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  • October 2008

    • One-Quarter of Mammal Species Imperiled: Survey

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 6, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      One-Quarter of Mammal Species Imperiled: Survey

      (Newser) - Nearly 25% of the world’s mammal species face extinction, the Guardian reports, and 3% are critically endangered. The stark conclusion, based on research conducted over 5 years in 130 countries, paints an especially bleak picture for marine mammals, the highly regarded Red List says. "We are threatening the future of wildlife and nature and denying our children the chance to experience what we have experienced," said the WWF's chief scientist. More »

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      endangered species  • extinction  • environmental damage  • South Asia  • threatened species  • mammals  • marine mammals  • river dolphin

  • September 2008

    • Gray Wolf Back on Endangered List

      Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  |  Sep 30, 08 11:45 AM CDT

      Gray Wolf Back on Endangered List

      (Newser) - A federal court restored gray wolves to the endangered species list in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin yesterday, again making it not OK to kill wolves that attack livestock or pets, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In answer to a lawsuit by environmental groups, a judge said the wolves couldn’t be dashed from the list in those states while they were still endangered elsewhere. More »

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      Bush administration  • endangered species  • endangered species list  • Great Lakes  • gray wolf

    • Half of Europe's Frog Species May Croak

      Independent  |  Sep 26, 08 3:49 AM CDT

      Half of Europe's Frog Species May Croak

      (Newser) - Half of all of Europe's amphibian species could be doomed to extinction within the next few decades, scientists warn. Habitat loss and climate change are already wiping out huge numbers of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, the Independent reports. The situation has been exacerbated by a skin disease that has spread around the globe, devastating amphibian populations. More »

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      climate change  • Europe  • endangered species  • wildlife  • extinction  • frogs  • amphibians  • Zoological Society of London  • salamanders

  • August 2008

    • Numbers Soaring, S. Africa Mulls Elephant Cull

      National Geographic  |  Aug 21, 08 2:19 PM CDT

      Numbers Soaring, S. Africa Mulls Elephant Cull

      (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 the unthinkable: a fresh wave of killing. More »

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      South Africa  • endangered species  • conservation  • poaching  • ivory  • Elephants  • Elephant habitat

    • Bluefin Tuna Tricked Into Spawning

      Time  |  Aug 17, 08 7:22 AM CDT

      Bluefin Tuna Tricked Into Spawning

      (Newser) - A seafood entrepreneur thinks he can solve the world's bluefin tuna shortage by making the fish feel frisky, Time reports. German ex-pat Hagen Stehr, the baron of a $230-million Australian seafood empire, is simulating the tuna's breeding grounds in a hatchery—a "fishy virtual reality" with 14 hours of daylight and water at 73°F—and has succeeded in harvesting fertilized eggs from bluefin breeding stock. More »

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      environmentalism  • endangered species  • fishing  • food industry  • sushi  • tuna  • overfishing

    • Doom Looms for Spotted Owl

      Seattle Times  |  Aug 14, 08 3:01 AM CDT

      Doom Looms for Spotted Owl

      (Newser) - The outlook appears bleak for America's most controversial bird, reports the Seattle Times . Despite logging bans in huge swathes of old-growth forests initiated 14 years ago to protect the northern spotted owl, researchers have discovered its numbers have dropped by nearly half. The decline is blamed on pre-1994 habitat loss and the invasion of a tougher owl species. More »

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      endangered species  • birds  • Washington state  • Endangered Species Act  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  • logging  • forests

    • Huge Gorilla Population Found in Congo

      New York Times  |  Aug 5, 08 4:55 AM CDT

      Huge Gorilla Population Found in Congo

      (Newser) - As recently as last year, the western lowland gorilla was listed as one of the world's most critically endangered primate species, nearly wiped out by the Ebola virus. But an arduous survey has revealed that 125,000 gorillas are living in the northern Congo Republic, deep in a swampy region rarely visited by humans. "This is the light of hope you look for," one conservationist told the New York Times . More »

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      endangered species  • monkey  • gorilla  • biologists  • primates  • Western Lowland Gorilla

  • July 2008

    • It's Raining Baby Pandas in China

      BBC  |  Jul 27, 08 4:09 PM CDT

      It's Raining Baby Pandas in China

      (Newser) - Four giant pandas were born within 14 hours of each other at a Chinese breeding center over the weekend, giving a much-needed population boost to the endangered species. Nine-year-old Qiyuan gave birth to twins, and two other 8-year-old pandas each gave birth to a cub in Sichuan province, BBC reports. Only 1,600 giant pandas remain in the wild due to deforestation and rare contact between populations, but 180 are being raised in captivity in China. More »

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      animal  • endangered species  • panda  • giant pandas  • Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Center

    • Zoo Shows Off Baby White Lions

      Der Spiegel  |  Jul 16, 08 6:02 AM CDT

      Zoo Shows Off Baby White Lions

      (Newser) - The world's population of just 200 white lions leaped by seven in a single day when twin lionesses gave birth in June, Der Spiegel reports, and the German safari park where they were born has now unveiled the extremely rare cubs. But while one new mom took to motherhood with zeal, the other showed little interest, forcing zookeepers to hand-raise her four cubs. White lions are a mutation of a sub-species extinct in the wild. More »

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      endangered species  • zoo  • safari  • lions  • lion

    • UN Approves China to Buy Ivory

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 16, 08 5:29 AM CDT

      UN Approves China to Buy Ivory

      (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 die of natural causes in order to fund conservation efforts. Critics believe the move will encourage poaching and put more pressure on endangered elephant populations. More »

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      China  • Africa  • endangered species  • conservation  • wildlife  • elephant  • cull  • ivory

    • Devils Breed Earlier to Stave Off Cancer

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 14, 08 8:46 PM CDT

      Devils Breed Earlier to Stave Off Cancer

      (Newser) - Tasmanian devils are reproducing at a younger age to offset a contagious cancer epidemic, the Daily Telegraph reports. The ill-tempered marsupials, suffering from tumors that cut their lifespan in half, are now breeding at age 1 instead of 2 or 3. "We could be seeing evolution occurring before our eyes," one expert told the AP—though the devils may still die off in about 25 years. More »

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      Australia  • endangered species  • evolution  • tumor  • breeding  • Tasmania  • Tasmanian Devil

    • Even Toughest Toads Are Being Unmanned

      Independent (UK)  |  Jul 13, 08 10:40 AM CDT