2,300 Brazilian flora species in danger of extinction
A study conducted by 175 scientists across 752 areas of the country that contain what is considered crucial biodiversity found that nearly 2,300 plant species are in danger of extinction. This is a...
View ArticleThree of the thresholds for key environmental processes set by scientists...
Scientists have set thresholds for key environmental processes that, if crossed, could threaten Earth’s habitability. Ominously, three of the thresholds - biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution, and...
View ArticleWorld needs ‘bailout plan’ for species loss: International Union for...
Facing what many scientists say is the sixth mass extinction in half-a-billion years, our planet urgently needs a “bailout plan” to protect its biodiversity, a top conservation group said Thursday....
View ArticleThird of plants and animals ‘at risk of extinction’
While Western countries are increasingly aware of the need to protect endangered species, the developing world’s appetite for raw materials is destroying vulnerable ecosystems. Population growth,...
View ArticleNGOs calls for a new international protection for medicinal plants
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Plantlife International and TRAFFIC are calling on Wednesday for governments to endorse a revised and updated Global Strategy for wild plant...
View ArticleSmallest waterlily saved from extinction
A UK-based scientist has saved the world’s smallest waterlily from extinction and is planning to repopulate it in its native home in Rwanda. Carlos Magdalena used the stored seeds of the fragile flower...
View ArticleQuarter of UK’s endangered species ‘declining despite government action’
The Government is part of an international treaty to stop global biodiversity loss by 2010 in order to protect hundreds of endangered species like the bumblebee, common toad and house sparrow. But an...
View Article30,000 kinds of plants, 5,000 animals threatened with extinction, disappear...
Habitat destruction, over-exploitation of resources, environmental quality degradation and invasive species are causing the extinction of species “Disaster Quartet”, and human activity is the current...
View ArticleConservationists warn of hay meadow decline
“Constable? Turner? Give me a hay meadow any day,” says Tony Bullough as we get our first glimpse of New House Farm. And the National Trust warden has a point – the fields surrounding this small farm...
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Over 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered
The giant carnivorous plant, Nepenthes attenboroughii, is under threat of extinction - along with 25% of all others on earth Scientists say human activity could spell end for a quarter of all...
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