Lister’s gecko, the blue-tailed skink and the Christmas Island forest-skink were downgraded from "critically endangered" to "extinct in the wild".
Couples marrying in Hong Kong and China have been swayed by conservation groups’ campaign to ban the shark fin trade.
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/ 10 November 2011
Two rhino species are believed to be extinct as an acceleration in extinction of animal and plant species becomes a general trend worldwide.
Figures that estimate 25% of mammals are endangered are likely to be conservative, writes Ian Sample.
Poachers in the DRC have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year, the park’s director said on Friday.
Outlook for monkeys, apes and other primates has dramatically worsened. Nearly half of all primate species are threatened with extinction.
Fringed by dark hills of coal waste and long-shuttered collieries, Belgium’s first national park might seem a humble contender for the role of global model for conservation and economic regeneration. The pine woods and heather meadows of the Hoge Kempen Park in north-eastern Belgium sit on a small plateau above criss-crossing motorways and cooling towers.
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/ 29 November 2007
Four rare gorillas at the centre of a five-year international tussle are due to fly from South Africa just after midnight on Friday to a wildlife sanctuary in Cameroon. Tinu, Izan, Oyin and Abbey were all lightly tranquillised as they were loaded into giant wooden crates on Thursday for the 18-hour journey to their new home.