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The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Banking the seeds of our precious plants

There are 37 native plant species listed as critically endangered - can a seed bank help save them from extinction?

Newsroom.co.nz

Sharks Being Wiped Out By Growing Popularity Of Sushi

Sharks are facing extinction because of incidental capture by the same fisheries

Zenger

Climate activists target private jet airports and demand ban at Cop27

Protesters gather at Farnborough and Luton as part of global action, also calling for tax on frequent fliers

The Guardian - UK

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Traditional owners, advocates say federal Threatened Species Action Plan will not stop central Australia extinctions

The Threatened Species Action Plan neglects almost all of central Australia, advocates say, and could spell disaster for the Lake Eyre Basin and its endangered wildlife.

ABC News

Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam among 8 people charged with Just Stop Oil plot to cause M25 chaos

Hallam was among the group of people arrested by the Metropolitan Police in pre-emptive attempts to thwart the latest wave of Just Stop Oil protests

Evening Standard

Protests planned as Bristol Airport expansion project heads for court showdown

It was refused, then permitted, now round three sees the High Court come to Bristol

Bristol Post

Hundreds of activists stop planes taking off at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport

Some activists staged a sit-in while others cycled round the planes

Evening Standard

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Bristol Airport Flyer bus blockaded by teenage Extinction Rebellion activists

They were also protesting about cuts to the local bus services in Bristol

Bristol Post

Saudi Embassy in US Participates in 'Cat Walk' Initiative

Saudi Arabia’s embassy in the US participated in the 2nd edition of the global initiative “Cat Walk.” The event is organized by the Catmosphere organization, which is concerned with supporting initiatives to conserve endangered wild cats. This took place in the presence the Saudi ambassador to the US, Princess Reema…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Glasgow bank entrance blocked by climate activists protesting 'failure' of COP26

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion locked themselves onto oil barrels at the Glasgow branch of an investment bank a year on from the COP26 summit in the city.

Glasgow Live

Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another

The Devon coastline reveals that Earth was in a near-lifeless state for up to five million years after the last event, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100, can it save them?

Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice,…

The Conversation

New cat laws to end 'trap, neuter, return' program

Nationally, environment ministers have agreed on a need to advance the uptake of technologies to control feral cats, if Australia is to meet its target of no new extinctions.

The Canberra Times

Extinction Rebellion activist glues himself to desk in live appearance on major talk show

Dutch activist Jelle de Graaf had been invited onto RTL 4's programme Jinek to discuss the recent wave of environmental protests across Europe when he leapt onto the table and glued himself down

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Ecologist at NSW koala conference says beloved animals on 'slippery slope to extinction'

A koala conference in NSW, held with the aim of building pressure ahead of next year's state election, also heard from an Indigenous conservationist who says cultural practices will play a key role in staving off extinction.

Daily Mirror

Huge 80-stone beast not seen in Britain since the Ice Age roams the countryside again

One of the animals recently gave birth to a calf to mark the first wild bison to be born in Britain for at least 6,000 years, back when Europe’s largest mammals were hunted to extinction

Reuters

Emperor penguins now a threatened species due to climate change, U.S. says

Antarctica’s emperor penguin is at risk of extinction due to rising global temperatures and sea ice loss, the U.S. government said Tuesday as it finalized protections for the animal under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

360info

The Sixth Mass Extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Species are going extinct at an unusually high rate. Our efforts now will prevent a future too ghastly to contemplate.

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The Guardian - AU

South Australia won’t supply gas to NSW during shortages, minister warns

In candid speech, Tom Koutsantonis says state ‘will not participate’ in national trigger and tells industry to expect a ‘torrid’ year

The Conversation

'Gut-wrenching and infuriating': why Australia is the world leader in mammal extinctions, and what to do about it

In fewer than 250 years, the ravages of colonisation have eroded the evolutionary splendour forged in this continent’s relative isolation. Australia has suffered a horrific demise of arguably the world’s most remarkable mammal assemblage, around 87% of which is found nowhere else.

The Conversation

New dates suggest Oceania's megafauna lived until 25,000 years ago, implying coexistence with people for 40,000 years

For most of Australia’s human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia’s mainland was connected to Papua New Guinea and Tasmania as part of a larger landmass called “Sahul”.

The Guardian - UK

UK Government to unveil crackdown on climate activism and strike action

Suella Braverman to reveal plans to grant police new powers to counter tactics favoured by Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion

ABC News

David Fleay's four-month expedition into wilds of Tasmania in bid to save thylacines from extinction

Renowned naturalist David Fleay urged authorities to save Tasmanian tigers from extinction before the death of the last-known surviving animal. Then he took matters into his own hands.

The Independent UK

Demonstrators block Downing Street gates in protest at PM’s climate approach

Crowds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrived in Whitehall on Friday, waving flags, setting off flares, chanting and banging drums.

The Conversation

Australia has hundreds of mammal species. We want to find them all – before they're gone

Life on Earth is undergoing a period of mass extinction – the sixth in history, and the first caused by humans. As species disappear at an alarming rate, we have learned that we understand only a fraction of Earth’s variety of life.

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