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Commentary: The parallel struggles of human and monarch migration

In July, the monarch butterfly was added by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to its red list of threatened species, a recognition that the insect’s continuing decline could lead to extinction. Though the monarch population increased 35% from December 2020 to December 2021, its numbers overall have been…

Los Angeles Times

Myanmar trade unions facing extinction after coup, UN agency says

Groups assisting workers and migrants have faced violence and arbitrary arrest since February 2021 coup, report says.

Al Jazeera

Mystery animal in Belair National Park unlikely to be Tasmanian tiger

While scientists are working on the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in the lab, one bush walker in the Adelaide Hills has spotted a creature which she says shared a striking resemblance.

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Ancient frogs in mass grave died from too much sex – new research

Frogs once lived alongside dinosaurs. About 45 million years ago, the North Sea covered half of Germany. It’s incredible to think these little creatures survived the dinosaurs’ extinction. But a lower level mass death did take place in what is now called the Geiseltal region in central Germany and the…

The Conversation

Global Warming Triggered Age Of The Dinosaurs

"Major shifts in global temperature can have dramatic and varying impacts on biodiversity."

Zenger

Tassie tigers in the Barrington Tops?

Talk of bringing the thylacine back from extinction brought to mind an old story.

Newcastle Herald

Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger may be a noble idea – but what about preserving existing species?

While de-extinction research may benefit conservation efforts overall, we shouldn’t have to rely on it to give a wildlife a future

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A plan to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction raises questions

The thylacine had trademark stripes and, rare in the animal world, abdominal pouches in both females and males. The last known specimen died in a zoo in 1936.

WEKU

The Guardian view on de-extinction: Jurassic Park may be becoming reality

Editorial: We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction

The Guardian - UK

Everton exposed why Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were heading for Premier League extinction

Everton showed by Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were going down in the Premier League's first season when the clubs met at Goodison Park

Liverpool Echo

De-extinction company plans to bring back the Tasmanian tiger

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas company pursuing plans to bring woolly mammoths back to the Arctic tundra, is setting its sights on bringing back another extinct species: the Tasmanian tiger.

Tribune News Service

Tasmanian tiger: Scientists hope to revive extinct marsupial in world-first

The de-extinction bid would take several breakthroughs and some doubt it can be done

Evening Standard

Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. So when did the last one die and what about all those sightings?

Partners in a new science venture say a living baby Tasmanian tiger might be as little as 10 years away. But before we start seeing them in fenced-off areas of the wilderness, let's take a look at what led to its extinction in the first place.

ABC News

Mission to bring back Tasmanian tiger takes a star turn with Hemsworths’ investment

Nearly 100 years after its extinction, scientists say thylacines may once live again, after a ‘‘giant leap’’ in a project to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger.

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De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger

University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine

AAP

Rare smoky mice back in the NSW wilderness

It is hoped the release of 13 critically endangered smoky mice into a NSW national park will save a species that is on the brink of extinction.

Daily Mirror

Invasive species of feral pigs help to save Australia's native crocodiles

The saltwater crocodile came close to extinction in the 1970s, but an invasive species of feral pig could be responsible for helping population numbers increase once more

Newsroom.co.nz

A democratic tool for the climate emergency

Pat Baskett makes a case for citizens' assemblies as a way to address the gap between government policy and a climate anxiety verging on terror.

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Daily Mirror

Beavers fight back against climate crisis and heatwaves with water-filled wetland

Once hunted for extinction in the 16th century, Britain's beavers are fighting back against the soaring heat, the National Trust has said

ABC News

French climate activists fill golf course holes with cement, protesting against water ban exemption amid drought

Climate activists have sabotaged luxury golf courses in the south of France, protesting against the "leisure industry for the most privileged" and its exemption for the country's water ban.

Evening Standard

Extinction Rebellion protests have cost police £60million since 2019

XR members are expected to take to the streets of London again for three days from September 10

ABC News

Invasive myrtle rust fungus poses 'unprecedented' risk to native trees

Some Australian native plants — including paperbarks, lilly pillies, eucalypts and bottlebrush — are grappling with their own pandemic as the exotic myrtle rust fungus spreads.

ABC News

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

The Conversation

Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early – and…

The Conversation

Thousands more species at risk of extinction than currently recorded, suggests new study

New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so far evaded any official conservation assessment are threatened with extinction, according to predictions by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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