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1 day ago · The IUCN released its latest Red List of Threatened Species, which now includes 163,040 species, up by about 6,000 from last year, marking its 60th anniversary. Among the newly threatened species are Copiapoa cacti from Chile's Atacama coastal desert, the Bornean elephant, and the Gran Canaria giant lizard.
3 days ago · biodiversity loss, a decrease in biodiversity within a species, an ecosystem, a given geographic area, or Earth as a whole. Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is a term that refers to the number of genes, species, individual organisms within a given species, and biological communities within a defined geographic area, ranging from the smallest ecosystem to the global biosphere.
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3 days ago · News and Views: Mini saunas save endangered frogs from fungal disease 20:06 Briefing Chat This time, we discuss what the upcoming UK election could mean for science, and the return of rock samples ...
2 days ago · At the end of this list, 3 species are lumped together: Sea Turtles, Tigers, and Whales. Nearly all 7 species of Sea Turtles are considered endangered. The Hawksbill is on the critically endangered list. The Tiger is broken into two sub-species, the continental and the Sundra. The Sundra Tiger is on the list of critically endangered species.
2 days ago · ii) Under the 'Recovery of Endangered Species' component of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme ‘Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats' Rs 377.7 lakhs for the recovery of endangered species viz. Hangul in Jammu and Kashmir, Snow Leopard in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand, Vulture in Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat was provided during 2008-09.
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4 days ago · USGS' and Loyola University New Orleans' innovative research techniques played a role in the decision to downlist the Okaloosa Darter, a freshwater fish endemic to northwest Florida, from Endangered to Threatened in 2011, and the removal of the fish from the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2023. By. Ecosystems Mission Area, Species Management ...
5 days ago · extinction, in biology, the dying out or extermination of a species. Extinction occurs when species are diminished because of environmental forces (habitat fragmentation, global change, natural disaster, overexploitation of species for human use) or because of evolutionary changes in their members (genetic inbreeding, poor reproduction, decline ...
