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Endangered Species Listings Plummeting Under Bush

Wildlife advocates sue to save animals

Mar 23, 08 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration for years has quietly established obstacles to listing new animals and plants on the endangered species list, the Washington Post reports. A total of only 59 domestic species have made it onto the list in the past seven years, compared to 58 each year under Bush's father... More »

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endangered species • Department of the Interior • endangered species list • extinction • sockeye salmon • George W. Bush • WildEarth Guardians • pygmy rabbit

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 »

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

Pygmy Hippos Found in Liberia

Rare mammal not wiped out by wars, deforestation

Mar 10, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rare pygmy hippos have been videotaped in the forests of Liberia, proving to a team of zoologists that the rare and elusive mammal has survived through two civil wars, illegal logging, and poaching thought to have wiped it out. Less than 3,000 pygmy hippos, which look like normal hippos... More »

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endangered species • civil war • wildlife • Liberia • Zoological Society of London • pygmy hippos • zoologists • bush hunters • hippopotamus

'Extinct' Bird Flies Again

Beck's petrel hadn't been seen since 1920s

Mar 8, 08 10:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The Beck’s petrel, a bird last seen in the 1920s and long thought extinct, appears to be very much alive, the AP reports. Spurred by unconfirmed sightings in Australia two years ago, an Israeli ornithologist set out for a group of islands off Papua New Guinea and brought back... More »

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endangered species • Australia • Papua New Guinea • birds • Beck's petrel • ornithology • Hadoram Shirihai • albatross

Feds Flood Grand Canyon

Controlled deluge may help rebuild vanishing sandbars

Mar 5, 08 6:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Government officials sent a flood of water surging through the Grand Canyon today in a bid to mimic Mother Nature and rebuild sandbars and other natural habitat for endangered fish. The deluge will continue for three days, increasing by about four or five times the usual flow from the Grand... More »

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endangered species • environment • environmentalism • flood • natural resources • Grand Canyon • Glen Canyon Dam • manmade flood

Illegal Poaching Funds Militant Groups

US lawmakers to probe $10B wildlife trade in hearings this week

Mar 2, 08 6:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Shipments of African contraband such as ivory, tiger parts, and rhino horn are funding militant groups and perhaps terrorists, Newsweek reports. After the theft of $1.3 million in ivory in Chad last year and a reported rise in contraband smuggling, US lawmakers have become interested: A House hearing on... More »

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endangered species • Darfur • ivory • poaching • militia • elephant • Janjaweed • Bengal tigers • terrorist groups • rhinoceros

Zoos Leap Into Year of Frog

Activists bring attention to decline of amphibians

Feb 29, 08 9:23 AM CST
(Newser) - How could any zoo resist? Leap Day, in the Year of the Frog, is being celebrated by zoos and conservationists everywhere as the perfect time to draw attention to the plight of amphibians. "We want to get people talking about frogs and thinking about them," said one zookeeper.... More »

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endangered species • environment • zoo • zookeeper • frogs • leap year • Year of the Frog • amnphibians

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 »

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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 »

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

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 »

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endangered species • conservation • India • poaching • tigers • Bengal tigers • predators • Project Tiger

US to List
Polar Bears as Endangered

Move would make species first official victim of global warming

Feb 3, 08 7:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The US Department of the Interior is expected this week to change the polar bear's conservation status from "vulnerable" to "endangered"—which would make the animals the first species officially recognized as victims of global warming. The year-old proposal concerning the appealing predators would give conservationists a... More »

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endangered species • global warming • list • Department of the Interior • Endangered Species Act • polar bear

Zoo Braces for Snowflake Mania

City updates transport, stores stock up in wake of bear fever

Jan 31, 08 3:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Polar celebrity Snowflake will meet her adoring public as early as late March, and Nuremberg zoo staff predict a blizzard of attention surrounding its most popular bundle of fur. Annual visitors are expected to jump from 250,000 to 1.3 million, reports Der Spiegel, which has the city readying... More »

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endangered species • Knut • polar bear • Nuremburg Zoo • Flocke • Snowflake

The Fight for the Jaguar in Brazil

Conservationists hope to deter lethal action against the cats by ranchers

Jan 1, 08 7:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservationists are waging a pitched battle on behalf of the jaguar in the Pantanal, a rich savannah region in southwest Brazil, the New York Times reports. The area is perfect for supporting a large jaguar population, but revenge killings by ranchers for livestock losses plague the near-threatened cats. More »

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endangered species • Jaguar

'Mickey Mouse of the Desert'

Scientists film endangered critter for the first time

Dec 10, 07 6:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A rare rodent with jumbo ears and a kangaroo hop has been nabbed on video for possibly the first time, the BBC reports. Scientists who braved the Gobi desert recently observed the jerboa as part of a plan to help the endangered and extremely rare mammal. The critter amazed them... More »

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China • endangered species • London • Mickey Mouse • Gobi desert • Mongolia • jerboa • Zoological Society of London • rodent

Kidnapped Gorillas Go Home

Five years later, the 'Taiping Four' make the trip back to Cameroon

Dec 1, 07 9:29 AM CST
(Newser) - For four rare gorillas who were illegally smuggled from their home in Cameroon five years ago, the long journey has finally come to an end, the BBC reports. The one male and three female Western Lowland gorillas are returning to the Limbe Wildlife Sanctuary in Cameroon after being sedated and... More »

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endangered species • Africa • zoo • gorilla

Feds Reverse
7 Wildlife Decisions

Agency blasts Bush appointee's meddling, restores protections

Nov 28, 07 9:19 PM CST
(Newser) - The Fish and Wildlife Service reversed seven decisions that watered down protections for endangered species, saying they were “improperly influenced” by a Bush appointee with no formal training in natural sciences, the Los Angeles Times reports. The appointee, Julie MacDonald, "should never have been allowed near the endangered... More »

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endangered species • US Fish and Wildlife Service

Panda Couple a Model of Fertility

Famous pair at
San Diego Zoo meet just once a year

Nov 26, 07 10:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Suggesting that quality does best quantity, two of the most reproductively successful pandas in captivity meet—and mate—but once a year, the AP reveals. Since 2003 the San Diego Zoo's Bai Yun and Gao Gao have produced three cubs, a great feat for the endangered species. The youngest... More »

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China • endangered species • breeding • zoo • captivity • panda • San Diego Zoo • Bai Yun • Gao Gao

Mexican Aid to Protect Monarchs

Calderon promises funds to stem illegal logging in butterflies' habitat

Nov 26, 07 6:10 AM CST
(Newser) - The famous migrating monarch butterflies have a new ally in Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who yesterday said he would devote $4.6 million more to the central Mexican reserve where the butterflies hibernate—and crack down on the illegal logging that threatens the insects' habitat. Calderon hopes the measure will... More »

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endangered species • global warming • Mexico • tourism • Felipe Calderon • migration • monarch butterflies • butterflies

Time to Move the Bears?

Not quite yet—but species may be
moved as warming ruins habitats

Nov 25, 07 5:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Airlifting polar bears to the Antarctic? Luring man-eating tigers out from a forest in Bangladesh? Such ideas are in the air, as biologists debate whether to move embattled species to areas less warmed by CO2. But critics say that "cowboy environmentalists" are flouting the rules—and endangering cooler habitats—... More »

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climate change • endangered species • conservation • threatened species

Activists Howl as Wolves Leave Endangered List

Gray wolf population threatens livestock,
officials say

Nov 24, 07 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Federal officials plan to pull gray wolves from the endangered species list for the first time in more than 20 years, the AP reports. Hunters will be allowed to reduce the growing wolf population, which threatens livestock in the Northern Rockies—but activists vow lawsuits to block the plan, saying... More »

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endangered species • cattle • list • US Fish and Wildlife Service • endangered species list • hunters • gray wolf

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