News tagged with rare species
Bangladesh leopard renews hopes for species survival
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species.
A big lesson from the reef
May 07, 2009 |
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The lesson from Australia's Great Barrier Reef is that we have to protect its biodiversity - because biodiversity in turn protects us.
Our penchant for rarity could threaten conservation efforts
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Rare plant and animal species are like rare stamps or coins: they are perceived to be inherently more valuable to people, whatever they look like. Researchers Elena Angulo and Franck Courchamp, from Université de Paris-Sud, ...
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Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf
Nov 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Rare crane in first Uganda sighting
May 14, 2009 |
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A rare crane species never before seen in Uganda has been spotted in the eastern part of the country, the executive director of Nature Uganda told AFP on Thursday.
British butterfly reveals role of habitat for species responding to climate change
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most wild species are expected to colonise northwards as the climate warms, but how are they going to get there when so many landscapes are covered in wheat fields and other crops? A study ...
Crikey steveirwini! Snail honour for late Aussie star
Nov 13, 2009 |
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An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late conservation star Steve Irwin by naming a rare species of snail "crikey steveirwini".
Rare vine in Hawaii designated endangered species
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A rare Hawaii vine has been added to the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday.
Why Don’t More Animals Change Their Sex
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch ...
Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds
Sep 09, 2009 |
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A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused ...
Protection sought again for giant, spitting worms
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators.
Long feared extinct, rare bird rediscovered
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.
$14M effort announced to save rare Hawaiian bird
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal wildlife officials say they plan to spend more than $14 million to prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian crow, one of the rarest forest birds in the world.
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