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ZooBorns

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www.zooborns.com - The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is excited to announce the May 23rd birth of a Pallas’s Cat kitten. The kitten’s birth marked the second live offspring ever produced with artificial insemination in Pal…

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Northern Bald Ibis: baldly leading the way in ibis conservation

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www.birdlife.org - With the setting sun still warming a sandstone ledge on Morocco’s west coast one evening in November, a bulky bird tenderly preens its partner’s feathers using its long, scythe-shaped beak. As its bl…

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Complete leafminer guide now available!

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bugtracks.wordpress.com - This weekend I finished the first edition of my Leafminers of North America e-book—1857 pages long (plus a 54-page table of contents, 20-page glossary, and 68-page bibliography), and illustrated with…

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Plants are vanishing twice as fast as animals, 500 times faster than natural rate: scientists

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nationalpost.com - Twice as many plants have been driven to extinction over the past 250 years than all the birds, mammals and amphibians combined, a 30-year research project has found. Scientists, including experts fr…

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In Defence Of Grey Squirrels - Little Green Seedling

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littlegreenseedling.com - The North American grey squirrel was first introduced to the UK in 1876. If you live in the UK, you’ll be well aware of how vilified the grey squirrel is here; it’s been accused of a multitude of sin…

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Rise of the Extinction Deniers • The Revelator

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therevelator.org - That’s actually a point made quite a bit lately by a group of “extinction deniers” — people who use the relatively low number of confirmed extinctions to say there’s no such thing as an extinction cr…

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Taxonomy - the neglected science of discovery

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www.newsroom.co.nz - The University of Auckland's Tom Saunders asks why we are standing by as taxonomy is gutted and left to wither Our planet is dominated by insects, but as with most life on Earth, we know virtually no…

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Cape Town experts battle invasive tree killing borer beetle

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www.news24.com - The City of Cape Town has brought in a number of experts to assist residents in removing trees infested with the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB). The infestation was observed in So…

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Why aren’t countries meeting their targets to tackle the loss of nature?

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www.birdlife.org - Earlier this month, a shocking report showing that one million species are at risk of extinction made headlines. Released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversi…

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Evolution and comparative genomics of the most common Trichoderma species

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bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com - This study is based on the genome sequences of 12 of the most common Trichoderma species. Although this number represents only a few percent of Trichoderma spp. described today, the selected species …

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Dragon Quest: Australia Kicks Off Search for Possibly Extinct Lizard • The Revelator

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therevelator.org - Got good eyesight and some time on your hands? Australia needs you. Zoos Victoria has issued a public appeal to help find a lizard species that hasn’t been credibly observed in 50 years. The Victoria…

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Plant extinction 'bad for all species' as over 500 disappear in past 250 years

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news.sky.com - More than 500 species of plants have disappeared in the past 250 years - double the number of birds, mammals and amphibians recorded as extinct. A new study found that 571 plant species have disappea…

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Plant Species Have Been Disappearing 500 Times Faster Than Normal, Thanks to Humans

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www.smithsonianmag.com - In the past 250 years, nearly 600 plant species have gone extinct, according to a study published Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution. That extinction rate is 500 times faster than what would be exp…

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'Almost certain extinction': 1,200 species under severe threat across world

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www.theguardian.com - More than 1,200 species globally face threats to their survival in more than 90% of their habitat and “will almost certainly face extinction” without conservation intervention, according to new resea…

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Human Interference Has Led to Plants Becoming Extinct at a Rapid Rate

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interestingengineering.com - New research shows that plant extinction is happening at a rate 500 times faster than what would be expected without human interference. Already almost 600 plant species have been lost forever in the…

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Soft Blue Spring by Sarah Loft

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fineartamerica.com - Per Wikipedia: Clematis is a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids have been popular among gardeners, beginning with Clematis × jackmanii, a garde…

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These Women Risk Their Lives To Save Rhinos And Elephants From Poachers

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africanelephantjournal.com - From where she stands, Petronel Nieuwoudt can see hippos wallowing in the dam and wild rhinos grazing peacefully. Beyond them lie mountains, and the African bush. As as office views go, it’s spectacu…

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More than 50 Australian plant species face extinction within decade

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www.theguardian.com - More than 50 Australian plant species are under threat of extinction within the next decade, according to a major study of the country’s threatened flora. Just 12 of the most at-risk species were fou…

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JAMES MUSINGUZI: Zoos working hard to close the Species knowledge Gap | Africa tembelea

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www.africatembelea.com - Despite volumes of data currently available on mankind, it is surprising how little we know about other species. A paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS…

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Weekly Updates and Subscription | Florida Department of Environmental Protection

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floridadep.gov - There were 17 reported site visits in the past week (5/31-6/6) with all 17 sites resulting in samples collected. Filamentous algae continues to be reported along the coast of SW Florida. DEP collecte…