Endangered Species Articles page 5

International Herald Tribune - ... native to eastern Brazil and found only in this country, federal police said in a statement. Rosewood, known in Brazil as jacaranda da bahia, is legally protected by Brazilian law and by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Recent additions include the Penguin and Puffin Coast and the Conservation Carousel, which features 64 hand-carved wooden animals representing protected and endangered species. Highlights include the River's Edge, Living World education center, the ...

Salt Lake Tribune - Before Wednesday's release, scientists believe, a mere 100 to 200 of the endangered species remained in the Virgin between La Verkin and the Utah-Arizona state line. "It's important that these fish be planted," fish biologist Steve Meismer said ...

MSN UK News - Humpback whales, which can grow to 50 feet (15.24 meters) long and weigh more than 35 tons (31.75 metric tons), were once hunted nearly to extinction. They have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act for more than three decades ...

Orange County Register - CHEYENNE, Wyo. 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 ...

Inside Bay Area - Time off and vacations are becoming an endangered species these days. That's why there's a campaign to celebrate the fifth-annual "Take Back Your Time Day" on Wednesday. With U.S. productivity up twofold since the 1970s, a grass-roots organization is ...

Waterbury Republican-American - The eagle has made a steady comeback in Connecticut, with 15 nesting pairs last spring, but it remains on the state's endangered species list. So any projects or construction that might effect the bird or its habitat are subject to review by the ...

AZCentral.com - We're trying to educate the public on endangered species. People don't realize only 300 Mexican gray wolves are left in the world, only 50 in the wild," said Michelle Myers, education director at Southwest Wildlife, which harbors 11 of the diminished ...

Egypt Today - LAST MONTH, BANGKOK, Thailand, hosted a meeting of CITES, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, an international body of which Egypt is a signatory. For the uninitiated, CITES controls the trade in rare animal and plant ...

Daily Telegraph - There is something fitting in the fact that the greatest poacher of tries that this or any Rugby World Cup has seen should devote most of his energies away from the field acting as gamekeeper for an endangered species in his native South Africa ...