#39;s endangered species, according to a study published yesterday.
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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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Nearly a third of the world's apes and monkeys are threatened with extinction because of human activity, much of it illegal, a World Conservation Union report concludes.
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More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said on Thursday.
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The National Audubon Society&#39;s State of the Birds report draws on data collected between 1966 and 2003 for 654 American bird species.
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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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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 per cent will be on the brink, according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity.
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MILAN, Mar 12 (TierramÃ©rica) - Despite the widespread reputation that associates   sharks with death, this fish species is very vulnerable, and  some  varieties are at risk of extinction. Of the 40 shark  species found in  European seas, one-third are threatened by  intensive and illegal fishing,  sport fishing and accidental  capture, according to the World Conservation  Union (IUCN).
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Extinction of a species is not just a permanent loss of biological diversity, but may have ripple effects as co-dependent species suffer from the absence of what may be linked predator-prey relationships.    Astrobiology Magazine -- 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 Alberta...
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Hedgehogs and house sparrows are on an updated list of species and habitats which need protection.
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About a quarter of all plants known to be threatened in the wild are growing in the world's botanic gardens.
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One in 10 of all bird species is likely to disappear by the end of the century, according to a study published today. A further 15 per cent of birds could be on the brink
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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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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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Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century.