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  2. Dodo - Wikipedia

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    The dodo is used to promote the protection of endangered species by environmental organisations, such as the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Park. [163] The Center for Biological Diversity gives an annual 'Rubber Dodo Award', to "those who have done the most to destroy wild places, species and biological diversity ...

  3. Bird extinction - Wikipedia

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    The dodo is perhaps one of the most widely recognized extinct bird species. A plump, flightless bird closely related to doves, the dodo lived solely on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] As is seen with regularity in species with abundant food and no predators on an isolated island, their descendants evolved per their ...

  4. Scientists Want To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth, Dodo Bird, And ...

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    Image credits: Colossal Biosciences We are currently living in a “period of mass extinction.” In broad terms, this means that species are vanishing at an exponential rate — far faster than ...

  5. Not so dead as a dodo: ‘De-extinction’ plan to reintroduce ...

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    A collaboration between Colossal Biosciences and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius.

  6. List of extinct bird species since 1500 - Wikipedia

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    About 216 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, [1] with increasing extinction rates due to human-caused influences such as habitat loss, the introduction of invasive species, and climate change. [2] [3] Currently there are approximately 10,000 living species of birds, with over 1,480 at risk of extinction and 223 critically ...

  7. Scientists vow to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo bird - AOL

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    Colossal Biosciences has already announced plans to bring back to life the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger

  8. Rodrigues solitaire - Wikipedia

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    The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of the nearby island Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae.

  9. The CIA Is Funding a Mission to Reincarnate the Dodo Bird - AOL

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