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The focus of this year’s Earth Day is species protection given we are heading for the Sixth Great Extinction on the planet if we don’t do something about it

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Monarch Butterfly Flutters on the Edge of Extinction Environmentalists' Lawsuit Forces Fed To Decide on Endangered Listing by 2019

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Environmentalists won a lawsuit forcing the federal government to decide by 2019 whether or not to list the once abundant Monarch butterfly as endangered.

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In Vitro Fertilization To The Rescue for Endangered Species Fertility

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Endangered Species Fertility: Researchers are now using fertility techniques developed for people — like In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) — to try to bring back endangered species like Africa’s Northern White Rhino.

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Endangered Species On The Ropes

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The Trump administration has virtually launched an assault on wildlife and endangered species protections in place in the United States for half a century…

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Lord God Bird Redux: Is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Really Back?

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Birders are keeping hope alive that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker will re-appear “on the wing” somewhere in the swamps of the Southeastern U.S…

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8 Newly Endangered Species Added to IUCN Red List Vaquitas, Amur Leopards and African Antelope Among the Species Going Down Fast

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The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, African Antelope, Vaquita and Amur Leopard are among the wildlife species recently added to IUCN’s International Red List…

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Global Warming Evolution: Wildlife Shrinkage on the Rise

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Scientists credit human-induced global warming with causing many wildlife species to become scrawnier with each successive generation…

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Delisting the Yellowstone Grizzly: Good News or Bad?

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Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has bounced back since the mid-1970s, but environmentalists think the iconic predator still needs federal protection…

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Is Grizzly Bear on the Ropes? Can We Find Room for Ursus Arctos Horribilis?

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Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to safeguard grizzly bears now? I heard that their numbers are dwindling and they could vanish from the Lower 48 if we don’t protect them. —Jim Meth, Akron, OH Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now […]

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Crocodiles from the Crypt Two distinct croc species inhabited the Nile in ancient times

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A New Crocodile Species Inhabiting the Ancient Nile Is Discovered through DNA Sequencing

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