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The Early Lawsuit Gets the Worm Groups will sue over protections for giant spitting worm		31 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:06 AM on 31 Oct 2007 No Halloween would be complete without an update on the Palouse earthworm, which can grow up to three feet long, spits on predators, and smells like flowers -- even when not in costume. The pinkish-white worm was denied federal endangered-species protection earlier this month on the grounds that the filed request was incomplete and unclear. "This is absurd!" says S ...
Topics: endangered species, litigation, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Going Ape Short Nearly one-third of world's primates at risk of extinction, report says		29 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:57 AM on 29 Oct 2007 About 29 percent of the world's 394 primate species are at risk of extinction, according to a report by the World Conservation Union. Threats to primates include hunting for primate meat and bones, the trade in wildlife body parts, and habitat destruction mostly from logging and clearing land for agriculture. The report focused on the 25 most-endangered species, of which 11 a ...
Topics: endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Don't Uproot Interior Department urged to redo recovery plan for spotted owl		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:15 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Was the Interior Department's recovery plan for the northern spotted owl watered down because of political pressure to favor logging interests? Six peer reviews of the plan (five of them funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) suggest yes. So do 113 scientists who sent a letter yesterday asking the Interior Department to rewrite its draft plan, which favored shooting ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Tweet and Sour Songbird endangered in France hunted as a culinary delicacy		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:32 PM on 19 Sep 2007 Ortolan is a French delicacy: a tiny songbird, roasted whole and swallowed in one bite, bones and all. Ortolan hunting has been banned in France since 1998 to protect the species, but the birds have a high price on the black market, and as many as 30,000 a year are fattened up and sold by poachers to high-end chefs. Apparently freedom fries just aren't good enough for them. source: Assoc ...
Topics: endangered species, food, France, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Seeing Red Nearly 200 species added to World Conservation Union's Red List		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:16 PM on 12 Sep 2007 The World Conservation Union has added 188 animals and plants to its Red List, a tally of the flora and fauna most threatened with extinction. The additions bring the depressing total up to 16,306 species -- and that's a low estimate. Ten Galapagos Island coral species joined their endangered brethren on the list for the first time; the African lowland gorilla (it of our favorite species ...
Topics: endangered species, news, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

This Makes Us Blubber Pacific gray whale population may still be severely depleted		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 11 Sep 2007 The Pacific gray whale, long held up as an environmental success story, may not have made as impressive a comeback as once thought. Thanks to a widespread ban on commercial whaling, the Pacific gray whale became the first marine mammal to be taken off the endangered species list in 1994. When whales began dying off around 1999, scientists assumed populations were naturally stabili ...
Topics: endangered species, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Good News, Sad News Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot		09 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Good News, Sad News Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot A research expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found six new animal species -- a bat, a rat, two shrews, and two frogs -- and may have found new plant species as well. The trip, which ran from January to March and was led by the Wildlife Conservation Society, represented ...
Topics: biodiversity, Congo, endangered species, extinction, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Raptor 'Round Their Fingers U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls		05 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Raptor 'Round Their Fingers U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls Despite 17 years of conservation measures, the northern spotted owl is still in trouble. So the Bush administration has issued a cease-and-desist order on logging in the owl's Pacific Northwest habitat. Ha ha ha! No, the feds' recent draft spotted-owl protection plan instead vilifies the barred owl, a nonnative competito ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, news, wildlife (all these topics)

You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up As many as 23,000 elephants may have been killed in just one year, as an international effort to stem the ivory trade has fallen to the wayside, particularly in Africa. Increased demand for white tuskiness in Japan and China, combined with declining funding for anti-poaching programs, has overwhelmed the intenti ...
Topics: Africa, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Owl Play		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Owl Play Logging in the Sierra Nevadas could nearly triple if the U.S. Forest Service manages the forests there according to the new plan it released yesterday. That plan would reduce habitat for the California spotted owl in favor of aggressive forest thinning in the name of wildfire prevention. The Forest Service says the plan, which would radically revise the ...
Topics: California, deforestation, endangered species, logging, news, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Endangered Endangered Species Act		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Endangered Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act is so cash-strapped that it is effectively "broken," the Interior Department announced yesterday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blamed the financial trouble on the act's "critical habitat" provision, which requires federal agencies to consult wit ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

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