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A new study has shown that the policies regulating the hunting of grey wolves do not match basic scientific data, and potentially undermine conservation efforts.

The removal of these animals from the ecosystem upsets the natural balance and leads to a loss of heavy-wooded large trees.

A combination of climate change and habitat loss caused a range wide decline of nearly 4% per year between 1985 and 2013.

Overall, an area the size of around 4,500 football pitches is still being lost every day.

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.

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