Tag - Endangered species
Sounds like US are venturing to jeopardize the balance of Nature and its possession. The US administration has given acquiescence to seven oil companies to drill oil in the Chuckchi Sea, which is the habitat of a large number of polar bears. Sounds...
I remember I was in the fifth standard when I happened to read an article in some magazine about the extinct species of India. Through that article I came to know certain things which I never knew before. For example, very few people would know that...
Talk about having a bad day at the office. This is the height of insensitive nonsense that makes human race look like a bunch of disillusioned, heartless demons. I’m sorry if I’m not being very objective, but its damn tuff to be objective when you...
Even as world human populations grow, other life is shrinking. With the imminent and ever-growing threat to endangered species, how much longer will they be around? This escalating crisis of earth’s biodiversity loss is moving at a fast rate,...
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Red list, The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, IUCN, Western Gorilla, Gorilla gorilla, Western Lowland Gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, Yangtze River Dolphin Baiji, Lipotes vexillifer, Red-headed Vulture, Sarcogyps calvus, White-backed Vulture, Gyps africanus, Rüppell’s Griffon, Gyps rueppellii, Endangered species, extinct, Critically Endangered, Environment
An increase in tourism, vehicles and a deadly frog fungus is being held responsible for landing a rare Japanese wildcat on the ‘critically endangered list’.
This change in status by the Japanese Environment Ministry is the latest indication of...
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Iriomote Jima, Wild Cat, Japan, Endangered Species, Japanese Environment Ministry, Iriomote Cat, Masako Izawa, Iriomote Wildlife Conservation Centre, Chytrid Fungus, Tourism, Environment
In a move to protect wildlife and ensure that endangered species stay protected from poachers, Britain has strengthened its laws through the Habitats Regulations and new Offshore Marine Conservation Regulations. The new law proclaims that the offenders...
The soul of Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, popularly know as ‘The Crocodile Hunter’, must be giving million of thanks to Chinese police who saved lives of 270 crocodiles. From the southwestern region of Guangxi, bordering Vietnam, police confiscated...
Amidst the looming threat of extinction to global flora and fauna, the news of relasing 600 Siberian tigers into the wild has come as a whiff of fresh air. The tale is really inspiring and perhaps a worth replicating example for many other similar...
The birth of 84 endangered Siberian tiger cubs since March in China this year has given a new hope to the environmentalists, as it is a boost to the survival chances of the endangered species.
All the cubs in the Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Centre...
The marine world is under threat due to reckless human activity. The latest to join in the list of endangered species is the sea turtle of the Caribbeans. This famed turtle is now in the peril because of over-fishing and illegal trade.
Traffic, a...
Exotic pets are often coveted as prized showpieces and fashion sustains on slaughtered animal skins, this is what fuels exports in endangered and new species. EU seems to be encouraging the same as it becomes the world's major importer of caviar,...
With each passing day the world is facing extinction of many species and the main factors that contribute to it are habitat loss and poaching of these poor species. Same is happening with northern white rhinoceros as Nadi, a sparse northern white...
With many of south-east Asian species being banned from international trade for their being critically endangered, can ironically be found sold openly in restaurants and markets in China's southern province of Guangdong -- famous for its exotic...
It apparently seems the recently adopted measures for protecting the habitat of the Sand Mountain blue butterfly is successful in snatching the species from the brink of extinction. During a survey made by the fish and wildlife officials on the...
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