The disappearance of 160 species has been declared by the IUCN over the last decade: most had been gone for a long time and their demise can be traced in large part to human impact. The full list of extinct species.
The critically endangered population of the Javan rhino in Indonesia has risen to 72 individuals, as four new calves are registered thanks to camera traps.
A large dam along the Luangwa River in Zambia would have posed a serious risk to local people and wildlife, leading hundreds of thousands to oppose it. A call to which the government responded by halting plans to build it.
Veri e propri paradisi in terra. Riserve protette per gli ultimi esemplari di specie in via d’estinzione. Grazie all’ecoturismo è possibile proteggerli.
In Iran sopravvivono appena cento esemplari di ghepardo asiatico, specie minacciata dalla perdita di habitat, dalla riduzione delle prede e dal conflitto con i pastori.
The latest update of the red list of threatened species shows that giraffes are at risk of extinction, with nearly 40% of individuals lost in the last 30 years.
Thanks to Chinese reforestation and protection efforts over the last decades, the giant panda is no longer endangered.
A causa della caccia e della guerra civile in Congo questa specie è ora classificata “in pericolo critico” dalla Lista rossa della Iucn.
La Cambogia ha istituito una nuova area protetta di 65mila ettari. La zona è considerata un hotspot importante per molti animali minacciati come l’ibis gigante e il leopardo nebuoloso.
What is the status of the most iconic species of baleen whales? Is it only hunting that endangers their survival? We take a good, hard look at our oceans.
