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Animals News tagged with habitatdestruction

Fed Takes 2nd Look at Threat to Desert Tortoise
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, investigation, humans, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat, habitatdestruction )

Cal
- 84 days ago - enn.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced in a 90 day status review that the Sonoran population of desert tortoise is a distinct population segment under the Endangered Species Act and that listing, as threatened or endangered, under the Act may be
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Cameroon: Mining Threatens Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, humans )

Cal
- 105 days ago - africanews.com
The attribution of mining exploration licenses in sites found within national parks is causing concerns in Southeast Cameroon. Cameroon's Ministry of Mines, Water and Energy Resources has issued permits for mining exploration to be carried out in patches
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Sign Petition: U.S. Military Base in Okinawa Threatens Rare Dugongs
Animals  (tags: animals, dugong, manatee, okinawa, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction, sadness, environment, habitat, nature, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, destruction, protection, humans, oceans )

Tom
- 158 days ago - change.org
The U.S. and Japanese governments are planning to destroy the best remaining habitat of a unique and critically endangered marine mammal -- the Okinawa dugong. This dugong, a relative of the manatee, is a rare marine mammal that feeds in the seagrass beds.
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Construction In Indonesia Is Wiping Out Orangutan Population
Animals  (tags: orangutrans, habitatdestruction, contruction, humans, destroyers, endangered, extinction, greed )

Simone
- 191 days ago - redorbit.com
A national park in Borneo Island, which is home to hundreds of endangered orangutans, has been partially turned into a development zone complete with an airport and brothels, The American Free Press reported. The Center for Orangutan Protection (COP)
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Fears of 'Lights Out' for Fireflies in Malaysia
Animals  (tags: animals, habitatdestruction, humans, wildlife, habitat )

Cal
- 202 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
A dazzling firefly population that is one of Malaysia's top tourist attractions faces destruction within months because of large-scale land clearing, a lawmaker warned
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Undersea Bombs Threaten Marine Life
Animals  (tags: ecosystems, environment, destruction, pollution, habitatdestruction, habitat, animals, animalwelfare, protection, humans )

Cal
- 272 days ago - cnn.com
Beyond the golden beaches and beneath the blue waters of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is a site that resembles more of a munitions graveyard than a Caribbean paradise.
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Diminishing Days for Emperor Penguins
Animals  (tags: environment, climatechange, endangered, globalwarming, destruction, habitatdestruction, animals, endangered, extinction )

Ingrid
- 302 days ago - popsci.com
A new study suggests that if Antarctic ice continues melting at its current rate, the famed penguins will be near-extinct within the century
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Hybrid Wolves Rescued in Orange County, Taken to Austin Zoo
Animals  (tags: freedoms, interesting, humans, society, wolves, hybrid, zoo, protection, wildlife, habitatdestruction, environment, animals, protection, extinction, AnimalWelfare, animals, wildanimals, pets, rescued, habitat )

Kim
- 319 days ago - kfdm.com
Four exotic animals abandoned in Orange County after Hurricane Ike are in a new home. Ashley Gaston reports, the hybrid wolves have been taken to the Austin Zoo
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Tell Congress: Ban Shark Finning
Animals  (tags: more than 100 million, sharks, killed each year, support, the Shark Conservation Act, H.R. 81, environment, habitatdestruction, oceans, wildlife, protection )

In A Mirr
- 320 days ago - takeaction.oceana.org
The new Congress has hit the ground running, with the introduction of the Shark Conservation Act (HR 81). This bill would require that sharks caught in all U.S. waters be landed whole with their fins still attached. Please tell your Representative to help
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Vote On Line: LA Times, Should Billy Should Go to Sanctuary?
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, habitatdestruction, freedoms, activists, americans, rights, abused, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, endangered, protection, wildanimals )

Katia
- 323 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
"Celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna weighed in today on the hot topic of Billy, the sole elephant resident at the L.A. Zoo...." Zoo supporters are speaking out in large numbers! Please show your support for what's best for Billy! Vote now!
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Coral Reef Loss Suggests Global Extinction Event
Animals  (tags: environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, humans, animals, endangered, extinction )

Cal
- 349 days ago - enn.com
The world is on the brink of a massive extinction event, according to the United Nations.
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The Spotted Owl Disappearing Act
Animals  (tags: animals, habitat, habitatdestruction, wildlife, endangered )

Cal
- 359 days ago - latimes.com
The number of spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest is dwindling. Some experts think an aggressive owl cousin, not logging, is to blame.
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One in Four Mammals Risks Extinction
Animals  (tags: environment, habitatdestruction, habitat, animals, wildlife )

Cal
- 415 days ago - enn.com
A quarter of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, an international survey showed on Monday, and the destruction of habitats and hunting are the major causes.
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When Extinction Becomes a Heresy
Animals  (tags: animals, survival, extinction, conservation, habitat, humans, nature, habitatdestruction )

Simone
- 423 days ago - smh.com.au
Empathy with animals is limited to particular species, giving us what we think is clear passage to destroy others without thought of the pain inflicted, writes Clive Marks. Time and evolution have been detached creators, and for 4 billion years humans
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Loyola's Lobster Apocalypse --- Do Your Part; Please Never Eat Canadian Scallops or Fishsticks   video
Animals  (tags: seals, baby seals, canadian seal slaughter, Loyola Hearn, trawl, habitatdestruction )


- 553 days ago - youtube.com
Although innocent seals are blamed for fisheries and and marine abundance collapse we all know its the criminal habitat destruction done by those that profit from the public trust in Ottawa that are really to blame.
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