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    • IUCN Red List web site made easy
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    • Toothless laws fail toothless anteaters
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    • Wildlife crisis worse than economic crisis – IUCN
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    • Stop all oil and gas activities that could harm Western Gray Whales, says panel
    • Florida leads the way for freshwater turtles
    • Southern Africa's freshwater species in firing line
    • Invasive species put dragonfly in the shade
    • Rabbits at risk in home range
    • Quarter of antelope species in danger of extinction
    • Delete? French artist offers to work with IUCN to save species
    • Box turtles face knockout as Indonesian traders export 100 times quota
    • The state of Australia's birds
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    • Tanzanian toad makes a colourful debut
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    • Penguins are Walking an Increasingly Rocky Road
    • Florida turtles need a reprieve
    • India's wild medicinal plants threatened by over-exploitation
    • Vaccine hope for endangered wolf
    • Quarter of northeast Atlantic sharks and rays threatened with extinction
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    • Halting Biodiversity Loss
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    • Russia Tiger habitat gets a boost with protection of key tree species
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    • Search for lost amphibians
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    • Why is biodiversity in crisis
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    • Asian ‘Unicorn’ sighted for first time in over ten years
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    • Mozart and ventriloquial frogs sound a note of hope and warning for Haiti’s recovery
    • Freshwater species at risk in Eastern Himalaya development surge
    • Rwanda – restoring nature for future prosperity
    • Year of the Rabbit – species hopping out of view?
    • Global search for lost frogs ends
    • Mystery of Brown Bears in Syria
    • 25 Most Endangered Turtles & Tortoises
    • Few hopes to save the most threatened bird in the Middle East
    • Africas rhinos face worst poaching crisis in decades
    • Sneezing in the rain
    • Following Flex
    • Plenty more fish in the sea
    • Illegal bear bile trade rampant in Asia
    • Laying the foundation for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
    • Better knowledge for Mediterranean canyons and cetaceans
    • Spectacular Mammal Rediscovered after 113 Years
    • New international report to secure natural riches of North Africa and the Middle East
    • Big birds lose out in a crowded world
    • Lifeline for Africa’s freshwater species
    • The Fight Against Invasives
    • A grain of hope in the desert
    • SOS Call for Proposals now open
    • Increased protection urgently needed for tunas
    • Scientists fight against invasives
    • Hagfish Media Release
    • Removing rats, restoring islands
    • Species on the Edge of Survival
    • Whales and dolphins need more protected areas
    • Western Ghats FW species
    • Experts Identify World’s Most Threatened Sea Turtle Populations
    • Striking a balance
    • Managing deep-seas fisheries: Challenges and opportunities
    • New national Red List highlights species at risk of extinction
    • Polar Bear Declines
    • Swooping out of sight: Bats in need of greater protection
    • Another leap towards the Barometer of Life
    • Species on the Edge app is launched
    • The battle for survival goes mobile
    • European Red List press release
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    • SOS boosts wild tiger conservation
    • New research for Mediterranean canyons and cetaceans
    • Saving Nemo: Charisma is not enough
    • Nokia App on Frogs
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    • Pygmy Hippos
    • EAZA-IUCN SSC Southeast Asia campaign launched
    • Endangered whales are crossing the Pacific
    • New IUCN Red List map browser
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    • Hope in a hotspot – on a mission to save frogs in Colombia
    • New plant discovered in Fiji
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    • Big boost for wildlife conservation: 23 new SOS projects
    • Love you for life
    • Green Turtle nesting boom in Philippines
    • Wildscreen Creative Climate Change Challenge
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    • Twelve percent of marine species in tropical eastern Pacific threatened
    • Sale of Elephant Meat Increases Threat to Elephants in Central Africa
    • France joins 'Save Our Species'
    • Worrying declines for world’s seabirds
    • World Water Forum: nature takes centre stage
    • Spring Flowers in Bloom
    • Half worlds NB sites unprotected
    • Save Our Species funds Mangrove Finch project on Galapagos Islands
    • Cameroon elephant poaching crisis spreads
    • Communities rewarded as conservation ambassadors
    • IUCN SSC takes on scaly anteaters
    • Conservation Heroes Recognized by IUCN Species Survival Commission
    • Sockeye Salmon Populations at Risk
    • Innovation for conservation success
    • Top global platform on biodiversity and its benefits established
    • Asian vultures fly back from brink of extinction
    • Biological invasions: a growing threat to biodiversity
    • Conservation success for Mexican bat speciesConservation success for Mexican bat species
    • SOS - New call for proposals
    • Most Pacific species still unknown
    • IUCN bat expert wins prestigious conservation award
    • Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day
    • Oil pipeline may threaten newly discovered glass frog species
    • New online elephant database launched
    • Saola still a mystery 20 years after its spectacular debut
    • The hidden wonders of marine biodiversity
    • Full force of the law needed to save stricken dugongs
    • Project supported by IUCN wins Equator Prize
    • Securing a safe future for sawfishes
    • 2012 marks the start of The International Year of the Rhino
    • Threat to the Amazon’s birds is greater than ever
    • IUCN Red Listing for Mediterranean seagrasses
    • A Triumph for Species in the 2012 Rolex Awards Laureate Selection
    • Rhino under threat film premiere in Rio
    • Securing the web of life
    • Experts report highest elephant poaching and ivory smuggling rates in a decade
    • Lonesome George, a farewell from a friend
    • Baby born at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary
    • Pakistan's national animal makes a come-back
    • Innovative insurance scheme saves snow leopards
    • Sea turtle conservation in French Guiana
    • First ever spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK
    • IUCN Director General to Speak at Esri International User Conference
    • Latest IUCN Red List assessment finds parrotfish and surgeonfish facing heightened risk of localized extinction
    • Protecting more than just the cute and cuddly
    • Gold medalists of the natural world
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    • Knowledge drives action
    • Progressing towards a Net Positive Impact on biodiversity
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