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Friday April 11th 2008
Wildscreen's Patron Sir David Attenborough launches ARKive layer on Google Earth
Yesterday at Google's UK headquarters in London, Sir David Attenborough launched ARKive's new layer on Google Earth.
Sir David said, "Google has come together with Wildscreen, who have this unique distillation of images of the natural world, so that any one of us can go to a particular area on the globe and see what lives there.
Google can take you to parts of the world where you can actually see a flock of flamingos and know whether they are there, or whether they are on the way out. For me this is an extraordinary day, I'm thrilled to be here at this particular moment - when Google, Wildscreen, and its ARKive project, come together to put a weapon of unparalleled value into the hands of all of us who care about the natural world."
To download your free copy of Google Earth and view the ARKive layer visit http://earth.google.com. The ARKive layer can be found in the Global Awareness Folder in the layers panel.
There are over 100 threatened species on the ARKive layer including:
| Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) |  |
| Cave salamander (Proteus anguinus) |  |
| Pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) |  |
| Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) |  |
| Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) |  |
| Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) |  |
| Hawaiian silversword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense) |  |
Past news
Tuesday March 25th 2008
WWF reports that Australian wildlife is under pressure
Wednesday 12th March 2008
Tiger numbers 'halve in 25 years'
Tuesday February 26th 2008
South Africa lifts the ban on culling elephants
