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Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:44:00 +0000

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome , a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading .

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Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study

Massive Russian Seed Bank of Berries at Risk of Demolition

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:56:05 +0000

Photo: Pavlovsk Station, one of the world’s first seed banks begun by Nikolai Vavilov in 1926. Vavilov personally collected seeds of over 200,000 plants ( HuffPo ) It could be a potentially devastating loss for global biodiversity: we’ve caught word over at Huffington Post that the world’s largest collection of fruit and berries, housed in one of the world’s oldest seed banks outside St. Petersburg, Russia may be demolished later this year for a housing …

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‘Cannibal Snails’ Eat Species of Tiny Tree Snail into Extinction

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:38:00 +0000

The survival of an entire species of “incredibly endangered” tree snails has just been entrusted to the British Zoo. The population of tiny tree snails–they grow to be only a few millimeters long–has been decimated, eaten into extinction by a larger “cannibal snail.” Called the Rosy Wolfsnail, it arrived as an invasive species to the tree snail’s natural habitat of French Polynesia in the 1970s. The larger cannibal snails, along with habitat loss, have pushed the tree snail to extinction in the wild–there are now only 88 left in the world, in a lab in England.

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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:41:22 +0000

WildAid PSA with Olympian Amanda Beard. In China, it’s shark fin soup, in Japan it’s blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S

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Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup

80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:38:03 +0000

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis .

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10 Creatures That Conveniently Grow Back Body Parts (Slideshow)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:00:37 +0000

photo via Webshots, efungus While humans have the reputation of being the most intelligent of Earth’s creatures, the higher you go on the food chain the less ability you have to regrow appendages. Yes, it’s too bad

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Underwater Bugs in Medicine – Caddisfly Silk Inspires Scotch Tape Solution for Surgeries

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:36:00 +0000

Image via University of Utah, credit Fred Hayes for the University of Utah This is a caddisfly larva, or a rock roller as it is also known. It’s a strange little bug that while in larva state, lives underwater and creates its own “shell” by spinning a sticky silk that collects sand grains

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Underwater Bugs in Medicine – Caddisfly Silk Inspires Scotch Tape Solution for Surgeries

Will Human Beings Save Their Primate Cousins?

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:40:16 +0000

There are less than 300 Cross River gorillas in the wild. At the time this was written there were 6,803,449,018 human beings on the planet

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John McCain: He Was For Climate Action Before He Was Against It

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:59:01 +0000

Arizona Senator John McCain, who is facing a primary challenge from uber conservative J.D.

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Fewer than 50 Wild Tigers Left in China, Says Wildlife Conservation Society

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:27:52 +0000

Photo: World66 , CC Wild tigers in China are on the Brink of Extinction Xie Yan, the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society , estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild, with about “10 still live in the southwestern province of Yunnan, some 15 in Tibet, and 20 or so in northwestern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.” Even if take a step back and look at 12 Asian countries and Russia, it is estimated that only about 3,500 tigers are left in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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