demands rigorous validation before its findings can gain full acceptance within the scientific and conservation communities — especially for species as heavily impacted by international trade as ...

The next step would be the service investigating the species risk to endangerment and if it needs conservation. Species must be listed if threatened or endangered because of any of the five ...

Led by conservation organization Fauna & Flora, which describes the Annamites as the “Amazon of Asia,” the survey also documented nine species that have never been recorded in Cambodia before ...

Ecologists have made valuable discoveries that could transform the conservation of two iconic cockatoo species: the Sulphur-crested cockatoos and the critically endangered Yellow-crested cockatoos ...

And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among the hundreds of previously unknown species of animals, plants and fungi that scientists named and ...

The bottom line here is that we want the science used in defense of conservation to be good science. Thomas J. Near The discovery demonstrates the ability of modern analytic techniques to help ...

"I feel it was the first and probably the most famous example of what I would call the 'conservation species concept,' where people are going to decide a species should be distinct because it will ...

UNEP also has longstanding partnerships with species-specific networks and alliances such as the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program and the Great Apes Survival Partnership, a global ...

Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish. By Jason Nark For such a tiny fish ...