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The Good News Bears
Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild |
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14 Nov 2005 |
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| The Good News Bears Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild We're not like those panda fetishists who flip out about the cute, cuddly black-and-white bears, with their snoogly faces and their roly-poly schnugum wugums ... wait, where were we? Anyway, we've got some good news for panda fans: A recent census found almost 1,600 giant pandas in the wild, well up from an estimated 1,000 in the 1980s. It might just be ... |
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Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty
Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties |
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22 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties Large carnivores have made impressive comebacks in some parts of the U.S. Now the question is how humans can live with them in harmony. In Oregon, after cougars were hunted to near-extinction, voters banned the practice of hunting with radio-collared dogs. The state's big-cat population has since jumped from about 3,000 to 5,000 -- but compla ... |
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Herp, Herp, Hooray!
Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians |
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20 Sep 2005 |
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| Herp, Herp, Hooray! Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians Amphibians are having a rough time of it, and by "rough," we mean terrifically bad. Nearly a third of all amphibian species worldwide are believed to be at risk of extinction, with some 122 already suspected of having died off in the last 25 years or so. Fortunately, emergency assistance for the critters that are ... |
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Born to Rewild
Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K. |
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23 Aug 2005 |
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| Born to Rewild Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K. Imagine: lions and elephants roaming free across the same Great Plains of the U.S. that their ancestors -- big cats, mastodons, and mammoths -- populated 13,000 years ago. That's the "Pleistocene Park" vision that a group of conservation scientists proposed in the journal Nature last week. Since people are increasingly leav ... |
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There Is a Lord God
Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies |
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29 Apr 2005 |
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| There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies It was spotted several times -- once even filmed -- over the past year and a half. Now, ornithologists writing in the journal Science have officially confirmed the existence of at least one ivory-billed woodpecker, a miraculously tangible token of a species long thought extinct. The discovery -- referred to variously a ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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