Last 22 Gobi Bears Endangered by Climate Change in Mongolia
November 20th, 2012 |
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Even as the ice-dwelling polar bear is threatened by climate change, so, too, is another bear that lives in a completely different habitat. In this case it’s the critically endangered Gobi bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis), the only bear species that has adapted to desert life. The last 22 members of this brown bear subspecies (known [...]
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Snow Leopard News: Climate Change, Radio Collars, Heart Troubles and a Video First
Wow, this is quite the week for snow leopards (Panthera uncia) with not one, not two, not three but four interesting stories coming out about these endangered big cats. Let’s start with the bad news. Climate change, as you might expect, could soon create trouble for snow leopards living in the Himalayas. According to a [...]
Keep reading »Last Wild Camels in China Could be Saved with Embryonic Transfer Technique Perfected in U.A.E.
July 7th, 2011 |
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The critically endangered wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) is so rare and lives in such remote areas that it was only recognized (after a few years of scientific debate) as its own species in 2008, decades after China started using one of its few habitats, the the Lop Nur Desert, to test nuclear bombs. Amazingly, [...]
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