• The world's only mammal with scales, pangolins are also the world's most trafficked mammals. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • The pangolin is the world's most illegally traded mammal, poached by the hundreds of thousands from Southeast Asia and African savannahs and sold in Asia as medicine. (loe.org)
  • We are facing a biological crisis unparalleled in human history, with at least 25% of the world's assessed species at risk of extinction. (theconversation.com)
  • These trends are particularly bad in Australia , where we have one of the world's worst extinction records and the world's highest rate of mammal extinctions. (theconversation.com)
  • Cardillo M, Purvis A, Sechrest W, Gittleman JL, Bielby J, Mace GM (2004) Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. (springer.com)
  • Of the world's 5,490 mammals, the IUCN finds 79 species are Extinct or Extinct in the Wild, with 188 Critically Endangered, 449 Endangered and 505 Vulnerable. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Our oceans have become a dumping ground for the world's plastic, and fish, sea turtles, seabirds and other wildlife are paying a terrible price," said Emily Jeffers with the Center for Biological Diversity. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Three-fourths of the world's bird species are declining in population or threatened with extinction. (ecofuture.org)
  • Although species are disappearing most rapidly from the world's tropical forests, biological diversity is diminishing all over the globe. (ecofuture.org)
  • The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.6 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • The implementation of private areas focused on conservation of species and habitats, combined with REDD+ policies, has become an important ally for biodiversity conservation, expanding the conservation areas of the most varied habitats, covering key groups such as large mammals, which are extremely important for the maintenance of ecosystem services. (scielo.br)
  • The richness of medium to large-sized mammals recorded in the Purus Project underscores the importance of REDD+ in private areas for the conservation of this group, given the challenges for inclusion and creation of new protected areas. (scielo.br)
  • Biological Conservation 142:446-454. (scielo.br)
  • Compassionate conservationists argue it's morally wrong to kill animals for management, whereas conservation scientists argue it's morally wrong to allow species to go extinct - especially if human actions (such as the movement of species to new locations) threaten extinction. (theconversation.com)
  • Biological Conservation , 141 (12), 3006 - 3018. (oregonstate.edu)
  • More than 70% of marine mammals in New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) Threat Classification system are listed as Data deficient, Threatened or at Risk. (wwf.org.nz)
  • A new study using camera traps in mongabay.com's open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science has surveyed the diversity of medium and large-sized predators in the San Juan-La Selva biological corridor in Costa Rica, whilst also demonstrating how alteration of habitat is affecting the use of this corridor. (mongabay.com)
  • Biological Conservation, 124, 383-396. (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • There's a growing refusal by some groups to acknowledge the ongoing global extinction crisis being driven by human actions, conservation scientists say. (mongabay.com)
  • The third form of denial is "implicatory," arguing for example that technological fixes and targeted conservation interventions - rather than comprehensive changes to socioeconomic systems - will overcome extinction. (mongabay.com)
  • GLAND, Switzerland , November 3, 2009 (ENS) - Nearly one-third of all known species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction, finds the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, in the most recent update of its authoritative Red List of Threatened Species issued today. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The scientific evidence of a serious extinction crisis is mounting," warns Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Therefore, conservation plans for larger mammals should be implemented across larger spatial extents. (researchsquare.com)
  • Biological Conservation 201:293-300. (lancang-mekong.net)
  • 2011 Singh HS & Gibson L. A conservation success story in the otherwise dire megafauna extinction crisis: the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) of Gir forest. (lancang-mekong.net)
  • Biological Conservation 144:1753-1757. (lancang-mekong.net)
  • A top priority for biological conservation, whether in parks, village woodlots, or farms, is to recognize the vital role of local people. (ecofuture.org)
  • Given that 'extinction breeds extinctions' and the consequences of such losses, the study recommends that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 'immediately' classify all species with populations under 5,000 as critically endangered. (commondreams.org)
  • There is little data on the behavior of this species, even though it is in danger of extinction and conservation strategies are being developed. (bvsalud.org)
  • These odd, adorable animals may look like pinecones with legs, but the massive trafficking in pangolin parts is no joke," said Sarah Uhlemann, international program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Long-tailed pangolin (M. tetradactyla) by Brett Hartl / Center for Biological Diversity. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • If you answered the elephant - or rhino - or tiger, you certainly fingered some of the planet's most threatened and charismatic creatures, but according to the Center for Biological Diversity there's one mammal more trafficked than all of these combined. (loe.org)
  • Sarah Uhlemann of the Center for Biological Diversity joins us now. (loe.org)
  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity are together offering $15,000 for any information about the tragic killing. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • To save scores of imperiled animals and plants before they succumb to extinction, this Monday the Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal "notice of intent to sue" the Department of the Interior for failing to protect 144 imperiled species -- including the plains bison, California golden trout, black-footed albatross, cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, Tehachapi slender salamander, and giant Palouse earthworm. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Thanks in part to a slew of Center for Biological Diversity supporters who sent emails and letters, a state of Vermont legislative committee unanimously rejected a proposal to open up all the state-owned lands to ATVs. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Last Wednesday, the Center for Biological Diversity filed new court papers showing that that the Arizona Game and Fish Department is still claiming a right to risk the lives of endangered jaguars -- and it's even now risking their lives by trapping for mountain lions in potential jaguar habitat. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Coal destroys the environment and keeps residents locked in poverty," said Tierra Curry, a Knott County native and scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • In a statement Monday, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) noted that such comments are unusual for a scientific journal. (commondreams.org)
  • Excluding bats, nearly 90% of the mammals of the Caribbean faunal region have gone extinct since the late Pleistocene, including all the sloths and monkeys, the unique insectivore Nesophontes, two of four species of solenodon, and a variety of rodents including all giant hutias, leaving only a few hutia species extant. (wikipedia.org)
  • Will extinction become extinct? (trinitynews.ie)
  • After all, animals go extinct regularly on geological timescales, but this mass extinction is largely human-driven. (appton.co)
  • If all now-endangered genera were to vanish by 2100, extinction rates would be 354 (average) or 511 (for mammals) times higher than background rates, meaning that genera lost in three centuries would have taken 106,000 and 153,000 (years) to become (extinct) in the absence of humans. (appton.co)
  • In other words, projected losses of genera over three centuries (1800 to 2100) would have taken 106,000 (years) for all vertebrates and up to 153,000 (years) for mammals to become (extinct) under the normal, background rates," the authors write. (appton.co)
  • Fossil evidence shows that more mammals and birds become extinct than do mollusks or insects. (varich.com)
  • Lead author Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez, a professor of ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told CNN that approximately 173 species went extinct between 2001 and 2014, which 'is 25 times more extinct species than you would expect under the normal, background, extinction rate. (commondreams.org)
  • It mesenteric blood vessels of birds or mammals and produce is the second known schistosome species to cause dermati- eggs that pass from the host in feces. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the most common behaviors of cats that have an indoor/outdoor lifestyle is to bring hunted "gifts" to their owners, represented by small mammals, reptiles and birds. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this review, the role played by dogs, and especially cats, in the perpetuation of the biological life cycle of zoonotic parasites through the predation of rodents, reptiles and birds is discussed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 63 species of reptiles, mammals and birds. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For many species of mammals and birds, we now know which mutations are harmful. (lu.se)
  • This IUCN Red List update shows that the scale of the global extinction crisis may be even greater than we thought," Inger Andersen, the IUCN's director general, said in a statement . (livescience.com)
  • Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. (bing.com)
  • If the connectivity between the areas is reduced, migration of species between these will decrease, and as a result, local extinctions may be on the rise. (mongabay.com)
  • Anthropogenic determinants of primate and carnivore local extinctions in a fragmented forest landscape of southern Amazonia. (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • Earth's tallest land mammal, the giraffe, is now threatened with extinction, according to an update to an international list of threatened species. (livescience.com)
  • We are currently aware of five mass extinction events in the earth's history, and many argue that we are living through a sixth today, largely caused by the increase of human activities in the world. (trinitynews.ie)
  • Published in the journal Science, the peer-reviewed study breaks new ground in a decades-long scientific debate over what triggered the Earth's last major extinction event. (uoregon.edu)
  • After years of warnings from scientists that the world is witnessing Earth's sixth mass extinction, a new study concludes that the current crisis is not only 'human caused and accelerating' but also 'may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible. (commondreams.org)
  • Here, we measure the relationship between fragmentation (the degree of fragmentation and the degree of patch isolation), matrix condition (measured as the extent of high human footprint levels), and the change in extinction risk of 4,426 terrestrial mammals. (nature.com)
  • The second relationship, Cope's rule, holds that terrestrial mammals tend to evolve toward larger body sizes. (santafe.edu)
  • This new study shows yet again that the very survival of humanity is at stake if we don't end the heartbreaking wildlife extinction crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • What we do to deal with the current extinction crisis in the next two decades will define the fate of millions of species,' warned Ceballos Gonzalez. (commondreams.org)
  • Taken together, these preliminary results expand our understanding of K-Pg mammals and our basis for testing ecological hypotheses of the K-Pg mass extinction and recovery. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction was a watershed event in mammalian evolutionary history. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • Beyond any doubt, the human-driven sixth mass extinction is more severe than previously assessed and is rapidly accelerating," the authors explained. (appton.co)
  • In the upper region of the Purus River in Acre, Brazil, an inventory was carried out using camera-traps, of medium and large mammals community in a private REDD+ area, known as the Purus Project. (scielo.br)
  • The 20 species catalogued in the study represent only two thirds of the medium and large mammals native to that area, suggesting that the human disruption and conversion of the landscape is affecting the frequency with which some mammal species are seen in the corridor. (mongabay.com)
  • The fact is that de-extinction is theoretically possible, but the initial reason for the extinction still remains. (trinitynews.ie)
  • The species died out shortly after the arrival of the first European settlers in the Caribbean, who brought with them mice and rats, which very likely were the main reason for the extinction of most smaller endemic mammal species. (deadasthedodo.com)
  • With scientists predicting the extinction of over one million species, the time for transformative change is now. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • In the article 'Temporal niche expansion in mammals from a nocturnal ancestor after dinosaur extinction' (2017) - published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution - a team of British and Israeli scientists claim that our earliest ancestors were nocturnal in origin and only reoriented to a diurnal regime following the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. (frieze.com)
  • The public can help scientists in their efforts to learn more about New Zealand's marine mammals with the new SeaSpotter app. (wwf.org.nz)
  • SeaSpotter will empower New Zealanders to become citizen scientists in the fight to save our threatened marine mammals. (wwf.org.nz)
  • One of the biggest challenges that scientists face is the lack of data available on many marine mammal species in New Zealand. (wwf.org.nz)
  • This will help researchers track and gather information on our threatened marine mammal species and allow scientists to use artificial intelligence to mine these images for crucial data, including identifying and tracking individuals to offer new insights into their movements and population trends. (wwf.org.nz)
  • There are millions of images taken every year of threatened marine mammals by scientists, tourism companies, members of the public and even tourists," says van der Linde. (wwf.org.nz)
  • To better understand the effects of the fragmentation of the biological corridor, the scientists say further research has to be carried out to evaluate the effects of the agricultural expansion, farming, and the loss of connectivity between the different habitats. (mongabay.com)
  • The scientists consider it far from a good thing that so many extinctions have occurred at a time when humans have had the technology to record them. (appton.co)
  • Scientists say this phenomenon will likely spike again this week, since a major Convention on Biological Diversity report is due to be released. (mongabay.com)
  • Biodiversity scientists are being urged to "fight the creeping rise of extinction denial" that has spread from fringe blogs to influential media outlets and even into a U.S. Congressional hearing. (mongabay.com)
  • Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. (bing.com)
  • In this week's Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists propose a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why animal species tend to evolve toward larger body sizes. (santafe.edu)
  • a scientific and moral imperative for scientists to take whatever actions they can to stop extinction,' according to the study. (commondreams.org)
  • Entanglement deaths severely undermine recovery efforts of this seal, which is already on the brink of extinction. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Despite adding to the human fascination with nature, in the twentieth century the rhinoceros has been hunted to the brink of extinction , often sought by hunters only for their horn. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • They also found that 84% of land vertebrate species with populations under 5,000 live in the same areas as those on the brink of extinction. (commondreams.org)
  • The update was released today (Dec. 8) at the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cancun, Mexico. (livescience.com)
  • Countdown 2010, an initiative of the IUCN, will promote the protection of biodiversity and encourage organizations, institutions, companies and individuals to take direct action to reduce the constant loss of biological diversity worldwide. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The top priority for halting the loss of biological diversity -- the ecosystems, species, and genes that together constitute life on earth -- will be the protection of wildlands, those areas so far minimally degraded by human activities, Ryan concludes. (ecofuture.org)
  • Biological diversity is no luxury. (ecofuture.org)
  • 2007). First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species? . (oregonstate.edu)
  • The reasons for the extinction of a species, and for the rapid rates of change in our environment, are currently a focus of much scientific research. (varich.com)
  • The reasons for the extinction of this species are the same as for its gongener from the nearby island of Jamaica, the Jamaican Racer ( Hypsirhynchus ater (Gosse)), that is habitat loss and predation by the introduced and highly invasive Javan Mongoose ( Herpestes javanicus (É. (deadasthedodo.com)
  • Today's lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service notes that pangolins, which inhabit Asia and Africa, are in grave danger of extinction. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • It is past time for the Fish and Wildlife Service to take action to prevent the illegal trade and eventual extinction of this species," said Angela Grimes, CEO of Born Free USA. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Quiz time now - what's the mammal that tops the illegal wildlife trade? (loe.org)
  • Arguments like this, such as contained in this article claiming that "the onset of further wildlife extinctions seems far-fetched," ignore the conservatism of biologists in declaring extinctions, as well as actual evidence of recent extinctions and of the widespread population declines that suggest many more future losses are on the way, the authors write. (mongabay.com)
  • We recently documented an ENSO-related die-off of mammals in the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS), Rajasthan, India. (springer.com)
  • Brashares JS, Arcese P, Sam MK (2001) Human demography and reserve size predict wildlife extinction in West Africa. (springer.com)
  • POOR HUMANS VS VULNERABLE SPECIES: Two leading international scientific groups have reported that "global wildlife faces the greatest extinction risk since the dinosaurs disappeared" says BBC News 5/8. (ecofuture.org)
  • A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna is known from the Caribbean region. (wikipedia.org)
  • The restricted, unbalanced nature of the Caribbean mammal fauna implies that rafting was part of the overall process. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, it has been consistently advocated to avoid outdoor lifestyles and to reduce the feral dog and cat populations to decrease their impact on the native fauna as well as to avoid the further extinction of wild species [ 19 , 20 , 21 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years after forest fragmentation. (lancang-mekong.net)
  • In the United States, about 3,000 plants, nearly one in every eight native species, are considered in danger of extinction. (ecofuture.org)
  • But preventing extinctions and protecting biodiversity is unlikely when emotion, rather than evidence, influence decisions. (theconversation.com)
  • Extinction denial came to the fore in May last year, when the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published its Global Assessment . (mongabay.com)
  • The destruction and degradation of habitats is the number one cause of species extinction that threatens the planet's biodiversity but, what's the second? (spc.int)
  • Biodiversity patterns depend on landscape structure, but the spatial scale at which such dependence is strongest (scale of effect, SoE) remains poorly understood, especially for elusive species such as arboreal mammals. (researchsquare.com)
  • Here, we use fossils of distal humeri from well-sampled and well-studied localities in eastern Montana to document richness, body size, and locomotor patterns among latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleogene mammals. (palaeo-electronica.org)
  • Host Steve Curwood speaks with the Center for Biological Diversity's Sarah Uhlemann about the pangolin's global decline and why US protections under the Endangered Species Act are necessary to help save this unique creature. (loe.org)
  • Modern practice recognizes that the probability of absolute extinction is impossible to estimate accurately (there are too many unpredictable factors influencing the fate of the species when only a few individuals are left), and instead focuses on evaluating the risk of decline to a "quasi‐extinction threshold" below which extinction risks start to rapidly increase (e.g. (sagepub.com)
  • The updated assessment shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Many species are threatened by extinction, both locally and globally. (lu.se)
  • The report said a million species were at risk of extinction, and it outlined steps for "transformative change" to secure nature's contributions to human well-being. (mongabay.com)
  • L. planaxis snails collected along the rocky shores tions along with their exotic host species ( 1,4 ), sometimes of southern California released schistosome cercariae that causing extinction of indigenous parasites ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The large proportion of extinctions can be attributed to the isolated and therefore somewhat less competitive nature of the islands' ecosystems, and to the fact that carnivorans never colonized most of the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whilst the production of pineapples may support more medium-sized mammals, the fragmentations "severely limit[s] the habitat for large herbivorous/frugivorous mammals that are often responsible for maintain natural plant communities. (mongabay.com)
  • The research paper concludes that although the pineapple plantations have the highest observed medium and large-sized mammal estimates, it doesn't mean that the mammal community in these patches is healthy. (mongabay.com)
  • 2005) Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. (springer.com)
  • Mammal responses to edge density seem to be regulated by large-scale processes, such as an increasing dispersal in landscapes with higher edge density, and not by local-scale processes (e.g. edge effects). (researchsquare.com)
  • These mammals are all large, thick-skinned herbivores and have either one or two horns (actually thickly matted hair) on the upper snout. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Large-scale wildfires, possibly started by humans, in an ecosystem made fire-prone by climate change caused the disappearance of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and other large mammals in Southern California nearly 13,000 years ago. (uoregon.edu)
  • The vast collection of Ice Age fossils in Los Angeles opens a unique window on the timing and dynamics of large mammal extinction in Southern California," said Robin O'Keefe, a professor of biological sciences at Marshall University and lead author. (uoregon.edu)
  • Andatu, a Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest large mammals on earth, is seen at the Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in eastern Sumatra November 8, 2016. (commondreams.org)
  • Identifying the spatial extent at which a given biological response more strongly interacts with a given landscape variable is highly valuable to understand the ecological processes (e.g. dispersal, extinction, births and deaths) that may be regulating such response. (researchsquare.com)
  • Foley P (1994) Predicting extinction times from environmental stochasticity and carrying capacity. (springer.com)
  • We sampled arboreal mammals during one year using camera traps placed in 100 trees within 20 forest patches in the Lacandona rainforest, Mexico. (researchsquare.com)
  • Denialists have sought to obfuscate the magnitude of both extinctions and loss of bio-abundance. (mongabay.com)
  • Using the fossil record and historical documentation, the different rates of extinction of various taxa and different responses to environmental change can be detected. (varich.com)
  • We assessed the SoE in arboreal mammals and evaluated whether it depends on which biological responses and landscape variables are measured. (researchsquare.com)
  • 5,100 of the Center for Biological Diversity's supporters love the redwoods so much they deluged the California Department of Transportation with emails complaining of the agency's plan to slice a road through the gorgeous Richardson Grove in the state's remove North Coast. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • We find that the degree of fragmentation is strongly associated with changes in extinction risk, with higher predictive importance than life-history traits and human pressure variables. (nature.com)
  • Comparative extinction risk modelling is an approach for assessing the drivers of extinction risk and the change in risk over time. (nature.com)
  • Built with readily available data, this approach allows for the prediction of the risk of extinction of a larger number of species compared with that provided by expert-based assessments. (nature.com)
  • By spreading the risk horizontally (spatially) across a population of individuals, the lineage may escape extinction. (nature.com)
  • The diffusion approximation overestimates the extinction risk for count‐based PVA Kendall, Bruce E. 2009-10-01 00:00:00 INTRODUCTION Over the three decades since its formal introduction, population viability analysis (PVA) has been used to confirm the threatened status of individual species or populations (e.g. (sagepub.com)
  • Having selected a starting population size ( N 0 ) and a quasi‐extinction threshold ( N X ) , one can use model simulations to estimate a wide variety of quasi‐extinction risk statistics. (sagepub.com)
  • Second, analytical formulas can be derived for all of the extinction risk metrics listed above. (sagepub.com)
  • After being introduced to ecologists by Dennis (1991) and subsequently featured in a major textbook ( Morris & Doak 2002 ), the SEG model and its associated analytical approximations of quasi‐extinction risk have been widely used for empirical PVAs. (sagepub.com)
  • In contrast, the discrete‐time SEG model can be simulated, and quasi‐extinction risk statistics generated from the simulations. (sagepub.com)
  • In this paper, I ask, "Does the diffusion approximation provide an unbiased estimate of quasi‐extinction risk in the discrete‐time SEG model? (sagepub.com)
  • Models for extinction risk are necessarily simple. (santafe.edu)
  • It allows for predictions about extinction risk, and also gives us a systematic way of assessing how far populations are from their most stable states. (santafe.edu)
  • Extinction has dire consequences not only for the species that are wiped out but also for humanity, including an increased risk of health threats like Covid-19, which has killed over 376,000 people worldwide and infected more than 6.3 million, coauthor and Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich explained in a statement Monday. (commondreams.org)
  • Through a new scientific field, imageomics, researchers can use AI to extract biological information of these animals directly from the photos. (wwf.org.nz)
  • Because animals' energetic needs change with body size, the researchers based their calculations for replenishment and reproduction on biological scaling laws that relate body size to metabolism. (santafe.edu)
  • What's more, researchers said, the conditions that led to the extinctions parallel the increasing frequency of wildfires taking place in Mediterranean-type ecosystems today. (uoregon.edu)
  • CNN) - The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. (bing.com)
  • The Trump administration needs to help protect these unique creatures from exploitation and extinction. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Guests can meet the top predator of the time, the giant saber-toothed gorgonopsid Inostrancevia, as well as giant insects, bizarre-looking sharks and strange reptile-like creatures with mammal characteristics. (waikatomuseum.co.nz)
  • Unfortunately, over 50% of these marine mammals are listed as Data Deficient which means we don't know a lot about them including accurate population sizes. (wwf.org.nz)
  • If we want to protect marine mammals, we have to know how many there are, what areas they occupy, and if their populations are declining," continues van der Linde. (wwf.org.nz)
  • Anyone who spots a marine mammal around our coastlines can upload the photos through the SeaSpotter app. (wwf.org.nz)
  • They contain a wealth of data that we can extract and analyse to help not only protect marine mammals in Aotearoa but also combat their extinction. (wwf.org.nz)
  • We don't have the ability to attach satellite tags or to genetically sample every marine mammal we come into contact with, but we do have the ability to take a photo of them. (wwf.org.nz)
  • For the first time, this technology has the potential to provide detailed information about marine mammals. (wwf.org.nz)
  • We knew that if this could be done for leopard seals, then it could also be done for other marine mammal species," explains van der Linde. (wwf.org.nz)
  • Marine Mammal Science , 27 (4), 793 - 818. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Marine Mammal Science , 25 (4), 816 - 832. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which can cause intestinal injury and death and transfers plastic up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Marine mammals ingest and get tangled in plastic. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • The International Whaling Commission (IWC) sounded the alarm this week, issuing its first-ever extinction alert concerning the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. (bing.com)
  • This mammal is confined to montane tropical forest and is under threat from slash-and-burn farming. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Rhinos have an elongate skull, which is elevated posteriorly and a relatively small braincase for mammals this size (400-600g). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Nutritional State-structured Model (NSM) by former Omidyar Fellow Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), Omidyar Fellow Chris Kempes , and SFI Professor Sidney Redner incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where 'hungry' or 'full' animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources. (santafe.edu)
  • It even predicts an energetically "ideal" mammal, robust in the face of starvation, which would be 2.5 times the size of an African elephant. (santafe.edu)
  • An individual species' susceptibility to extinction depends on at least two things: the taxon (the biological group - kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, or genus) to which a species belongs, and the overall rate of environmental change. (varich.com)
  • Rather, they illustrate nature's complexity and the importance of protecting biological communities, not just individual species. (whqr.org)
  • Current generic extinction rates will likely greatly accelerate in the next few decades due to drivers accompanying the growth and consumption of the human enterprise such as habitat destruction, illegal trade and climate disruption," Ceballosa and Ehrlich write. (appton.co)
  • These views are pushed by many of the same people who also downplay the impacts of climate change, and go against the actual evidence of widespread species population declines and recent extinctions. (mongabay.com)
  • They found that species of different sizes gravitate toward population states most stable against extinction. (santafe.edu)
  • This so called "mutation load" could jeopardize the viability of the new population in the long run and eventually led to extinction. (lu.se)
  • When introduced to a new area, these invaders can cause extinctions of native plants and animals. (spc.int)
  • The first, "literal denial," argues that extinction is largely a historical problem. (mongabay.com)