Animals News tagged with habitat destruction |
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 Animals  Tom - 1 day ago - thenational.ae An increasing number of plants and animals are facing extinction due to pollution, poaching, habitat degradation and climate change. The number of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish has grown to 5,966, compared to 3,314 in 1998.
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 Animals Tom - 2 days ago - telegraph.co.uk Life on Earth is disappearing fast with man inflicting most of the damage. On land more species face oblivion because of loss of habitat, hunting and climate change while in the oceans pollution and the side effects of fishing are taking a huge toll.
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 Animals  Cal - 23 days ago - reuters.com South Asia's endangered Great One-horned Rhinoceros is being driven out of its natural habitat in search of food into the hands of illegal poachers, experts said
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 Animals Cal - 38 days ago - enn.com The fate of the insects drew more than 100 entomologists and biologists to Thailand's northern city of Chiang Mai last week for an international symposium on the "Diversity and Conservation of Fireflies."
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 Animals  Julie - 77 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com July 25, 2008-- The guillemot, a seabird that depends on ice, is losing its habitat and falling prey to polar bears desperate for food. Part of Wild Chronicles' Climate Connections series.
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 Animals  Simone - 162 days ago - thepetitionsite.com Since 1980 over 80% of Orangutans have been wiped out all because of western civilisations increasing demand for palm oil. Orangutans used to live all across east Asia, but now have been restricted to just the small Islands of Borneo and Sumatra in South
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 Animals  Rooibos - 164 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Asian vultures could be extinct in the wild within 10 years unless a livestock drug blamed for their rapid demise is eliminated, scientists warn.
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 Animals Simone - 165 days ago - fauna-flora.org Many species of primates - including great apes, monkeys and their relatives - face an urgent and immediate threat of extinction.
Of the 266 known species of primates, 40% are considered to be at risk - making this one of the most threatened groups of
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 Animals  Cher - 172 days ago - statesman.com Saying it is concerned that development of 875 acres west of Lago Vista is robbing the endangered golden-cheeked warbler of habitat, a coalition of environmental groups is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate and enforce endangered
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 Animals Simone - 182 days ago - newswise.com Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders -- the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a University of Kansas researcher, the astonishing migration may collapse rapid
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 Animals Simone - 211 days ago - conservationnw.org Research is underway but it appears as though the lynx population in north-central Washington has declined in direct proportion to losses in habitat. That very idea however, seems to be lost on the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as the agency
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 Animals Simone - 217 days ago - bclocalnews.com Highways minister Kevin Falcon's sincerity is very convincing, but the fact remains that blasting work for a Highway 97 widening project is going ahead today despite protests. Unfortunately, it's just another example of man's determination to lord it over
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 Animals  Elena - 249 days ago - secure2.convio.net In only three days, on February 6, the Department of the Interior plans to move ahead with leasing nearly 30 million acres in Alaska's pristine Chukchi Sea for oil and gas activities. U.S. activists: Call for a delay in oil and gas leasing in prime polar
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 Animals  Vicky - 260 days ago - hsus.org Since 1991 the state has allowed developers to bury alive between 80,000 and 100,000 gopher turtles - for a fee! M.C. Davis, a self-made millionaire has been buying up land since 2001 to help provide a safe haven for tens of thousands of tortoises!
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 Animals Simone - 261 days ago - thestar.com If you are a birdwatcher, you know the Earth is in trouble. There were once many more cardinals, blue jays - even crows, which were decimated by the West Nile virus - about town. The best we can do now is salute winter's rough `n' weather-ready starlings
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