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Hundreds Of Snow Leopards Being Killed Every Year, Report Warns

Hundreds of snow leopards are being killed every year across the mountains of central Asia, threatening the already endangered big cat, according to a new report.There are ...

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A Desperate Attempt To Save The World's Smallest Porpoise Could End Up Killing It Off

The last hope for helping the vaquita porpoise dodge extinction could be a project to capture some of the few that remain and breed them in semi-captivity, according to a g...

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World Wildlife Day 2016: 15 Ways To Save Earth’s Animals And Plants

Thursday marks World Wildlife Day, which the 68th session of the United Nations General Assemblydesignated as a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the planet’s ...

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World Wildlife Day Preview: Saving The Asiatic Wild Dog

On the occasion of World Wildife Day on March 3, ArjunSrivathsa urges you to think of the threat faced by dholes, an endangered species of wild dogs, with a home not too fa...

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One Of The World's Last Remaining Whaling Companies Is Hanging Up Its Harpoons

One of the world's last whaling companies has announced that it won't be manning the harpoons this summer, deciding it's too hard to market the meat.
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The Obama Administration Just Made It Virtually Impossible For Hunters To Import African Lion Trophies

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has placed two African lion subspecies under its protection, declaring one type in west-central Africa endangered and the other, found in e...

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There’s a New Plan to Save Madagascar’s Lemurs From the Brink of Extinction.

Lemurs are unique to Madagascar and there are around 100 different species, but a 2014 report by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that nearly...

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Snow Leopards At Risk As Himalayas Face Climate Change 'Crisis'

Warming temperatures could cause the tree line to shift up the mountains and cause farmers to plant crops and graze livestock at higher altitudes, squeezing the snow leopar...

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The World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal Might Have Just Got A Lifeline

New conservation commitments from Mexican authorities will hopefully contribute to making vaquita sightings a more common occurrence. Agreements made in a recent session of...

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Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast — And It Could Signal Trouble Deep In The Ocean

In only one week, the corpses of four humpback whales have been found along Canada's west coast, fueling questions of whether their deaths are connected to a recent uptick ...

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