The Lady's Slipper orchid was rescued from extinction by scientists and is strictly protected by wildlife laws.

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"If people continue with this spate of killing nesting turtles and destroying their eggs, they'll be destroying generations of turtles and their offspring and pushing these wonderful reptiles into extinction, " says project officer of the Ghana Wildlife Society, Gerrard Osei Boakye.

BBC: volunteers pulling a turtle to safety

But after months of reporting and hundreds of bear sightings, I kept running up against an inconvenient truth: There were a lot of well-meaning, well-credentialed scientists, wildlife officers and local experts who simply didn't believe that polar bears were one ice cube away from extinction.

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