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Canada wildlife decline ‘most severe’ in decades

MONTREAL, Canada—Biodiversity in Canada has plunged 10 percent over the last half century, with hundreds of species facing extinction, the World Wildlife Fund said...

World’s first ‘de-extinction’: Scientists resurrect dire wolves

Researchers at bioscience and genetic engineering company Colossal on Monday reported bringing back the dire wolf species from extinction through genetically engineered wolves bearing...

US moves to save once-common monarch butterflies from extinction

Washington, United States - The United States is moving to grant federal protections to the monarch butterfly -- a once-common species recognizable by its striking...

Modern phoenix: The bird brought back from extinction in Japan

Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird rescued from extinction in...

Australia warns koalas ‘endangered’

Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of...

Animals face extinction threat

Glenmore Park"•When volunteer Sarah Price found a baby kangaroo frightened but miraculously alive in the pouch of its dying mother surrounded by the embers...

Extinction

"Pity the poor 107 million homo sapiens in the Philippines."     One million species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction, some within decades. They...

Yangtze turtle facing extinction

Shanghai—The world’s rarest turtle has moved a step closer to extinction after a female specimen died in a Chinese zoo, leaving behind just three...

Hummingbird’s new species found

A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in a cold, barren highland...

Passenger pigeons, now extinct, needed big flocks to survive

MIAMI"•Passenger pigeons were once so plentiful they could darken the daytime sky when they flew over North America, but oddly, their abundance may have...

Race on to save the cheetah

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa"•Lounging in the shade of a tree, Heathcliff the cheetah oozes sleek grace and power, but he is captive behind a wire...

Hornbill nears extinction

PONTIANAK, Indonesia"•A striking bird with monochrome plumage and a formidable “beak”, the helmeted hornbill is being hunted to extinction, one of the latest victims...

Philippine eagle hatches, a first in 2 years–curator

A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically-endangered giant bird’s fight against extinction. Found only in the rapidly vanishing...

Many primates facing extinction, say experts

SINGAPORE—More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned Tuesday, as they called for urgent action...
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