25 primate species 'about to disappear'
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Picture gallery: the most at-risk of our endangered cousins
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Description: A long-awaited assessment of frog, toad and salamander populations around the world finds nearly one-third of species are threatened with 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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Almost a third of the world's amphibian species are confronted by the prospect of extinction, naturalists say.
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(National-NBC) Dec. 14, 2004 - Conservation biologists say ten percent of all bird species could be extinct in the next 100 years.
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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The world risks losing many of its rare livestock breeds unless conservation steps are taken now, a study warns.
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About one third of amphibians are under threat of extinction in a new sign of the world&#39;s deteriorating environment, according to researchers who carried out a global census.
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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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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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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening future cures for disease, experts warn.
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Close to a third of the world&#39;s amphibians are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the first comprehensive global study of the creatures.
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By Steve Connor Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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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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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 continued spread of the Ebola virus, along with hunting, could wipe out the species, researchers said.
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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.