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• House sparrows facing extinction in Punjab

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Ludhiana, Nov. 15 (ANI): Ornithologists and forest officers in Punjab have expressed concern over the dwindling population of some popular birds, including the house sparrow. Disappearance of the common house sparrow from the urban areas is not something new.A few years ago, it rang quite some alarm bells in London ...
  18 hours ago

• Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 10

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Generally, giving struggling species a helping hand is considered a good thing — like saving the vaquita porpoise and anything cute and cuddly (read: koalas ). But there’s hot debate over whether helping plants migrate as climate change transforms their habitat is positive or not. Read on for the latest on ...
  5 days ago

• List of 10 Countries with The Greatest Number of Endangered Species

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  Have you heard the news? Habitat loss, overhunting, and unsustainable development are wiping out the world’s greatest treasure: Wildlife. The animals and plants that call this planet their home haven’t got a chance if humans keep it up. Wildlife destruction is happening faster than current conservation efforts ...
  1 week ago

• India Calls for Elephant Range States to Address Increasing Elephant Deaths

  
  Green Options — Authority: 145
  Officials from elephant range states are meeting in Delhi this week in hopes of finding a solution to the growing number of elephant killings in India. Loss of habitat leading to an increase of conflicts between elephants and humans, combined with the invasion of poachers into government-protected zones, are ...
  1 week ago

• India Calls for Elephant Range States to Address Increasing Elephant Deaths

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Officials from elephant range states are meeting in Delhi this week in hopes of finding a solution to the growing number of elephant killings in India. Loss of habitat leading to an increase of conflicts between elephants and humans, combined with the invasion of poachers into government-protected zones, are ...
  1 week ago

• Hyenas! 12 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know, Plus Photo Gallery

  
  Green Options — Authority: 145
  Hyenas are not as numerous as you might think: Poison, guns, snares, sport hunting, and habitat loss due to human expansion are taking their toll on the misunderstood hyena. Hyenas are the subject of perhaps more myths than any other African animal, which has unfortunately led to decades of persecution against these ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lion Guardians: Maasai Warriors Protecting Lions In Kenya

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  A novel conservation project in Kenya’s Maasailand is employing the lion’s greatest enemy to conserve, rather than kill, lions. In Maasailand, the biggest threat to lions is retaliatory and traditional spearing by Maasai warriors. However, an innovative approach to lion conservation is now paying Maasai warriors ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lion Guardians: Maasai Warriors Protecting Lions In Kenya

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  A novel conservation project in Kenya’s Maasailand is employing the lion’s greatest enemy to conserve, rather than kill, lions. In Maasailand, the biggest threat to lions is retaliatory and traditional spearing by Maasai warriors. However, an innovative approach to lion conservation is now paying Maasai warriors ...
  4 weeks ago

• October Issue of Conservation Letters

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 115
  The second-to-last issue in 2009 (October) of Conservation Letters is now out. Click here for full access. Household goods made of non-timber forest products. © N. Sasaki Papers in this issue: Cacao boom and bust: sustainability of agroforests and opportunities for biodiversity conservation Spatial ...
  4 weeks ago

• Elephants! 12 Things You Didn’t Know, Plus Photo Gallery

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  Today’s elephants are under increasing pressure from habitat loss (due to explosive human population growth), poaching for ivory, and illegal trafficking. Asian elephants are classified as endangered, and their population is declining. African elephants are considered near threatened, but a resurgence in elephant ...
  4 weeks ago

• Freshwater Fish of the World - A Status Report

  
  Green Options — Authority: 145
  Pundamilia nyererei is a species of freshwater fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found in lakes in Kenya and Tanzania. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss. In may not be a great surprise to learn that fish are the most species-rich vertebrate group on the Planet–with an estimated 32,500 member species. But ...
  4 weeks ago

• Conservation targets too small to stop extinction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, October 14 (ANI): A new study indicates that conservation biologists are setting their minimum population size targets too low to prevent extinction.The study, by University of Adelaide and Macquarie University scientists, has shown that populations of endangered species are unlikely to persist in the face ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whale Watching: “Endangered” Listing Shows No Sign of Saving Belugas

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Years after strict limits have been placed on subsistence harvesting, and one year after NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service put the species on the Endangered Species list, Cook Inlet beluga whales show no sign of recovery. This news is still baffling scientists. Cook Inlet belugas are a distinct genetic ...
  4 weeks ago

• Critically Endangered Bird Sighting!

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 419
  So on Friday we told you about our southern-banded snake eagle sighting, and on Saturday you heard about our humpback whale.  Well I’m afraid we’re going to keep boasting about our sightings, because they don’t end there! It was at the end of the week, and a forest team was wearily trudging back to base from a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Life and death on Earth: the Cronus hypothesis

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 115
  Cronus Bit of a strange one for you today, but here’s a post I hope you’ll enjoy. My colleague, Barry Brook , and I recently published a paper in the very new and perhaps controversial online journal , the Journal of Cosmology . Cosmology? According the journal, ‘cosmology’ is: “the study and ...
  4 weeks ago

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