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Maybe Anne-Sophie Muttered Tree used for violin bows gets U.N. protection, others slip through the cracks		08 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Maybe Anne-Sophie Muttered Tree used for violin bows gets U.N. protection, others slip through the cracks A threatened tree species used in high-quality violin bows gained new protections yesterday -- and so did the violin bows. The U.N.'s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species added brazilwood to the list of nearly 40,000 species it regulates. Originally, the guidelines would have required violi ...
Topics: endangered species, music, news, politics (all these topics)

Sitting by the bedside of a disappearing world How wildlife biologists are becoming hospice workers	Grist	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction (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)

Mongabay highlights for May '07 Good reading on Mongabay	biodiversivist	23 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, endangered species, energy, ethanol, wildlife (all these topics)

So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade		16 May 2007	Daily Grist
So That's Why Their Little Hearts Beat So Fast New hummingbird species discovered, imperiled by cocaine trade It's hard out here for a gorgeted puffleg. The hummingbird species with the fabulous name was just discovered in southwestern Colombia, where farmers slash and burn 1,235 acres of cloud-forest habitat every year to grow coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine. That's bad news for a spec ...
Topics: biodiversity, Colombia, deforestation, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Friday Never Felt So Right Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Friday Never Felt So Right Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing Think you've had a rough week? Imagine how the U.S. Interior Department feels. This week saw a heated House hearing in which activists and former officials testified about Interior's nasty habit of meddling with science. "This is an agency that seems focused on one goal: weakening ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Cutting the purse (seine) strings Senators call for a worldwide end to fishing subsidies	Andrew Sharpless	09 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

Zero tolerance for shark fin soup No more compromise	Jason D Scorse	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

Answer us these questions 15 Senators demand Congressional participation in Endangered Species Act changes	Kate Sheppard	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Congress, endangered species, US Senate (all these topics)

Dead frog hopping Not all amphibians are toast	biodiversivist	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill

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

A bad deal for eels Conservation plan nixed	Andrew Sharpless	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, extinction, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Ducked Ape East African gorillas make a comeback		24 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Ducked Ape East African gorillas make a comeback Good news, ape fans: thanks to conservation efforts, East Africa's mountain gorillas are eking their way toward not-endangeredness, at least in one national park. While still threatened by war, poaching, and habitat loss, an encouraging 340 mountain gorillas have found Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park at least penetrable enough to live ...
Topics: endangered species, news, Uganda, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Killing wildlife to save it? Controversy in Kenya	Jason D Scorse	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, Kenya (all these topics)

Can you hear me now? Is the information age killing off honeybees?	Jerome Woody	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

America as Jack Benny Can you hear me now that I'm standing in the field with no yield?	JMG	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, extinction, green living (all these topics)

The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate		16 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears' home was indeed melting, "that whole aspect of climate change is beyon ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, Russia (all these topics)

Marian Devil Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction		12 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Marian Devil Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction Australia is working to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction. Plagued by a contagious cancer, the carnivorous marsupial is dying out on its eponymous island. Scientists have sent nearly 50 of the beasts to zoos and want to move 30 more to nearby Maria Island, a former prison site that's now a wildlife sanctuary. Whi ...
Topics: Australia, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Maybe the Manatees Would Do Better in the Arctic U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers fate of two beloved critters		10 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Maybe the Manatees Would Do Better in the Arctic U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers fate of two beloved critters The proposal to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act inspired more than 500,000 emails and oodles of snail mail before yesterday's public-input deadline. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will read what could be a record number of comments; activists confir ...
Topics: endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Another One Writes the Bust Court rules against Bush administration's fish-protection plan		10 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Another One Writes the Bust Court rules against Bush administration's fish-protection plan The Great Judicial Smackdown of 2007 continued this week, with a federal appeals court ruling that the Bush administration's plan for "protecting" fish on the Northwest's Columbia and Snake rivers violates the Endangered Species Act. The feds had claimed that the rivers' hydroelectric dams c ...
Topics: dams, Department of Justice, endangered species, news, politics (all these topics)

The Bush administration: Bringing you third-party scientific reviews from online roleplaying pals You have to read this to believe it	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, George Bush, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

It Just Gets In the Way U.S. Interior considering revamp of Endangered Species Act, draft shows		28 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
It Just Gets In the Way U.S. Interior considering revamp of Endangered Species Act, draft shows Last week, a U.S. Interior Department memo quietly changed where endangered species are protected. Now it seems the feds have been giving the Endangered Species Act an even broader rethink. A leaked draft shows that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has toyed with shifti ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

You'll Be Fine, Yogi Yellowstone-area grizzly bears lose Endangered Species Act protection		23 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
You'll Be Fine, Yogi Yellowstone-area grizzly bears lose Endangered Species Act protection The U.S. Interior Department will remove Yellowstone-area grizzlies from Endangered Species Act protection, putting management of bears that live outside the park in the hands of state officials in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. And by "management," of course, we mean killin'. The region's bear count has swell ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Climate change is not the biggest threat to polar bears Nope, still hunting	Jason D Scorse	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, green living (all these topics)

What You Herd Is Not What I Meant Bush administration reinterprets Endangered Species Act		20 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
What You Herd Is Not What I Meant Bush administration reinterprets Endangered Species Act The Bush administration has quietly issued a new spin on the Endangered Species Act that would have the feds protect imperiled animals and plants only in places where they're in trouble -- not where they're thriving or have already disappeared. A memo announcing the change was posted on the Interior Department website on F ...
Topics: climate, endangered species, news, politics (all these topics)

Olympic-sized task Endangered species and Beijing	Erik Hoffner	19 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: China, endangered species, green living, sports (all these topics)

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