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Extinct Wildlife
Golden Lion Tamarin Saved From Extinction
The vast Amazon rainforest is the South American tropical ecosystem most people are familiar with, and which many conservationists are most concerned about, because of logging and land clearing…
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Extinct Wildlife
Wild Horse Saved From Extintion
Most of the equines in the American West, Australia, and elsewhere that we think of as “wild” horses actually are not wild but feral—domesticated animals that have escaped or…
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Extinct Wildlife
Siberian Tiger Saved From Extinction
Strange and marvelous to think about is the fact that, while the cave lion, the saber-tooth tiger and many other species of predatory cat long ago passed on into paleontolological…
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Endangered Species
The Whales Saved From Extinction
Humans have hunted whales for at least the last 3.000 years. For most of this time, whaling was what environmentalists call a “sustainable” pursuit: hunting technology was primitive and inefficient,…
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Extinct Wildlife
The Bison Saved From Extinction
Along with the white rhino, the American bison, or buffalo, was one of the first species in the world to arouse actual, concrete human concern over its looming extinction. Prior…
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Extinct Wildlife
White Rhino Saved From Extinction
Africa’s southern white rhinoceros was discovered in the early 1800s, and by 1892, a mere 75 years later, it was already thought to have gone extinct. The white rhino’s near…
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Cloning Endangered Species
An All About Wildlife article, Why Cloning Won’t Save Endangered Animals, recently received a link from an essay in the online version of The New York Times that made the…
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