The Redheaded Vulture, a bird that thrived in South Asia feeding on the dead, is itself dying out.

Only a third of the world’s polar bears may be left within 50 years because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, the US Geological Survey said.

MORE than seven million sharks and skates are killed every year as an unintended consequence of longline fishing off the west coasts of South Africa, Namibia and Angola, a report by environmental group WWF said yesterday.

Vietnam’s prime minister will allow four private farms to continue to raise dozens of pet tigers despite strong protests from international wildlife conservation groups, an official said today.

One of the world’s rarest rabbits was spotted in Indonesia for just the third time in the past 35 years, underscoring the importance of conserving the region’s threatened rain forests, a conservation group said today.

DOZENS of endangered orang-utans have been driven from their jungle habitat because of forest-clearing fires raging across Indonesia, campaigners warned yesterday.

A family of five people were killed today when a herd of wild elephants rampaged through a village in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Polar bears, hippos and freshwater fish are among more than 16,000 species of animal, bird, fish and plant threatened with global extinction, the World Conservation Union said today.

HUMANS are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a UN report has said.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin launched a campaign today to save Australia’s endangered dugongs.

MORE than one-in-10 of all bird species are likely to be extinct by the end of the century, scientists said yesterday.

HUMANITY’S exploitation of wildlife and destruction of habitats is threatening to kill off more than 15,500 species of plants and animals - from frogs to sharks - unless urgent steps are taken to ensure their survival, conservationists warned yesterday.

Heavily armed poaching gangs in Congo have been slaughtering the world’s minuscule population of northern white rhinoceroses, reversing recent hopes for the species’ survival, a major conservation body said yesterday.

ARMED poaching gangs in Congo have been slaughtering the world’s minuscule population of northern white rhinoceroses, reversing recent hopes for the species’ survival.

South African President Thabo Mbeki has welcomed delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development with a call to action to band together to save the global environment and combat poverty.