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Experts Estimate Only 32,000 Lions Left on African Continent
Date: 06 Dec 2012
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In the 1960s, the African continent was home to at least 100,000 wild lions, but a recent study found that just 32,000 of the big cats remain. Not only have African lions lost 75 percent of their original habitat, they are plagued by “poaching, retaliatory killing, and trophy hunting”. According to a report by Panthera, The size of savannah Africa: A lion’s (Panthera leo) view, wild lions are paying the u
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A Partnership to Protect North America’s Tiniest Turtle
Date: 07 Jul 2012
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The bog turtle — protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1997 — is the smallest turtle in North America, reaching a maximum carapace length of just three to four-and-one-half inches. Like so many species around the world, these tiny turtles are facing the loss, degradation and fragmentation of habitat from wetland alteration, development, pollution, invasive species and advanced plant growth. The
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