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Big Discovery in Big Cat Biodiversity
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, big cats, biodiversity, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 12 hours ago - tonic.com
Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, had initially been on a quest to track and document gibbons in a remote, dense Indian rain forest. But monkeys are so 2004. This is the year of the tiger after all, and both World Wildlife Fund and National
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Biodiversity Is Life Biodiversity Is Our Life
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, environment, protection )

Cher
- 4 days ago - fauna-flora.org
Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is essential to sustaining the living networks and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on.
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Five Things You Can Do to Protect Biodiversity
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - fauna-flora.org
Humans are part of nature's rich diversity and have the power to protect or destroy it. Here are a few simple things you can do that make a difference.
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Cape Bear: To Plan for the Bears in 2010, the Year of Biodiversity
Animals  (tags: cape bears, conservation, biodiversity, pyrenean bears, protection, threatened )

Simone
- 29 days ago - paysdelours.com
Association coordination Pyrenean bear calls for a new restoration plan for the bear population. 40 years ago already, the first steps to protect the bears were taken (1972) ... And the bear case and symbolic indicator of biodiversity in the
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BIODIVERSITY: Conservation Groups Pounce on Year of the Tiger
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, BIODIVERSITY, protection, humans, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 35 days ago - ipsnews.net
The Lunar New Year that begins Sunday will mark the start of the Chinese Zodiac's Year of the Tiger, but conservationists are saying 2010 will have much more than symbolic significance for the Asian big cat.
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Scientists Identify Ecuador's Yasuni National Park as One of Most Biodiverse Places on Earth
Animals  (tags: environment, biodiversity, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife, protection, animals )

Cal
- 57 days ago - eurekalert.org
A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups, from amphibians to trees to insects.
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Wilder Weather Exerts a Stronger Influence on Biodiversity Than Steadily Changing Conditions
Animals  (tags: Biodiversity, Climate, Harm )

Nancy
- 59 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An increase in the variability of local conditions could do more to harm biodiversity than slower shifts in climate, a new study has found.
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Urge the Senate to Protect Wildlife Worldwide ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, biodiversity, protection, environment, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, habitat )

Cher
- 67 days ago - change.org
In 2010 -- the International Year of Biodiversity -- the U.S. has an opportunity to reestablish its role as a global leader in wildlife conservation. But your senators need to hear from you!
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Species' Extinction Threat Grows
Animals  (tags: biodiversity, species, extinction )

Nancy
- 134 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned.
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Biodiversity Loss Shows No Signs of Slowing Down - IUCN
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, loss, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 135 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species should cause alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure so far of mechanisms to arrest biodiversity loss, according to WWF.
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Wolves, Moose and Biodiversity: An Unexpected Connection
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, moose, wolves, biodiversity, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 135 days ago - newswise.com
Newswise -- Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
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World Will Miss 2010 Target to Stem Biodiversity Loss
Animals  (tags: animals, biodiversity, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 155 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to experts convening in Cape Town for a landmark conference devoted to biodiversity science.
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Predatory Dingoes Promote Diversity
Animals  (tags: animals, dingoes, biodiversity, Australia, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 260 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
The world's longest fence stretches for 5,000 kilometers (more than 3,000 miles) from one side of southern Australia to another. The fence was designed to keep sheep-eating dingoes out of a third of the country, but the barrier has had some other
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Calif. Denies Legal Protections for Pika
Animals  (tags: endangered, pika, california, extinction, biodiversity )

RaffiSURG
- 262 days ago - sfgate.com
CA-State wildlife officials have rejected a petition seeking protections for the mountain-dwelling American pika under the California Endangered Species Act. The California Fish and Game Commission's decision Wednesday comes after a judge last month
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2009 FFI Project List
Animals  (tags: animals, biodiversity, protection, FFI, projects, nature, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 266 days ago - fauna-flora.org
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is working hard to safeguard all of these threatened species and ecosystems and many more around the world. We do so by working alongside local people to find sustainable, economically viable and lasting means of keeping
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