Save the Trees, Save the Apes, Expert Says
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A U.N. meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity's closest living relatives, the orangutan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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African leaders agreed bold plans at the weekend to preserve the world's second biggest rainforest area but Kenya's Nobel prize-winning environmentalist told them they would need to root out corruption to succeed.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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By Steve Connor Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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In a new book, David Wilcove urges conservation of species and their ways, still so little understood.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--NEW HAVEN -- A Yale University professor who is studying the effects of deforestation around the world has been named a MacArthur Fellow, the MacArthur Foundation announced early today.
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By Kristin Bender  BERKELEY -- Those trying to save a threatened oak grove at the University of California, Berkeley, now claim they have discovered an unexamined archaeological site in the area that will surely force Cal into saving the trees.
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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.
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Jane Goodall, the scientist renowned for her work on African primates, woke up an environmental conference at the French presidential palace by imitating the wild call of a tropical chimpanzee.
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WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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A new technique for tracking endangered species' genes borrows concepts from electrical engineering. Commentary by Carl Zimmer.
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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PARIS, Feb 2 (IPS) - Human development in the countries of Africa, Latin   America and Asia is essential for protecting the diversity of  plant and  animal species, says biologist Edward O. Wilson,  professor emeritus of  Harvard University and one of the  ''fathers'' of the concept of  biodiversity.
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As many as half the world's species may face extinction by 2100 because of pollution, climate change, human population growth and other influences, a renowned scientist dubbed "the father of biodiversity" told an audience here.
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Conservation groups alone cannot save endangered species, says Richard Leakey; we need to pay attention to humans' needs as well.