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Actor Jared Leto Becomes Global Wildlife Ambassador for WWF

Academy Award-winning actor, musician and director Jared Leto was this month named WWF Global Ambassador to bring attention to wildlife poaching across Africa and...
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Warren Buffett’s Son Targets Rhino Poaching With $24M

American philanthropist Howard Buffett donated $24 million to South Africa's national parks service on Friday to fund a high-tech campaign against rhino poaching which...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Gives $3 Million to Help Double Nepal’s Tiger Population

On the third anniversary of the historic Global Tiger Summit, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife...
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Microchips to Protect Rhino Horns in Kenya

Efforts to conserve Kenya’s dwindling population of rhinos is set to get a significant boost when WWF-Kenya hands over 1,000 microchips and 5 scanners...
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5 African Countries Form World’s Biggest Wildlife Conservation Area

Five nations have agreed to launch the world's largest international conservation area to protect nearly half of Africa's elephants and a vast range of...
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Rare One-Horned Rhino Bouncing Back in Nepal

A National Rhino Census in Nepal released Saturday showed the rhinoceros population increasing 22 percent since 2008. The animal count, conducted in three national parks,...
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Endangered Rhino Population Doubles in Past Decade With New Habitat

Conservation efforts have more than doubled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the...
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White Rhino Comeback- a Success Story That Gives Hope

(Highlighting the best news of the decade with this video from 2008) Africa's white rhinos were driven to the brink of extinction in the early...
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Farmland Turned Wildlife Reserve Restores Endangered Animals (Video)

At Phinda Game Reserve in Africa, wild animals that thrived long ago have been re-introduced onto recently-farmed lands. As fences have come down and...
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Indonesia Reaches Historic Agreement To Protect World’s Most Endangered Tropical Forests

Indonesian authorities have pledged to stop the devastating loss of forests and species in Sumatra, one of the world's most ecologically important hotspots. To...
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EARTH ALERT ’08: Top Ten Good News for the Earth

Happy Earth Day! Here are the top ten good news stories for the environment... Since the first Earth Day in 1970, air quality has...

Extinct Javan elephants may have been found again – in Borneo

The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant...
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Glimmer of Hope for Botswana’s Decimated Rhino Population

Africa's white rhinos were driven to the brink of extinction in the early 20th century as poachers hunted the animal for its horn. A...

Top Ten Stories of 2006: #3 – Species Recovery

Environmentalists Heartened by Stunning Finds of Species, Coral, and Recovery of Many Endangered • Numerous hopeful stories in 2006 showed that endangered...
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Top Ten Good News of 2006!

With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...

Baby Boom for World’s Rarest Rhino Species

Scientists have found signs of four Javan rhinos born in recent weeks in Indonesia, a surprising baby boom for a species that may be...
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Healing the Globe: 11 Bright Spots

A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...