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Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. So when did the last one die and what about all those sightings?

Partners in a new science venture say a living baby Tasmanian tiger might be as little as 10 years away. But before we start seeing them in fenced-off areas of the wilderness, let's take a look at what led to its extinction in the first place.

ABC News

Mission to bring back Tasmanian tiger takes a star turn with Hemsworths’ investment

Nearly 100 years after its extinction, scientists say thylacines may once live again, after a ‘‘giant leap’’ in a project to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger.

The New Daily

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger

University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine

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Rare smoky mice back in the NSW wilderness

It is hoped the release of 13 critically endangered smoky mice into a NSW national park will save a species that is on the brink of extinction.

AAP

Invasive species of feral pigs help to save Australia's native crocodiles

The saltwater crocodile came close to extinction in the 1970s, but an invasive species of feral pig could be responsible for helping population numbers increase once more

Daily Mirror

A democratic tool for the climate emergency

Pat Baskett makes a case for citizens' assemblies as a way to address the gap between government policy and a climate anxiety verging on terror.

Newsroom.co.nz

Beavers fight back against climate crisis and heatwaves with water-filled wetland

Once hunted for extinction in the 16th century, Britain's beavers are fighting back against the soaring heat, the National Trust has said

Daily Mirror

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French climate activists fill golf course holes with cement, protesting against water ban exemption amid drought

Climate activists have sabotaged luxury golf courses in the south of France, protesting against the "leisure industry for the most privileged" and its exemption for the country's water ban.

ABC News

Extinction Rebellion protests have cost police £60million since 2019

XR members are expected to take to the streets of London again for three days from September 10

Evening Standard

Invasive myrtle rust fungus poses 'unprecedented' risk to native trees

Some Australian native plants — including paperbarks, lilly pillies, eucalypts and bottlebrush — are grappling with their own pandemic as the exotic myrtle rust fungus spreads.

ABC News

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

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Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early – and…

The Conversation

Thousands more species at risk of extinction than currently recorded, suggests new study

New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so far evaded any official conservation assessment are threatened with extinction, according to predictions by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The Conversation

The most awe-inspiring and exuberant birds are facing extinction first – let’s stop nature becoming boring

From toucans and puffins to iridescent hummingbirds, the most unique creatures are the most vulnerable to human impacts, says Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

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‘Silent extinction’: myrtle rust fungus spreads to WA’s Kimberley

Researchers fear spread of invasive disease could be disastrous for Australia’s diverse plant life and are calling for urgent national response

Daily Mirror

Eco activists threaten to blockade Parliament for weeks in war on oil as heatwave looms

Campaigning group Just Stop Oil claim it will be Britain’s biggest ever campaign of civil disobedience. Plans were revealed at a meeting last week attended by 500 people including Jeremy Corbyn

The Guardian - UK

‘Generally ignored’ species face twice the extinction threat, warns study

Wildlife with little data faces double the risk of dying out – which may mean many more species are endangered than previously thought

Irish Mirror

Climate Endgame: Risk to human extinction or total societal collapse 'dangerously underexplored' say scientists

"Knock-on effects such as financial crises, conflict and new disease outbreaks could trigger other calamities"

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Scientists say we haven't given enough thought to human extinction

A new study suggests it's time to consider the possibility that climate change could wipe out humanity.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Zoo is using fitness trackers to help save endangered cattle

ST. LOUIS — Poaching and habitat loss are driving a species of exotic cattle toward extinction in the wild.

Daily Mirror

Global warming could see extinction-level pandemic hit UK in 50 years, scientists warn

Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause a chain of events that haven't even been considered yet

Wales Online

Climate change 'played a role in every mass extinction event'

Experts say the possibility it will cause societal collapse or human extinction is ‘dangerously underexplored’

The Independent UK

Chances of climate catastrophe are ignored, scientists say

A group of top climate scientists say the world needs to think about the ultimate climate catastrophe — human extinction — and how possible it is

The Guardian - UK

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

The Conversation

Good news: highway underpasses for wildlife actually work

Australia’s wildlife is increasingly threatened with extinction. One key driver of this is habitat clearing and fragmentation. An associated factor is the expansion of our road network, particularly the upgrade and duplication of our highways.

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