# endangered-species - Sunday 1 May, 2022
# Cheetah Cubs
# Cheetah Cubs
There are just a dozen cheetahs known to be living in Iran.
# endangered-species - Tuesday 28 December, 2021
# Sumatran Orangutan
# Sumatran Orangutan
Fewer than 14,000 Sumatran orangutans live in the wild.
# endangered-species - Sunday 26 December, 2021
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
Only 18 pairs of the rare raptor species reared chicks this year in areas designated to protect it – the most unproductive year on record.
# endangered-species - Tuesday 21 September, 2021
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
Just over 60% of our 600-plus legally protected nature areas have conservation objectives.
# endangered-species - Friday 3 September, 2021
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
Noteworthy’s Niall Sargent tells Susan Daly how the race is on to save iconic species like the puffin and curlew – and even save ourselves.
# endangered-species - Saturday 28 August, 2021
# Biodiversity
# Biodiversity
Ireland’s overall spending on biodiversity protection is also under internationally-accepted levels.
# endangered-species - Friday 27 August, 2021
# Endangered Species
A host of iconic Irish species and habitats are under threat, writes Niall Sargent in first part of Noteworthy's investigation into biodiversity loss Virtually none of our protected nature areas have management plans An expert forum has labelled the State as the “biggest transgressor of environmental law in Ireland”
# endangered-species - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
Richard Sheridan, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
# endangered-species - Friday 16 August, 2019
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
Crayfish plague has been detected in eight other Irish rivers in the past four years.
# endangered-species - Friday 3 May, 2019
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
A global refuge for angel shark remains in the Canary Islands.
# endangered-species - Thursday 24 January, 2019
# Tiger Cubs
# Tiger Cubs
The zoo is inviting the public to suggest names for the cubs.
# endangered-species - Thursday 26 July, 2018
# Borneo
# Borneo
At least 18 pygmy elephants have been killed in the region since April.
# endangered-species - Saturday 20 January, 2018
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
He was caught smuggling 14 rhino horns from Africa to Thailand.
# endangered-species - Tuesday 22 August, 2017
# Red Kite
# Red Kite
Conservationists are calling it a “deliberate” attack.
# endangered-species - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
# Going Going Gone
# Going Going Gone
The Earth’s species are dying out at more than 1,000 times the usual rate.
# endangered-species - Monday 29 August, 2016
# Dublin Rhino
# Dublin Rhino
There were as little as 50 southern white rhinoceroses left in the wild in the early 1900s – now there are as many as 20,000.
# endangered-species - Thursday 25 August, 2016
# Tipping The Scales
# Tipping The Scales
It helps zookeepers monitor the animals’ health and well-being.
# endangered-species - Sunday 7 August, 2016
# Carnivores
# Carnivores
A quarter of the main land carnivores’ prey are now threatened themselves.
# endangered-species - Saturday 6 February, 2016
# Tiger's Tale
# Tiger's Tale
“Dried geckos are used as an aphrodisiac; monkey skeletons are used to treat general pain”.
# endangered-species - Thursday 14 January, 2016
# Patrick Sheridan
# Patrick Sheridan
Patrick Sheridan, from Rathkeale Co Limerick, illegally bought and sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of rhino horns.
# endangered-species - Wednesday 13 January, 2016
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
George Bush posted 141 endangered animal specimens for sale online.
# endangered-species - Monday 2 March, 2015
# endangered-species - Sunday 1 September, 2013
# Breeding
# Breeding
Genetic databases, ultrasounds and frozen sperm – expensive, complicated… and it doesn’t always work.
# endangered-species - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
# Endangered
# Endangered
The move, hailed by primatologists, would afford all chimpanzees protected status and affect their use in medical research.
# endangered-species - Sunday 10 February, 2013
# Long Gone
# Long Gone
It has emerged that the Tasmanian tiger – the last of which died in 1936 – was wiped out by human actions rather than an unknown disease.
# endangered-species - Thursday 22 November, 2012
# Sharks
# Sharks
The passing of this vote means that all sharks caught by EU vessels have to be landed intact.
# endangered-species - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
# Feed The Birds
# Feed The Birds
Authorities are buying hundreds of kilos of fish a day for a colony of birds which has taken up residence at a seaport.
# endangered-species - Thursday 16 February, 2012
# Zoo Babies
From The Daily Edge
# Zoo Babies
Prepare for a strong dose of cute…
# endangered-species - Thursday 12 January, 2012
# Endangered Species
From The42
# Endangered Species
What’s not to love about this giant of the hardwood giggling with a bear in his lap?
# endangered-species - Monday 22 August, 2011
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
The Iberian lynx one of the world’s most endangered big cats, however new research shows the species has had very little genetic diversity for thousands of years.
# endangered-species - Wednesday 2 March, 2011
# Extinct
# Extinct
Wildlife biologists announced today that there are no longer any wild populations of mountain lions in the eastern United States.
# endangered-species - Friday 12 November, 2010
# Oops
# Oops
Misguided “Orang utan Weekend” promotion appears to link red-haired children with the endangered species.
# endangered-species - Wednesday 1 September, 2010
# Endangered Species
# Endangered Species
A white tiger cub in an Indian zoo is baffling visitors.
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