Endangered Species Articles page 2

Billings Gazette - CHEYENNE - While biologists and politicians fight over whether the greater sage grouse should be labeled an endangered species, 10 Western states allow hunters to take aim at the reclusive ground-dwelling bird. Listing the sage grouse under the ...

Zanesville Times Recorder - BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An Ohio wildlife dealer who illegally sold six endangered African leopards was sentenced Thursday to a year of probation and fined $2,000. Brett Hewitt, 36, of Fredericksburg, Ohio, was convicted in July of transporting ...

Daily Telegraph - Sixty experts from 21 countries, who compiled a list of the 25 most endangered species, said failure to respond to the growing threats along with the potential impact of climate change was in danger of causing the first primate extinctions for more ...

Raw Story - Malaysia faces the extinction of 45 bird species in the next five to 10 years if it fails to introduce protected areas and breeding programmes for endangered species, a report said Thursday. A recent survey by conservation group BirdLife ...

Idaho State Journal - POCATELLO - At a lecture at Idaho State University, author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen talked about evidence pointing to the existence of Bigfoot and gave reasons why he thought this creature should be on the endangered species list. Like many ...

Washington Post - Our mandate is to recover an endangered species, and that's what we're trying to do." Part of the problem is that because there are so few surviving right whales, any analysis of whale-ship interactions focuses on just 58 incidents. A 2006 paper ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Thapar worries that the legislation will also give free rein to timber and tiger poachers, who could hire poverty-stricken forest dwellers to do the work. In July, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species wrote to Prime Minister ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - SPOKANE, Wash. -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating whether a wildlife photographer who put out food for animals violated a federal law that protects endangered species. The question is whether the food provided by Tom Holman ...

Seattle Times - The Woodland Park Zoo is celebrating the birth of a female western lowland gorilla — the third offspring of her parents and the 12th successful birth of the endangered species at the zoo. The gorilla was born about 3:30 a.m. Saturday. She is ...

Washington Post - Sanjay Gupta , another bright light when he appears on CNN, ventures forth with Cooper into the back alleys of Bangkok to try to nab dealers in exotic animals, who break the law by selling endangered species. Going undercover with hidden cameras ...