Recent Endangered Species Articles page 8

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 ...

NPR News - Those snatched ducks became pioneers in an effort to help preserve an extremely endangered species. The entire population consisted of about 500 birds, found only on Laysan, a remote Northwestern Hawaiian island in the Pacific Ocean. A bad storm ...

NPR News - All Things Considered , October 20, 2007 · The Sociable Lapwing, a species that lives in the Middle East and Central Asia, was listed as a critically endangered species. Scientists believed as few as 400 of the birds survived. Now, a superflock of 3 ...

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 ...

Hartford Courant - In July, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying it was alarmed about India's inability to stop the illegal tiger trade. But some government leaders say the needs of people must be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...