Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: conservation

conservation stories: 52 news summaries

21 - 40 of 52 Stories | << Prev 1 2 3 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

 Numbers
 Soaring,
 S. Africa Mulls
 Elephant Cull

In 13 years since killing ban, overpopulation posing serious threat

Aug 21, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa's 1995 ban on culling elephants has proven wildly successful—perhaps too successful, writes Karen Lange in National Geographic. As the population has skyrocketed from 8,000 to 13,000 in the years since, starving elephants are now ravaging vegetation and taxing the nation's ecosystem, forcing experts to consider... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • South Africa • ivory • poaching • elephant • elephant habitat

 Humpbacks
 No Longer in Danger

Spectacular success for conservation

Aug 12, 08 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humpback whales, once feared to be on the verge of extinction, have made such a dramatic comeback that the International Union for Conservation of Nature has removed them from its list of vulnerable species. A ban on humpback whaling in the 1960s has allowed their numbers to grow to 55,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • humpback whale • dolphin • whaling • International Union for Conservation of Nature • cetaceans • porpoise

Federal Changes Threaten Endangered Species: Critics

Feds can dodge review under rule changes

Aug 12, 08 3:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are raising an alarm over planned White House changes to the Endangered Species Act, reports the Oregonian. The modifications would give federal agencies such as the US Forest Service more leeway to decide whether activities such as logging would harm endangered species—and such determinations would no longer be... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • greenhouse gases • global warming • salmon • US Fish and Wildlife Service • Endangered Species Act • polar bear • logging • Dirk Kempthorne • Earthjustice • National Wildlife Federation

 UN Approves China to Buy Ivory 

Critics say allowing imports plays 'Russian roulette' with elephants' lives

Jul 16, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - China has been given a green light to begin importing African ivory by a UN body that banned the sale 10 years ago, a decision that has infuriated conservation groups, the Daily Telegraph reports. African states say they need to sell stockpiles of ivory from elephants that are culled or... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • endangered species • Africa • conservation • ivory • wildlife • elephant • cull

Crikey!
Bindi Gets
Her Own Doll

Crocodile Hunter's daughter continuing
in dad's footsteps

Jul 5, 08 10:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bindi Irwin isn't yet 10, but she's got her own TV show, an Emmy, and now, a doll in her image. An Ohio company is making 10-inch replicas of the young Australian star, the daughter of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Bindi inherited her... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • marketing • toys • Steve Irwin • Bindi Irwin • doll

OPINION

Farming Tigers for Profit Best Way to Save Species

Strategy may dull beasts, but conservation ridiculous when it's at human expense

Jun 22, 08 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Though animal conservationists hail the success of India's Jim Corbett National Park in increasing populations of endangered tigers, Kirk Leech complains in Spiked that numbers continue to decline—and that expanding protected areas for tigers harms indigenous human populations. His solution: for-profit tiger farms, where selling animal parts to meet... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • India • farming • tigers • animal rescue groups • Jim Corbett National Park

 Tasmania Moving Its Devils 

As cancer decimates critters, Aussies quarantine them on old prison peninsula

May 28, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Australian government is stepping in to prevent the Tasmanian Devil from extinction, the Wall Street Journal reports, as the ill-tempered beasties have been dying off thanks to the world’s first contagious cancer, which they transfer by biting each other in the face. So zoologists are now working... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • Australia • Tasmanian Devil • Tasmania

 Alaskan City Goes
 Green—by Necessity 

After avalanche, Juneau is forced to find ways to use less energy

May 14, 08 7:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - An energy conservation effort born out of necessity has turned the residents of Juneau, Alaska, into poster children for the green movement, the New York Times reports. Electricity rates skyrocketed 400% after an avalanche knocked out several major transmission towers last month; the state capital has since lowered its electricity... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Alaska • conservation • alternative energy • Juneau • electricity • clean energy • energy consumption

 Bison on 
 Comeback Trail 

Once nearly extinct, species now approaching 500K

Apr 30, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once facing extinction in North America, bison are well on their way to a stunning comeback, LiveScience reports. After commercial hunting and habitat loss reduced their population to less than 1,100, the estimated bison population is approaching 500,000—thanks in large part to conservation efforts started more than... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Alaska • conservation • Canada • wildlife • ranch • bison • American Bison Society

Endangered Tigers Fading Fast

Numbers plummet as WWF calls for quick action

Mar 12, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The World Wildlife Fund has warned that the world's tigers are in grave danger of extinction, reports the BBC. Experts believe tiger numbers have fallen in half over the last 25 years to as few as 3,500 worldwide, the WWF said. The South China tiger and the Sumatran tiger... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • India • Sumatra • tigers • World Wildlife Fund • habitat • South China tiger • Sumatran tiger

Nations Unite to Save Gorillas

10-year effort is the first to help dying species

Feb 25, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Three African nations where the world's last 720 wild mountain gorillas live are finally working together to save the critically endangered animal, the Guardian reports. Until the 10-year plan was announced last week, mistrust and conflict had kept Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo from collaborating as another 10 apes were... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • poaching • Democratic Republic of Congo • gorilla • Rwanda • Uganda • mountain gorillas • charcoal trade • rebel fighters • Central Africa • Virunga Park

Protections End for Gray Wolf

Wildlife groups say it's too soon to remove animals from endangered list

Feb 22, 08 5:06 AM CST
(Newser) - The gray wolf has been taken off the endangered species list in a multi-state area of the northern Rocky Mountains, National Geographic reports. "The wolves are back," said an official of the Department of the Interior. Just 66 of the animals were reintroduced to the region in 1996... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • Montana • Idaho • Endangered Species Act • wildlife • Wyoming • Rocky Mountains • gray wolf

During Bust, Green Groups Make Land Grab

Conservationists
snatch idle land from developers' hands

Feb 17, 08 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - As the subprime debacle rips through real estate, leveling home values and clogging the market with unsold property, an unlikely group of vultures is descending, reports Newsweek. Conservation groups and local governments alike, which sat on the bench during the last boom, are snapping up land from would-be developers to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
real estate • conservation • housing market • housing crisis • Trust for Public Land • land conservation • public land • home values

Tiger Numbers Plummet in India

More than half vanish in 5 years

Feb 13, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - At least half of India's Bengal tiger population has vanished in the last five years, according to the latest alarming census of the endangered predators. A Project Tiger conservationist blamed "poaching, and loss of quality habitat and prey," reports AFP. A 2002 survey estimated there were 3,700... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • India • poaching • tigers • Bengal tigers • predators • Project Tiger

Kamikaze Palm Baffles Botanists

Madagascar giant flowers spectacularly, then dies

Jan 17, 08 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have found a gigantic—and suicidal—new species of palm tree in a remote area of Madagascar, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The tree, so big it can be seen in satellite photos, grows normally for a century or so until it spectacularly erupts with countless tiny flowers that... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • trees • Madagascar • scientists

Greenpeace Ship Scatters Japanese Whalers

Hunt for 1,000 whales disrupted in sea chase

Jan 14, 08 4:04 AM CST
(Newser) - The Greenpeace pursuit of Japanese whaling ships continued yesterday after a ship operated by the environmental group earlier chased down and scattered a fleet of six Japanese whaling vessels in the waters off Antarctica. The Japanese fleet plans to hunt down 1,000 whales in what operators call a "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Greenpeace • conservation • Japan • environmentalism • whale • Antarctica • whaling • Japanese whale hunt • whaler

Rangers Kill Taunted Tusker

Elephant executed when teasing partygoers provoke him into trashing cars

Jan 8, 08 3:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Tusker, a 50-year-old bull elephant, was an old  favorite at a safari park in Zimbabwe, but rangers shot him dead after he trampled several cars at a rowdy New Year's Eve party where the animal was taunted. Witnesses say that drunken partygoers teased Tusker by flashing car lights, lighting fireworks,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Zimbabwe • conservation • safari • elephant • Tusker

Scientists Try to Save Bluefin

Fishing practices slammed as 'totally out of control'

Dec 24, 07 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Bluefin tuna can grow to three-quarters of a ton, traverse the Atlantic in less than a month, and are growing rapidly extinct—thanks to fishing practices that are "totally out of control," one US official said. Marine biologists who track Bluefin populations are finding their suggestions rejected by... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • Atlantic Ocean • tuna • fish • fishing • Gulf of Mexico

Eek! A Giant New Rat

Papua New Guinea's 'lost world' yields more wonder

Dec 18, 07 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Amid the lush paradise of a so-called lost world, researchers ran into a little reminder of the developed world's sewers: A heretofore undiscovered giant rat five times the size of gutter-variety rodents. The group also came across a new pygmy possum and various rare birds in the remote area of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
conservation • Papua New Guinea • rats • Foja Mountains • Mallomys giant rat

Dying Coral Zapped Back to Life

'Bio'Rock' revives bleached Bali coral

Dec 5, 07 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Electrified metal structures submerged off the coast of Bali are reviving dying coral reefs, the AP reports. Low-voltage electricity pulses through cables feeding the structures, spurring pieces of damaged coral attached to them back to health. Scientist Thomas Goreau, co-creator of the 'Bio-Rock' project, is presenting his research at the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
climate change • conservation • marine life • Bali • coral reef

21 - 40 of 52 Stories | << Prev 1 2 3 Next >>


from our news partners

PopEater.com