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Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Researchers devise new comparison of mass extinction events

Scientists condemn Bush plan for endangered species

The extinction of the baiji a ‘wake-up call’ to conserve vaquita and other cetaceans

Humans – not climate – drove extinction of giant Tasmanian animals

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Amphibians face mass extinction

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Three American mussel species lost to extinction

48% of primates threatened with extinction

Moving species may be only way to save them from climate change

Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought

1/3 of corals face extinction

Cuteness determines whether the public will support saving species from extinction

New math shows that threat of extinction is underestimated globally

Welcome to the Jungle: An Introduction to the End of the Industrial Era

Tropical biodiversity on “a trajectory toward disaster”

Caribbean Monk Seal is officially declared extinct

Rainforest species particularly vulnerable to global warming

50 species per day discovered in 2006

Geriatric turtle sex only hope for world’s rarest reptile

Invasive Species: Toad-ally out of control

Global wildlife declines 30% in 30 years

New cures for human ailments under threat by global extinction crisis

New expedition seeks evidence for survival of the ‘extinct’ Baiji

Humans, and global warming, responsible for extinction of mammoths

No global warming link to dying frogs?

Half of Madagascar’s amphibians may still await discovery

Saving forgotten species: An interview with Carly Waterman, Program Coordinator of EDGE

Widespread butterflyfish may go extinct due to global warming, pollution

The Panamanian golden frog declared extinct by BBC Natural History crew

New research refutes global warming’s influence on amphibians’ worst enemy

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