USFWS plans to delist 23 extinct species
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 ...
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Australia’s wildfires had a devastating toll
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 ...
How to slow extinctions? Restore farmlands to nature
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 ...
Conservation has saved 48 birds, mammals from extinction
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 ...
Herbivores may be most at risk for extinction
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 ...
Ecosystem engineers buffer animals from extinction
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 ...
Climate change could lead to sudden extinctions
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 ...
Climate could claim 1 in 3 species in 50 years, study finds
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 ...
Americans weigh in on what makes a species ‘endangered’
What constitutes an endangered species? Researchers recently surveyed 1,000 Americans to find out what parameters they think a species should reach to be considered ...
What drove one of the only U.S. parrot species to extinction?
The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) once ranged from southern New England to Florida to Colorado, but by 1918, the last of its kind died in captivity at ...