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![Biologists tag and release a northern flying squirrel.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/squirrel-close-up-scaled-e1583531413343-900x422.jpeg)
Glidepath to Recovery: Flying Squirrels and Spruce Forests Share Common Fate
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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U.S. Forest Service district biologist Shane Jones stands on an overlook high up on West Virginia’s Cheat Mountain. Behind him lush, red spruce trees stand like sentinels on this frozen… Read More
!["Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history," a U.N. panel says, reporting that around 1 million species are currently at risk. Here, an endangered hawksbill turtle swims in a Singapore aquarium in 2017.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/species-extinction-report-gettyimages-5f212a062f41f7d36cbb2f3cedadd34096f50974-e1557170299346-900x422.jpg)
1 Million Animal And Plant Species Are At Risk Of Extinction, U.N. Report Says
By: Bill Chappell | Nathan Rott | NPR
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“Protecting biodiversity amounts to protecting humanity,” says UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, who warns that species are being lost at an alarming rate.