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·20/7/2009 - Should we deliberately move species?, Associated Press

·9/7/2009 - India hopes to reintroduce cheetah 60 years after extinction, Mongabay

·3/7/2009 - Kenya: No safe haven for rarest antelope, BBC

·22/6/2009 - China: New Yangtze River dam could doom more endangered species, Mongabay

·21/6/2009 - Desert icon Joshua trees are vanishing, Press-Enterprise

·19/6/2009 - China: New Yangtze dam may be death sentence for rare fish, Reuters

·16/6/2009 - Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges, Inter Press Service

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·IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, The

·Endangered Species Program

·National Invasive Species Information Center

·Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

·A Disappearing Act

·NatureServe - Knowledge to Protect the Diversity of Life

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ANIMALIA LIST OF EXTINCT SPECIES © Endangered Species International Recommended citation: Endangered Species International. 2009. List of Recent Extinct Species. Last Update April 2009. http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/overview.html ESIlogo cut1.jpg The starting date for the inclusion of extinctions was set at 1500 AD following the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms. Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Subspecies Common Name Former Distribution Assessment Estimated...
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ANIMALIA LIST OF EXTINCT SPECIES © Endangered Species International Recommended citation: Endangered Species International. 2009. List of Recent Extinct Species. Last Update April 2009. http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/overview.html ESIlogo cut1.jpg The starting date for the inclusion of extinctions was set at 1500 AD following the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms. Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Subspecies Common Name Former Distribution Assessment Estimated...
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3. Extinct species take others along, study finds           Rank: 74%

along, study finds WASHINGTON - More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects as well as mites, fungi, and assorted unloved but important species will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said Thursday. "We estimate that 6,300 affiliate species are 'coendangered' with host species currently listed as endangered," an international team of researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Science. "Up to 50 percent of species are predicted to...
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4. Extinct List for Species Says Hawaii Had the Most           Rank: 73%

Hawaii Had the Most HONOLULU, April 24 - Nearly half of the 114 species that have become extinct in the first 20 years of the federal Endangered Species Act were in Hawaii, according to a new report by an advocacy group. "The number is shocking and indicates a grave failure in federal management of the nation's most powerful environmental law," said the report, by the Center for Biological Diversity. Kieran Suckling, the center's executive director, said that with so many unique species, Hawaii...
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5. Species Extinct and At Risk           Rank: 73%

Western Canada Wilderness Committee Summary of paper. Home » ... » Canada's Species At Risk Act » Reports » 1995 - Protect Canada's Biodiversity » Species Extinct and At Risk Quick Search Go Protect Canada's Biodiversity Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.14 - No.04, Spring 1995 Species Extinct and At Risk As of April 1994, 256 Canadian species are listed by the government-funded scientific Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as being vulnerable. The...
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6. Extinct species           Rank: 73%

Search Species Search Sites Search EBAs State of Birds The BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme Donate to this groundbreaking initiative so that together we can turn the tide on bird extinctions. Home > Data Zone > > IUCN Red List Categories > Extinct species The bird species that are treated as Extinct by BirdLife are taken from a comprehensive study undertaken by the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms (e.g., MacPhee and Flemming 1999, Harrison and Stiassny 1999). All recently...
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7. Going or gone: defining 'Possibly Extinct' species to give a...           Rank: 73%

Going or gone: defining 'Possibly Extinct' species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions by S. H. M. Butchart, A. J. Stattersfield & T. M. Brooks The IUCN Red List is widely regarded as the most authoritative classification of species by their extinction risk (Lamoreux et al. 2003, Hambler 2004, Rodrigues et al. 2006), including those species known to have become extinct in recent times. Birds are the best-documented class of organisms on the Red List, and the fourth complete assessment...
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