There are proposals to regulate the trade in five of the most threatened species of shark.
The macaques are critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
And about a third of ocean-going sharks appear on the internationally-recognised Red List of Threatened Species.
Trade in caviar from beluga sturgeon (the most threatened species) has already been halted unilaterally by America.
The area is rich in plant and animal life with over 38 threatened species of flora and fauna.
Overfishing and deforestation have been some of the main causes for the reduction in the number of threatened species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists a dozen types of night monkeys on its Red List of threatened species.
It argued that the threatened species within the contested area needed large tracts of unlogged, unfragmented forest in order to survive.
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This is good news for conservationists trying to preserve the threatened species as small populations of animals can face problems of inbreeding.
The owl is a threatened species, and until a few days ago its presence in fire-scorched Miller Canyon was a matter of speculation.
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According to WSPA, confusion in the laws and inconsistent sentencing has helped make London a global hub for the trade in threatened species.
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.
Mjadu said he had no idea trade in leopard parts was illegal, and he did not know that the leopard was a threatened species.
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Then there's the polar bear, which Interior Secretary Kempthorne announced in May he was listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
They offer a wealth of ecosystem functions and services (freshwater, biodiversity, forest products, minerals, habitats for threatened species), and landscapes and cultures of exceptional value.
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.
Two years ago, scientists compiling the internationally recognised Red List of Threatened Species decided to include polar bears, giving them a listing of Vulnerable to Extinction.
China is also hosting the Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan this month, where the BGCI will launch a survey of garden collections of threatened species.
The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reviews more than 60, 000 species, concluding that 25% of mammals on the list are at risk of extinction.
But Dr Biggs and colleagues point to the experience with crocodiles as an example of how a legalised trading regime can work for the benefit of a threatened species.
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They are considered a threatened species but not endangered.
There also were loggerheads, which are a threatened species.
One of Pombo's main projects in that job has been to rewrite the Endangered Species Act in a way that would aid companies like Pacific Lumber, environmental activists say, at the expense of threatened species.
"Genuine backbenchers will become a threatened species, " he warned, calling on MPs to support an amendment by fellow Conservative Charles Walker to lower the maximum number of MPs filling ministerial roles from 95 to 87.
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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.
According to his wife Lady Scott, when Peter returned from war, he was very keen to do something to protect threatened species and so it was that in 1946 he founded the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge.
The news is full of disturbing reports about global warming, threatened species, and the gradual realization that the way we live -- particularly in developed nations -- will have to change if we want to enjoy a clean and sustainable future.
If one looks at the IUCN Red List, the global authority on threatened species, the concentrations are much higher, with 83% of the most threatened birds, 82% of the most threatened mammals, and 90% of the most threatened amphibians concentrated in the Hotspots.
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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.
Even as she professed her affection for them, Palin had, in early August, filed suit against Dirk Kempthorne, the United States Secretary of the Interior, seeking to reverse his decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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