Bleak Future for Rare Chimps
Chimpanzees are under threat from many human activities there are only around 6,000 individuals of the Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzee subspecies are left in the wild.
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Malta Decides
Opinion polls in Malta show that 60% of the people are against the spring hunt, and mass campaigns have taken place for many years, with anti-hunt protesters congregating to disrupt the hunters’ activities
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Pet Trade Harming Lemur Conservation
The driving factors behind their decline include poaching for the bushmeat trade, a lack of conservation programmes and habitat destruction due to illegal logging, which is on the rise thanks to political instability and rising poverty.
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Large Carnivores in Europe
large carnivores are very important for the habitat they live in and the other species they live with, exerting top-down control of the environment. Therefore, carnivore populations and their habitats must be preserved.
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Reintroduction of the Clouded Leopard
Even though the last reliable evidence of the presence of the cat on the island was from a 1910 diary entry, biologists suspected that the notoriously elusive animal had avoided extinction for many years.
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Population Growth for the World’s Rarest Antelope
It is the last living representative of a 3 million year old evolutionary lineage, but is critically endangered.
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Silent Extinction
Habitat fragmentation and loss have played their part, but the main threat the giraffes currently face is poaching.
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Wanted – Dead or Alive
The leading country in the online trade is China, where 18,590 animal products were found on sale, nearly 78% of which were ivory products.
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The Highland Tiger
Once found across the UK, wildcats are now confined to north of the Central Belt in Scotland. They are so rare and elusive that population estimates have been as low as 35, making them 70 times rarer than the giant panda.
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The Forest Gardeners of Madagascar
A large proportion of trees in Madagascar’s rainforest have fruits that are eaten by lemurs and for some species, lemurs are the primary or only animal that can distribute their seeds