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Tiger Balm
Tigers and elephants applaud expansion of Sumatra park |
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28 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:26 PM on 28 Aug 2008 Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size in an effort to help out the endangered elephants and tigers that live there. Riau province, which contains the park, houses some 210 elephants (down from 1,250 just a quarter-century ago) and 192 tigers (down from 650 in that same time period). Sixty to 80 elephants and some 50 tigers are believed to reside in Tesso Nilo. The park also ha ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, endangered species, habitat protection, Indonesia, national parks, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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The Hunter is a lonely heart
Former GOP prez candidate left up the creek without a wildebeest |
Kate Sheppard |
25 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), one-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had the best of intentions for a trip to Africa. Having heard that there are 230,000 hungry refugees from Darfur currently residing in Chad, Hunter's staffers called the country's embassy and proposed that their boss come hunt wildebeest and distribute the meat to refugees. Photo: Chris Eason Problem? There aren't any wildebeest in Chad. And even if there w ... |
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| Topics: Congress, Muckraker, national parks, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Elk and Their Ilk
Elk populations getting out of control in some national parks |
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12 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:46 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Forget hungry, hungry hippos -- here come the hungry, hungry elk. Three national parks in Colorado and the Dakotas are awash in antlered gluttons, at some places more than twice what's considered a preferable population. "Willow and aspen stands are declining [and] that deprives other species of habitat they need," says a spokesperson for Colorado's Rocky Mountain National ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, habitat protection, national parks, news, North Dakota, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo
Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source |
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31 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Hey, We Made a Boo-Boo Yellowstone grizzlies may lose protections, while also losing food source What do beetles, pine trees, grizzly bears, and global warming have in common? Check it: the U.S. plans to lift Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone-area grizzlies. But that move may be premature. Enter: high-altitude whitebark pines, the seeds of which are Yellowstone bears' main food source in late summer and fall ... |
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| Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Yukon Count on Me
Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon |
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23 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon Recognizing that halting development is just not feasible (these are humans we're talking about), a group called Y2Y wants to create a wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon in northwest Canada that would allow animals and people to coexist peaceably. A collaboration of conser ... |
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| Topics: Canada, environmental planning, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Ursa Rager
Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies |
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08 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ursa Rager Green groups divided over next moves to protect Yellowstone grizzlies A schism is growing in the environmental movement over Bush administration plans to remove Yellowstone's grizzly bears from the endangered-species list. Bear numbers have roughly tripled since 1975, to about 600 bears today. Some ursine advocates want to call it a story of successful species recovery. They say delisting Yellowstone's bears will ... |
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| Topics: national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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