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Crippling cost of living putting extra squeeze on Irish pubs with some facing extinction

'Reduced footfall, coupled with an unprecedented rise in energy costs after 22 months of Covid lockdown closures and restrictions, means we are almost certainly looking at the permanent closure of many more pubs'

Irish Mirror

Have to be realistic about losses; not easy to bring back animal from extinction: Cheetah expert

The cheetahs may have to be monitored for their entire life as they are the first ones on the ground.

The Hindu

India welcomes back cheetahs, 70 years after local extinction

Arrival of eight big cats coincides with the 72nd birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Al Jazeera

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Bug apocalypse? Inside a Colorado-based campaign to save insects from extinction — and avert ecological collapse.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — At a high alpine lake here, researchers with clipboards and pens are conducting painstaking surveys that may be essential for saving butterflies and other insects from extinction.

The Denver Post

Tricolored bats could become endangered as a fungal disease decimates their population

White-nose syndrome is killing off many bat colonies across North America. The same disease is decimating the northern long-eared bat population, which is also on the brink of extinction.

WEKU

Fungal outbreak threatens tricolored bat with extinction

U.S. officials are proposing to list the tricolored bat as endangered

The Independent UK

How you can help protect sharks – and what doesn't work

Sharks are some of the most ecologically important and most threatened animals on Earth. Recent reports show that up to one-third of all known species of sharks and their relatives, rays, are threatened with extinction. Unsustainable overfishing is the biggest threat by far.

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Another dam(n) extinction

A rare “orchid of the falls” plant has been declared extinct after a hydroelectric dam destroyed its only habitat

Salon

Fail grade for Australia on saving species

Efforts to halt the decline of Australia's threatened species are failing dismally, a new report card warns on National Threatened Species Day.

AAP

Desperate race underway to save Cape York's golden-shouldered parrot from extinction

There are believed to be fewer than 1,500 golden-shouldered parrots left in a small parcel of Cape York in far north Queensland — the only place they are found in the world.

ABC News

Speaker hints at tightening of Commons security after Extinction Rebellion protest

XR activists booked on an official tour of the building on Friday and superglued themselves in a chain around the Speaker’s chair.

The Independent UK

'Impressive rafting skills': the 8-million-year old origin story of how rodents colonised Australia

A single, pregnant rodent floating on driftwood across the treacherous waters between Asia and New Guinea 8.5 million years ago may be behind the eventual colonisation of native rodents in Australia, our new research suggests.

The Conversation

Extinction Rebellion protesters superglue selves at UK parliament

Climate change activists padlock themselves to gates outside parliament, saying ‘we cannot afford to go on like this’.

Al Jazeera

Climate change protesters 'superglued around House of Commons speaker's chair'

CLIMATE change activists have superglued themselves around the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons.

The National (Scotland)

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Evening Standard

Animal Rebellion: Vegan activists vow to disrupt UK dairy milk supply in eco protest

Group linked to Extinction Rebellion vows to stop millions of customers buying milk in September

Reuters

Six arrested after Extinction Rebellion protest inside British parliament

London police arrested six individuals after the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a protest inside Britain's parliament on Friday, while it was not in session, gluing themselves around the speaker's chair.

Evening Standard

Eight arrested as Extinction Rebellion protesters glue themselves around Speaker’s chair in Parliament

The protest group read out a speech to the empty House of Commons

The Independent UK

Climate protesters superglue themselves around Commons Speaker’s chair

Extinction Rebellion demanding a Citizen’s Assembly to tackle global warming

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The Guardian - UK

Prevent tree extinctions or face global ecological catastrophe, scientists warn

New paper issues ‘warning to humanity’ as it calls for urgent action to protect world’s 60,000 tree species

The Conversation

Scientists release world-first DNA map of an endangered Australian mouse, and it will help to save it

The native Australian rodent Pseudomys fumeus, named smoky mouse for its colour, was already fighting off extinction when the 2019–20 bushfire season hit.

The Conversation

Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth

Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped and moulded to fit our cultural trends, social norms and scientific standards. They have changed from diseased specimens to primitive sub-human lumbering cousins…

The Guardian - UK

What is Cop15 and why does it matter for all life on Earth?

Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its destruction will be decided in Canada in December

Inverse

More than a dozen threatened American trees may disappear without further action, survey reveals

A survey of all native tree species in the contiguous U.S. exposes which threatened species aren't safeguarded against extinction and proved one species extant.

The Conversation

The survival of the endangered monarch butterfly depends on conservation beyond borders

The iconic North American monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus plexippus was recently listed in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, signalling that its ongoing decline could lead to extinction. The compounding effects of habitat degradation, insufficient food and water and climate change have led to these dwindling numbers.

Evening Standard

Conservatives urge Sadiq Khan to stop Extinction Rebellion ‘occupation’ next month

The GLA Conservatives have urged Sadiq Khan to step in and prevent Extinction Rebellion’s planned occupation of Hyde Park next month.

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