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The Endangered Southern Cassowary is a 'keystone' species crucial for rainforest ecology. Only 1000 remain in the wild due to habitat destruction caused by residential development. 
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Biodiversity and the natural environment in central Viet Nam are being increasingly degraded due to economic development, according to a recent study by the Viet Nam Environment Administration's Biodiversity Conservation Department.
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River ecosystems are in trouble, which means we’re all in trouble. This special issue of World Rivers Review focuses on biodiversity and rivers. As International Rivers’ executive director Jason Rainey writes in the commentary, “We’re losing life forms that have the ability to nourish us, keep our water clean, produce breathable air and fertile soil, and ultimately make our planet the amazing place it is. If we don’t protect our biological richness and diversity, we undercut the re-generative capacity of the Earth, we undermine the prospect of life creating the conditions conducive to life.”
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The Asean region has long been targeted by illegal wildlife traders as a hot spot in the lucrative, multibillion-dollar global trade of wildlife, in which both live and processed goods of most species are traded—ranging from tigers and elephants to rare orchids and indigenous medicinal herbs, from rare marine species to endemic reptiles and songbirds.
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“Turkey’s rich natural heritage under assault“, published in Science last week, highlights the scale and extent of these threats, in particular all the environmental laws that were changed in the past two years to make it easier to replace Turkey’s crucial habitats and protected areas with mines, dams, tourist resorts, and other types of “development”.
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ABOARD THE AURORA AUSTRALIS, Southern Ocean, Jan 7 AAP - They call themselves Team Acid and are trawling the Southern Ocean with fine nets to see if the shells of tiny marine snails are thinning because of ocean acidification.
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By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
In the final stages of dehydration the body shrinks, robbing youth from the young as the skin puckers, eyes recede into orbits, and the tongue swells and cracks. Brain cells shrivel and muscles seize. Such is also the path of a dying species. Beyond a critical point, the collective body of a unique kind of mammal or bird or amphibian or tree cannot be salvaged, no matter the first aid rendered... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/animal-extinction--the-greatest-threat-to-mankind-397939.html
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Discover more about biodiversity and its impact on our lives.
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MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine authorities have seized large shipments of anteater and turtle parts in a sign that the illegal trade in the endangered animals is booming, officials said Wednesday.
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A recent study shows that weeds on farms are crucial to keeping birds and other wildlife alive.
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Let's Make Every Effort during 2012 to protect our animals, preserve their natural habitat and conserve our natural resources for all
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The Golden Eagle in peril in the US STEI opposes licenses to kill. Save the Eagles International (STEI) is hereby issuing a biodiversity warning concerning the United States. Contrary to dubious studies financed and controlled by vested interests, the population of golden eagles in the Western States is on the decline. Wind farms are the main cause. The issuing of licenses to kill will accelerate the decline towards extinction.
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From the American West to China, Australia to India, some of the world's most important rivers have been drained dry for agriculture, industry, and drinking water.
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Nations will be asked to sign up for 10 goals and promise to build green economies at this summer's earth summit... Read the leaked Rio+20 draft agenda in full
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Zoos vital as EU aims to meet biodiversity targets
The EU has a mechanism to ensure that zoos and aquariums fulfil conservation requirements but is it being implemented as well as it should?
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Biodiversity plays a vital role in maintaining public health. Its decline has accelerated the spread of diseases like Lyme, West Nile Virus and malaria.
Our health is directly related to the health of the environment we live in. The loss of biodiversity leads to ecosystems that are less resilient, more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances, and less able to supply humans with needed environmental services.
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Protecting forests is essential to reducing global emissions and halting climate change. Forest destruction produces as much as 15 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions — more than from all the planes, trains and automobiles on Earth.
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In a world first, scientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the University of Queensland have measured the relationship between climate change and habitat loss on plants and animals on a global scale.
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2012 also marks the 40th anniversary of the environment programme of the UN.
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Committed to protecting the great apes of Cameroon, we rescue and rehabilitate orphaned or injured gorillas and chimpanzees in safe forest sanctuaries. Find out how to help - donate, volunteer, adopt an ape!
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While conservation has long been science driven, success will ultimately come down to changing the way people relate to nature. Guinness World Records declared in 2008 that Indonesia had the world’s fastest deforestation rate. Borneo alone has lost more than 50 percent of its original forest cover; half of that loss occurred in the past 20 years due to logging, mining, fire, development of palm oil plantations and other habitat-destroying human activities.
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2012 - The a href=http://www.eol.org>Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) /a> continues to expand at a record pace with the addition of new content on species and partners.
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