Until the mid-1800s, the Jamaican petrel was a common site on the shores of its namesake island. But then came invasive rats and mongooses, and the bird disappeared. Biologists have searched without luck. Since 1879, …
Mosquito control and captive breeding may be the only ways to save two Hawaiian bird species hurtling toward extinction on the island of Kauai. Only a few dozen ‘akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) live in the wild, …
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey has proposed removing 23 extinct species from the federal Endangered Species Act. Many of these species, like a bird called the Kauai ʻakialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri), haven’t been seen in decades. …
A year after Australia’s devastating 2019-2020 wildlife season ended, biologists are getting a grim picture of the impact on wildlife. Scientists say more than 500 species of plants and animals may be endangered or extinct …
Over 70% of predicted animal and plant extinctions on land could be avoided by returning 30% of the world’s farmlands to nature. That’s the finding of a global roadmap published in Nature. Using a European …
Efforts to conserve species have resulted in saving at least 48 mammals and birds from extinction since the early 1990s. The rates of extinction would have been three or four times higher if actions like …
By reviewing past extinction patterns, researchers suggest that herbivores may be at the highest risk of extinction. The team studied more than 44,000 living and extinct species, specifically looking at their diets. “There is so …
Species like beavers and elephants that engineer and change the ecosystems around them could help save other species from extinction. A new study may be the first to quantify the effect that organisms whose impact …
A recent study published in Nature suggests that climate change could cause sudden die-offs of species, starting in the next decade. “For a long time things can seem OK and then suddenly they’re not,” Alex …
About a third of plant and animal species around the world could be extinct within 50 years due to climate change, according to a study by University of Arizona biologists. Researchers Cristian Román-Palacios and John …
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