Global population trends among 71,000 animal species show nearly half are "sliding toward extinction," some of them at alarming rates, a new study warns.. Researchers found 48% of the species in ...

Protecting animals against environmental changes, ... Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction risk of animal, fungus, ...

If we take that figure and assume 100 E/MSY over 500 years — subtracting the 3,850 animals that would be expected to naturally go extinct over 500 years with a 1 E/MSY background extinction rate ...

With that, the extinct black-footed ferret was officially brought back from the dead. But just a few years after Shep’s ...

De-extinction: Bringing animal species back from the brink 08:16. Inside the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center, in Carr, Colorado, Dr. Della Garelle, a veterinarian with the U.S ...

A startling 24% of freshwater animals were at risk of extinction due to compounding threats from pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture, invasive species, climate change and other disruptions.

Dozens of new species go extinct every day, and scientists say that more than 20,000 plants and animals are on the brink of disappearing forever.A quarter of known mammal species is at risk of ...

This animal has lived here millions of years. How a CT-based group wants to save it from extinction. In Connecticut, the animal’s population has deteriorated since the early 2000s.

The threat of extinction is getting worse for migratory animals. ... It lists 399 additional species that “are threatened or near threatened with extinction” but still aren’t on the CMS list ...

De-extinction is controversial and remains extremely complex and costly, according to the National Museum Australia. Those in favor of reviving thylacines say the animals could boost conservation ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature.. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...

The IUCN has assessed the extinction risk of only about 5% of the world's known species, so there must be many more ...