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Opinion: Breaching Northwest dams: push comes to shove
Original at Crosscut
• Fri, May 29
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. ...
Opinion: Recycling mobile phones helps save endangered species
Original at Phones Review
• Sun, Jan 4
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 ...
Opinion: Bush alters rules for endangered species
Original at Albany Times Union
• Thu, Dec 11
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...
Opinion: The New York Times on the Section 7 proposals
Original at PLF on ESA
• Sat, Nov 8
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...
Opinion: Melissa Kirsch: Confessions of a Would-Be Jewish Book Network Superstar
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Jun 26
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...
Opinion: American crocodile's classification switched
Original at Florida Today
• Mon, Mar 19
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...