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18 Oct 2022

WATCH: Wildlife population is declining faster than you can imagine

It is no joke that the world's wildlife populations have declined rapidly since 1970. It's serious because while you're reading this, someone out there is clearing forests or polluting oceans. Watch the video to know it all.

30 Mar 2021

DNA: Story of helplessness ahead development in Bengal

DNA, which is highly popular among millions of TV viewers worldwide for its accurate, unbiased, and in-depth reporting of issues of utmost concern to the country, is hosted by Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary. In this segment of DNA, we will understand how a tribe in West Bengal is on the verge of extinction.

Australian Dolphins

14 Mar 2018

Rare Australian dolphin at risk of extinction: Study

They are considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species.

22 Nov 2017

Black bears come back from certain extinction in US' Nevada

Further, black bears in the western Great Basin best represent a genetic metapopulation, a group of populations separated but of the same species with individuals that interact with other populations.

10 Nov 2017

The face of extinction: Image of world's last-of-its-kind male white rhino goes viral

Scientists are trying to develop IVF techniques that might keep the white rhino species alive.

28 Sep 2017

Tasmanian tiger extinction a result of climate change, says study

Tasmanian tigers, about the size of a large dog, became extinct 81 years ago when the last one died in captivity at the Hobart zoo on September 7, 1936.

24 Sep 2017

15 vulture species facing extinction set to get global protection

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of species threatened with extinction has listed a majority of these vulture species as critically endangered, indicating a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

21 Sep 2017

Global mass extinction date predicted!

While many scientists argue that the sixth mass extinction has already begun, the total number of species that have disappeared from the planet comes nowhere near the most apocalyptic events of the past and the rate of species loss is comparable.

Animal extinction

19 Sep 2017

Size matters? Biggest and smallest animal species at greater risk of extinction, says study

Large vertebrates – or animals with a backbone – are often fished, hunted, trapped, poached or killed as unintentional bycatch.

16 Mar 2017

'Great Dying' was followed by more extinctions

The researchers said that the extinction events were linked to climate change caused by massive volcanic activity.

Mass extinction

07 Mar 2017

One of Earth's biggest mass extinctions the result of ice age, not global warming!

It is the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes.

08 Dec 2016

Giraffes facing 'silent extinction', population shrinks by 40% due to habitat loss

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in 1985, there were between 151,000 and 163,000 giraffes but the number was down to 97,562 in 2015.

19 Sep 2016

Is the world approaching a sixth mass extinction event? Scientists confirm signs!

Authors of the study are shocked because this kind of pattern hasn't been seen before in the half billion years of the animal fossil record.

05 Sep 2016

4 out of 6 great apes near extinction: Report

Of the great ape species - the Eastern gorilla, Western gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan, Chimpanzee and Bonobo - only the Chimpanzee and Bonobo are not in critically endangered list but are listed as endangered.

31 Aug 2016

Climate change victimizes American Pika species; study reveals future extinction!

Unfortunately, another animal species has fallen victim to climate change and has been declared endangered – the American Pika.

16 Aug 2016

Banana faces extinction threat, warns pathologist

Black Sigatoka poses the greatest risk, capable of not only shutting down the immune system of the banana, but also producing enzymes to break down the plant's cell walls.

World Wildlife Fund

17 May 2016

Ban fishing to save world`s smallest porpoise: WWF

Mexico`s environment ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

World's tiniest porpoise

14 May 2016

World's tiniest porpoise close to extinction in Mexico, warn environmentalists!

Environmentalists from Mexico City have claimed that the population has dropped drastically despite the arrival of navy reinforcements in the upper Gulf of California in April 2015 to enforce a ban on fishing gillnets blamed for the vaquita's death.

20 Feb 2016

World Pangolin Day: These scaly anteaters face extinction in India

Of the eight species of Pangolin found worldwide (four each in Asia and Africa), two are known from India - Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata and Chinese Pangolin Manis pentadactyla.

25 Nov 2015

Extinction key to vertebrate diversity: Study

Periods of high extinction on Earth, rather than evolutionary adaptations, may have been a key driver in the diversification of today’s dominant land vertebrates, including reptiles, birds, and mammals, suggests new research.

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