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Monarch Butterfly Flutters on the Edge of Extinction

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Environmentalists won a lawsuit forcing the federal government to decide by 2019 whether or not to list the once abundant Monarch butterfly as endangered.

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In Vitro Fertilization To The Rescue for Endangered Species Fertility

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Endangered Species Fertility: Researchers are now using fertility techniques developed for people — like In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) — to try to bring back endangered species like Africa’s Northern White Rhino.

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Lord God Bird Redux: Is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Really Back?

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Birders are keeping hope alive that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker will re-appear “on the wing” somewhere in the swamps of the Southeastern U.S…

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8 Newly Endangered Species Added to IUCN Red List

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The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, African Antelope, Vaquita and Amur Leopard are among the wildlife species recently added to IUCN’s International Red List…

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Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later

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These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.

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Artificial Cloning: Unnatural & Inhumane, or the Savior of Endangered Species?

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Some environmentalists consider artificial cloning unnatural & inhumane, but others see it as an essential tool to help save growing numbers of endangered species during the sixth great extinction crisis in the history of the planet….

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Extinction: Global Warming Hits Home for Wildlife

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Extinction is yet another effect of global warming, with the Golden Toad, Bramble Cay Melomy already suffering the ultimate fate…

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De-extinction Deja Vu: Is Bringing Back Extinct Species Possible Nowadays?

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Advances in genetic sequencing and molecular biology transformed de-extinction from theory into something that we are all likely to see in our own lifetimes.