Extinct

• Emperor Penguins could be extinct in ‘the next 30, 40 years’ due to climate change

  The emperor's unique features include the longest reproductive cycle among penguins. After a chick is born, one parent continues carrying it until it develops its final plumage.

  Environment

  May 6, 2022
  
• University of Saskatchewan awarded $6.8M for bison conservation research

  University of Saskatchewan researchers are working with the livestock industry and First Nations to develop the world’s first bison genome biobank for conservation research.

  Canada

  Mar 3, 2021
  
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• Scientists use Saskatoon beamline to investigate early evolution of woody plants

  Scientists used synchrotron-based technologies in Saskatoon to look at the cell structure of an extinct woody plant that existed about 400 million years old.

  Science

  Aug 27, 2019
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• Scientists say East Coast’s saltmarsh sparrow disappearing

  The saltmarsh sparrow is disappearing from its home on the East Coast and could be headed for extinction in as little as 50 years, say scientists whose work could help protect the little birds.

  Environment

  May 21, 2016
• Scientists say Mexico’s Vaquita porpoise dangerously close to extinction

  Scientists are warning that the population of Mexico's endangered vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise, has fallen to alarmingly low levels and is heading toward extinction soon.

  Environment

  May 13, 2016
• World’s wild tiger count rising for first time in a century

  Conservation groups say the world's count of wild tigers has gone up for the first time in more than a century.

  Environment

  Apr 10, 2016
• White rhino dies at Czech zoo, only 4 others now left in the world

  One of the last five northern white rhinoceros left in the world has died.

  Environment

  Jul 28, 2015