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Threatened Species Day (NTSD) is held on 7 September each year - commemorating the death of the last Tasmanian tiger at Hobart Zoo in 1936. Once again, Tasmania is in the spotlight, Taz, or devil or, more correctly, the Tasmanian devil, is another creature in trouble through no fault of its own, being threatened by a facial tumour disease and is listed as a vulnerable species.

Of the wildlife-rescue missions under way at the Gulf oil spill zone, one is perhaps the most complex and its success uncertain: the relocation of more than 70,000 sea-turtle eggs from Gulf beaches.

As BP tries new measures to capture oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill, desperate attempts are being made to protect endangered wildlife.

Environmentalists are issuing dire warnings about the health of marine life on the high seas from a UN review of global fisheries. The review, held once every four years, is meant to address the declining numbers of fish stocks under a 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement.

Australian animal welfare activists are warning inner-Sydney residents they are about to be driven batty by flying foxes evicted from the Royal Botanic Gardens.Environment Minister Peter Garrett has given his approval for the Botanic Gardens Trust to drive out a colony of up to 22,000 threatened grey-headed flying foxes, which have killed 18 mature trees and threaten 300 more.