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Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

Controversial policy could spur tiger trade in China

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Field Notes: Finding Jacobo; an Andean cat captivates conservationists

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer’s tree frog survives Hong Kong

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Field Notes: Can we alter endangered species to be more adaptable?

How humans create as well as destroy species

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Conservation, Divided: in-depth series starts Tuesday

Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar’s wildlife?

Here Are The Top 15 Environmental Stories of 2015

Biologist finds “we are on pace to create a mass extinction” of frogs worldwide

World on course to lose 1 in 6 species to climate change – South America, Australia, New Zealand face even more extinctions

Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

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