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Total ban on bluefin tuna considered

Tech Eye

A two week meeting began this weekend to determine the fate of endangered species across the world amid a series of bitter international feuds. ...

Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale

The Associated Press

"These are endangered animals being cut up for dinner," Psihoyos said. "It's an abuse of science." Psihoyos took their findings to the National Oceanic and ...

Tasmanian devil colony shows immunity to cancer

The Associated Press

Last spring, Australia listed the devils as an endangered species and current estimates suggest the Tasmanian devil could be extinct within 25 years. ...

Disease threatens most endangered feline species Iberian lynx

Herald Sun

The threat comes from a disease affecting animals born in breeding centres in Spain, the Lynx Conservation Program said today. Three of the 72 animals in ...

RMEF responds to wolf groups

Bonner County Daily Bee

The small population doesn't support removing wolves from the endangered list, Stone said. “No other endangered species has ever been delisted at such a low ...

"Extinct" Australian frog reappears 30 years after last sighting

Scientific American (blog)

He returned a year later with herpetologist David Hunter of the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water. Together, they found a population ...

Cancer Kills Many Sea Lions, and Its Cause Remains a Mystery

New York Times

Recently, however, cancer has emerged as a key concern for some endangered species, including green sea turtles, Attwater's prairie chickens and Tasmanian ...

Alberta government says there are fewer than 700 grizzlies in the province

Winnipeg Free Press

The report includes results of a DNA-based count the government ordered after the province's endangered species conservation committee recommended in 2002 ...

PAT NEAL'S WILDLIFE: Fishers don't know their boundaries

Peninsula Daily

Like many endangered species, the fisher is not the sharpest animal in the zoo. How do you think they got to be endangered in the first place? ...

Food asked for Negros endangered species

Manila Bulletin Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:42 AM PST

BACOLOD CITY (PNA) â?? A local foundation is making an urgent appeal to farmers and the food industry here for food support for over 100 endemic and endangered animals in its center in Bacolod, the provincial capital city. Paul Lizares, President of the Negros Forests and Ecological Foundation (NFEFI) said that the Foundation â??is operating on a shoestring budget and with the economic downturn ...

Afghans Move to Protect Rare Bird

The Media Line

Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency added one of the world's rarest birds recently rediscovered in the country's mountainous east to a new ...

Groups Pounce to Defend Florida Panther

Courthouse News Service

... which has been listed as endangered since 1967 under the Endangered Species Act. The panther's current range includes only about 3500 square miles in ...

Almost half of all primates face extinction

Guardian Unlimited Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:36 AM PST

Of 634 primate species, 48% are on the IUCN's 'red list' of animals under threat as loggers, hunters and smugglers thrive In pictures: Endangered primates Almost half of the world's primate species â?? which include apes, monkeys and lemurs - are threatened with extinction due to the destruction of tropical forests and illegal hunting and trade. In a report highlighting the 25 most endangered ...

 

 

Nature on the edge / 4 It's a Wild West of endangered critters out there

Winnipeg Free Press

This locally produced eco-guide chronicles the history and biology of more than 50 endangered plants, animals and ecosytems from across western North ...

Humans push half of the world's primates toward extinction, lemurs in ...

Mongabay.com

... the world 48 percent are currently threatened with extinction, making mankind's closes relatives one of the most endangered animal groups in the world. ...

Environment News Service

113 Governments Agree to Conserve Endangered Sharks

Environment News Service

MANILA, Philippines, February 17, 2010 (ENS) - A landmark agreement to protect shark species threatened with extinction was reached Friday as 113 countries ...

OHA grant is to protect forest and endangered...

OHA grant is to protect forest and endangered birds

Bristol Zoo Gardens Establishes Sex Palace for Endangered Frogs

Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News

The facility will provide a safe home for some of the world's most endangered frog species - lemur leaf frogs and golden mantella frogs – which will be ...

US won't expand panther habitat

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

The last remaining habitat for the Florida panther will not be designated as critical under federal wildlife rules, regulators told endangered species ...

Sea Lions Shot To Death Near Seattle Says Official

Los Angeles Times

One of the sea lions is a Steller sea lion which is listed on the federal Endangered Species Act. This species is not common in the Puget Sound. ...

Asian affluence endangers world tiger population

Vancouver Sun

... wealth is on symbols of status and traditional products that were previously out of reach, and some of those include endangered species like the tiger. ...

Australian Farmers Told to Dynamite Rabbits

FOXNews

A warning issued to farmers by the South Australian Environment Department urges them to "overcome the rabbit's tremendous breeding potential" by ...

American Pika Denied Endangered Species Protection

Environment News Service

WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2010 (ENS) - The American pika does not meet the criteria for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and ...

P3.2-M endangered animals seized

Sun Star Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:53 AM PST

DAVAO CITY -- Environment officials, along with members of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), seized more than 300 endangered animal species worth P3.2 million in a raid in Bunawan town recently. read more

Mysterious fungus threatening bats

Batman gave it a go, but even the caped crusader struggled to improve the lowly bat's image problem. Best known as blood-sucking vampires and disease-carrying creatures of the night, bats just can't catch a break. Then there's the horrifying prospect of one getting tangled in your hair.

Researchers puzzled by rash of Fla. dolphin deaths

Environmental groups sued the Navy on Thursday to halt plans for an offshore training range that they fear would threaten endangered right whales, which migrate to nearby waters off Georgia and Florid...

Legal fight over wolves in Northern Rockies a question of numbers

The Missoulian

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has stripped federal Endangered Species Act protection from about 1300 of them in Montana and Idaho while keeping Wyoming's ...

Animals At Risk

Tom's Games

You are part of a team of researchers that travels all over the world to study and take pictures of endangered animals. You are sent to several countries to ...

Protecting The Last Right Whale Nursery

Huffington Post (blog)

A recent study found that the animals rapidly ascended to just below the surface after being exposed to sound, making them, in the words of one scientist,

Utah livestock owners may get compensation for wolf attacks

ABC 4 Salt Lake City Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:36 PM PST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah House has passed a measure to let owners of wolf-damaged livestock in parts of Utah seek compensation. The House voted 69-1 on Tuesday to advance House Bill 32 to the Senate. Animals meeting the definition of livestock are sheep, cattle, goats and turkeys. People can't get compensation in areas of the state where wolves are protected under the Endangered Species ...  

Wolf lawsuit nears return to courtroom

Billings Gazette

The paperwork is piling up in US District Judge Don Molloy's office as Montana's debate over wolves – and their removal from endangered species protection ...

Feds Claim Criminal Wrongdoing in Death of Macho B, Arizona's Last Known Jaguar

Phoenix New Times (blog)

By James King in Animal Use and Abuse ?The Arizona Game and Fish Department may have some explaining to do over the death of the last known jaguar in ...

Government May Ban Giant Snake Imports

Wired News

That 300-page study found that the snakes could put 150 endangered species at further risk if they continued to be released into the wild. ...

US Inspector General Macho B Inquiry: Criminal Misconduct in the Trapping of ...

Tucson Weekly

Under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the AZGFD and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish ...

Sumatra government introduces adopt-an-endangered-tiger scheme

Animal Friends Pet Insurance

Darori, forestry ministry conservation chief, told AFP that they were not selling or renting the animals - they remained property of the government and the ...

Malignant malaria found in apes

BBC News

The team also took blood samples from wild born, pet animals in Gabon. DNA evidence of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malignant malaria in ...

Jaguar habitat project omits historic stalking grounds in south Louisiana

NOLA.com

"Historically, the only big cat we have is the cougar, which is the Florida panther," said Gary Lester, the department's expert on endangered

Reward for monk seal killer increases

Lihue Garden Island

While the federal government and nonprofit organizations have their own initiatives as far as offering rewards are concerned, hurting animals that can't ...

2000 Endangered Sea Turtles Killed or Injured by Frigid Waters in Florida (Photos)

Treehugger

Ocean temperatures dropped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit last week, entering the range where tropical fish and animals have difficulty

Illegal Trading In Endangered Species Still Rife In Indonesia

Bernama

ProFauna Indonesia Director Rosek Nursahid said here Monday protected endangered species trading was a violation of Law No. 5 of 1990 on the Conservation of ...

Cold Weather Stuns Sea Turtles

GPB

Green sea turtles are most at risk to cold-shock because they are smaller than most other endangered sea turtles. (photo NASA) The Jekyll Island-based ...

Zoo taunters face harsher dues

San Francisco Examiner

The new law would specify that taunting or endangering animals in any city park is not allowed and would also heighten maximum fines for violations from ...

Langley giraffe likely died of cold and poor diet

Canada.com

The facility hosts rare and endangered animals, including giraffes, tapirs and painted dogs. The Masai giraffe was one of two that died at the facility ...

Record Number of Endangered Panthers Killed by Vehicles

EcoWorldly (blog)

Listed as Endangered in 1967, the Florida panther is Florida's state animal and is considered one of the most endangered animals on earth. ...

Hawaii's false killer whales may be endangered

Forbes

... examine whether the "insular" stock of Hawaii false killer whales would be considered a distinct population of animals under the endangered species act. ...

Motored Down: Record number of manatee, Florida panther deaths in 2009

Scientific American (blog)

By John Platt 2009 was the deadliest year on record for Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and manatees (Trichechus manatus), two endangered species ...

WWF snaps rare Sumatran tigers

Independent Online

It was the first time that the WWF has recorded evidence of tiger breeding in central Sumatra, giving researchers new insight into the endangered animal's ...

Endangered trees in Namibia dying as a result of climate change

ISI - Emerging Markets

The UNÕs red list includes the quiver amongst 10 endangered plants and animals as being most threatened by climate change.  

Judge throws out decade-old lawsuit against circus

Orlando Sentinel

They said the mistreatment led to the deaths of several elephants and violated the Endangered Species Act. Rider worked for the circus for more than two ...

Tigers most endangered of world's major species'

Press Trust of India

The WWF said it intended to intensify pressures to save the animal by classifying it as the most at risk on its list of 10 critically endangered animals. ...

Circus giant wins case over alleged elephant abuse

Times of the Internet

"We will continue to work through other channels in our efforts to ensure that these endangered animals are protected." Some 35000 Asian elephants still ...

DR Congo volcano eruption threatens rare chimpanzees

BBC News

About 40 endangered chimpanzees and other animals live in the area. But the country's famous critically endangered mountain gorillas are said to be safe as ...

Polar bears face extinction within the century

Sideways News

As we enter 2010, Sideways News looks at the 10 most endangered species we need to save, according to the World Wildlife Fund annual list of animals to ...

Scientists find details of tumors killing off Tasmanian devils

Los Angeles Times

... are virtually identical and distinct from the animals' own genomes, researchers in the United States and Australia reported in the journal Science. ...

The Hunt for a Clear Picture of Polar Bears' Future

Wall Street Journal

In the latest salvo, the United Nations-administered organization that oversees trade in endangered species earlier this month criticized the US's proposed ...

Reptile Guy on endangered list

Kelowna Capital News Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:22 AM PST

others also read... Mike Hopcraftâ??s living room is actually a â??livingâ? room. Its walls are lined with terrariums, aquariums, and caged enclosures which house a veritable cornucopia of animals.

Popular prairie songbird joins endangered list

Vancouver Sun

Going with it are the various animals that belong there. It's an indication of the degradation of our natural environment." Manitoba Conservation has been ...

$1000 reward for shooters of 2 wolves

Minneapolis Star Tribune

The wolves, which remain federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, were killed in northern Minnesota last month. By DOUG SMITH, Star Tribune ...

Endangered Species: Nine Animals That May Not Survive The Next Decade (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post (blog)

As we come to the end of decade, there have been amazing conservation efforts to help endangered species across the globe we can be proud of

Editorial: A shortfall in Mojave protection bill

Los Angeles Times

That has touched off a land scramble to protect the interests of recreation, the military, endangered animals and renewable energy. ...

Florida needs to get serious about pythons

Sun-Sentinel

... escape or are released, they reproduce and prey on indigenous, endangered animals in one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world: the Everglades. ...

Treehugger

Southeast Asia Exports 35 Million Wild Animals in a Decade

Treehugger

Rare animals are sold for food, pets, and medicine. In 1975, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was ...

World's worst endangered animal smuggling kingpin

Boing Boing (blog)

It took the undercover unit of the US Fish & Wildlife Service five years to track down Anson Wong, the world's most wanted smuggler of endangered species. ...

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