Articles by Alex Taylor - Page 26

By 2010 there were around 81,000 left, but this year marked the start of the saiga die-offs.

The six species have now been updated to either ‘endangered’ or ‘critically endangered’ status on the Red List.

The warming of the planet due to climate change is causing reproduction patterns to change.

Protected areas throughout the world receive 8 billion visitors every year, so it is clear the ecotourism business is booming.

long summer droughts and other factors will likely lead to the rapid drying or even complete loss of many ecologically important wetlands.

Chinese measures to protect this conservation icon have also benefited a number of other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians.

Between 1970 and 2012, marine vertebrates have declined by 49% and some fish species have declined by nearly 75%.

Illegal logging is having serious impacts – not just on the forests themselves – but on the animals. It’s reasonable to assume that if the birds are being this powerfully impacted, it’s impacting other groups, such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods.

It is vital for the survival of the species that all remaining Sumatran rhinos are viewed as a metapopulation, meaning that all are managed in a single program across national and international borders in order to maximize overall birth rate.