The other is that upgrading subspecies into species simultaneously increases the number of rare species (by fragmenting populations) and augments the biodiversity of a piece of habitat and thus its claim for protection.
No one knows the number of parasite species, but they appear to outnumber the nonparasite species by 4-to-1.
Otherwise we are drawing a moral circle around our own species, even when the members of our own species protected by that moral boundary are not superior in any moral relevant characteristics to many nonhuman animals who fall outside the moral circle.
Once the furs arrive at the house they're spun in a vat to fluff the coat, then ticketed, sorted by species, rated by color and quality and divided into lots, some as large as 250 pelts.
Many species of titi monkeys, a species from South America, are in an endangered animal list by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
President Bush's administration has come under fire in recent months from environmentalists angered by its reluctance to cut carbon emissions, by its moves to weaken endangered species legislation and by its support for naval use of sonar systems that can kill whales.
This is also a type of alcohol that can be made by fermenting sugar (though the fermentation is done by a species of bacterium rather than by yeast), and it has some advantages over ethanol.
Not all species are affected by radiation in the same way according to Moller.
With few natural predators, they are now listed as a "pest species" by Natural England.
The move into dealing with timber species was welcomed by Will Travers from the Born Free Foundation.
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Left unmanaged, a natural habitat will become dominated by certain species, often invasive aliens introduced by human beings.
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These sanctions would be across the whole range of species regulated by Cites and could prove extremely expensive to offending countries.
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"Aggressive" invertebrates and rare jellyfish were among species identified by volunteers taking part in a research project along the North East coast.
It is based on the model of the European register of Marine Species and hosted by the Flanders Marine institute in Belgium.
Here's another species endangered by our cratering economy: the basic, mid-priced cellphone.
Since the 1970s some species have declined by over 60 per cent.
The world's roughly 1.4 million known animal species typically go by two or more names in scientific literature a source of confusion to many.
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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More than 400 species are threatened by the spill, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Thursday, citing the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The scheme, run by the Co-operative, the Shark Trust and commercial fishing industry, aims to improve the recording of species caught as by-catch.
But her concern is not confined to her own business - the camels put pressure on native Australian species by reducing food sources and destroying their habitats.
Species are designed by nature to be good at different things.
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Indian gray wolves are an endangered species protected by law.
Experts identified the area as an environmentally fragile cheetah breeding ground, and a 1996 management plan aimed to protect the vulnerable species by banning jeep-led safaris, which could interrupt hunts or scare and separate families.
The report asserts that the progressive unraveling of entire marine ecosystems up and down the food chain could lead to the "collapse" of all commercial species, possibly by the middle of this century.
Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model.
Among the species threatened by bottom fishing is the orange roughy, which lives for more than a century and takes decades to reach sexual maturity: in those gloomy depths, creatures aren't used to sudden events.
Darwin, who published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, came fourth in a poll run by the BBC in 2002 to find the public's greatest Briton of all time.
Humans pose much more of a threat to sharks than the reverse: 17% of more than 1000 assessed shark species are threatened by fishing and bycatch, according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.
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