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The world wide search for lost frogs has produced great results! Conservation International has announced that they found 6 frogs in Haiti that were thought to be

The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) 2010 Living Planet Report is a BIG document that looks at our planet’s health. Sadly its findings show us that

The Mauritius parakeet (Psittacula eques echo) has seen some dark days; in 1986 only three females were known to live in the wild. Thanks to conservation efforts to

More than one-fifth of the world's plants are at risk of extinction.

2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers

60% of the plants that live on the Galapagos Islands and 75% of the plants from the Canary Islands are threatened with extinction. [caption id="attachment_3883" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="© Getty

Species are highly connected with and dependent on each other. So much so, in fact, that researchers have concluded the total number of species threatened with extinction is

Today’s rate of extinction of species is 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate suggested by the fossil record, which was about one species per million species a

Of the 634 species and subspecies of primates, a whopping 303 are considered Vulnerable or worse, with 22% considered Endangered and 11% considered Critically Endangered.