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Indian Myna bird. Credit - T G Santosh (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Bird and mammal diversity is declining with biological invasions
August 13, 2021

The introduction of invasive species leads to a decline in certain native species: a team of researchers has managed to show that 11% of the global phylogenetic diversity of birds and mammals, in other words their accumulated evolutionary history, is threatened by biological invasions.

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Auckland Island piglets, New Zealand. Photo: Flickr/Jon Sullivan
Wild Pigs Take Toll on Local Species in Hawaiʻi
July 2, 2021

Wild pigs (Sus scrofa), one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet, have gained notoriety in recent decades due to their devastating impacts to agricultural crops and threats to species of conservation concern.  Recent findings of a team of researchers from the Un

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Sea turtle. Credit - Mark Kolbe/Getty Images.
A glimmer of hope on vertebrate biodiversity
November 25, 2020

It’s been estimated that half to two-thirds of the world’s vertebrate populations, from birds and marine animals to elephants, frogs and snakes, have declined over the past five decades.

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Hermit crabs trapped in plastic containers. The species is an important part of tropical environments. Photograph: NHM
Plastic pollution kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands
December 12, 2019

Experts fear species decline after huge number of deaths on Henderson and Cocos. More than half a million hermit crabs have been killed after becoming trapped in plastic debris on two remote island groups, prompting concern that the deaths could be part of a global species decline.

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