Third of primates 'under threat'
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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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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Gorillas, corals and vultures are all  closer to extinction, according to the latest bleak analysis of the natural world.
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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 list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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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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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 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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Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports.
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South Africa needs to consider  restarting elephant culls because growing numbers of the mammal  now threaten local habitats, the WWF conservation group has  said.
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They may thrive on land and in water, but amphibians everywhere are in serious trouble and up to a third of species are threatened with extinction, a troubling new study said on Friday.
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Scientists struggle to contain an anthrax epidemic which has killed nearly 200 hippos in a Ugandan national park.
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Low sperm counts and other  reproductive problems are preventing pregnancy among Malaysia&#39;s  endangered rhinos, a worrying trend that wildlife experts say  could hasten its extinction.
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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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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From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the World Conservation Union said on Wednesday in its annual Red List.
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Low sperm counts and other reproductive problems are preventing pregnancy among Malaysia&#39;s endangered rhinos, a worrying trend that wildlife experts say could hasten the animals&#39; extinction.