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Threatened Species Defined
A species that is expected to become endangered if nothing is done to help renew it
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Hungryland Slough Natural area parcels seized by eminent domain
Published November 18, 2008, 3:16 am, Boca Raton News
Published November, 18th 2008. Some $1.4 million from permit fees imposed by the South Florida Water Management District on various developments will be used to purchase 32 of 60 natural area parcels in the Hungryland Slough Natural Area in Commission District 1.
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Published November 17, 2008, 9:02 pm, Berkeley Daily Planet
Plans for a $159 million biofuel and alternative energy lab in the Berkeley Hills have been put on hold by UC President Mark Yudoff while the project is sent back to the drawing board.
Science talks: some science events on campus
Published November 17, 2008, 3:09 pm, The Current Online
The Astronomy Open House is closed for the winter, and the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center's Conservation Forum has come and gone, but there are still science events on campus. Before we move on to upcoming science events, we should note that the World Ecology Center awarded its Conservation Action Prize during its recent Conservation Forum.
Sea Snakes Need Freshwater
Published November 17, 2008, 11:23 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
Sea snakes may slither in an endless supply of salt water, but contrary to the longstanding dogma, they don't drink the "bath water." Instead, they seek out freshwater to quench their thirst. It was long assumed that sea snakes evolved to live in oceans from their land-dwelling ancestors and adapted a new means to hydrate by gulping seawater, with internal salt glands filtering and excreting ...
IUCN report warns that a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east Atlantic face extinction
Published November 16, 2008, 9:31 pm, Guardian Unlimited
More than a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east Atlantic face extinction from overfishing, conservationists warned today. A "red list" report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 26% of all sharks, rays and related species in the regional waters are threatened with extinction. Seven per cent are classed as critically endangered, while a fifth ...
Focus on valley habitats
Published November 16, 2008, 6:29 am, Poughkeepsie Journal
The Biodiversity Resources Center of Hudsonia Ltd., a nonprofit institute for environmental research and education, has been in-volved in biodiversity research, habitat mapping and biodiversity education since 2002. All the center's projects are designed to advance local knowledge of biological resources and enable citizens, planners and regulatory officials to stem the rapid loss of native ...
The fight to save the Spurdog Shark
Published November 15, 2008, 5:51 pm, Sunday Herald
never going to become a cuddly toy like the panda, and it lacks the big cat mystique of the Siberian tiger. But the predatory spurdog, once one of the eastern Atlantic's most prolific small sharks, is equally threatened with extinction in Scottish waters.
Red-legged frogs may get room to roam
Published November 14, 2008, 5:07 pm, The Pinnacle
More acres in San Benito County would be designated as critical habitat for the endangered California red-legged frog under a proposal under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
New bio-diversity law goes through National Assembly
Published November 13, 2008, 6:46 pm, Vietnam Net
VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly passed a law on bio-diversity on Nov. 13, encouraging different approaches to investment and the application of scientific advances and local knowledge to ensure bio-diversity sustainability.
Threatened thistle plant under review
Published November 12, 2008, 11:07 pm, Ruidoso News
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday a petition to remove the Sacramento Mountains thistle from the federal list of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife and Plants is under review.
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- Tropical species also threatened by climate change - Yahoo! News: Effects of climate change on tropical species.
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- Lemurs of Madagascar: Surviving on an Island of Change: VIDEO (8 min) On Madagascar, and virtually nowhere else, lives an entire "infraord er" of primates: the three dozen or so lemur species. But Madagascar has radically transformed since another primate?humans ?arrived two thousand years ago. Rampant deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and other anthropogenic factors are impacting lemurs much faster than evolution can mitigate the effects. Follow American and Malagasy scientists through the country's remaining forests to learn how these compelling creatures are coping with change.
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