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Endangered Species Defined
A species with so few living members that it soon will become extinct unless measures are begun to slow its loss
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Environmentalists Slam Bush 'Fox-in-Henhouse' Plan
Published October 12, 2008, 3:28 pm, Planet Ark
WASHINGTON - A Bush administration plan to let US agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse.
Campaign to declare Gulf of Mannar a World Heritage Site
Published October 12, 2008, 12:38 pm, Daily News
An unprecedented international campaign to protect the Gulf of Mannar from destruction by the planned Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) is to be launched in London, UK, next month.
Wolves "¦ Again
Published October 12, 2008, 10:27 am, AG Weekly
I had hoped I wouldn’t have to talk about wolves again but their delisting has put them back in the news and brought on a series of calls to me from reporters wanting to know “if Farm Bureau still hates wolves.â€
Ohio's Wilds a safari on 10,000 acres
Published October 12, 2008, 2:09 am, Chicago Sun-Times
CUMBERLAND, Ohio -- It's a jungle out there. And the Wilds is really out there. One of the largest wildlife conservation centers in the world, the Wilds is located on nearly 10,000 acres of former coal-mining land, about 85 miles southeast of Columbus.
Scientists complete sequencing giant panda genome
Published October 12, 2008, 2:04 am, Vietnam Net
Chinese scientists have completed sequencing the genome of giant pandas. The announcement was made here Saturday. They hope the new information will give them a better biological understanding of why pandas eat bamboo, have black circles around their eyes and produce few offspring.
Professor who preserved the peregrine explains other threats to birds of prey
Published October 12, 2008, 1:32 am, The Hazleton Standard-Speaker
Dr. Tom Cade, a professor who preserved the peregrine and is rescuing the California condor, said people making ordinary efforts can help extraordinary birds right here in Pennsylvania.
Palin"™s environmental stance at odds with McCain"™s
Published October 12, 2008, 1:17 am, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
WASHINGTON — Gov. Sarah Palin is the only one of the major-party candidates in the presidential race — including her running mate, Sen John McCain — who has expressed doubts about whether human activity is the primary cause of global warming.
Tourism curbed in bid to save Galapagos haven
Published October 12, 2008, 12:04 am, Mail and Guardian
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. The volcanic archipelago studded off South America's Pacific coast is famous for unlikely creatures, big and small, which have evolved and thrived for millennia.
Scientists complete sequencing giant panda genome
Published October 11, 2008, 11:34 pm, People's Daily
Chinese scientists have completed sequencing the genome of giant pandas. The announcement was made in Shenzhen on Saturday. They hope the new information will give them a better biological understanding of why pandas eat bamboo, have black circles around their eyes and produce few offspring. "By sequencing the giant panda genome we've laid the genetic and biological foundation for us to gain a ...
Windmill: 7 Texas mammals threatened
Published October 11, 2008, 10:11 pm, The San Angelo Standard-Times
Seven Texas mammals listed as threatened on the Global Mammal Assessment project during the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain has created a stir all the way back to the Texas A&M Research Center north of San Angelo, said Steve Byrns, Texas AgriLife Extension communications sp
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Sun Oct 12
- ZapRoot: Your Kids a Fatty, Ford Goes Green, and More: This story contains additional media. Click here to view the media. This weeks Zaproot features GO blogs Ecoworldly, Planetsave, and Gas 2.0, and discusses European efforts to address obesity, Fords increasing green efforts, and Robert De Niros restaurant servering an endangered species. Read more of this story
Fri Oct 10
- Vaquitamarina. org " Grupo Alto Golfo Sustentable
- Pay-to-protect plan for Ecuadorian rainforest on the brink | Environment | guardian.co.uk: Ecuador's offer to prevent oil drilling in the protected Yasuni national park if it receives compensation of $350m a year has received no firm commitment from the international community
Thu Oct 9
- Bird Binoculars for This Fall Trip: If you're new to my bird binoculars blog, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Bird Binoculars and bird guides are tops on my list now as I prepare for a short camping trip. I forgot them once and ONLY once ever. As part of th...
- ARKive - A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species.
Wed Oct 8
- Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville, Attraction, Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia: healesville sanctuary
- Endangered Species WebQuest: websites resources
- The world's most endangered species 2008: 14 photos of current endangered species. One in four mammals is at risk of disappearing forever, according to the latest assessment by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), whose 'red list' classifies species according to their extinction risk every year.
- PHOTOS: Parachute Spider, New Shrew on 2008 ''Red List''
Tue Oct 7
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