GenevaLunch » species http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no European wild cats returning, but threatened by ex-domestic catshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/17/european-wild-cats-returning-but-threatened-by-ex-domestic-cats/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/17/european-wild-cats-returning-but-threatened-by-ex-domestic-cats/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:28:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55466 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland is seeing a revival of its wild cat population, notably in the Jura, where 450-900 of the animals are thought to be living in a 600m2 forested area. The cats, which are not simply domestic cats gone wild, are visually hard to distinguish from household tiger-striped cats, although they tend [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/17/european-wild-cats-returning-but-threatened-by-ex-domestic-cats/feed/ 4 “Reduced to skin and bones” shows tigers under pressurehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/reduced-to-skin-and-bones-shows-tigers-under-pressure/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/reduced-to-skin-and-bones-shows-tigers-under-pressure/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:33:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49720 GenevaLunch.com (video, nearly extinct Siberian tiger) Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The WWF, based in Gland, near Geneva, says the world’s endangered tigers remain under pressure, with India, China and Nepal showing the worst poaching problems. In the past century the number of tigers worldwide has fallen from an estimated 100,000 to just 3,200. The WWF is [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/reduced-to-skin-and-bones-shows-tigers-under-pressure/feed/ 1 Species threatened with extinction still on the rise, says IUCNhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/03/species-threatened-with-extinction-still-on-the-rise-says-iucn/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/03/species-threatened-with-extinction-still-on-the-rise-says-iucn/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:18 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30848 GenevaLunch.com Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A major new assessment of the threats to the world’s biodiversity shows that the continuing encroachment on many species’ habitats is increasing their vulnerability. The 2009 edition of world’s most comprehensive list of life under threat of extinction, the Red List of Threatened Species, was published Tuesday 3 November.  The Red [...]

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