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It’s not just extinction: meet defaunation

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

Extinction rates are 1,000x the background rate, but it’s not all gloomy

The quiet zoo revolution

Apocalypse now? Climate change already damaging agriculture, acidifying seas, and worsening extreme weather

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record – book review

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecting forest fragments

Featured video: what would a world without wildlife look like?

Governments should respond to ocean acidification ‘as urgently as they do to national security threats’

‘Ecological Armageddon’: mammals vanish entirely from forest fragments after 25 years

Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests, home to thousands of species found nowhere else

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Nutrient deficiency in Amazon rainforest linked to megafauna extinction

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

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

Over 500 scientists warn we ‘are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet’

Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

Future generations to pay for our mistakes: biodiversity loss doesn’t appear for decades

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmental artist ventures into the Congo

Will Amazon species lose the climate change race?

Wealthy nations, excluding U.S., pledge to double funds for biodiversity

India pledges over $60 million for biodiversity, but experts say much more needed

North American freshwater fish going extinct at rate over 800 times the fossil record

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

96 percent of the world’s species remain unevaluated by the Red List

Scientists give world leaders ‘Fs’ on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Scientists to Rio+20: save biodiversity to save ourselves

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