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300+ Species Just Joined the List of Threatened Plants And Animals
Overfishing, overhunting and habitat loss drove many of the new additions
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How a Misdrawn Map Put 1,400 Chimps and a Rare Plant in Peril
Miners and farmers are moving into a protected forest in Congo thanks in part to an administrative blooper
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Giant Tortoises Have Made a Comeback From 15 to 1,000
Española giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Galapagos National Park and are breeding on their own
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In Australia, Curiosity® Really Will Kill Feral Cats
Don’t feel too bad for the cats, though: they kill millions of birds and little mammals every day
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In an Effort to Stop Poaching, Namibia Will Remove All of Its Rhinos’ Horns
That extreme measure will likely not be enough to stop the killing, however, so the country is also bolstering its anti-poaching patrols
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How Endangered Snails Are Endangering Hawaiian Public Radio
The mating season of protected snails delay radio repairs during pledge season
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Chinese Sturgeon Is on the Brink of Extinction After 140 Million Years
Last year, the sturgeon didn’t reproduce at all in the wild
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Once Mexico Had a Wealth of Corn; Now It’s Left With a Genetically Boring Monocrop
This lack of diversity does not bode well for food sustainability and economics in light of climate change
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How Does Bao Bao Celebrate Her Birthday? With Cake, Bamboo and Hundreds of Fans
The National Zoo hosted a traditional Chinese ceremony for the giant panda’s first birthday
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Surprise! Science Shows That Elephant Poaching Is Unsustainable
For the first time, scientists have made a comprehensive tally of illegal killing rates across Africa
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Shama, the Red Panda, Has Died
Shama, a red panda at the National Zoo, died on Saturday
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The Real Cougars of Malibu Have Lives Full of Murder, Bad Sex and Poison
But a simple bridge over the freeway could help save the charismatic big cats
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Why Everyone From Conservationists to Yao Ming to Andrew Cuomo Supports Banning Ivory Sales
Because of corruption and laundering, any system of legal ivory trade threatens the continued existence of elephants
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Eels Are Victims of Noise Pollution
Critically endangered European eels get distracted by man-made noise, making them more likely to get eaten by a predator
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Removing Just a Few Trees Can Lower Tropical Animal Biodiversity
Selective logging can halve the number of species of mammals and amphibians in a forest
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How Will Japan Celebrate Summer Without Unagi
The freshwater eel is now endangered, but who is to blame and what are the best substitutes?
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This Market Along the Burma-China Border Is a Veritable Noah’s Ark of Critically Endangered Animals
Photographer Alex Hofford exposed the extent of the wildlife trade openly taking place at this infamous market
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Borneo Has Lost 30 Percent of Its Forest in the Past 40 Years
Borneo’s tropical forests have fallen at twice the rate as the rest of the world’s felled rainforests
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Why Freshwater Dolphins Are Some of the World’s Most Endangered Mammals
In Pakistan, dams and drainage has reduced the endangered Indus River dolphin’s range by 80 percent
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China Finally Came Clean About Its Shady Tiger Skin Trade
Whether or not this will improve the situation for tigers, however, remains to be seen
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