Similarly, requests have been made from the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and the Ramsar Convention to support their work on the conservation and sustainable use of migratory species of wild animals and on wetlands respectively.
"We are committed to managing sensitive sites for the benefit of biodiversity and the conservation of priority species and habitats, " a spokesman said.
This term is central to CITES as it refers to the export of wildlife products that does not undermine the conservation of the species.
These sites are well used by local people, the woodlands are sympathetically managed for wildlife and conservation of key species which includes co-ordinated management and felling.
The head of The Jungle Jenny Foundation, which focuses on conservation of endangered species, said she had been in Cous Cous' cage before, accompanied by a park worker.
Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature species programme, disagrees with the review's conclusion that "species are more likely to be described than become extinct".
Volcker has been active in the conservation of the imperiled species, becoming a director of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and donating time and money to the North Atlantic Salmon Fund.
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The species has been listed as critically endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species since 1996.
Conservation of the many endangered species which have been reduced to numbers so small that inbreeding is almost inevitable will need to take account of the new knowledge.
"While Defenders has always recognized that professional control of wolves that prey on livestock is a necessary evil, allowing random, non-selective take through public hunting and trapping is a poor wildlife management decision, " warned Nina Fascione, Defenders of Wildlife associate director of species conservation.
With many predicting the extinction of thousands of species, Bob Smith, a researcher in conservation at the University of Kent in Britain, argues that targeting individual species is too narrow.
About 90% of its plant species exist nowhere else on the planet, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and many of its bird, reptile and animal species -- including all the world's lemurs in the wild -- are endemic.
The species are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List - a comprehensive source of information on the status of wild species facing a high risk of global extinction - as being 'vulnerable'.
These declines are mirrored nationally and the species is now on the UK's Red List of species of conservation concern.
In this era of global change, we can best develop strategies for biodiversity conservation by studying the changing geographical distribution of species and how their distribution will be affected by, for example, climate change.
Director of conservation at the Shark Trust, Ali Hood, said many of the species of shark, skate and ray species in the North and Irish seas had experienced significant population declines in recent years.
They are now also one of the most endangered: As of the end of this year, for the first time in history coral reefs have been included on the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species.
More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talk in some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.
"Let's not let the Farm Bureau ruin a good thing, " said Bob Ferris, Species Conservation Director for the Defenders of Wildlife.
The whale is listed as "critically endangered" by Russia and is on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
Supporters tout the valuable research and conservation efforts of zoos, which work with endangered species and serve as more than just a place to see the monkeys on a Sunday afternoon.
Upwards of one million sea turtles were estimated to have been killed as by catch during the period 1990-2008, according to a report published in Conservation Letters in 2010, and many of the species are on the IUCN's list of threatened species.
"The formal recognition of this new species is of great importance to correctly manage and protect this species, and has significant bearing on the prioritisation of conservation efforts, " the authors wrote.
The problem has long been recognized, and the aforementioned Habitats Directive -- a corollary of the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats -- introduced a range of measures aimed at protecting endangered species (including plants, birds and fish as well as mammals).
Polar bears live along the Arctic Circle and are considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Switzerland.
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"Aesthetic standards have become one of the primary determinants of which species are deemed worthy for conservation and this has to be looked at, " he said.
Scientists with Conservation International on Monday announced the discovery of 10 new species in what's being referred to as a safe haven for frogs located in the west of the country on the border with Panama.
Many of these species are classified as globally endangered, threatened or vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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It also showed that 278 wild plant and animal species in Wiltshire are in need of conservation action.
The WWF said poaching and trafficking of body parts was having a devastating effect on the wild populations of some species, setting back decades long conservation efforts.
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