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Put the wild in wildlife Nora Roberts will match donations to Defenders of Wildlife	Sarah K. Burkhalter	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill

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

Topics: biodiversity, China, endangered species, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Don't Go Fish Fish less now to boost profits later, says study		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:18 PM on 07 Dec 2007 The less fish there are, the more expensive it is to catch them -- so if overfished marine stocks were given time to regenerate, fisherfolk would end up making a lot more money down the line, says a new study in Science. So to solve the problem of overfishing, all we have to do is change humans' tendency toward instant gratification. How hard could it be? sources: BBC News, Reuters < Previous \| N ...
Topics: business, endangered species, fishing, news (all these topics)

Bringing Down the Grouse Bush admin ignored best science when considering sage grouse species protections		05 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:23 AM on 05 Dec 2007 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must reconsider its decision not to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled this week. The judge said that the FWS ignored the best available science on the species when deciding whether to list it in 2005; he also expressed doubts about the efficacy of the agency's entire decisi ...
Topics: endangered species, litigation, news, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service (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)

It's Really A Musing USFWS to reconsider seven endangered-species rulings due to		28 Nov 2007	News
"improper influence" Posted at 8:17 AM on 28 Nov 2007 Seventeen imperiled species may have another shot at getting increased protections now that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service admitted that a political appointee who resigned last May "may have improperly influenced" decisions at the agency. The ex-official, Julie MacDonald, was accused of overriding scientists' recommendations in order to m ...
Topics: endangered species, news, politics, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

More bluefin blues Commission on bluefin conservation comes up empty again	Erik Hoffner	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill

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)

Dam Nation Fisheries Service releases yet another Northwest salmon recovery plan		01 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:12 PM on 01 Nov 2007 The third draft of a federal plan for protecting endangered salmon and steelhead in the Northwest's Columbia and Snake Rivers does not propose breaching the four hydroelectric dams that block the waterways, frustrating activists who have long lobbied for the dams' removal. The National Marine Fisheries Service says the plan for helping the salmon is significantly improved over the p ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news (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)

Everything: Still going to hell Brundtland update finds problems unsolved	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, fishing, greenhouse-gas emissions, endangered species, air pollution (all these topics)

Big balls, bigger wall Chertoff lies, wildlife dies	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, international politics, jackassery, legislation, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wilderness (all these topics)

Doing the Hunt Work Less hunters mean less funding for conservation, states find		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:04 PM on 23 Oct 2007 Many states are lamenting the declining population of a valuable species: the American hunter. Funds from hunting licenses and fees are generally directed to wildlife conservation; while the need to maintain habitat for wild critters isn't going to go away anytime soon, the number of sportsfolk in the U.S. has declined by some 35 percent since 1975. States are taking measures to boo ...
Topics: endangered species, green living, habitat loss, news (all these topics)

Planet in Peril A two-part CNN documentary begins tonight	Sarah van Schagen	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, climate, deforestation, endangered species, population, TV (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

Topics: Canada, endangered species, grassroots activism, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

How's My Drying? Call 1-800-F-U-Species Georgia declares state of emergency due to drought, anger at species protections		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:51 AM on 22 Oct 2007 Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) declared a state of emergency in 85 of the state's 159 counties due at least in part to anger at endangered-species protections for critters downstream that the governor says take up too much water. The governor asked President Bush to issue a federal disaster declaration that would provide low-interest loans to h ...
Topics: endangered species, Georgia, news, water crisis (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

Topics: endangered species, international politics, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Owl Be Seeing You Plan for northern spotted owl's recovery in question		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:57 AM on 18 Oct 2007 The future of the infamous northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest may be in further jeopardy if some U.S. federal agencies carry out their plans to restructure its recovery. Perhaps most potentially destructive is the Bureau of Land Management's recently announced plan to essentially opt out of the Northwest Forest Plan -- a truce of sorts between loggers and environmentalists that has ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, endangered species, news, United States, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

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