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New study: overhunting by humans killed off Australia’s megafauna

The Caribbean’s wonderfully weird (and threatened) mammals, an interview with Jose Nunez-Mino

Photos: expedition in Ecuador reveals numerous new species in threatened cloud forest

Saving biodiversity ‘on the same scale’ as climate change: German Chancellor

Gone: a look at extinction over the past decade

Climate change causing irreversible acidification in world’s oceans

Photos: ten beloved species threatened by global warming

What types of primates are most prone to extinction in small forest fragments?

Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands’ species

Not just the polar bear: ten American species that are feeling the heat from global warming

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros

Zoos call for deeper emission cuts to save life on Earth

Extinct goat was “similar to crocodiles”

DNA uncovers nearly extinct Siamese crocodiles in captivity

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Global warming threatens desert life

Obama slower than Bush in protecting America’s endangered species

Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests’ survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

Kihansi spray toad goes extinct in the wild

Reptiles underrepresented on the IUCN Red List

Governments, public failing to save world’s species

The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish

Scientists uncover mystery of how frog plague kills its victims

Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

World’s largest golden orb weaving spider discovered in South Africa and Madagascar

Illegal ivory demand could wipe out Africa’s elephants by 2025

Present day tropical plant families survived in warmer, wetter tropics 58 million years ago

Tiger success story turns bleak: poachers decimating great cats in Siberia

Freshwater species worse off than land or marine

To save species conservationists must focus on conserving at least 5,000 individuals

Malayan tiger rescued from poacher’s snare proves need for increased enforcement

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

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