Endangered species

By Buck Denton Posted in Biology, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Plants, Recommended Image(s), Research, Science Tagged: Biggest Redwood In California, Biggest Redwood Tree In California, Biggest Redwood Tree In The World, Biggest Redwood Trees, Biggest Redwoods, Biggest Tree In the Wor...

By Jeremy Hance In George W. Bush's eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bush's slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among m...

The 2009 edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released today, and the news isn't good: 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction. [More]

By jagadees These rainforests are honeypots for flora and fauna, among the most biodiverse places on Earth. Consider the figures. Sumatra – the size of Spain, owned by Indonesia – has 465 species of bird, 194 species of mammal, 217 species of reptile, 272 species of freshwater fish, and an estimated 10...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed designating some 200,000 square miles of lands and waters along the north coast of Alaska as "critical habitat" for endangered polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ). In May 2008 the bears received limited protected status as a " threatened s...

The CITES office in Geneva confirmed that Monaco has submitted a formal bid to add bluefin tuna to the Annex I list of threatened species and that the proposal will be part of the formal agenda at the next general conference in Doha, Qatar, in March 2010. An Annex I listing grants species the h...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Biology, Comedy, Conservation, Environment, Nature, People, Science, Video, Wilderness Tagged: Aves, Bird, Birds, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Flightless Parrot, Kakapo, Mark Carwardine, Parrot, Recommended YouTube, Shagalicious...

In October of next year, COP(Conference of the Parties) of the Biodiversity Treaty will be held in Nagoya city of Japan. In line with the trend, destruction of Kitagawa Wetland has become a big issue in respects to conserving biodiversity. Now, it is the case that the company is being questi...

When users seek information from Google, the search engine relies on a proprietary algorithm called PageRank™ to determine the order of the sites that show up in search results . Now, two researchers say a similar algorithm can be used to determine which species are critical to the preser...

Urban growth is quickly driving one of the world's most bizarre creatures into extinction. According to a new study, the axolotl ( Ambystoma mexicanum ), a Mexican amphibian that never metamorphoses past its larval stage, has seen a 90 percent population drop in the last four years. Only a...

By Jeremy Hance Frogs are on the edge. Blasted by habitat loss, pollution, and a terrible disease, the chytrid fungus, species are vanishing worldwide and those that remain are clinging to existence, rather than thriving. However, an interview with Pierre Fidenci, President of Endangered Species Int...

The Bush Administration promoted urban development and corporate interests at the expense of the natural environment and many plants and animals, including the flat-tailed horned lizard. In California, the lizards have lost almost their entire habitat to a growing metropolis.

 WA “Only recently have they begun to commit the kind of financial and political capital necessary to save these threatened and endangered species, some of which are on the brink of extinction. We simply cannot afford to waste another decade. ...

While in Wyoming he developed and tested habitat suitability models for pronghorn antelope, evaluated factors in declining populations of bighorn sheep, and compiled a database and literature review for over 300 rare, threatened and endangered species ...

In a disappointing move, the Obama administration has left polar bears poorly protected from one of the gravest threats to this endangered species – global warming. Yet global warming is at the very heart of the threat to the polar bear. Scientists say that global warming and habitat loss c...

By Buck Denton People tend to associate the rhino with Africa. However, rhinos are found from India down through Southeast Asia, and some of the most endangered species of rhino are found outside of Africa (although all species of rhino are threatened with extinction).

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Development, Environment, Environmentalism, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Endangered Speci...

By Buck Denton For a short time, The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) has been brought back into existence. This subspecies of Spanish ibex was declared extinct almost 10 years ago, until scientists cloned a single animal, but the clone died shortly after birth from complications. Cloning a t...

By Buck Denton The panda is an endangered species, but according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species the giant panda’s population is increasing: “At least until recently there has been a general population decline, although there is hope that this has been reversed by general habitat improvem...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animals, Extinction, Nature, Science   Tagged: Arkansas, Critically Endangered Species, Extinction, Florida, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Woodpecker    Researchers have used modeling to determine that the ivory-billed woodpecker could have survived the unchecked d...

 UK - Now that in itself may not mean anything to the mobile phone user, but when you consider the coltan mines are actually the habitat of an endangered gorilla ...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Brown said the president is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act before he leaves office next month. California is home to 310 plant and animal species listed as endangered or threatened by the federal government, more than any state except Hawaii, according to the complaint.

By Jo Adetunji Professor David Macdonald, conservation biologist in the wildlife conservation unit at Oxford University and co-author of the report, said: "Next year, the focus of biodiversity conservation in England will shift from individual species to a more integrated eco-system approach,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list six species of penguin as threatened and one, the African penguin, as an endangered species. Endangered species advocates also faulted the government for protecting a seventh species, the southern rockhopper penguin, in only a smal...

By Brandon Keim But if wild chimpanzees go extinct, captive chimps will be better than nothing. And from an ethical perspective, said Gagneux, it may be wrong make the chimpanzees' reproductive decisions for them. Even anthropologist Jim Moore, from University of California at San Diego, opposes capt...

By Brandon Keim In the case of some endangered species, conservationists must appeal to basic sympathies for other living species. Such arguments don't always work: Snail darters and spotted owls are wonderful creatures, but won't be universally missed.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Devaney said "MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity of the ESA program and to the morale and reputation" of the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as potential harm to animals under the Endangered Species Act.

The rules also prohibit federal agencies from evaluating the effect on endangered species and the places they live from a project's contribution to increased global warming. Interior Department officials described the changes as "narrow", but environmentalists saw them as eroding...

By The Huffington Post News Editors The rules also prohibit federal agencies from evaluating the effect on endangered species and the places they live from a project's contribution to increased global warming. Congress has opposed similar changes to the endangered species protections in the past.

WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration is finalizing changes to the Endangered Species Act that would ensure that federal agencies will not have to take global warming into account when assessing risks to imperiled plants and animals.The proposed rule changes, which were obtained by Th...

Beijing, China: The consumption of threatened species is on the rise in China again following a brief hiatus owing to fears surrounding the SARS virus in 2003. “We call upon Chinese authorities to enhance enforcement and public education efforts, to stop illegal trade and reduce consum...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Hear about an agreement that allows individual landowners to make an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, stating that if they work to benefit an endangered species on their land, they won’t be subject to more regulation.

By Kriston Capps Jonathan Ballou is the population manager at the National Zoo. His work as a conservation geneticist focuses on the genetic and demographic problems pertaining to small populations -- in particular small populations from endangered species. This work has included analyses of the effe...

By PLF The New York Times stated yesterday that, in the Section 7 consultation proposals, Interior Secretary Kempthorne has "carved out significant exceptions to regulations requiring expert scientific review of any federal project that might harm endangered or threatened species (one...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Erica Bree Rosenblum, a biologist at the University of Idaho, is working to understand a mysterious fungus, found nearly every continent, that’s affectog more than 400 frog species.

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) Kevin Zippel is helping to coordinate the the Amphibian Ark, a global effort to collect amphibians in zoos and aquariums in order to save certain species from extinction.

Dr. Gordon Southam has found the first ecosystem comprised of only one species. A very lonely little bacterium.

By Juliette Jowit However farmland birds are considered by government and biodiversity experts to be a key indicator of the health of the countryside. Wildlife minister Huw Irranca-Davies said some species like the goldfinch and kingfisher were doing well, but called for "renewed action" to halt the de...

After surviving nearly unchanged for over 200 million years crocodiles and alligators were hunted to the brink of extinction between 1900 and 1967 in a period as brief as a single man's life, how sad. Also their habitats continue to shrink. Today due to conservation efforts the American al...

By khowell GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hear the word fungus, and mushrooms and mold might leap to mind. But the University of Florida is about to house the nation’s first research repository for one species that has nothing to do with pizza toppings or marbling blue cheese: Aspergillus, which increasingly p...

By Devilstower The Endangered Species and Wetlands Report has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act showing that Julie MacDonald, the disgraced and recently retired Deputy Secretary of Interior, was given a cash award of $9,628 in 2005 for her work in 2004. ... 2004 was a banner year fo...

By Jim Dick DDT contamination decades ago almost killed off the American Bald Eagle. Once the pesticide was banned, the bird started coming back, and Wisconsin played a key role in the success story. Wisconsin started bald eagle recovery efforts years ago, and Randle Jurewicz with the DNR 's Endange...

By Melissa Kirsch And it is pretty great. I wrote a book, a book I love, a book that young women write me letters about, saying it changed their lives. I'm an author, but I'm also a salesman. The printed word is an endangered species, and, with very few exceptions, any author who can't get up and tell you, irresisti...

By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia - Authorities said Monday that they want to shoot more than 3,000 kangaroos on the fringes of Australia's capital, noting the animals were growing in population and eating through the grassy habitats of endangered species.

By Barbara Durlacher Due to loss of habitat, the use of agri-chemicals, veterinary medicines and pesticides, numbers of all vulture species have been showing a serious decline in recent years...

The state's wolf population is now at record numbers. The DNR's Adrian Wydeven says there are nearly six hundred wolves. That's good news because it shows they can thrive after coming off the endangered list but he says it's also bad news because we will likely see more cases of wolves attack...

By Devilstower While scientists at the Interior Department have been working out plans to protect endangered plants and animals, MacDonald has been providing developers the information they needed to block, bend, or evade the rules.   What's the Bush plan for the "new improved" Endangered Species Ac...

The The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced plans to reclassify the American crocodile from endangered to threatened in Florida. The Service's final reclassification decision comes after a five-year review of the species, required under the Endangered Species Act. The act de...

It's official; Wisconsin's wolves are removed from the federal endangered species list. A press conference in Ashland with state, federal and tribal authorities formalized the recognition, that Wisconsin's once decimated wolf population has rebounded. Adrian Wydeven, a mammal eco...

For many decades, lynxes, wolves and bears have been very rare in the Czech Republic. Over the last 20 years their numbers have been decreasing even more rapidly. One of the obvious reasons is disappearing habitat through the clearance of woodlands. However, these three wild species have t...