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Scientists working to resurrect the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros said on Thursday that they would no longer be collecting eggs from one of the two surviving living individuals in an extraordinary breeding experiment.

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The Addicted Gardener: Plants, animals added to Red List of endangered species Donna Lane, Columnist On Dec. 10, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updated its Red List, an inventory of threatened species maintained by the organization and a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity. In this Red List update, 31 species were declared extinct. And, of the now 128,918 species listed, more than 35,700 species are currently threatened with extinction. That’s a...

Who was Sudan? The last male northern white rhinoceros gets Google Doodle tribute Updated: 20 Dec 2020, 12:22 GOOGLE DOODLE today pays tribute to an animal, rather than a person in Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros. The doodle shows the rhino alone in a field with the word Google created by trees and bushes - but who was Sudan? 2 Who was Sudan? Sudan was the last of the male northern white rhinoceros species, previously native to the East and Central Africa area, just south of the ...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us The International for Conservation of Nature updated its red list this week and includes 31 newly extinct species. There was some good news in the released report as well, however. The European Bison is showing signs of recovering and is no longer listed as “Vulnerable.” The report highlights the success that conservation efforts hav...

More than a quarter of the worlds assessed animal, plant and fungi species are now threatened with extinction. The latest Red List update from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has 31 new extinctions including frogs and freshwater fish. The pink bellied dolphin of the Amazon has also been moved to the endangered list. A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become end...

Full article The organization also moved an Amazon dolphin with a pinkish belly the Tucuxi to its endangered list, meaning that all of the worlds freshwater dolphins are now threatened A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday. More than a quarter of the 128,918 ani...

A few days after Dr Pilapitiya’s resignation officials of the Department of Wildlife had said that every Director General of Wildlife and even wildlife officials were subject to immense political pressure. Most of the conservationists contacted were of the view that Sri Lanka’s wildlife could be conserved even at this late stage President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should take up the challenge Elephant at Yala National Park (Endangered) The Wildlife Department was established in October 1949 but th...

Near Threatened = 7,644 Lower Risk/conservation dependent = 180 (this is an old category that is gradually being phased out of The IUCN Red List) Least Concern = 66,469 Data Deficient = 17,878 The figures presented above are only for those species that have been assessed for The IUCN Red List to date. Although not all of the world’s species have been assessed, The IUCN Red List provides a useful snapshot of what is happening to species today and highlights the urgent need for conservation act...