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http://www.livescience.com/57870-climate-change-threatens-endangered-wildlife.html

Climate Threat to Wildlife May Have Been Massively UnderreportedA new study has found that climate change's impacts on threatened and endangered wildlife have been massively underreported. 

https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/seven-most-wanted-elephant-poachers-arrested-in-malaysia/

A heartbreaking set of photographs have emerged of a baby orangutan clinging to its mother as rescuers arrive to save them from villagers who steal the infants and sell them as pets. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-4227664/index.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/15/should-fur-be-banned-from-london-fashion-week-6450491/

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Climate change is already battering hundreds of animal speciesAlmost half of all threatened land mammals and a quarter of threatened birds may be feeling the pinch as a result of habitat loss and other changes

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Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years aloneSome fish and reptiles can reproduce asexually, but a shark in an Australian aquarium is a rare case of this in an animal that once had a mate

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Human genome editing shouldn’t be used for enhancement – yetGene editing can already treat human diseases, but while editing the germline and enhancing human traits might be acceptable one day, we’re not there yet, says report

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Emergency clause lets European countries beat bee pesticide banAbout half of the European Union’s member states are making use of an emergency clause to allow the use of banned pesticides that are thought to harm bees

Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate https://www.newscientist.com/article/2121422-dormouse-might-be-first-tree-climbing-mammal-shown-to-echolocate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=Autofeed&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2017-Echobox#link_time=1487177875

Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocateIt's not just bats that navigate at night using a form of sonar – so might a dormouse, and if so it could tell us whether bats' echolocation preceded flight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-4215482/Poachers-parcel-rare-PANGOLINS-Postal-department.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/two-held-with-camel-meat-warehouse-sealed/articleshow/57154555.cms

http://gizmodo.com/white-house-blocks-listing-of-bumble-bee-as-endangered-1792271532

White House Blocks Listing of Bumble Bee As Endangered SpeciesThe rusty-patched bumble bee was scheduled to be added to the endangered species list on Friday but The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that process will need to be reviewed due to an executive order from the president. Lobbyists who oppose the Endangered Species Act have celebrated the decision.

http://www.startribune.com/to-declaw-cats-or-not-new-jersey-could-be-first-with-ban/413165613/

To declaw cats or not? New Jersey could be first with banCats would keep their claws under a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to prohibit declawing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4224376/Boy-tries-BITE-bird-lands-shoulder.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/extraordinary-levels-of-toxic-pollution-found-in-10km-deep-mariana-trench?CMP=share_btn_fb

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/why-people-love-their-dog_n_7204984.html?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

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Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each otherA vibrational pulse that was thought to be a “stop” signal between bees may actually be a startled response when they collide