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California Restaurant Caught Serving Endangered Whale
The Daily Green: News &bull 5 Hours AgoA sushi restaurant faces up to $200,000 in fines for serving an endangered species. Full Story »
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England's threatened species by region
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull YesterdayThe biggest national study of threats to biodiversity highlights around 500 species of flora and fauna that have been lost completely from England. Still more species are becoming extinct by region. Full Story »
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U.S. moves to list loggerhead turtles as endangered
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull YesterdayWith populations continuing to decline, wildlife agencies issue a plan to designate critical habitat zones to protect the species. Such listing could affect offshore drilling and other activities. Federal agencies are proposing to increase protections for loggerhead turtles, the long-lived… Full Story »
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Conservation group supports call for bluefin tuna trade ban
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 10, 2010The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity. Full Story »
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Fallujah Birth Defects (Video News)
Planet Green (Discovery Channel) &bull Mar 9, 2010
Doctors told the BBC that the number of heart defects found in newborn babies is 13 times than normal. A spokesman for the U.S. military, Michael Kilpatrick, said though it takes public health concerns "very seriously...no studies to date have… Full Story »
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Digested read: Solar by Ian McEwan
Climate Change News Digest &bull Mar 9, 2010Beard waited for Aldous to collect him. Gosh, how he hated the polar bear rug in the hall. Still, everyone would soon have one, he supposed, if the polar ice-cap continued to melt. Not that Beard was yet wholly committed… Full Story »
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Extinction outpaces evolution
Monga Bay: Biodiversity &bull Mar 9, 2010
Extinctions are currently outpacing the capacity for new species to evolve, according to Simon Stuart, chair of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He added that E.O, Wilsons' estimate that the extinction rate could rise to 10,000 times the background rate… Full Story »
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Disease threatens most endangered feline species Iberian lynx
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 9, 2010The threat comes from a disease affecting animals born in breeding centres in Spain, the Lynx Conservation Program said today. Full Story »
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White-Nose syndrome still killing endangered bats
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 9, 2010Bat researchers report that 13 Virginia big-eared bats have survived to form a "security population" of the endangered species at a Smithsonian's National Zoo institute. Over a million bats have been killed in recent years by "White-Nose" syndrome, including members… Full Story »
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Frog in Australia goes from 'extinct' to very, very endangered
Monga Bay &bull Mar 8, 2010
Facing habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and the devastating chytrid fungus, there has been little positive news about amphibians recently. However, a story out of Australia brings a much needed respite from bad news. In 2008 Luke Pearce, a fisheries conservation officer, stumbled on a frog… Full Story »
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No Endangered Status for Plains Bird
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse was facing extinction but would not be designated as an endangered species for now. Full Story »
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A rare butterfly takes flight on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010Conservationists watch in awe as 80 endangered Palos Verdes blue butterflies, each bred in captivity, venture into the wild for the first time. It's a step toward saving the insect from extinction. A male Palos Verdes blue butterfly alights on a flower after being released with several others at… Full Story »
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Hopping to it to preserve the rare mountain yellow-legged frog
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010Researchers' efforts to breed more of the California amphibians include refrigerating them to mimic their winter hibernation. Some like it hot. Apparently, the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog is not among them. Full Story »
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Threatened protected plants (1)
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010This plant is considered to be critically endangered. Indeed, it is protected through both national and international legislation. Special areas of conservation have been designated to further protect this species and its habitat. The management of such sites, law enforcement… Full Story »
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Endangered in a Dangerous Land: Afghanistan expands its protected species list, including the "world's least-known bird"
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010Nine months after it created its first list of protected endangered species, the government has added 15 more to the list, including what has been billed as "the world's least-known bird." The bird, the large-billed reed warbler (Acrocephalus orinus), had… Full Story »
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Commit to Going Green with the EPA's 'Pick 5 for the Environment'
Planet Green (Discovery Channel) &bull Mar 6, 2010
Life's complicated, and it can be difficult to stick with all the things you plan to do to benefit the environment. But the EPA has a great new program to get Americans to commit and stick with it. Some of… Full Story »
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Grouse decision may hurt oil, gas, wind
Marketplace: Sustainability &bull Mar 5, 2010
Environmentalists want the greater sage grouse of the American West listed as endangered. Ranchers and energy developers don't. Sarah Gardner reports on the Interior Department's compromise of sorts. KAI RYSSDAL:Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to the greater… Full Story »
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Black-faced Spoonbill numbers up again as Action Plans are launched
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 5, 2010BirdLife International has compiled International Action Plans for three globally Endangered and Critically Endangered migratory waterbirds in Asia, under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species. Full Story »
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Loggerhead turtle breeding affected by global warming - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
www.abc.net.au via @kemNYC &bull Feb 23, 2010She has seen a big increase in breeding activity on the Island, and believes that is due largely to global warming -- which is making beaches further north too hot for nests. She says as south-east Queensland is increasingly playing… Full Story »
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Endangered listing urged for sage grouse
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Feb 23, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The American Bird Conservancy says it's urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Greater Sage-Grouse as an endangered species. George Fenwick, the organization's president, said the numbers of the birds have dramatically… Full Story »
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