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Comments Off on Rare, Exceptional Places Chosen for World Heritage Status PARIS, France, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – Sheltering endangered animals, birds and butterflies, giant trees, pristine waters – five natural sites are so precious to the world that they deserve the protection of World Heritage status, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided. The five are now on the list, bringing the number of World Heritage natural sites to 218. During its two-week-long 44th session that concluded Friday, held online and chaired by China from Fuzhou, the 21-country World Heritage Committee exami...

Kini and his team worked for years in the remote landscapes of Argentine Patagonia in order to successfully stabilize the population of its symbol, the Hooded Grebe. The Hooded Grebe is 21st on the Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) birds list In 2009, he had a plane ticket to the United States and everything set as a young biologist to start a PhD on tropical Andean birds. However, Argentine biologist Ignacio “Kini” Roesler, decided to stay at home to investigate the dire situation of the Hooded Grebe and help it from ex...

First published 14 May 2021 There have been numerous surveys to locate Du Toit’s torrent frog since its last record in 1962, but all attempts have failed to find the species. Scientists from the Natural History Museum and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) are part of a new study looking into the potential extinction of Arthroleptides dutoiti, or Du Toit’s Torrent frog. Known to be currently Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, Du Toit’s Torrent frog is a priority species on ZSL’s EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) amphibians list, given its Red List s...

With zoos shut due to Covid-19, conservation suffers With zoos shut due to Covid-19, conservation suffers 15 Dec 2020 Zoos do a lot more than welcome excited visitors; closures due to the pandemic are affecting conservation work worldwide They might be best known as convenient days out for the kids, but zoos often step in to conservation situations where all else has failed. Take the scimitar-horned oryx, which once roamed central Chad in large numbers. Civil unrest during the 1980s saw the species declared functionally extinct in the wild. Between 2009 and 2013, the Z...

With zoos shut due to Covid-19, conservation suffers With zoos shut due to Covid-19, conservation suffers 15 Dec 2020 Zoos do a lot more than welcome excited visitors; closures due to the pandemic are affecting conservation work worldwide They might be best known as convenient days out for the kids, but zoos often step in to conservation situations where all else has failed. Take the scimitar-horned oryx, which once roamed central Chad in large numbers. Civil unrest during the 1980s saw the species declared functionally extinct in the wild. Between 2009 and 2013, the Z...