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					<title>Even the Gulf of Aqaba’s ‘supercorals’ bleached during 2024 heat wave</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/even-the-gulf-of-aqabas-supercorals-bleached-during-2024-heat-wave/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2025 16:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ilan Ben Zion]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Israel, Jordan, and Middle East]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Extreme Weather, Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Heatwave, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[EILAT, Israel — Rugged red mountains tower over the aquamarine waters off Eilat in southern Israel. A group of divers plunges beneath the waves on a warm winter morning, bound for a crag encrusted with coral known as Japanese Gardens. The hypnotic reverie of the undersea world shatters with the shock of spotting a bone-white [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[EILAT, Israel — Rugged red mountains tower over the aquamarine waters off Eilat in southern Israel. A group of divers plunges beneath the waves on a warm winter morning, bound for a crag encrusted with coral known as Japanese Gardens. The hypnotic reverie of the undersea world shatters with the shock of spotting a bone-white colony. Scientists have long considered the corals in the Gulf of Aqaba to be uniquely resilient to extreme temperatures, and have taken to calling them “supercorals.” Bleaching had never before been documented here. For the first time on record, however, last summer’s record-smashing heat wave brought these corals to “the threshold we’ve been talking about all along,” Maoz Fine, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor studying coral resilience and one of the leading Israeli scientists monitoring the gulf ecosystem, told Mongabay. He and his colleagues first received reports of bleached corals in August 2024 and are now studying the episode’s severity and extent. “There’s no doubt that we need to wake up, because climate change is having an impact — here all the more so,” he said. Coral reef ecosystems are likened to submarine rainforests: diversity of life in stupefying abundance. As oceans warm due to human-caused climate change, corals — colonies of jellyfish-like animals called cnidarians — eject the photosynthetic zooxanthellae that live symbiotically within their cells, and turn a ghastly white. While not a death sentence, the weakened corals, which form a cornerstone of nutrient-poor tropical ecosystems, are left highly vulnerable. Many die.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/even-the-gulf-of-aqabas-supercorals-bleached-during-2024-heat-wave/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Israel-U.A.E. pipeline deal ‘invitation to disaster’ for globally important corals</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/israel-u-a-e-pipeline-deal-invitation-to-disaster-for-globally-important-corals/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jul 2021 06:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Fitt]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Israel, Mediterranean Sea, Middle East, and United Arab Emirates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Governance, Marine, Oceans, Oil, Oil Spills, Politics, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Israel’s “energy gateway” between East and West looks set to take off thanks to a new oil transport deal struck with the U.A.E. But locals, NGOs, scientists and Israeli government ministries fear destructive repercussions for a globally important marine ecosystem at the hands of an oil logistics company with a deleterious environmental track record. The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Israel’s “energy gateway” between East and West looks set to take off thanks to a new oil transport deal struck with the U.A.E. But locals, NGOs, scientists and Israeli government ministries fear destructive repercussions for a globally important marine ecosystem at the hands of an oil logistics company with a deleterious environmental track record. The Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) operates a bi-directional oil pipeline running 254 kilometers (158 miles) between Eilat on the Red Sea and Ashkelon on the Mediterranean. It is an attractive alternative to the pricier Suez Canal route, but was hitherto used at only a fraction of its capacity due to an Arab trade boycott of Israel. The U.A.E. formally scrapped the boycott when it signed the Abraham Accords peace deal August 2020, normalizing relations and allowing for this first major step to fulfilling the EAPC pipeline’s capacity to act as a “land bridge” between Eastern and Western oil markets. The last time Israel signed a peace agreement was with Jordan in 1994. One outcome of that deal was the Binational Red Sea Marine Peace Park, an initiative to protect marine ecology in the Gulf of Aqaba (known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat) that brought Eilat’s heavily damaged coral reefs back from the brink. This time those same reefs are in the spotlight again as EAPC’s plan to increase use of an oil terminal just meters from them fuels fears of catastrophic consequences for the ecosystem. “Such proximity between oil tankers and a nature&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/israel-u-a-e-pipeline-deal-invitation-to-disaster-for-globally-important-corals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-244891</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/bubbles-lasers-and-robo-bees-is-artificial-pollination-here-to-stay/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2020 11:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, California, Global, Israel, New Zealand, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bees, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Crops, Diseases, Drones, Environment, Food, Food Industry, Green, Habitat Degradation, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Insects, LiDAR, Monocultures, Pesticides, Pollinators, Technology, Trees, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In an episode of the Netflix dystopian sci-fi show “Black Mirror,” artificial bees have been deployed to pollinate the world’s plants after a massive pollinator extinction. A great idea, until [SPOILER ALERT] the robo-bees are programmed for murder. We are a long way from launching fake bees into the wild, experts say, but global pollinator [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In an episode of the Netflix dystopian sci-fi show “Black Mirror,” artificial bees have been deployed to pollinate the world’s plants after a massive pollinator extinction. A great idea, until [SPOILER ALERT] the robo-bees are programmed for murder. We are a long way from launching fake bees into the wild, experts say, but global pollinator declines are not science fiction. Artificial pollination is a real industry, with a burgeoning edge of innovation. One recently developed technique employs a more whimsical approach to pollination: bubbles. A group of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have published a study in iScience suggesting that soap bubbles could be used as a low-tech method of artificial pollination. Artistic depiction of a soap bubble pollination at blooming pear orchard by Eijiro Miyako. &#8220;It sounds somewhat like fantasy, but the functional soap bubble allows effective pollination,” said senior author Eijiro Miyako, an associate professor in the School of Materials Science at JAIST. In the past, Miyako’s research group used tiny drones (2 centimeters, or 0.8 inches) with a patch of pollen-laden horse hairs to pollinate flowers. But the approach lacked finesse, with the drones crashing into and sometimes damaging the flowers. https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/07/24101215/Miyakodrone-1.mp4 Artificial pollinator in action. Video from Chechetka et al 2017. While trying to refine the pollination problem, Miyako spent the day in a park with his son blowing bubbles. A bubble landed on the child’s cheek and Miyako was struck with an idea: that the delicate hovering sphere may be&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/bubbles-lasers-and-robo-bees-is-artificial-pollination-here-to-stay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232972</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Have a good cry, but don’t miss deadline (insider)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/have-a-good-cry-but-dont-miss-deadline-insider/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Jan 2019 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[Israel and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Environment, Journalism, and Resource Conflict]]>
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							<![CDATA[About eight years ago when I was still fairly new to the reporter game in New York City, these two journalists I knew were killed while working in Libya. One worked for a wire service and the other was freelance and they ended up in the same carload of reporters doing field reporting. Long before [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[About eight years ago when I was still fairly new to the reporter game in New York City, these two journalists I knew were killed while working in Libya. One worked for a wire service and the other was freelance and they ended up in the same carload of reporters doing field reporting. Long before they became immortalized by the world’s media as handsome, dashing, brave poster boys for journalism, they were my colleagues, friends, and sort of professional heroes. Their abrupt exit from the world left an indelible mark on me. Journalism – something I used to see as straight and narrow – now seemed like both the cause and the cure of the worst pain I’d ever felt. Instead of scaring me off, it made me more driven. I don’t know what the stories we’ve reported on as journalists have done to us as human beings, but I do know that silence isn’t an option. News of my friends’ death came to me in a way that might seem strange and almost mercenary to someone not in this profession. An editor from a journalism industry magazine I reported for got in touch with an assignment. First, he asked me to confirm that my friends were dead. Then there was a newspaper assignment with a midnight deadline the day the news of their death broke. It was my introduction to a skill every good reporter carefully cultivates: the ability to swallow glass and still make deadline. It is part&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/have-a-good-cry-but-dont-miss-deadline-insider/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-214439</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/bird-watchers-of-the-west-bank-navigate-a-fraught-political-climate/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Aug 2018 11:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Miriam Berger]]>
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						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[Israel and Middle East]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birding, Birds, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Raptors, and Religions]]>
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							<![CDATA[RAMALLAH — Anton Khalilieh is the premier Palestinian birdwatcher in the West Bank. The 37-year-old from Bethlehem has all the traits of a great birder: an encyclopedic knowledge of bird qualities and calls, insight into the ins-and-outs of the best birding sites — and the reflex to suddenly stop in his tracks and identify a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RAMALLAH — Anton Khalilieh is the premier Palestinian birdwatcher in the West Bank. The 37-year-old from Bethlehem has all the traits of a great birder: an encyclopedic knowledge of bird qualities and calls, insight into the ins-and-outs of the best birding sites — and the reflex to suddenly stop in his tracks and identify a speck flying in the sky. Khalilieh is well-schooled in the splendors of the birds found in the West Bank’s four distinct bio-geographical regions, which range from leafy mountains and coastal plains, to the rocky slopes of the Jordan Rift Valley, to the dry Dead Sea, and cultivated fields along the way. Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh. There are at least 370 bird species to see in the West Bank, a wide array despite the small space, ranging from the eagle owl, among the largest owls in the world, to the Palestine sunbird, a nectar-eating songbird whose males have glossy blue and green feathers that shimmer in the sun. But amid a fraught political climate, Khalilieh says opportunities for Palestinian birders are fewer than those for Israelis. “Bird watching is a luxurious hobby,” Khalilieh said. “But because of the political situation and the lack of funds and money and experience, we don’t [bird watch].” The West Bank is sandwiched between Jordan and Israel. Israel captured the West Bank in the Six-Day War of June 1967; Palestinians claim the land is theirs, and the U.N. International Court of Justice maintains that the area is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/bird-watchers-of-the-west-bank-navigate-a-fraught-political-climate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-208845</doi>				</item>
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					<title>96 percent of the world&#8217;s species remain unevaluated by the Red List</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/96-percent-of-the-worlds-species-remain-unevaluated-by-the-red-list/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2012 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Brazil, Israel, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Frogs, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Herps, Hunting, Invertebrates, Mammals, Mass Extinction, Monkeys, Plants, Poaching, Poisoning, Primates, Rainforests, Rediscovered Species, Reptiles, Scavengers, Snakes, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The IUCN Red List releases its 2012 update, adding 247 species to its threatened categories. The king cobra has been evaluated by the IUCN Red List for the first time and listed as Vulnerable. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Nearly 250 species have been added to the threatened categories&#8212;i.e. Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered&#8212;in this [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The IUCN Red List releases its 2012 update, adding 247 species to its threatened categories. The king cobra has been evaluated by the IUCN Red List for the first time and listed as Vulnerable. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Nearly 250 species have been added to the threatened categories&#8212;i.e. Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered&#8212;in this year&#8217;s update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature&#8217;s (IUCN) Red List. The 247 additions&#8212;including sixty bird species&#8212;pushes the number of threatened species globally perilously close to 20,000. However to date the Red List has only assessed 4 percent of the world&#8217;s known species; for the other 96 percent, scientists simply don&#8217;t know how they are faring. &#8220;Expanding both the number and diversity of species assessed on the IUCN Red List is imperative if we are to have a clear understanding of our impact on the natural world,&#8221; says Richard Edwards, Chief Executive of Wildscreen, in a press release. Wildscreen is working with the IUCN Red List to raise awareness of endangered species. This year&#8217;s list includes the addition of East Asian snakes, an update on the world&#8217;s bird species, and two primates&#8212;the Caquetá titi monkey (Callicebus caquetensis) and the Burmese snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri)&#8212;added to the Critically Endangered category, the most severe category before extinction. To date the IUCN Red List has assessed 63,837 species, including nearly all of the world&#8217;s birds, mammals, and amphibians. A quarter of the world&#8217;s mammals, 13 percent of birds, and a shocking 41 percent of amphibians are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/96-percent-of-the-worlds-species-remain-unevaluated-by-the-red-list/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30704</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Extinct frog rediscovered in Israel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/extinct-frog-rediscovered-in-israel/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2011 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Israel, and Middle East]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Frogs, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Herps, Lakes, Rediscovered Species, Swamps, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) was last seen in 1955. Photo by Professor Heinrich Mendelssohn/Conservation International. After its marshland was drained, researchers thought the Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) had vanished for good. However a patrol at the Ha-Hula lake in Israel recently discovered a single female amphibian that turned out to be the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) was last seen in 1955. Photo by Professor Heinrich Mendelssohn/Conservation International. After its marshland was drained, researchers thought the Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) had vanished for good. However a patrol at the Ha-Hula lake in Israel recently discovered a single female amphibian that turned out to be the long-lost, and long-sought, Hula painted frog. &#8220;The species now has another chance to survive,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Nature and Parks Authority said last week. However, this is only the sixth specimen ever collected of the Hula painted frog, and its likely the species remains highly endangered. Not recorded since 1955, the Hula painted frog vanished after 95 percent of its wetland habitat was drained to fight malaria and grow crops. The draining also led to the extinction of the ray-finned fish (Acanthobrama hulensis) and the cichlid fish (Tristramella intermedia). The Hula painted frog was listed by Conservation International as #9 in the Top Ten Lost Frogs&#8212;a list of species researchers hoped most to find during a global search last year to determine the status of 100 missing amphibians. With the rediscovery of the Hula painted frog, two of the top ten have been rediscovered. Amphibians worldwide are currently undergoing an extinction crisis. While amphibians struggle to survive against habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation, they are also being wiped out by a fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis. Currently experts estimate that over 40 percent of the world&#8217;s amphibians are threatened with extinction, and well over a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/extinct-frog-rediscovered-in-israel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photos: world&#8217;s top ten &#8216;lost frogs&#8217;</title>
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					<pubDate>09 Aug 2010 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International (CI) have sent teams of researchers to 14 countries on five continents to search for the world&#8217;s lost frogs. These are amphibian species that have not been seen for years—in some cases even up to a century—but may still survive in the wild. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International (CI) have sent teams of researchers to 14 countries on five continents to search for the world&#8217;s lost frogs. These are amphibian species that have not been seen for years—in some cases even up to a century—but may still survive in the wild. Amphibians worldwide are currently undergoing an extinction crisis. While amphibians struggle to survive against habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation, they are also being wiped out by a fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis. Currently experts estimate that 30 percent of the world&#8217;s amphibians are threatened with extinction, and that well over a hundred species have vanished in the last three decades alone. As a part of the search for lost frogs, experts have released a Top Ten list of frogs they hope most to find. &#8220;While it’s very challenging to rate the importance of one species against another we have created this top 10 list because we feel that these particular animals have a particular scientific or aesthetic value,&#8221; says CI&#8217;s Dr. Robin Moore, who has helped organize the search. TOP TEN LIST in photos and illustrations: Number one. Arguably the most known of the lost amphibians researchers are seeking. Once native to Costa Rica, the golden toad (Incilius periglenes) went from abundant to extinct in just over one year. The frog was last recorded in 1989. Debate continues as to the reasons behind its vanishment including climate change and possibly chytridiomycosis. Photo courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/photos-worlds-top-ten-lost-frogs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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