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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Good News Bears Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild		14 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Claws and Effects How a plan to return big beasts to North America raised hackles and hopes	Josh Donlan	08 Nov 2005	Soapbox
Every damn kid in the U.S., son of cabbie or Catholic, knows and cares about dinosaurs. But few have heard of gomphotheres, which lived here much more recently. Cheetahs never win. In the late summer, this North American elephant -- along with some of its contemporaries, like American camels, cheetahs, lions, and giant tortoises -- crept into the minds of many Americans, as the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, wildlife (all these topics)

Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties		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 ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Herp, Herp, Hooray! Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians		20 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Born to Rewild Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K.		23 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies		29 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

I Wanna Be Like Myco		26 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
I Wanna Be Like Myco They're good in salads, lovely with pasta ... and great for the earth? The humble mushroom could help clean up everything from oil spills to pesticides, thanks to a new technology called mycoremediation. Mushroom expert Paul Stamets pioneered the technology against the bacteria E. coli and then partnered with scientists at the Pacific Northwest Na ...
Topics: environmental restoration, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Examining Extinction Lisa Hymas reviews Watching, from the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns	Lisa Hymas	23 Apr 1999	Arts and Minds
Watching, from the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns Yale University Press, 1999, 287 pages Cynthia Salley makes an unlikely hero for an environmental fable. A Hawaiian cattle rancher, Salley has tussled for years with the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over an endangered s ...
Topics: environmental restoration, wildlife (all these topics)

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