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Animals News tagged with prairie dogs

Stop Prairie Dog Poisoning - URGENT!
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, massacred, killed, bush administration, animal advocates, protection, wildlife, rights )

Simone
- 56 days ago - all-creatures.org
Sign the petition today! Take action by Wednesday, September 24 2008! Target: U.S. Forest Service The Bush administration is planning a massive poisoning operation that would target prairie dogs across three National Grasslands in South Dakota
Gunnisons Prairie Dog Conservation Plan for the City of Santa Fe! Sign Petition!!
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, conservation, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 157 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
There is an urgent need for thoughtful, proactive planning regarding prairie dogs in Santa Fe given the swift pace at which prairie dogs are disappearing from the city. We request the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico to review and adopt the conservation plan
A Haven for Prairie Dogs : Woman Rescues, Houses the Animals
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, rescue, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 167 days ago - fortwayne.com
From the outside, Dianne James' license plate - "prarydg" - provides the only hint of what's been going on inside her white farmhouse for the past seven years.
Hungry Bears: Bush Policies Are Endangering Species
Animals  (tags: polar bears, endangered species, Bush administration, gas and oil, Arctic, lynx, animals, prairie dogs, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, endangered, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 175 days ago - sltrib.com
Some Americans, members of Congress among them, do not understand the importance of protecting the Earth's diverse plant and animal species. Unfortunately, a number of those people are making decisions regarding how the Endangered Species Act is
Prairie Dog Dilemma
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 186 days ago - thespectrum.com
As stewards of the Earth, we all have a responsibility to ensure the survival of the plants and animals that comprise our precious ecosystem. But common sense also should play a role in making decisions. And right now, there doesn't appear to be
Feds Restart Rodent Review
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, protection, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 195 days ago - casperstartribune.net
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun accepting public comment on whether the white-tailed prairie dog, a squirrel-like rodent found in four states including Wyoming, should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Plea to Ban Prairie-Dog Shoots Fails
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, ban, rejected, animals, AnimalWelfare, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 199 days ago - denverpost.com
The Colorado Wildlife Commission Thursday rejected a petition to ban prairie-dog shoots, prompting a conservation group to say its only options now are the "courthouse or ballot box." The commission, meeting in Grand Junction, voted unanimously against
On the Ground: There's No Place Like a Home in Kansas for Prairie Dogs
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, kansas, home, protection, ranchers, habitat )

Simone
- 201 days ago - defenders.org
Eight miles south of Russell Springs in west-central Kansas's Logan County is an island of short-grass prairie teeming with wildlife, a spot where ranchers Larry and Bette Haverfield have found themselves in the middle of a dog fight--a prairie dog fight,
Someone's Poisoning Prairie Dogs in Enoch
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, poisoned, animals, protection, AnimalWelfare, environment, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Cher
- 202 days ago - sltrib.com
State wildlife officials are investigating the poisoning deaths of at least 11 Utah prairie dogs in a southwestern Utah subdivision.
Colorado Petition to Ban Prairie Dog Shooting! Please Sign!
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, Colorado, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 204 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We request that the Colorado Wildlife Commission declare and explicitly rule that the shooting of living animals for target practice and amusement is not "hunting" and is therefore not protected by the hunting exception to Colorado's laws prohibiting
Wyo OKs Prairie Dog Export
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, Wyoming, Montana, animals, AnimalWelfare, export, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 206 days ago - casperstartribune.net
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission agreed Friday to fill Montana's request for white-tailed prairie dogs and offered to continue exporting the animals each summer through 2010.
Prairie Dog Coalition - Alerts - North America's Most Important Prairie Dog Colony Up for Poisoning.
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, prairie dogs, black footed ferrets, death, AnimalCruelty, extinction, humans, habitat, government, endangered, wildlife, wildanimals, society, protection, suffering, slaughter, sadness, ethics, crime, cruelty, environment, killing, killed )

Thunderr
- 297 days ago - prairiedogcoalition.org
While every prairie dog colony is important, the recovery effort of the endangered black-footed ferret would argue that Conata Basin is the most critical prairie dog colony to recovering North America's most endangered mammal.Not only does this plan kill
Prairie Dog Coalition - Mexican Prairie Dog - (Cynomys Mexicanus)
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, prairie dogs, Mexico, endangered, animalsuffering, AnimalWelfare, animals, killing, protection, environment )

Thunderr
- 394 days ago - prairiedogcoalition.org
The Mexican prairie dog is a lesser known relative of the black-tailed prairie dog that also has a black-tipped tail.Mexican prairie dogs inhabit the short-grass and low elevation prairie of a small area in northeastern Mexico.Federally listed as endanger
Prairie Dogs Poisoned; Rancher Incensed
Animals  (tags: wildlife, prairie dogs, killing, poisoning )

Jacquelin
- 432 days ago - kansas.com
Farmers have hated prairie dogs for decades, considering the flea-ridden rodents a threat to livestock and crops. Environmentalists say the critters are land-friendly and invite other animals -- federally protected burrowing owls, snakes, ornate box tu
Keeping Prairie Dogs Off Endangered List
Animals  (tags: prairie dogs, endangered, "sanctuary" project, GoodNews )

Betty
- 436 days ago - sltrib.com
More and more ranchers and farmers are becoming convinced that it may be more to their advantage to help the threatened burrowing rodents rather than exterminating them. Some are joining a project that offers the rodents sanctuary among the open spaces -
 

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