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Global warming may ‘flatten’ rainforests

Loose laws threaten Australia’s wildlife

Scientists outline how to save nearly 70 percent of the world’s plant species

Featured video: ‘this is day one for the olinguito’

Finding a needle in a haystack: two new species of octocorals discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Trinidad and Tobago: a biodiversity hotspot overlooked

Are ‘novel’ tropical forests nature’s response to global change?

Pesticide problems in the Amazon

Safeguarding nine priority areas could protect all of Tanzania’s primates

Iraq gets its first national park: just call it Eden

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Climate change scattering marine species

Climate could warm more rapidly than any time in the last 65 million years

Habitat loss and pesticides causing decline in Europe’s butterflies

Palm oil drives Malaysian rainforest tree to extinction

Zoos call on governments to take urgent action against illegal wildlife trade (photos)

Dominican Republic sends bulldozers to destroy wildlife reserve, home to endangered species

New poison dart frog discovered in ‘Lost World’

Madagascar’s rate of speciation slowing down

Over 700 species added to the threatened categories on the IUCN Red List (photos)

New maps highlight global conservation priorities

Pesticides decimating dragonflies and other aquatic insects

Why bioluminescent fungi glow in the dark

Conserving the long-neglected freshwater fish of Borneo

Difference within common species may predict the presence of rare animals

Chewbacca bat, beetle with explosive farts among oddities spotted on Mozambique expedition

Scientists describe over 100 new beetles from New Guinea

Loss of big fruit-eating birds impacting trees in endangered rainforests

Saving Gorongosa: E.O. Wilson on protecting a biodiversity hotspot in Mozambique

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