Endangered species

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<p>Meet the newborn endangered baby agile gibbon born to mum Chloe and dad Conor at Fota Wildlife Park. Pictures: Darragh Kane</p>

outdoors

Watch: Fota Wildlife announces new arrival with adorable video of baby gibbon

Congratulations to mum Chloe and dad Conor on their new arrival

<p>Thanks to an eagle-eyed corncrake field worker, a farmer, a team of dedicated conservation experts and Cork's Fota Wildlife Park, here are nine of the luckiest corncrakes in the country. Pictures from CorncrakeLIFE/TraonachLIFE @CorncrakeLife</p>

outdoors

From Fanad to Fota — and back again — for the luckiest corncrakes in Ireland

<p>Kieran Coughlan is worried about Ireland's own endangered species, Homo Agricola Hibernia. Picture: Denis Minihane</p>

farming

What about Ireland's endangered species?

outdoors

Richard Collins: A safe haven at Fota and Dublin's Himalayan Hills but red pandas are under pressure in the wild

home and gardens

Clonmel gives refuge to insects

world

Iceland to keep hunting whales for another five years

WATCH: Rare footage shows tiger cubs playing in Russia

A family of four Siberian tiger cubs have been caught playing on camera in a Russian nature reserve.

Tue, 29 Jan, 2019

China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world

The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense Belt and Road Initiative threatens the habitat of the rarest ape in the world, which has only 800 remaining members.

Mon, 13 Aug, 2018

Plastic refuse in ocean killing over a thousand endangered marine turtles each year

More than a thousand marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches, according to research.

Tue, 12 Dec, 2017

Prague Zoo are hopeful critically-endangered twin tiger cubs will survive

Twin Malayan tigers born in the Czech Republic have a good chance of survival, a zookeeper has said.

Tue, 14 Nov, 2017

Basking sharks in Irish waters put on endangered list

The formidable, but harmless, basking shark is one of 58 species on a new list of endangered fish in Irish waters.

Sun, 29 Jan, 2017

Another red list brings warnings for Ireland's marine life

The warnings that one species or another has reached a critically low population no longer provoke a commensurate response.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2017

Video: Four rare white Bengal tigers born in zoo

A rare white Bengal tigress has given birth to four cubs at a zoo in Crimea’s Yalta Zoo.

Mon, 05 May, 2014