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San Diego Zoo began collecting ski samples from rare animals in 1972 in the hope they might be used to protect these endangered species in the future. A breakthrough in stem-cell technology means that day is getting closer.

In the late 1970s, the fate of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) in France was very gloomy. By just looking at the otter's range map, one could see that most of the country was left with vast regions devoid of a species that was once found in every region. Estimations barely reached 1,500 otters left in the wild for the whole country.

Food is relatively cheap and plentiful in Britain today, but will that still be the case in 50 years?

London, England (CNN) -- One of the biggest dilemmas for conservationists is that preserving the environment often conflicts with the needs of the poorest communities who live there.

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MOBILE, Ala. - The internationally acclaimed "See the Bigger Picture" photo exhibition will make its United States debut Sept. 25 at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center in downtown Mobile, Ala.

Berlin: A team of German scientists may have discovered a "needle-free" malaria vaccine by combining antibiotics with malaria-infected mosquitoes - effectively using mosquitoes themselves as "syringes".

Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.

While the United Nations warns of the extinction of thousands of species, experts will hold up New Zealand today as an example of a country fighting to save the final marine frontier.

BONN, Germany-A wide range of species not native to Europe's Wadden Sea have invaded its ecosystem, threatening the biodiversity of the World Heritage Site, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report.

Over-fishing has left many seas around the UK in a state of decline, raising fears for many types of fish and other wildlife in coastal areas.

Una ambiciosa expedición en una de las zonas más desconocidas y con mayor biodiversidad descubre 40 especies.  Leer . Escuchar

Année de la biodiversité Sans l'instauration d'une politique suivie de protection, l'espèce aurait disparu de France.

SINDHUDURG: The state forest department has been unable to conserve the first marine sanctuary of Maharashtra at Malwan in Sindhudurg.

The highlands of southwestern Ethiopia should be ideal for growing coffee. After all, this is the region where coffee first originated hundreds of years ago. But although coffee remains Ethiopia's number one export, the nation's coffee farmers have been struggling.

26 August 2010 - The United Nations agriculture agency and the European Community are supporting Liberia in rehabilitating its fertile lowlands, which cover one fifth of the West African country, to cut the nation's dependence on rice imports and improve the livelihood of vulnerable farming families.

Distributing new varieties of drought tolerant maize to African farmers could save more than $1.5 billion dollars, boost yields by up to a quarter and lift some of the world's poorest out of poverty, a study found. The study published on Thursday by the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), with input from other food research institutes, focused on 13 African countries in which it has been handing out drought tolerant maize to farmers over the past four years. It described maize as "the most important cereal crop in Africa," a lifeline to 300 million vulnerable people. The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa plan aims to hasten the adoption of maize varieties that withstand dry weather.

IT IS time to start asking the hard questions. Countless people in flood-stricken Pakistan have lost families and livelihoods. Who can they hold responsible and turn to for reparations?

Environmentalists want the nocturnal glider native to Southern California mountains to be listed as an endangered species threatened by climate change. Environmentalists have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the San Bernardino flying squirrel, a nocturnal glider native to Southern California mountains, as an endangered species threatened by climate change .

Research from the University of East Anglia, published in Biological Conservation, has shown that the consumption of the Southeast Asian porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) as a speciality food is having a devastating effect on wild populations.