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Marine life hit by ‘perfect storm’ as Red List reveals species near extinction

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Illegal and unsustainable fishing, fossil fuel exploration, climate crisis and disease are pushing marine species to the brink of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, with populations of dugong, abalone and pillar coral at risk of disappearing forever. Marine life is facing a ‘perfect storm’ of human overconsumption, …

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Three ways Cop15 can help save a million species from extinction

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Jhis time must be different. In the history of UN agreements on biodiversity, governments have never achieved the goals they set for themselves. We’ve all heard the dramatic warnings: the abundance of life on Earth is rapidly declining and some scientists are warning of a sixth mass extinction. But real action has yet to follow …

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Making connections between nature and our health | Globalnews.ca

Making connections between nature and our health | Globalnews.ca

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What’s in a garden? In the case of Nina-Marie Lister, a hive of biodiversity. Lister, a professor of urban and regional planning at Metropolitan University of Toronto, doesn’t call his front yard a “garden.” No, it’s an urban “meadow,” teeming with all manner of grasses, shrubs, flowers, and unwieldy trees. Weeds for some, biodiversity for …

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Smilesaurus, an iconic gorgonopsian that lived during the late Permian in what is now South Africa.

Monstrous ‘gorgonians’ survived a mass extinction, but they were a ‘walking dead clade’

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Reports of a mass extinction of “gorgonians” at the end of the Permian period have been greatly exaggerated, according to new research. These strange paleo-beasts were thought to have died out along with most other life on Earth at the time, but scientists have recently discovered that some of these so-called gorgonians survived into the …

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Defying Extinction - Asian Animals Found Thrive Near Humans

Defying Extinction – Asian Animals Found Thrive Near Humans

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Sumatran tiger at the edge of the forest. Credit: UQ/Matthew Luskin Some of Asia’s largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by coexisting with humans, according to a study led by the University of Queensland. The researchers combed through paleontological records to compare the past distribution of Asia’s 14 …

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POACHING CRISIS: Kruger National Park rhinos are on the verge of extinction, we must declare an emergency

POACHING CRISIS: Kruger National Park rhinos are on the verge of extinction, we must declare an emergency

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Under the title Progress, SANParcs 2022 Annual Report has a deeply disturbing and immensely sad target claimed as a success: only 195 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2021 – an average of one every two days. The success, it seems, is that the year before it was a rhino every 36 hours. In its …

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A species of bat native to the Great Lakes on the brink of extinction

A species of bat native to the Great Lakes on the brink of extinction

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The northern myotis is threatened with extinction due to a deadly disease, prompting federal wildlife authorities to classify the cave species as endangered. This is a last-ditch effort to save the small flying mammal considered essential for pollination and insect control across its huge natural range – much of northern North America, including 38 US …

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How rare regent honeyeaters learn their mating song despite fears of extinction

How rare regent honeyeaters learn their mating song despite fears of extinction

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The numbers of one of Australia’s rarest birds, the regent honeyeater, are so low that this breeding season conservationists have struggled to spot any in the wild. Key points: There are 250 to 350 regent honeyeaters left in the wild A study concluded that if nothing was done to help the species, it would be …

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Earth could experience a 7th mass extinction, not the 6th – ‘A real decrease in the abundance of organisms’

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New research indicates that a mass extinction occurred 550 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period. Message from creatures 550 million years old to the present. Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests that environmental changes caused the first such event in recorded …

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The Earth's Most Unique Birds at High Risk of Extinction: Studying 99% of All Living Bird Species

The Earth’s Most Unique Birds at High Risk of Extinction: Studying 99% of All Living Bird Species

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Agami heron (Agamia agami). Credit: Joe Tobias Bird species with extreme or uncommon combinations of traits face the highest risk of extinction, a new study finds. The results are published in the journal Functional ecology. A new study by researchers at Imperial College London reveals that the planet’s most unique birds are also the most …

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