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Gorilla Doctors, a nongovernmental group, has trained veterinary staff in each of the countries where the mountain gorillas live (Photo: AFP)

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.

14 Nov 2018 9:12 PM

Sumatran tigers are considered critically endangered with 400 to 500 remaining in the wild. (Photo: Pixabay)

Endangered Sumatran tiger disemboweled, hung up in Indonesia

After killing the animal, the locals hung up its body for display.

05 Mar 2018 3:52 PM

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and other institutions said the original population of the gentle ginger-haired great apes is larger than previously estimated but so is the rate of decline. (Photo:AP)

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.

16 Feb 2018 10:54 AM

The analysis painted the grimmest picture for young African-Americans. Only 29 per cent of HIV-infected blacks between 13 and 24 years old were receiving the medication they needed to suppress the virus. (Photo: Pixabay)

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.

09 Feb 2018 7:56 AM

Eastern cougars, preying mostly on white-tailed deer in forests and coastal marshes, were declared endangered in 1973. (Photo: Pixabay)

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.

27 Jan 2018 8:16 AM

The number of Okarito kiwi has risen from 160 in 1995 to 400-450 now, and Northern Brown kiwi numbers are also climbing, the IUCN said. Photo: AP

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.

06 Dec 2017 9:15 AM

An olive ridley sea turtle walks to the sea in Sayulita, Nayarit state, Mexico. (Photo: AP)

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.

05 Dec 2017 4:32 PM

A Pied Tamarin photographed by the artiste. (Photo: AFP)

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.

25 Nov 2017 8:11 AM

According to the China giant panda breeding technology committee, the population of captive giant pandas has reached 520 worldwide. (Photo: Pixabay)

China to release second captive panda pair into the wild

The captive stock lacks genetic diversity.

18 Nov 2017 6:49 PM

Study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology said there are no more than 800 of the primates, which researchers named Pongo tapanuliensis, making it the most endangered great ape species. (Photo: Pixabay)

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.

03 Nov 2017 10:57 AM

In this Aug. 2, 2017 photo, unajyu is served at Hashimoto, a Michelin one-star unagi restaurant in Tokyo. (Photo: AP)

New hope for endangered eels, Japanese summer delicacy

Demand for it helped put the creatures on the International Union of Conservation of Nature's "Red List" of endangered species in 2014.

10 Aug 2017 7:52 PM

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