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The coastal California gnatcatcher has been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act since 1993. You would think that when construction of the Sky Ranch development east of San Diego was predicted to harm seven gnatcatcher breeding pairs three years ago, the government would keep close tabs on those numbers, termed “incidental take.”
Not so, says a new report issued by the U.S...
Bald eagle vs. great cormorant. It sounds like the title of a bad SciFi Channel movie, but it's actually a serious situation that has Maine conservation officials in a quandary.
No one knows how many Philippine forest turtles ( Siebenrockiella leytensis ) are left in the wild, but however many there are, the number is rapidly shrinking thanks to illegal trade, says Pierre Fidenci, President of Endangered Species International in San Francisco...
Well folks, today is the fourth annual Endangered Species Day, an event created by act of the U.S. Senate to encourage education about and action to protect the more than 1,300 endangered species in our country...
More bird species than ever face extinction, though conservation efforts are, in some cases, slowing the pace of the decline.
BirdLife International, a consortium of conservation groups, reports that 12 percent of the world's known 9,865 bird species are now considered threatened in the 2009 update of its Red List...
"How do we save [tigers] and other endangered species? Well, here's an idea: Let's eat them!" That was ABC reporter John Stossel on last Friday's edition of the newsmagazine 20/20 ...
This week, gray wolves in the northern Rockies lost their protected status under the Endangered Species Act for the second time in the space of a year.
More than 80 critically endangered black rhinos ( Diceros bicornis ) have been poached for their horns in Zimbabwe in the past 12 months, double the number killed in the previous year, a situation that the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species (CITES) has now decided to disucss at its next meeting...
One month after the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service asked people to voluntarily stay out of caves in the Northeast to hopefully prevent the further spread of the deadly white-nose syndrome (WNS) that has already killed 500,000 bats, the U.S...
The critically endangered western gray whale ( Esrichtiius robustus ) has won a small victory in its fight for survival: some oil exploration companies have decided to delay seismic testing off the coasts of Russia...
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