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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders?

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 242

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). Raffaele, James, Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, et al., published by Princeton Univ. Press in 2003.

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Cuba Birds 2000 United States 244

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JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 238

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JANUARY 22, 2015

In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' At least 274 tigers have died in India in the last four years, more than 70 per cent of them due to poaching.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 259

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APRIL 15, 2015

According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Despite birding in shattered forests with the constant background whine of chainsaws, the birding is phenomenal, with an incredible diversity and volume of rare and endangered species. million hectares in 2007.

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Ghana Hunters Gambia Guinea 251