Endangered species

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• India’s largest dam given clearance but still faces flood of opposition

  22 Oct 2014: Janaki Lenin: The 3000MW Dibang dam, rejected twice as it would submerge vast tracts of biologically rich forests, is to get environmental clearance – but huge local opposition could stall the project

• Suspicious death of rare Tasmanian devil prompts zoo investigation

  21 Oct 2014: New Mexico zoo increases security and offers $5,000 reward for information on death of endangered marsupial named Jaspar

• Death of white rhino in Kenya leaves only six animals alive in the world

  18 Oct 2014: Fears grow for future of northern white rhino species after loss of 34-year-old Suni, one of last two breeding males in the world

• Australia pledges to halt loss of native mammal species by 2020

  15 Oct 2014: Environment minister reveals masterplan that involves tackling feral cats thought to kill 75m birds and mammals a day

• SSE's orangutan ad is deeply manipulative

  14 Oct 2014: Ed Gillespie: Scottish and Southern Energy’s new campaign cynically exploits eco-imagery to misrepresent a very ordinary business
  

• Tiger survival: mapping poaching and trafficking hotspots

  14 Oct 2014: Janaki Lenin: The case of ‘Putin’s tiger’ recently put poaching into the media spotlight. In India, a new modelling exercise is helping to tackle the crime by mapping areas where tigers are most at risk

• John Gould: an enduring witness to Australia’s lost mammals

  14 Oct 2014: The 19th century ornithologist had a surprisingly progressive view of Australian animals, championing the fast-disappearing thylacine and broad-faced potoroo, writes Fred Ford – even if he also knew how to cook a wombat

• Alien Quagga mussel may already have been joined by other invasive species

  13 Oct 2014: Predatory shrimps among four undetected invaders threatening native wildlife, scientist warn

• Drugs flushed into the environment could be cause of wildlife decline

  13 Oct 2014: New studies show antidepressants causing starlings to feed less and contraceptive drugs reducing fish populations in lakes
  

• Pig-nosed turtle is too cute for its own good, says new report

  7 Oct 2014: The global trade in illegal pets is booming, and at the top of its list of casualties is an adorable little turtle

• UN biodiversity report highlights failure to meet conservation targets

  6 Oct 2014: Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 paints a damning picture of governments’ efforts to meet a set of targets agreed in 2010

• In the Age of Extinction, which species can we least afford to lose?

  5 Oct 2014: Climate change and human intervention are accelerating the planet's loss of biodiversity. So should we try to preserve 'useful' bees before 'cuddly' tigers?

• Global biodiversity targets won't be met by 2020, scientists say

  3 Oct 2014: World leaders failing in their pledge to stop wildlife decline, save habitats and create marine reserves
  

• It's time to shout stop on this war on the living world

  1 Oct 2014: George Monbiot: Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce

• David Attenborough backs £1m project to save Bengal tiger

  1 Oct 2014: Indian village to be relocated to create the most densely packed population of tigers in the world and stop them eating people
  

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