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The Powers of Darkwoods Canada protects B.C. caribou habitat		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 24 Jul 2008 A giant tract of land in southeastern British Columbia will become protected habitat, the Canadian government and Nature Conservancy Canada announced Thursday. The so-called Darkwoods area, purchased from a private forester, adds up to 550 square kilometers of mountains, valleys, and wetlands (that's 212 square miles, for metric-system hatas). The area is home to endangered mountain caribou, grizzly be ...
Topics: Canada, endangered species, habitat protection, Nature Conservancy, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

The Judge Who Cried Wolf Endangered-species protections reinstated for gray wolves		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:01 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A federal judge has ruled that wolves should be returned to the endangered-species list for now, derailing plans for wolf hunts in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The 2,000 or so gray wolves that inhabit the three states were removed from the endangered list in March; environmentalists sued to get them back on, saying populations were not yet stable. According to the Natural Resource ...
Topics: endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Primate Fear Orangutans heading toward extinction		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:09 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Orangutans are on their way toward extinction, says a new study that points out worrying declines in fuzzy-orange-ape populations. Orangutans only live in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo; the Sumatra orangutan population has dropped nearly 14 percent since 2004, while the Borneo population has fallen 10 percent. "Unless extraordinary efforts are made soon, it could become the first great ape sp ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, Indonesia, logging, news, wildlife (all these topics)

A Penguin for Your Thoughts Penguin declines don't bode well for the rest of us		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Penguin populations are declining, which is bad news not just for the tuxedoed birds but for, well, the world in general. A new scientific review published in the journal BioScience shows that everywhere they live, penguins are suffering from a combination of climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing, tourism, and development. "Many penguins we thought would be safe because t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, water pollution, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Wolong, Fare Well? China earthquake shook up pandas		12 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 5:22 PM on 12 Jun 2008 China's destructive earthquake took a toll on wild panda habitat, State Forestry Administration officials said Thursday. Only 1,590 pandas still live in the wild, and about 1,400 of those live in China's Sichuan Province, which was rocked hard by the quake. Officials estimate that some 8.3 percent of wild panda digs was completely destroyed, and 83 percent suffered damage. "The dense forests covering these ...
Topics: China, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Our Jaws Are Dropping Some shark populations in Mediterranean have collapsed, study finds		12 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 5:39 AM on 12 Jun 2008 Populations of five shark species in the Mediterranean Sea have declined by an average of 97 percent in the last 200 years, principally due to fishing, according to a new study to be published in the journal Conservation Biology. Researchers combed historical records and collected other data to piece together the long-term population trend of the blue shark, thresher shark, ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Slam Monk Caribbean monk seal is extinct		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008 The Caribbean monk seal is extinct, U.S. officials declared Friday. The seals, also called West Indian seals, have been on the endangered-species list since 1967; the last confirmed sighting of one was in 1952. The Caribbean monk, native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, is the only seal that has gone extinct directly because of human causes. "Following European colonization from the 1700s to 1900s, the seals ...
Topics: Caribbean, endangered species, extinction, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Plight of the Condor Officials in 'crisis mode' as SoCal condors poisoned		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:51 AM on 04 Jun 2008 Weeks before California's ban on lead bullets in condor habitat goes into effect, seven of the endangered birds have been found with lead poisoning. And that's no insignificant tally, as only 34 wild condors are known to live in southern California. Wildlife officials are in "crisis mode," says Jesse Grantham of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "This is the highest lead e ...
Topics: California, endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Remember Wren? One in eight bird species may go extinct		19 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:04 PM on 19 May 2008 One in eight bird species is threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In the latest update of the IUCN's Red List of threatened species, 190 birds are designated "critically endangered"; eight of those were added this year. Sixteen other bird species were also moved to a higher level of threat on the list, while only two found their prospects ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, lists, news, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

See Spot Recover Bush admin debuts final recovery plan for spotted owl		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:43 PM on 16 May 2008 The Bush administration has released a final plan for helping out the northern spotted owl, after a prior plan was deemed to have been watered down by political interference. Critics admit the plan is an improvement over last year's draft -- which relied heavily on, ahem, taking out predator barred owls with shotguns -- but still wish more emphasis had been put on restricting logging in the t ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat protection, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

It's Also National Pizza Party Day Greens celebrate two holidays today		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:03 PM on 16 May 2008 If you saw a tiger riding a two-wheeler to the office this morning, that's because it's Endangered Species Bike to Work Day. Wait, wait, we're getting a memo -- oh, actually, it's both Endangered Species Day and Bike to Work Day. (Then what the hell was that tiger doing?) In honor of Bike to Work Day, bicyclists in many cities picked up free swag along their commute routes this morning. In ho ...
Topics: bikes, endangered species, holiday, news, placemaking, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Burden to Bear Captive pandas survive China earthquake		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:56 PM on 13 May 2008 With 12,000 people dead from the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province on Monday -- and the death toll expected to climb significantly -- the survival of 144 endangered pandas is small comfort. But survive they did: all of the pandas living in three research centers in the earthquake zone have been reported safe. Three-quarters of China's wild pandas live in the Sichuan province, but the wild one ...
Topics: China, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Getting Hard to Carrion Wild Asian vultures going the way of the dodo		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:24 PM on 30 Apr 2008 Wild Asian vultures are likely going to the way of the dodo, a new study says. The white-backed vulture population has plunged by nearly 99.9 percent in India since 1992, and two other vulture species have seen a drop of 97 percent, say researchers publishing in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Researchers blame diclofenac, a drug given to livestock and ingested by the birds ...
Topics: endangered species, health, India, news, scientific research, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

May of Reckoning Polar-bear listing decision must be made by May 15, says judge		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:55 AM on 29 Apr 2008 The last time we checked in with the laggardly Interior Department, it was saying it needed until June 30 to decide whether to place polar bears on the endangered-species list. But the department had better find its Decider Pants soon, as a federal judge has sided with green groups to impose a new deadline of May 15. "Other than the general complexity of finalizing the rule, def ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Gray Area Gray wolves under attack, groups want them re-listed		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:03 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Saying that their concerns about trigger-happy hunters have been validated, 12 conservation and animal-rights groups have sued to get the gray wolf re-listed as an endangered species. The 1,500 wolves that roam through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were delisted on Mar. 28 and can now be shot at will; a total of 37 have been killed in the last month. Conservation groups filed suit Monday, saying th ...
Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Horn of a Dilemma Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Frog Gone? Lots of amphibians ending up as roadkill, says research		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 21 Apr 2008 Need a new reason to hate cars? You're in luck! Death by vehicle could be a major contributing factor in declining numbers of amphibians, according to new research published in the journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology. (Hee hee, they said "herpetological.") Intrepid road-kill researchers from Purdue University spent 17 months schlepping up 10, ...
Topics: cars, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Time in Memorial Maya Lin's latest memorial will pay tribute to the planet		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 01 Apr 2008 Maya Lin, an artist best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is making plans for a tribute to what has passed from the earth -- literally. Her planned memorial will list the names of animals, birds, and plants that have gone extinct. "The top 10 songbirds we grew up with are in a 40 percent to 70 percent decline. Our oceans are being devastated by o ...
Topics: art, endangered species, extinction, green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

We Detect a Seal Change Feds to consider endangered-species protections for four species of Arctic seals		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:05 AM on 27 Mar 2008 Photo: noaa.gov The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it's considering whether to list four species of Arctic seals under the Endangered Species Act due in part to climate change. The Center for Biological Diversity, a species-advocacy group, petitioned the agency last year to consider protecting ribbon seals due to disappearing sea ic ...
Topics: Arctic, endangered species, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

But They're Still Not Hoppy Amphibian dieoffs not caused by climate change, says study		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 25 Mar 2008 A mysterious dieoff of amphibian species is likely not being caused by global warming, as had been hypothesized, says new research. Not in doubt: Amphibians are being afflicted by the rapidly spreading chytrid fungus, and humans are in some way responsible. source:� The New York Times see also, in Grist:� Conservationists highlight weirdness of rare amphibians in push to save ...
Topics: endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Dances Without Wolverines Feds decide not to list wolverine as threatened or endangered		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:26 AM on 11 Mar 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided not to list wolverines in the Lower 48 states as threatened or endangered. The agency concluded that wolverines didn't need Endangered Species Act protections in the Lower 48 since viable populations exist in Canada and Alaska. The FWS said the Lower 48 wolverine population "is not separated from wolverine ...
Topics: endangered species, news, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

White and NRDC Inquiry made into delayed polar bear decision, green groups sue		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:02 AM on 10 Mar 2008 Let's check in on the latest polar bear shenanigans, shall we? Two months after deadline, the Interior Department still has made no decision on whether Ursus maritimus should be listed as a threatened species. Spurred by a critical letter from environmental groups, the agency's inspector general has begun preliminary inquiries into why the decision is taking so long. Greenpeace, the C ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Murrelet My Habitat Go FWS drops plans to cut critical habitat for marbled murrelet		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 06 Mar 2008 In a significant and unexpected victory for environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reversed its plans to significantly cut critical habitat for the marbled murrelet. The tiny seabird is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and the FWS had threatened to cut over 90 percent of its critical habitat as part of the Bush administration's plans to inc ...
Topics: endangered species, news, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

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