Recent Endangered Species Articles page 4

Statesman - A report by the World Conservation Union, which draws up the official “red list” of endangered species, has identified the 25 most endangered primates on the planet, all of which live in the biodiversity “hotspots” that are exceptionally rich ...

Caspar Star-Tribune - The Preble's meadow jumping mouse is an endangered species. Or not. Global warming is a present danger and is largely caused by man's activities since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Or not. On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Herald Tribune - As such, its mining and marketing should be regulated as carefully as endangered species' habitats. From that point of view, allowing immediate, loosely regulated harvesting and the export of our remaining phosphate reserves is flagrantly wasteful. ...

Arizona Daily Star - Among these is the purpose of the laws that the Department of Homeland Security wishes to ignore. The National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and numerous other laws waived by DHS Secretary ...

News.com.au - US MEDIA have reported that despite new studies foretelling the demise of polar bears, Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is firmly opposed to listing the bears as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Palin has told the federal government ...

Idaho Statesman - One is to convene an endangered species committee, called the "God Squad," which can rule that the costs of saving an endangered species is more expensive than it's worth. A second is to have Congress pen its own salmon plan and include language that ...

Indian Country Today - As endangered species, their water needs have twice forced shutoffs of irrigation to most of the 1,400 farms on the Klamath Reclamation Project, which covers 180,000 acres of high desert straddling the California-Oregon border east of the Cascade ...

Earthtimes - New Delhi, Nov 5 - The National Board for Wildlife, headed by the prime minister, is formulating an action plan to protect critically endangered species and oversee environment-linked legislation to ensure they do not threaten wildlife habitats. The ...

Los Angeles Times - This may be the last straw for many endangered species that have already suffered so much habitat loss to development and overly frequent fire." The latest firestorms threaten to undo years of work spent cobbling together nature preserves that ...

San Diego Union-Tribune - The group, which is known by the abbreviation IUCN and produces an annual “Red List” of endangered species, said measures to reduce pollution, preserve wetlands, and limit the amount of water extracted from streams and rivers are needed to ...