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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)

Color Me Badd Coral reefs not doing so well		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:24 AM on 08 Jul 2008 We're in the midst of the International Year of the Reef, but there's little to celebrate: Nearly half of coral reefs in U.S. waters are in "poor" or "fair" condition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported at this week's 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. Human activity messes with reefs in all sorts of ways, from ocean acidification (spurred by carbon-dioxide emissions) ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news, oceans (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)

Home, Home Outside the Range Climate change may force California endemic plants to migrate or die		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:10 AM on 25 Jun 2008 Climate change is expected to significantly affect California's endemic plants over the next century as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS One. Up to two-thirds of the state's unique plants could be wiped out in their current ranges by century's end and will have to move to cooler areas in order to ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Play It Again, Salmon Groups sue over federal plan for Northwest salmon		17 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 2:05 PM on 17 Jun 2008 A handful of green groups filed suit Tuesday over the Bush administration's latest plan to protect salmon in the Northwest's Columbia Basin. The feds' proposal "calls for cutting several key salmon protection measures and comes with a price tag of more than half a billion dollars per year," the groups said in a statement. "While it includes some provisions for habitat, hatcher ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Boon for bluefins The European Union closes fishing season early	Andrew Sharpless	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
It's been said over and over again: Eastern bluefin tuna cannot handle the pressure they face from overfishing. These sleek and powerful fish are unlucky enough to be among the world's most coveted seafood species, and for years scientists have called for a moratorium as a last-ditch effort to save these genetically pure, irreplaceable creatures. While strict quotas have been in place for years, poor quota enforcement and illegal fishing have driven the bluefin ...
Topics: agriculture, endangered species, European Union, fishing, international politics (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)

Scaling Back E.U. will cut fishing quotas		30 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 30 May 2008 The European Commission will make deep cuts in fishing quotas in 2009, it announced Friday. Eighty-eight percent of E.U. fish stocks are overexploited, the commission says, as compared to 80 percent a year ago. Total allowable catches for some species will be sliced by more than 25 percent. Scientists have advised that fishing for some species be halted altogether, but the commission is concerned about putting fisherfolk ...
Topics: endangered species, European Union, fishing, news (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)

The Will to disbelieve Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
This ran on VanityFair.com earlier today. George Will is far from the only middle-aged Boomer pundit who spends his time shadowboxing Dirty Hippies on the Washington Post editorial page, but his Thursday column is a doozy even by that genre's dubious standards. Seems the Communist Greens, with their 'hostility to markets' and contempt for individual freedom, have teamed up with Activist Judges yet again. They're after America's vital fluids! Amidst the error and ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, endangered species, habitat loss, polar bears (all these topics)

Beyond the Palin Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 May 2008 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. "We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty. To green groups, that argument is, shall we say, unimpressive. &quo ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics)

The Sound of Two Paws Clapping Green groups sue over polar bear listing		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:56 AM on 20 May 2008 In entirely expected news, green groups have sued over the Interior Department's listing of the polar bear as a threatened species -- or, more accurately, over Interior's caveats that the listing not be used as a means to fight global warming. The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, and NRDC say the bears should be listed as endangered instead of threatened, and that the listing sho ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, polar bears, politics (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)

Bye-polar Kempthorne Polar bear is endangered, but 'Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska'	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill
The Department of Interior suffers from a rare form of bipolar disorder called bye-polar disorder. There is one major symptom of this disorder: You list the polar bear as 'threatened' because of its melting polar sea ice habitat, but then do nothing to actually protect that polar habitat from its primary threat, greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion. The disorder is accompanied by an occasional burst of logic, as when the DOI noted: The polar bears nee ...
Topics: Arctic, Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, legislation, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Threat Laid Bear Polar bears threatened, but drilling in their habitat still OK, says Interior		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:47 AM on 14 May 2008 Polar bears are a threatened species, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday -- but that doesn't mean we can't drill in their habitat! The "threatened" designation means the bear could become endangered if conservation steps aren't taken; it puts polar bears on the endangered-species list but in effect allows Interior to pick and choose which ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, progress (all these topics)

Truth laid bear? McCain promotes eco-cred, while his advisers push for more Bush-style policies	Kate Sheppard	14 May 2008	Gristmill
In honor of John McCain's eco-week, both the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee have launched sites where folks can make personal pledges to protect the planet. The McCain campaign has also put out a line of 'eco-friendly' swag -- shirts, hats, tote bags, etc. Meanwhile, McCain adviser Kevin Hassett, who is also the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues in an op-ed that polar bears shouldn't be listed as ...
Topics: elections, endangered species, john mccain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, polar bears, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Loaded for bear? Polar bear decision expected today from Bush administration	Miles Grant	14 May 2008	Gristmill
This just in from Associated Press: The Interior Department has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to announce a decision on whether to list the polar bear as threatened and in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act.Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed such protection 15 months ago because of the disappearance of Arctic sea ice, which is a primary habitat for the bear. Last September, scientists said up to two-thirds of the polar bears could d ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, endangered species, habitat loss, legislation, polar bears, politics (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)

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