The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. In 2020, Defenders of Wildlife, Desert Tortoise Council and Desert Tortoise Preserve petitioned to change the tortoise’s status to endangered, which would give it higher priority and funding for conservation measures such as habitat protection and recovery efforts. The commission then granted temporary endangered species …
In what comes as positive news for tiger reserves, conservationists across the world, the population of tigers has increased by 40 per cent since the last assessment in 2015. The latest findings revealed that 40 per cent jump in the tiger population globally is due to improvements in monitoring, showing that there are more tigers than previously thought, and the …
Built in 1862, the Trujillo Adobe is one of the oldest known buildings in Riverside. Since its start in 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual endangered places list has spotlighted more than 300 historic sites across America at risk for destruction or irreparable damage, ranging from the National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., to Civil War battlefields …
Lion-tailed macaque, a primate endemic to small and severely fragmented rainforests of the Western Ghats in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, continues to be in the ‘endangered’ category in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The latest conservation status of the primate was updated in the IUCN database recently based on technical reports over the years from a group …
