endangered species
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The World Will Lose Madagascar’s Lemurs Without Action
The island of Madagascar is home to animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth. Among them? Lemurs, which are unfortunately staring down some very bad news.
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Meet Iowa’s 400,000 Year Old Living Fossil
Northeastern Iowa holds a 400,000 year old time capsule. Rather than vast, flat prairies, this region boasts a rolling landscape of bluffs and ravines spared by the earth-tamping force of the last Ice Age’s glaciers. And nestled in the leaf litter on rubble piles beside the region’s chilly bluffs lives a tightly-coiled, quarter-inch endangered snail.
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Six Elephants Die In Thailand Trying To Rescue Each Other From Waterfall
At least six wild Asian elephants died in southern Thailand’s Khao Yai National Park after trying to save each other from a waterfall, Reuters reported on Saturday.
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Scientists Just Took A Big Step In The Race To Save The Northern White Rhino
Thanks to groundbreaking science, conservationists could save the critically endangered northern white rhino. Only two animals of this species remain ” Najin and Fatu, both of which are female ” and an international team of scientists have come together to harvest 10 eggs from the hopeful rhino mamas in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.…