Gorillas head race to extinction
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Gorillas, corals and vultures are all  closer to extinction, according to the latest bleak analysis of the natural world.
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Photo: AFP A quick-thinking Dutchman has registered "Bokito", the name of a gorilla which broke out of his enclosure in Rotterdam Zoo last week, as a brand. via The Age
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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By Arthur Max, Associated Press  THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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People are plundering the world's resources at a pace that outstrips the planet's capacity to sustain life, the environmental group WWF said Thursday.
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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 of extinction according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity.
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Within decades, the vast majority of the orangutans' Southeast Asian rain forest home will disappear unless action is taken now to curb rampant illegal logging, the UN says.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes inhospitable to prized species.
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Brazilian scientists hope that two captivity-raised male Amazon manatees they plan to reintroduce to the wild will spark a bout of reproduction that might save the endangered species from extinction.
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A sharp rise in poaching is placing some rhino populations at risk of extinction, a report says.
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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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GENEVA - The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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A THIRD of the world&#39;s frogs, toads and newts are on the brink of extinction thanks to pollution and loss of their habitat, a study published today warns.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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Five gorillas in Congo that have been straying into villages searching for love are to get their own "bachelor island".
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Global biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and the prognosis given by one of the world&#39;s leading conservation bodies, at the opening of a major environment conference here, is alarming.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet