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Endangered Animals News Stories
Current Endangered Animals News Events, Discoveries and Articles
Passports for penguins
Ground-breaking technology that will enable biologists to identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales, without being captured, will be shown to the public for the first time at this year's Royal Society Summer Science exhibition [30 June to 3 July]. (2008-06-30)
Camera-shy deer caught for first time
A little-known species of deer called a large-antlered muntjac has been photographed for the first time in the wild, according to a survey team from the Nam Theun 2 Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (2007-07-25)
Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
In a study of orangutans living on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, scientists from Duke University and the University of Zurich have found what they say is the first demonstration in primates of an evolutionary connection between available food supplies and brain size. (2006-10-24)
Three new species of lemurs identified
Researchers have identified three new species of lemurs, the small, big-eyed primates native to the island of Madagascar. (2006-02-23)
Saving the peatlands of Borneo
Recent EU funding for University of Leicester research into Borneo peatlands will help to save the natural habitat of species such as the orang-utan, already under threat. The island of Borneo includes 11 million hectares of peatland, an area almost half the size of the land area of the UK, important reservoirs of biodiversity, which include rare and endangered animals. Tropical peatlands also perform valuable natural functions such as carbon sequestration and flood control, yet they are currently under considerable threat from land degradation, clearance and fire. In many cases, large-scale forest clearance is being carried out by companies to provide land for plantation crops (e.g. oil pal (2002-07-26)
Current Endangered Animals News Events, Discoveries and Articles
Passports for penguins
Ground-breaking technology that will enable biologists to identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales, without being captured, will be shown to the public for the first time at this year's Royal Society Summer Science exhibition [30 June to 3 July]. (2008-06-30)
Camera-shy deer caught for first time
A little-known species of deer called a large-antlered muntjac has been photographed for the first time in the wild, according to a survey team from the Nam Theun 2 Watershed Management and Protection Authority (WMPA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (2007-07-25)
Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
In a study of orangutans living on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, scientists from Duke University and the University of Zurich have found what they say is the first demonstration in primates of an evolutionary connection between available food supplies and brain size. (2006-10-24)
Three new species of lemurs identified
Researchers have identified three new species of lemurs, the small, big-eyed primates native to the island of Madagascar. (2006-02-23)
Saving the peatlands of Borneo
Recent EU funding for University of Leicester research into Borneo peatlands will help to save the natural habitat of species such as the orang-utan, already under threat. The island of Borneo includes 11 million hectares of peatland, an area almost half the size of the land area of the UK, important reservoirs of biodiversity, which include rare and endangered animals. Tropical peatlands also perform valuable natural functions such as carbon sequestration and flood control, yet they are currently under considerable threat from land degradation, clearance and fire. In many cases, large-scale forest clearance is being carried out by companies to provide land for plantation crops (e.g. oil pal (2002-07-26)
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