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Rise in mountain gorilla population brings hope for conservationists
Tourism helps too: Visitors pay up to $1,500 an hour to watch gorillas, money that helps pay for park rangers.
Endangered Sumatran tiger disemboweled, hung up in Indonesia
After killing the animal, the locals hung up its body for display.
Orangutan population plunging at alarming rate in Indonesia
Finding is in line with International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2016 designation of Borneo's orangutans as critically endangered.
Study finds African-Americans disproportionately endangered by HIV/AIDS
Less than 41 per cent of blacks had sustained viral suppression, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Eastern US cougar declared extinct
Mountain lions or pumas, historically roamed every state east of Mississippi River but mostly vanished by 1900 due to systematic hunting.
2 Kiwi birds are rare bright spot in grim extinction report
Red List of endangered species, mostly reported grave threats to animals and plants due to loss of habitat and human practices.
Activists in Mexico protect, release sea turtle hatchlings
It’s a race to protect the endangered turtles: illegal nest raiders can carry off 100 eggs per nest and earn as much $50 per nest doing so.
Photographing faces of endangered animals
New book by UK photographer Tim Flach documents some of Earth's most treasured species pushed to the brink of extinction by manmade crises.
China to release second captive panda pair into the wild
The captive stock lacks genetic diversity.
New species of orangutans discovered
Their numbers are so small, and their habitat so fragmented, that they are in danger of going extinct, say the scientists who studied them.