Endangered species

The bald eagle is coming off the endangered species list--and it's time to exploit one of America's most cherished natural resources. Fried Eagle ... www.thedailytube.com

Funding came from the Ohio Division of Wildlife through donations to the Wildlife Diversity and Endangered Species Program. This program receives donations ... and more »

AP) A conservation group has sued the federal government over the recent removal of most gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species ... and more »

Students in Erin Brickman's seventh grade class at Middle North take conservation very seriously. In addition to learning about endangered species and ... and more »

The two-sport athlete, an increasingly endangered species, isn't yet extinct. There's one pair of realms where he still thrives: football and track. ... and more »

in London had started to carry the message: “Bluefin tuna is an environmentally threatened species. Please ask your server for an alternative. ... The End of the LineTimes Online The End of the LineThe List all 8 news articles »

The Age  New Zealand All are now firmly on the endangered species list: Brown by a huge legal bill, and the others by the logging he tried to block in the Wielangta cool temperate rainforest in southwestern Tasmania. Unless Brown can find A$239368 ($306000) to pay court ...

“The recommendations certainly provide an opportunity to reinforce the Department of Environment and Conservation's key role in managing threatened species, as well as other agencies including the Perth Zoo. “WA is the nation's most biologically ...

 CA by Tim Stevens, posted Jun 10th 2009 at 7:06AM It was just a day short of a year ago that we first got a bad feeling Snow Leopard was going to be end of the road for the powerpc crowd. Now we know the truth, with Apple confirming Mac OS X version 10.6 ...

BBC News  NY From pandas to polar bears, animals have served as icons for wildlife conservation. Now a new documentary called The End of the Line has helped the bluefin tuna, an endangered species, swim into the limelight by highlighting the overfishing common in ...

LOS ANGELES— Monday a federal judge ruled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act in preparing the biological opinions for the four Southern California forest plans. ...

 South Korea There are a total of 20 preserved wetland areas in the nation, which cover a combined 280000 square kilometers as of April 2008. ``We will register at least one endangered species habitat to the Ramsar wetland per year and strengthen the management of ...

 UK Expected impacts that might be large all depended on site specifics include: land use impact during construction, groundwater impact during operation, impact on endangered species during construction, operation and decommissioning, impact on historical ...

The undersigned request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service restore endangered species protections to the Yellowstone grizzly bear population immediately because: 4.)    Adequate regulatory mechanisms are not in place to maintain a healthy grizzly bear population in the Greater...

 DE Now, said Kevin Kalasz, a zoologist with the state's non-game and endangered species program, "We need a few more years like this." Red knots, the migratory shorebird species that many believe is most at risk, seemed to have little trouble putting on ...

  USA This horrible fact is what prompted the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (more easily referred to as CITES) to ban the international trade of caviar from the world's top-producing river basins in 2005. ...

Taking away Endangered Species protection from wolves in Montana and Idaho while keeping Wyoming's wolves under federal protection completely ignores the best population and ecosystem science," Franz Camenzind of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance ...

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.

CNNF covers approximately 1.5 million acres in the northern part of Wisconsin, including numerous rivers and more than 300 species of animals. The CNNF consists primarily of northern hardwood, mixed conifer, and aspen trees, along with numerous rivers, lakes and other waterways. Its ha...

 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. ...

As this valuable forest disappears, so will many species that inhabit the area, such as the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros and the Malayan tiger. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has deemed 94 plant and animal species in the region threatened by extinction. In the face...

The chain of Japanese-South American fusion restaurants has added a footnote to its menus and website saying: 'Bluefin tuna is an environmentally threatened species, please ask your server for an alternative.' Nobu - one of the few major restaurants ...

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 ...

 WA The land is described as critical habitat for endangered species including gray wolves, Canada lynx and salmon, and important carnivore corridors. “We just want to know what they consider critical,” Lampe said, questioning whether the agencies could ...

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 Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Environment, Extinction, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Policy, Poverty, Science, Sustainability Tagged: Deforestation, Human-Tiger Conflict, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Indonesia, Palm Oil, Palm Oil Production, Sumatra, Sumatr...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Biology, Environment, Extinction, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, News Picks, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush Endangered Species Regulations, Critically Endangered Spe...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

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...