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Headlines added December 2, 2008
Endangered sawfish focus of national collection and
recovery efforts
The University of Florida, keeper of the world's shark attack records, is
also now overseeing a national records collection for another toothy
marine predator: the sawfish. 12/2/08
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Yellow-Legged Frog Faces
Extinction (AP)
AP
- The mountain yellow-legged frog has survived for thousands of years in
lakes and streams carved by glaciers, living up to nine months under snow
and ice and then emerging to issue its raspy chorus across the Sierra
Nevada range. 2/11/2006
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Polar Bears Endangered? --
multiple news sources
Feds Move to Protect Polar Bears (AP)
Dan Joling | Yahoo! News
AP
- Amid concerns that global warming is melting away the icy habitats where
polar bears live, the federal government is reviewing whether they should
be considered a threatened species.
2/8/2006
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Polar Bears Being Considered
for U.S. Endangered List
John Roach | National Geographic News
The bears could be the first mammals officially deemed endangered due to
global warming, possibly indicating a shift in Bush Administration
thinking on climate change.
2/12/2006
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Unique Australian Trees
Endangered (AP)
Rod McGuirk | Yahoo! News
 AP
- The only known wild stand of a tree species dating to Jurassic times has
been endangered by a deadly disease probably introduced by an unauthorized
hiker, a government official said Monday.
1/29/2006
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Experts: Black-Footed Ferrets
Reproducing (AP)
Yahoo! News
AP - In an encouraging sign for the black-footed ferret, wildlife
officials say the animal is apparently reproducing across the West after
nearing extinction less than three decades ago. 1/31/2006
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Illegal
trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report
World Wildlife Fund | EurekAlert!
A new report released today finds that the illegal trade in the Roti
Island snake-necked turtle, found only on one island in Indonesia, has
left it all but extinct in the wild. Exotic pet enthusiasts in Europe,
North America and East Asia are fueling the illegal trade for the turtle,
often without realizing that they are contributing to its demise. No legal
trade of this species has been allowed since 2001. 2/1/2006
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Pesticide combinations imperil frogs,
probably contribute to amphibian decline
University of California - Berkeley | EurekAlert!
Some two dozen pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are sprayed on corn,
and Midwestern frog ponds reflect this -- they're a brew of chemicals and
endocrine disruptors that can persist through the growing season. UC
Berkeley experiments show that the chemical mix, not just one pesticide
alone, screws up the sexual development of frogs and makes them prone to a
deadly bacterial disease. The study suggests pesticides are one cause of
the worldwide decline of amphibians. 2/1/2006
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Chronic oil pollution takes toll on
seabirds along South American coast
University of Washington | EurekAlert!
Chronic oil pollution, a long-standing problem along a 4,200-mile stretch
of coast from southern Brazil to northern Argentina, is taking a toll on
Magellanic penguins and other seabirds. 1/30/2006
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Dog Virus May Be Killing
Yellowstone Wolves
Hope Hamashige | National Geographic News
Officials aren't sure what has killed more than 65 percent of the wolf
pups born last year in Yellowstone National Park, but experts suspect a
common dog virus is to blame. 1/19/2006
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Experts to Search Bangladesh
for Sandpiper (AP)
Parveen Ahmed | Yahoo! News
AP - A team of international bird experts will begin surveying the
Bangladeshi coast Tuesday in search of the endangered spoon-billed
sandpiper, whose population they believe has dwindled to just 350 pairs in
the wild, organizers said Monday.
The spoon-billed sandpiper, a small shore bird with a bill shaped like a
teaspoon, lives and breeds in the Russian tundra.
However, after summer they migrate to warmer climates in Asia, and usually
spend winters along the coastal areas of Bangladesh, India and Myanmar —
after a long, arduous journey of nearly 3,730 miles through Japan, Korea
and China, said Christoph Zockler from Cambridge, England who will lead
the Bangladesh survey. 1/16/2006
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Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out
there'
Washington University in St. Louis | EurekAlert!
Mother Nature could use a few more good pollinators, especially in
species-rich biodiversity hotspots, according to a new study in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
Jana Vamosi, Ph.D, postdoctoral associate at the University of Calgary and
Tiffany Knight, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences
at Washington University in St. Louis, and their collaborators have
performed an exhaustive global analysis of more than 1,000 pollination
studies which included 166 different plant species and found that, in
areas where there is a great deal of plant diversity, plants suffer lower
pollination and reproductive success. For some plant species, this
reduction in fruit and seed production could push them towards extinction.
1/15/2006
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Conservationists agree steps to
save African lion
Ed Stoddard | Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Regional governments and conservationists have
agreed on initial steps that need to be taken to save the African lion,
which has been pushed to the brink of extinction throughout much of its
range.
The strategies were worked out at a workshop on lions in east and southern
Africa which wrapped up at the weekend.
"...the reduction in the lion's wild prey base, human-lion conflicts and
habitat degradation are the major reasons for declining lion populations
and need to be addressed," the World Conservation Union, one of the
workshop's organizers, said in a statement on Monday.
1/16/2006
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Climate change drives widespread amphibian
extinctions by fatal frog fungus
National Science Foundation | EurekAlert!
Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming
is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire
frog populations and driving many species to extinction.
Published in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal
Nature, the study reveals how the warming may alter the dynamics of a skin
fungus that is fatal to amphibians. The climate-driven fungal disease, the
author's say, has hundreds of species around the world teetering on the
brink of extinction or has already pushed them into the abyss.
"Disease is the bullet that's killing the frogs," said J. Alan Pounds, the
study's lead scientist affiliated with the Tropical Science Center's
Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. "But climate change is
pulling the trigger. Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians, and
soon will cause staggering losses of biodiversity," he said.
1/10/2006
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Conservationists Sue to Protect
Butterfly (AP)
Scott Sonner | Yahoo News
AP
- Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday
seeking protection for a rare butterfly they say is threatened by off-road
vehicles at one of the largest sand dunes in the West.
Environmentalists want the agency to declare the Sand Mountain blue
butterfly an endangered species because, they say, its habitat is being
destroyed at the only place it is known to live — the Sand Mountain
Recreation Area in western Nevada.
The Bureau of Land Management controls
activities at the dune, which is 600 feet tall and stretches for two
miles. It attracts an estimated 50,000 off-roaders annually on
motorcycles, dune buggies and all-terrain vehicles.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., accuses the
agency of violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to respond to
petitions since April 2004 seeking federal protection for the butterfly.
The act requires the government to provide a preliminary response to such
petitions within 90 days and often again within a year. 1/6/2006
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Critical danger' warning on
fish
1/4/2006
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Palm Oil Industry Blamed for
Abuse of Organ-Utans
1/2/2006
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Tiny pikas seem to be on march toward extinction in Great Basin 12/28/2005
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Searchers key in on ivory-billed woodpecker habitat
12/22/2005
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Ebola
Flares in Western Gorilla, Chimp Stronghold - Vaccine Holds Hope
4/4/2005
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