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Friday, July 13, 2007:

Conservation and Environmental News Roundup - 13th July 

Latest News Headlines

Heat tolerant algae helps reefs survive global warming

Coral geneticists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science have found that many corals store several types of algae which can improve their ability to cope with warmer water.

Read more: Coral Shuffle Helps Reefs Survive Warmer World (Environmental News Network)

Flamingos threatened by industrial plant

The RSPB have condemned the proposals for an industrial plant to be built next to lake Natron. A place to see one of Africas greatest spectacles, where 75% of the worlds populations of lesser flamingos gather to breed in the summer.

Read more: Industry threat to rare African flamingo (BBC News)

Natural selection at work

A remarkable example of natural selection has been documented by a team of international researchers. Within 10 generations, spanning less then a year, the proportion of male Hypolimnas bolina (a butterfly found on the island of Savaii) jumped from 1 percent of the population to about 39 percent, a stunning comeback credited to the rise of a suppressor gene that holds a male killing bacteria in check.

Read more: Natural Selection At Work In Dramatic Comeback Of Male Butterflies (Science Daily)

Clones - the way to save a species

A $9 million project to try and clone some of Malasyias threatened leatherback turltes, which are on the verge of extinction was launched in Kuala Lumpur.

Read more: Malaysia To Try To Clone Threatened Turtles(Environmental News Network)

 
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