"The very first species the trust helped was the echo parakeet in Mauritius, " Mrs Hales said.
In 1981 American zoologists created the first Species Survival Plan.
Homo habilis, the first human species, is never mentioned.
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In 1997, after bird flu first jumped the species barrier, Hong Kong was the first city to be badly affected.
But the latest discovery is the first new dinosaur species unearthed on the island in almost a decade.
Experts said this was the first time the species, which measures more than 30mm, had been recorded in London.
In what is being described as the first inter-species computer chat, Koko will use her skills to answer questions from curious humans through the Internet provider America Online (AOL).
The shark spent six months as the main attraction in California's Monterey Bay Aquarium after becoming the first of her species to survive more than a few weeks in captivity.
Many cetaceans are among the apex predator species first to go from an area if things are not right, so if we can protect whales and dolphins, we know we are on the right road.
This extremely rare species was first identified by Dr Crump himself at West Angle Bay and has only been found at seven other sites in Britain.
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This is the first time that a species which was once Extinct in the Wild has improved in status by three full categories on the IUCN Red List.
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The researchers from Oxford University believe this is the first evidence of two separate species having evolved the same territorial song.
That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world-a massive collaborative undertaking by hundreds of experts around the globe.
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The pups were born in September, six months after the zoo opened the UK's first underwater viewing zone for the species.
In 1875 that laboratory was the first to isolate Saccharomyces pastorianus, the species of yeast used to brew pale lagers.
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However, few other matrilineal splits from the first 100, 000 years of the species's history have survived to the present day.
In these fossilized bones is preserved the first tangible evidence that these two prehistoric species coexisted (if not especially harmoniously), rather than evolving in separate time periods.
In the first set of analysis, the team found 182 species of bacteria, but at the repeated test a further 65 showed up.
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.
The first large-scale survey revealed a treasure trove of rare species, including Siamese crocodiles, previously thought extinct in the wild.
Taxonomists do not always get it right first time, of course, and what looked like one species may rightly later be seen as two.
And knowing the rate at which neutral mutations accumulate in most animal species, the 50% figure suggests that the first asexual rotifer lived about 80m years ago twice as far back as the oldest known fossil bdelloid, a 40m-year-old specimen preserved in amber.
" He deputizes himself as a tour guide to the human psyche, promising to find the triggers of sadness wherever they might lurk: "I will adventure to guess as near as I can, and rip them all up, from the first to the last, general and particular, to every species, that so they may be better described.
Many attendees say the move is highly significant because it is the first time that Cites delegates have voted to protect a commercially valuable species of shark.
But Giggs - the first British footballer to be featured in The Simpsons - is an endangered species.
It will take the first bird awhile to show up, but soon others of all shapes and species will follow.
Although the wall texts group the work by species, in practice the installation falls into two sections: The first explores symbolism in avian imagery, while the second celebrates birds in an array of mediums and styles.
On her first trip to Jack Bradley Cave last year Barton and her team found 111 new species.
"We hope that this project will not only see the waterwheel turning again for the first time in decades, but will also see a return of water vole and other species to the mill pond and leetes, " he said.
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"Worldwide, at least 100 marine species are now under individual fishing quota management, " observes an article in the first-quarter 2006 issue of the Milken Institute Review.
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