Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008Move Species to Save Them?By AP/RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

(WASHINGTON) — With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them. Dubbed assisted colonization or assisted migration, the idea is to decide how severe the threat is to various species, and if they need help to deal with it.

Tasmanian Devils face extinction - October 04, 2007

They may not be as cute as koala, as iconic as kangaroos, or as just-plain-weird as the platypus but Australia would still be a poorer place without the Tasmanian Devil. Sadly the devil is headed for extinction within five years, decimated by a deadly, infectious facial tumour (The Age, ABC, AAP, Tasmania’s Mercury). Research has now uncovered why the animals have no immune response at all to the tumours – genetic diversity in a key set of genes is so low that the devils’ immune systems do not recognise the tumours as foreign.

From Audubon.org  

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