Star: Fishing, logging, mining, agriculture and other activities to satisfy our growing appetite for resources are pushing wild species towards extinction.
A species of Malaysian microsnail has been declared extinct in the latest Red List of Threatened Species released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Plectostoma sciaphilum, known only from a single limestone hill in Pahang, has disappeared as the outcrop which it inhabited, Bukit Panching near Kuantan, was quarried...