Amphibians on the verge of extinction
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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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Almost 16,000 species are now threatened by extinction, according to the World Conservation Union&#39;s annual Red List released today.
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Mankind's closest relatives are teetering on the brink of their first extinctions in more than a century, hunted by humans for food and medicine and squeezed from forest homes, a report on endangered primates said on Friday.
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By GRAHAM GRANT  AS Scotland's most endangered mammal, the water vole has come close to extinction while its predators thrived.   For 50 years, a growing population of mink has caused a catastrophic decline in the number of water voles on our riverbanks.
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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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More birds than ever are threatened with extinction, according to the latest evaluation by the conservation group BirdLife International.
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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 percent will be on the brink of extinction.
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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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As many as 122 species have disappeared since 1980, and 1,900 are in danger of becoming extinct.
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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 world&#39;s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, the recognized global watchdog on endangered species said Wednesday in announcing its annual list of most vulnerable wildlife.
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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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A recent census of the world's primate population finds that many of them are in danger of disappearing
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Almost a third of the world&#39;s frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are threatened with extinction within 100 years, according to a study.
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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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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.
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest