Recent Endangered Species Articles page 9

Egypt Today - LAST MONTH, BANGKOK, Thailand, hosted a meeting of CITES, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, an international body of which Egypt is a signatory. For the uninitiated, CITES controls the trade in rare animal and plant ...

Daily Telegraph - There is something fitting in the fact that the greatest poacher of tries that this or any Rugby World Cup has seen should devote most of his energies away from the field acting as gamekeeper for an endangered species in his native South Africa ...

All Headline News - New Delhi, India (AHN) - Five rare Asiatic lions were found electrocuted Friday at India's Gir National Park in western Gujarat state, the Wildlife Protection Society of India reports. The recent death of lions was caused by an electrified fence that ...

Zanesville Times Recorder - BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An Ohio wildlife dealer who illegally sold six endangered African leopards was sentenced Thursday to a year of probation and fined $2,000. Brett Hewitt, 36, of Fredericksburg, Ohio, was convicted in July of transporting ...

International Herald Tribune - ... native to eastern Brazil and found only in this country, federal police said in a statement. Rosewood, known in Brazil as jacaranda da bahia, is legally protected by Brazilian law and by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

Raw Story - Malaysia faces the extinction of 45 bird species in the next five to 10 years if it fails to introduce protected areas and breeding programmes for endangered species, a report said Thursday. A recent survey by conservation group BirdLife ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Recent additions include the Penguin and Puffin Coast and the Conservation Carousel, which features 64 hand-carved wooden animals representing protected and endangered species. Highlights include the River's Edge, Living World education center, the ...

CNBC - They have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act for more than three decades, and have been protected internationally since 1966. There are now an estimated 30,000 humpback whales worldwide, with between 6,000 and 8,000 in the ...

Salt Lake Tribune - Before Wednesday's release, scientists believe, a mere 100 to 200 of the endangered species remained in the Virgin between La Verkin and the Utah-Arizona state line. "It's important that these fish be planted," fish biologist Steve Meismer said ...

MSN UK News - Humpback whales, which can grow to 50 feet (15.24 meters) long and weigh more than 35 tons (31.75 metric tons), were once hunted nearly to extinction. They have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act for more than three decades ...