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Refuse to Palouse Groups sue for protections of giant lily-scented worm		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 25 Jan 2008 Green groups have followed through on their pledge to sue the federal government to gain protections for everyone's favorite three-foot-long, deep-burrowing, prone-to-spit, pinkish-white, lily-scented endangered species: the Palouse earthworm. sources: Associated Press, Associated Content From the Archives 'Til the Grey Lady Sings. NYT endorses Clinton and McCain, ...
Topics: endangered species, litigation, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Killing Me Swiftly Rule change eases restrictions on wolf kills in northern Rockies		24 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:05 PM on 24 Jan 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it is altering a rule that will make it easier to kill gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Gray wolves in the area are still protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, though the FWS intends to delist them this spring and hand management over to the states. The rule change allows states and tri ...
Topics: endangered species, news, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Stranger(s) Among Us Conservationists highlight weirdness of rare amphibians in push to save them		22 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 8:00 AM on 22 Jan 2008 Scientists at the Zoological Society of London have evaluated all the world's amphibians and compiled a list of the most unique and imperiled species. The top 10 most imperiled amphibians were highlighted as being in the most need of immediate action. Among the most imperiled are the Chinese giant salamander that can grow to lengths of nearly six feet; the olm, a bl ...
Topics: endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Sonar gets presidential pardon, seas more violent	Andrew Sharpless	19 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Citing national security, President Bush exempted the U.S. Navy from a judge's order to cease sonar use in areas frequented by marine mammals ... ... the National Marine Fisheries Service said that the Atlantic white marlin did not meet requirements to be included on the Endangered Species List ... ... a report by the U.K. Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership found that seas around the U.K. were becoming more violent, thanks to rising water levels a ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Out Like a Sea Lion Federal officials suggest killing sea lions to protect salmon		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 18 Jan 2008 To protect endangered Northwest salmon, the National Marine Fisheries Service suggests giving Oregon and Washington state officials the authority to kill sea lions, which last year gobbled up more than 4 percent of the salmon running through the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The action would likely result in about 30 sea lion deaths a year. The federal agency is taking public co ...
Topics: endangered species, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Put the wild in wildlife Nora Roberts will match donations to Defenders of Wildlife	Sarah K. Burkhalter	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Well, well, well. Who ever said that trashy romance novels couldn't change an endangered species' life? Ferret-related plagiarism by romance novelist Cassie Edwards has brought the world more than just a discussion of the various outdoor places our readers like to get down and dirty. (But, um, that was very enlightening.) According to Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, the site that started all the hoopla in the first place: [Well-known romance novelist] ...
Topics: books, endangered species, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Hot Fuzz Green groups will sue over feds' missed polar-bear deadline		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Discontented with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's announcement that it will not meet its deadline for deciding whether to list polar bears as a threatened species, the Big Three green groups -- Greenpeace, NRDC, and the Center for Biological Diversity -- have notified the government that they plan to sue. source: Associated Press From the Archives Granite State U ...
Topics: climate, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Polar Vault Decision on whether to list polar bears as a threatened species is delayed		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:51 AM on 07 Jan 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, expected to announce on Wednesday its decision about whether to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, has announced instead that it will miss that deadline. The agency said it hopes to make a recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne within the next month, after continued analysis of scientific data a ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Crony Loves Chukchi Bush administration will offer oil leases in prime polar-bear habitat		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 02 Jan 2008 The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukchi Sea. The area is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations; interestingly enough, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- also a part of the Interior Department -- is within days of deciding whether to list the polar bea ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

The Kiwi to Success New Zealanders seek to save endangered kiwi bird		28 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:24 PM on 28 Dec 2007 Since humans began populating New Zealand, some 75 percent of the islands' indigenous bird species have gone extinct. Due to habitat loss and nonnative predators, it looks as though the same fate may befall the kiwi, New Zealand's iconic flightless bird. Kiwi populations are estimated to be declining by 2 to 5 percent each year; surveys suggest that in the wild, only one in 20 kiwi chicks survi ...
Topics: endangered species, New Zealand, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Neck and Neck Up to six giraffe species may exist -- and some are endangered, says study		26 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:36 PM on 26 Dec 2007 The long-held assumption that the giraffe is a single species may be incorrect, says a new study in the journal BMC Biology. Researchers may have identified at least six separate species. Unfortunately, that means that "some of these giraffe populations number only a few hundred individuals and need immediate protection," says lead author David Brown. "Lumping ...
Topics: endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Spot On Independent scientists will review federal spotted-owl recovery plan		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:52 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Under fire for allowing politics to interfere with prudent decision-making about a recovery plan for the Northwest's iconic spotted owl, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is undertaking a "good-faith effort" to have independent scientists review the plan, which in its current form would increase logging in owl habitat. A USFWS spokesperson adds that the review "will be o ...
Topics: endangered species, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Turtle tryst? What the fate of two old turtles says about China's future	Ashley Braun	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Having spent two summers researching amphibians and reptiles, I have a poster of endangered frogs and salamanders on my wall what one might call a healthy fascination with these endearing ectotherms. Being thus inclined, my eyes lit up when I stumbled on The New York Times' latest feature, 'China's Turtles, Emblems of a Crisis.' It's part six of their series China: Choking on Growth, in which they 'examin[e] the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China ...
Topics: biodiversity, China, endangered species, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

A Beak Outlook More than a quarter of U.S. bird species are endangered		30 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:30 AM on 30 Nov 2007 It's not a good time to be a bird in the U.S. The Watch List 2007, published by the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, finds that 178 bird species in the continental U.S. and 39 in Hawaii are vulnerable to extinction. That's almost all of Hawaii's non-migratory native birds and more than a quarter of total U.S. bird species, including the Gunnison sage grouse, lesser prai ...
Topics: endangered species, Hawaii, lists, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

More bluefin blues Commission on bluefin conservation comes up empty again	Erik Hoffner	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Carl Safina, the oceans' most articulate defender and director of the Orion Grassroots Network member group Blue Ocean Institute. His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle. His blog also is a must-read. ----- The story goes like this: It's one of the largest, fastest, most gorgeous fish in the sea. Unfortunately, its extraordinary warm-bloodedness makes its muscle del ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Trouble a-Bruin Six of world's eight bear species under threat of extinction		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:01 PM on 12 Nov 2007 Pop quiz: Can you name the world's eight bear species? (Answer: American black, Asiatic black, brown, polar, panda, sun, sloth, and Andean. Gummy and Care are not acceptable answers.) Six of those eight are under threat of extinction, as the sun bear today joined four of its bear-ethren in the "vulnerable" classification on the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened ...
Topics: endangered species, lists, news, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

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)

Woo-hoo, caribou! How chainsaw toting underwear models helped save America's most endangered large mammal	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The world's 1,700 mountain caribou can chomp their lichens in peace -- Forest Ethics and a coalition of Canadian environmental groups announced an agreement with the British Columbia government to protect more than 5 million acres of their home habitat in British Columbia's forests. The victory came after a five-year campaign targeting corporations and the regional government that either logged mountain caribou habitat or used paper from the mountainous, old gro ...
Topics: Canada, endangered species, grassroots activism, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

One if by land, two if by sea Overlap in supervision allows sea turtles to slip through the cracks	Andrew Sharpless	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ask any number of surfers, divers, and ocean-goers of all stripes what one of their favorite ocean critters is, and chances are a good percentage of them will mention sea turtles. And who can blame them? Sea turtles are easygoing in nature, and no one can deny that people are drawn to them more so than some of the other creatures swimming down there. However, recent reports show that sea turtle populations -- the loggerhead in particular -- are on the decline. ...
Topics: endangered species, international politics, oceans, politics, 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)

Illegal sea slugs and undersea webcams This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
the European Union closed the bluefin tuna fishing season in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, calling the stocks 'exhausted' ... a developer proposed dredging up 2.6 million cubic yards of sand from the ocean floor in order to build an artificial beach in Nantucket. The developer will replace the 105 acres of seabed habitat with 28,000 concrete railroad ties over 60 acres ... A New York coastal manager told the state government that its 3,200 miles o ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, water pollution, 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)

Boiling lakes and misguided supermodels This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the polar bear population could plummet to one-third of its current level by mid-century because Arctic ice is receding faster than predicted ... a new 350-foot super-ferry designed to go 40 mph between Hawaiian islands concerned scientists, who thought it would collide with whales and dolphins despite new cetacean-avoiding technology ... new DNA studies sugg ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, 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)

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