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Nearly the half the world’s migratory species are declining, in new UN report for COP15

With larger, land-bound animals human encroachment and Middle East warns make it more troubling for the survival of migratory animals on land, air and at sea. A new United Nations report released this week warns that the situation is getting worse, not better.

Plants going extinct faster than we thought

Plants: They seem more resilient than we are. And there are so many wild places in the world that...

Coffee extinct by 2080

The sun may be setting on a popular morning brew. According to a new report issued by the Climate...

Peak passenger pigeon – looking at “Martha” after a century extinct

One hundred years ago on the first of September 1914, a bird named Martha died at the Cincinnati Zoo....

Dubai Marine Life At Risk After Devastating Shark Catch

A five-metre-long female shark and its litter of forty-five hammerhead pups was found dead at the Deira Fish Market...

Seventy Percent Of Turkey’s Birds Join Downhill Path To Extinction

This Imperial Eagle is one of several species in Turkey that face extinction. Birds accustomed to breeding and rearing their...