The Emperor Penguin is currently under consideration for inclusion under the US Endangered Species Act, and listing the species as endangered would reflect the seriousness of the threats it faces and the potential impact of its decline on the Antarctic ecosystem.
Whilst jail sentences and fines do already exist to discourage illegal activity, it is hoped this working group will help better enforce law at an international level.
Once again, sea otters are helping to demonstrate that the conservation of one species can have significant benefits to many others.
Almost 100 million Euros has been spent on conserving the remaining Iberian Lynx in the wild, and it seems that these efforts have paid off.
Conservationists believe that this is down to efforts by Chinese park officials and provincial governments. The Qinghai provincial government, for example, recently launched several conservation-related policies and region-wide projects that aim to build a foundation for wildlife conservation.
Why, in 80 years of living in a somewhat disjointed co-existence, is it once again time to kill the “urban fox”?
Traditional methods of deterring and punishing the professional poachers are clearly not working, so conservationists are now trying to fight them on a new front – economics.
The amount of land that is protected as national parks is 25%, and although comprising of only 0.03% of the earth’s surface, the landmass of Costa Rica contains 5% of the world’s biodiversity.
Groups such as the RSPB welcomed the decision, especially since buzzard populations were once so low in this country.
There are so many organisations that rely on SNH funding to carry out the important conservation work that they do. For many of these charities, funding from SNH allows them to hire employees to carry out this work.