Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Andrew Burbidge; 13/10/09 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List highlighting endangered species is becoming Australia’s annual embarrassment. Every year we show up with the worst record in the world for mammal extinctions. We have already lost more than 20 mammals and another eight hold onto a precarious existence on islands off our [...]
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Researchers document world’s mammals in crisis From majestic African elephants to tiny and often unappreciated rodents, mammals on Earth are in a state of crisis. One in four mammal species on Earth is being pushed to extinction, according to the Global Mammal Assessment, the most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals. Writing in the October 10 issue [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
More than a quarter of the world's mammals are facing an "extinction crisis" while one in three amphibian species across the globe could vanish forever.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Bog Turtle, Glyptemys muhlenbergi Earlier this week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature reported that 25 percent of the world’s mammal species are at risk of extinction in our lifetimes due to habitat destruction and hunting . The IUCN is to be commended for its report. The untold story here, which is far more ominous, is that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Earth's family of more than 5 000 mammal species - all "cousins" to human beings - are now collectively facing a greater crisis.
asianews (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
An international survey by environmental scientists reports at least one-quarter of the world’s wild mammal species are at risk of extinction. Ella, a 47-day-old California sea lion pup, takes one of her first swim lessons with Samantha Sanford, marine mammal supervisor for Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, on Friday, 01 Aug. 2008, in Vallejo, Calif The Swiss-based [...]
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A comprehensive five-year survey of almost 5,500 mammal species has found that about half are in decline, and more than 1,100 face extinction.
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Deliberately (and admittedly so) provocative article here but is he right? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/08/features.comment ---Quote--- There are 5,487 known species of land mammals, but 1,141 are at risk of extinction, a report has just revealed. That's well over 20%....
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Approximately one in four species of land mammal and one in three marine mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a major new study carried out by some 1,800 scientists in 130 countries. The results, in the form...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
THE director of WWF Scotland is concerned by the new Red List of Endangered Species, which shows a quarter of the world's mammals are at risk of extinction.
New Scientist - Endangered Species (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
While prospects for the world's mammals appear as grim as ever, a novel census method is revealing how other less prominent groups of species are faring (full text available to subscribers)
Jo Hayes (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Although a member of a Least Concern Species (widespread and abundant), I am plunged in gloom by the news that the latest Red List of Threatened Species (published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) says at least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction. Which is for ever. It is due to loss of habitat, including deforestation, which is the result of our own...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
New Zealand species are among the world's mammals at risk of extinction, according to a major survey of global wildlife released yesterday. At least 1141 of the 5487 known mammal species are threatened worldwide, with 188 listed...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Ben Cubby; 7/10/08 The world is facing an animal exctinction crisis, with Australia a key culprit, the largest assessment of biodiversity ever undertaken shows. One in five Australian mammal species is in danger of dying out, the highest proportion of any developed country, the global survey of more than 44,000 animal and plant species found. The [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
As if being on the endangered species list isn't bad enough, thousands of species including the Giant Panda, chimpanzee, sea otter and Mountain Gorilla just got some more bad news.
