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Experts say its survival depends on swift international cooperation to eliminate gillnet fishing within its habitat and prevent the disappearance of one of the ocean's most critically endangered species.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
Though widespread on the island state of Tasmania, they are listed as endangered and face a significant threat from a transmissible cancer known as Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
Longleat welcomed three-year-old Nubian giraffe Stanley to the park on Wednesday as part of an international effort to safeguard the critically endangered species, bosses said.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
Another finds nothing common in the common eider, with its cherished but endangered down.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The fiddler crab is not the only creature of tidal marsh and estuary to be threatened by pesticides; others of more obvious importance to man are endangered.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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