Extinction
A third of global tree species threatened with extinction
Land clearance for farming - both crops and livestock - and logging are by far the biggest threats to trees, the State of the World's Trees report said, adding...
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Newly discovered primate in Myanmar 'already facing extinction'
Samples of Popa poop collected by Momberg and his colleagues in the forest matched those from the museum and showed that the previously unknown langur was still roaming the wild.
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Scientists a step closer to saving northern white rhino from extinction
Science is the only hope for the northern white rhino after the death last year of the last male, named Sudan, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya where the groundbreaking procedure was carried out Thursday.
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Lost world: UN report shows Nature at death's door
Crop production has surged 300% since 1970, meaning one-third of all land is now used to make food -- an industry that uses 75% of all fresh water on Earth.
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One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
Delegates from 130 nations meeting in Paris from 29 April will vet the executive summary line-by-line.
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[ANALYSIS] Trophy hunting could cause extinction in stressed populations
Computer models have produced some very worrying results.
