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Animals News tagged with extinction

Environmentalists Raise Alarm Over Russia's Siberian Tiger
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, tigers, Russia, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 3 hours ago - rferl.org
In October, the carcass of a young Siberian tiger was found in Russia's Far East with two bullet holes in its skull. Experts say the animal was most probably shot by hunters in pursuit of illegal prey.
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Last Chance to Save the Vaquita Porpoise From Extinction?
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, extinction, porpoise, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 6 hours ago - scientificamerican.com
This is a crucial time for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus). Despite conservation efforts, the vaquita population has dropped more than 50 percent in the past three years as hundreds of porpoises have died in commercial fishing
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Progress in Plan to Save World's Rarest Duck
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, extinction, birds, ducks, wildlife )

Maria
- 1 day ago - telegraph.co.uk
Fewer than 20 Madagascar pochard are believed to be living on just one lake in the wild. The critically endangered duck is so rare that it was declared extinct in the late 1990s until scientists found a few of the birds by chance during a trip
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Bid to Save This Chirpy Neighbour: Tree Sparrow Facing Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, wildlife )

Maria
- 1 day ago - halifaxcourier.co.uk
THOUSANDS of pounds have been handed over to help an endangered species of bird survive in Calderdale. The tree sparrow is facing extinction - its numbers fell by 95 per cent between 1970 and 1998.
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Cubs Get Second Chance to Live Free
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, cubs, environment, habitat, protection, endangered, extinction, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - hindustantimes.com
Staff at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, 550 km from Bhopal, are rearing three tiger cubs in near natural surroundings with the intention of releasing them in the wild once they mature. The cubs' mother died of poisoning in August.
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Malaysia Plans To Double Tiger Population By 2020
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, Malaysia, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - redorbit.com
Malaysia's deputy premier has revealed plans to increase the population of the rare Malayan Tiger by supervising and protecting the wild cat in its natural environment.
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Tiger Experts Call for Urgent Action to Save Species
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, environment, habitat, protection, endangered, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - 7thspace.com
More than 250 experts, scientists and government delegates from 13 tiger range countries this week called for immediate action to save tigers before the species disappears from the wild, citing the urgent need for increased protection against tiger
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Why Tigers Matter
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - savethetigerfund.org
Human welfare and economic development in Asia depends on the same clean water, clean air, natural flood controls and other forest resources that tigers need. Because tigers are poised at the top of the food chain, if we can maintain healthy tiger
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Nepal Adds 900 Sq Kms. To Bardia National Park to Protect Tigers
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, Nepal, habitat, protection, environment, endangered, extinction, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Government of Nepal has announced an expansion of Bardia National Park in the Terai Arc Landscape by 900 sq kms, specifically to increase critical habitat for tigers.
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Give the Polar Bear a Fighting Chance -Take Action !!
Animals  (tags: extinction, conservation, wildanimals, endangered, environment )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - secure2.convio.net
In May 2008, the Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Last week, as required by the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its proposal to designate more
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A Royal Bengal Tiger Caught and Released Back in the Forest
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, caught and released, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - dailyindia.com
A grown-up adult Royal Bengal tiger of the world famous Sundarbans Tiger Reserve in West Bengal, while on prowl strayed into human habitations recently.
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Species' Extinction Threat Grows
Animals  (tags: biodiversity, species, extinction )

Nancy
- 4 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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Over 1,000 Fish Species 'Threatened With Extinction'
Animals  (tags: animals, fish, extinction, humans, protection )

Maria
- 4 days ago - news.yahoo.com
More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.
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Tiger Comes Out to Play
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 4 days ago - belfasttelegraph.co.uk
The young male tiger, from Chessington Zoo, is 19-months-old and since the initiation of the global tiger studbook in 1967, is the first tiger to live in Belfast Zoo as part of a European breeding programme.
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Russian Police Boss Sacked Over Poaching in Siberian Tiger Reserve
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, poaching, environment, protection, endangered, extinction, killing, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - news.asiaone.com
A senior Russian policeman has been sacked after his officers were accused of illegal hunting in a wildlife reserve designed to help save the rare Siberian tiger, the interior ministry said Tuesday
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