161. WWF - WWF facilitates successful rhino translocation in India
pounds of armor-plated animal that has a fearsome temper and surprisingly delicate constitution. The entire operation was the culmination of a year of preparations by the IRV 2020 team led by a task force under the Department of Environment
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162. WWF - Critically endangered Amur leopards captured on video
pairs of the rare spotted animals and one individual in the Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and “Leopardoviy†Federal Wildlife Refuge in Russia’s Primorsky Province, located between the Sea of Japan and the Chinese border.
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163. WWF - Production and conservation side by side in Brazil’s Cerrado
criteria for friendlier animal breeding. Feeding is entirely controlled by computers and the effluents flow to large tanks where they are dissolved and cleaned. By the end of the year, there will be up to 2,000 cubic meters per day of methane
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164. WWF - Rare dolphin spotted in the Yangtze River
filmed “a big white animal†with his digital camera on 19 August. The footage was later confirmed to be a baiji by Professor Wang Ding, a leading scientist in baiji study at the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of
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165. WWF - Forests of the Upper Yangtze
furry, apelike animal with human features. More than 2,600 species of vascular plants thrive in the Shennongjia Reserve, and 32 are under national protection.
Featured Species
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166. WWF - Queensland Tropical Forests
with ancient lineages) and animal species. High concentrations of endemic monotypic genera and primitive plant families reflect the refugium status of many parts of the ecoregion.
Mean annual rainfall ranges from 1,200 mm to over 8,000 mm.
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/queensland_tropical_forests.cfm - 46.8kb
167. WWF - New Caledonia Moist Forests
high endemism in plant and animal species, with an impressive diversity of vegetation types - over 2,900 species of vascular plants, of which nearly 80 per cent are endemic.
Because the island is separated from Australia by a wide stretch of
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/newcaledonia_moist_forests.cfm - 41.6kb
168. WWF - Nusu Tenggara Dry Forests
Although the number of animal species is low, the number of marsupials and mammals, many of which are endemic, demonstrates the Asian and Australian influences on the region's biodiversity.
Size:
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169. WWF - Philippines Freshwater
the “Best Place for an Animal Encounterâ€.
Donsol is known as the whale shark capital of the world because of the high number of whale sharks, locally known as butanding, found in its municipal waters. For decades, whale sharks have
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170. WWF - Northeastern Congo Basin Moist Forests - A Global Ecoregion
Threats Hunting of animals for food and for medicinal values increasingly threatens ecosystem dynamics. Conversion of forest for agriculture and mining for gold constitute other threats. Mining has already seriously impacted many
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/necongobasin_moist_forests.cfm - 48.2kb
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