Endangered Species

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Endangered Species: - Animals, birds, fish, plants, or other living organisms threatened with extinction by anthropogenic (man-caused) or other natural changes in their environment. Requirements for declaring a species endangered are contained in the Endangered Species Act.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Endangered Species::

Tenured faculty an endangered species?  -  04 Aug 2008
Logan Herald Journal,By Kim Burgess For most of the summer, assistant economics professor Frank Caliendo has been assembling a thick binder of materials that will determine his

Phoenix Zoo With the Public's Assistance Names its Babies  -  04 Aug 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,The Grevy’s zebra is an endangered species, and are bred based on recommendations from a Species Survival Plan for captive animal populations.

Scientists say spotted owl plan not good enough  -  04 Aug 2008
Forbes,...and would likely lead to a "nightmare" scenario of more species going on the endangered species list and Fish and Wildlife losing its credibility.

DNA barcoding takes on the world  -  04 Aug 2008
KOAA,NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Service are testing barcoding as a way of enforcing the Endangered Species Act with a joint pilot project in the Gulf

Protect the animals, protect ourselves  -  04 Aug 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,With so many animals already on the endangered species list why would you want to add more? These are animals that future generations may never see,

How a researcher developed the world's most sophisticated program ...  -  04 Aug 2008
Mongabay.comIt was big news in April when a comprehensive map of Madagascar's rich and unique biodiversity was unveiled. The project managed to map ranges of 2,

Man sentenced for smuggling leopard skins  -  04 Aug 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,Charged with violating the ban on importing endangered species, he argued that it should not apply to those who possessed and transported the skins for

Chiang Mai aquarium project cause of concern  -  04 Aug 2008
Bangkok Post,...life to be displayed at the aquarium will be local species not protected under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (Cites).

African elephants face extinction by 2020, conservationists warn  -  04 Aug 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,The restrictions on ivory brought in by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in 1989 led to much stronger enforcement efforts

80000 Seals still to be killed at Namibia  -  04 Aug 2008
Divemaster,Hugo says that the Cape Fur Seal is an endangered species and that the population is decreasing fast. According to Deputy Director Moses Mohongurere of the

Galt, LAFCO to consider Elk Grove expansion plan  -  04 Aug 2008
Sacramento Bee,...which areas are anticipated for urban growth and which areas can be used to mitigate for threatened and endangered species affected by development.

Why the nation’s forests are burning so hot  -  04 Aug 2008
The Eureka Reporter,...a “threatened� species under the Endangered Species Act, 25 million acres (39000 square miles) of federal forests in Washington, Oregon and Northern

Feds agree to review pesticide harm to ESA-listed salmon  -  04 Aug 2008
Bay Area Indymedia,The federal Endangered Species Act required NMFS to complete such actions within 90 days of receiving EPA’s assessments. Today, NMFS agreed to complete the

Expansion of Pipeline Stirs Concerns Over Safety  -  04 Aug 2008
Wall Street JournalOne southern Florida project has been challenged by environmental groups for displacing gopher tortoises, a threatened species under the Endangered Species

World's smallest snake discovered  -  04 Aug 2008
Mirror.co.uk,He said: "The Caribbean contains a high percentage of endangered species. Because they live on islands, they have nowhere to go when they lose their habitat

Giant Panda Birthday Extravaganza at the San Diego Zoo  -  04 Aug 2008
Imperial Valley News,The Zoological Society, dedicated to the conservation of endangered species and their habitats, engages in conservation and research work around the globe

Summit Brings Interested Organizations Together  -  04 Aug 2008
RedOrbit,Ohio River and tributaries; studies about the accumulation of mercury in fish and related wildlife; and a list of endangered species along the river.

Workers at Piscataway site safeguard nest of protected bird species  -  04 Aug 2008
New Brunswick Home News Tribune,..."As we lose those different species, it diminishes the environment, and as species disappear we may become an endangered species ourselves some day.

Endangered species: Once teen hangouts, remaining drive-ins now ...  -  Aug 3, 2008
Eagle Tribune,By Rosemary Ford It was the year Jim Henson started his Muppets workshop. It was the year Sputnik fell to Earth. It was also the biggest year for drive-in

Greenspace: Gray wolves back on endangered species list  -  Jul 23, 2008
Los Angeles Times,A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to environmentalists last week who had challenged the delisting of gray wolves as an endangered species.

Snake may get protection  -  Aug 1, 2008
Arizona Republic,2, 2008 12:00 AM The US Fish and Wildlife Service has decided a small, rare Arizona snake may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The

Wind-Power Growth Could Put Prairie Chickens on Endangered List  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,The Endangered Species Act offers federal protection. While the lesser prairie chicken isn't an endangered species, the bird is a "candidate species" for

DOI sets new conservation mechanism for threatened and endangered ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
Saipan Tribune,The recovery crediting system will give federal agencies greater flexibility to offset impacts to threatened and endangered species caused by their actions

GOP hopefuls lament wolf ruling  -  Aug 2, 2008
The Casper Star Tribune,By JARED MILLER CHEYENNE -- Efforts to change the federal Endangered Species Act must be undertaken with extreme caution, said Mark Gordon,

A fragile hope hatches in Wasaga sand  -  Aug 2, 2008
Toronto Star,The return of piping plovers to the beach here proved a harrowing lesson in the fragility of endangered species. Their saga kept bird lovers fluttering

Ars Scientifica  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,..."I had been working on individual, local endangered species," she says. "As the millennium was corning to an end, I decided to work on a grand

State agencies ordered to protect grouse, governor says  -  Aug 3, 2008
Gillette News Record,But Freudenthal said the state has learned in dealing with other endangered species such as wolves and grizzly bear that it needs to establish “adequate

Rare Arizona Snake One Step Closer to Endangered Species Protection:  -  Jul 29, 2008
Center for Biological Diversity (press release),...“The Tucson shovel-nosed snake is in trouble and needs the safety net provided by the Endangered Species Act to survive,� said Noah Greenwald,

Endangered species get new aid  -  Jul 18, 2008
Los Angeles Times,California's Supreme Court gave new protection to the state's endangered species Thursday, ruling unanimously that developers, loggers and other commercial

20 Southeast species part of federal study  -  Jul 31, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,The list includes 16 federally endangered species and four species listed as threatened. They include the spruce-fir moss spider, found only in the

Offering endangered species a free ride  -  Jul 26, 2008
Globe and Mail,A vast number of species are shifting their ranges in response to climate change, but some are finding there's nowhere to go in their search for new

Are historians live David Cannadine and Andrew Roberts an ...  -  Jul 26, 2008
Times Online,Or an endangered species in need of protection from today’s nasty, dumbed-down world? Let’s attempt a historian’s answer: it depends where you stand.

Endangered European Wild Cat May Protected By Proposed Network Of ...  -  Jul 29, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The model can also be adapted for other regions and could therefore prove to be of significant value in protecting this highly endangered species,

Canadian drivers an endangered species  -  Jul 26, 2008
Globe and Mail,EDMONTON -- Racing fans wondering how tough it is for a young driver to make the big leagues need only look at the entry list for the Rexall Edmonton Indy.

Military posts: Where guns, tanks and birds mix  -  Aug 1, 2008
Newsday,..."Military land in general has a higher concentration of endangered species than land in most other ownership," said Jeff Bolsinger, a research associate

Conservatives in the Academy: An Endangered Species  -  Jul 31, 2008
Human Events,It was not mere idle rhetoric when Klein referred to faculty conservatives at Berkeley and Stanford as an “endangered species�. While University-wide ratios

Endangered, sensitive plants given new life  -  Aug 2, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,The project was aimed at restoring the Otay tarplant, which has been listed on the California endangered species list since 1979 and the US Fish and

China says it is committed to wildlife protection  -  Jul 17, 2008
Times of India,BEIJING: China on Thursday said it was committed to the protection of wildlife, including elephants, a day after a UN panel on endangered species gave it

Bush administration’s relationship with researchers has been ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,For example, Grifo says the Bush administration has made it harder to add new organisms to the endangered species list, which grants greater federal

Titan, WWF to make watches on endangered species  -  Jul 17, 2008
Business Standard,IST Watch manufacturing major Titan and the World Wildlife Fund today signed an agreement to come out with watches on five endangered species of India.

Relocate species endangered by climate change, scientists suggest  -  Jul 17, 2008
CBC.ca,A policy paper to be published in the July 18 issue of the journal Science says saving endangered species like sea corals may have to include relocating

Bush Administration moves to weaken endangered speices protection  -  Jul 31, 2008
Mongabay.comPygmy owl facing extinction after being de-listed from the Endangered Species Act. New rationale allows administration to decline several species protection

US government challenged over Wolverine conservation status  -  Jul 10, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles The US is breaking the law by refusing to grant endangered species protection to wolverines, according to nine

Thawed DNA helps revive endangered crane species  -  Jul 16, 2008
Houston Chronicle,The Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species has for 10 years restocked the wild Mississippi sandhill crane population with more than 150 birds

Group of scientists assembled to protect endangered species around ...  -  Jul 10, 2008
Bizjournals.com,A team of scientists were hired on Thursday to evaluate the biological impacts of spring and river flow conditions on three endangered species living in the

Keno runners an endangered species  -  Jul 29, 2008
GamingTodaySlotsToday,...by Kevin Stott |If video really killed the radio star, then is technology now killing the keno runner in Las Vegas? Ten years ago the keno runner

NH reviewing endangered species list  -  Jul 7, 2008
Boston Globe,CONCORD, NH—New Hampshire officials are considering changes to the state's list of endangered species. Officials propose moving the bald eagle, osprey,

Save our endangered species  -  Jul 27, 2008
Daily News & Analysis,Only a few of the many species at risk of extinction actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection. Many more species become extinct,

More than half Philippine fauna nearly extinct: official  -  Jul 21, 2008
AFPIn addition 227 endemic species of flowering plants are listed in the "Red List" of "critically endangered" species by the International Union for

Coral Reefs Face Extinction  -  Jul 11, 2008
TIMEAs with so many other endangered species around the world, there doesn't seem to be enough space for healthy coral reefs and unchecked human development.




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