Extinct Species

Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers

Lister’s gecko, the blue-tailed skink and the Christmas Island forest-skink were downgraded from "critically endangered" to "extinct in the wild".

Unable to migrate and not enough time to adapt to climate change, the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog is extinct.

Mozambique’s rhino population was wiped out more than a century ago. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction.

The mission to catalogue threats to our world produced more gloomy news last week: that more than one in five plants is at risk of extinction.

Farhana Ismail is talking about the imam who regards women’s presence in mosques as an anomaly.

Once they soared in large numbers over the African veld, but poisoning, electrocution and habitat destruction have taken their toll on SA’s vultures.

Nearly half of all primate species are now threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new evaluation.

A 14 500-year-old woolly-mammoth skeleton, almost intact and dug up in 1994, has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum.