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Tell Congress to Keep Its Hands Off Endangered Species
Animals  (tags: wolves, endangered, species, animals, wildlife, protection, extinction, cruelty, death, suffering )

Tom
- 755 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Congress has never before removed an animal from the endangered species list. By replacing scientific judgment with political calculation, the House and Senate have struck at the very heart of wildlife protection in America.
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Save African Lions From Extinction By Listing Them as An Endangered Species! PLEASE SIGN!!!
Animals  (tags: animalrights, LIONS, protection, Endangered, species, notFood, crime, animaladvocates )

Julie
- 115 days ago - change.org
Listing them would not only keep lion meat off American plates but would save thousands of lions by addressing one of the biggest threats to the African lion population -- trophy hunting.
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Sign Petition: Save Critical Habitat for the Florida Panther
Animals  (tags: animals, florida, panther, endangered, species, habitat, environment, wildlife, protection, government, obama, salazar, politics )

Tom
- 1454 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The Florida Panther was declared an endangered species in 1967. The amendment which required each species listed to have 'designated critical habitat' didn't go into effect until 1978, so no critical habitat exists for this critically endangered big cat.
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Sign Petition: Save the Polar Bear
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, environment, greenhouse gas, obama, bush, salazar, palin, politics, government, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic )

Tom
- 1519 days ago - usactions.greenpeace.org
Congress just passed special legislation granting President Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar 60 days to revoke Bush's last minute regulations reducing protections for polar bears and exempting greenhouse gas emissions.
25 comments
Dramatic Decline in Farmland Birds as Numbers Drop By Up to 70%
Animals  (tags: farmland birds, skylarks, species, environment )

Anna
- 852 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Its beautiful song and stunning aerial acrobatics have enchanted nature lovers for generations.But according to a new report, the skylark is vanishing from the countryside at a disturbing rate.Since 1970 the number of skylarks - a species whose spiralling
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Take Action: Protect The Alaska Beluga Whale
Animals  (tags: animals, alaska, palin, beluga, whale, endangered, species, protection, environment, habitat, wildlife, extinction, humans, oil, pollution, shipping )

Tom
- 1491 days ago - change.org
The Cook Inlet beluga has been reduced to approximately 375 whales and is now threatened by oil and gas development, pollution, shipping, and other impacts to its habitat in Alaska. Sarah Palin wants to take the whale off the endangered species list.
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Meet Britain's First Wild-Born Beaver in 400 Years: But at Only Eight Weeks Old, Will It Be Brave Enough to Go for a Swim?
Animals  (tags: Britain, beaver, species, animals, extinction )

Nancy
- 1013 days ago - mailonline.com
It's been a gnawfully long wait.But the newborn beaver gently nudging its mother is the result of a £2million project to reintroduce the species to Scotland, more than 400 years after it was hunted to extinction in Britain.
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VIDEO: Rare Daytime Florida Panther Sighting
Animals  (tags: animals, florida, panther, endangered, species, habitat, environment, wildlife, protection, government, obama, salazar, politics )

Tom
- 1454 days ago - winknews.com
Critically endangered, less than 100 of these unique cats exist in Southwest Florida, according to the FWC. Its population is threatened primarily by loss, degradation, and fragmentation of its habitat as a result of urban expansion.
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Vampire Squid Turns "Inside Out"
Animals  (tags: Vampire Squid, Monterey, species )

Nancy
- 1203 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The vampire squid can turn itself "inside out" to avoid predators--as seen in a video just released by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to emphasize the need to protect deep-sea species from the effects of human activities.
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SAVE BACTRIAN CAMEL ---PLEASE SIGN!!!
Animals  (tags: endangered, animalrights, Bactrian camel, species, animaladvocates, environment, conservation, protection, extinction )

Julie
- 101 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Bactrian camel is a two-hump camel with a shaggy coat and an almost U-shaped neck. It is the only remaining Old World camel in the wild. It lives in the harsh arid plains along the border between China and Mongolia
81 comments
Federal Researchers Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct
Animals  (tags: eastern cougar, extinction, animals, environment, species )

Anna
- 811 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday declared the eastern cougar to be extinct, confirming a widely held belief among wildlife biologists that native populations of the big cat were wiped out by man a century ago.
50 comments
Wolf Delisting Might Hinder Wyoming Ranchers
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, wildanimals, wolves, wyoming, ranchers, livestock, delisting, endangered, species, protection )

Tom
- 1477 days ago - jhnewsandguide.com
Conservation lawyers say the removal of gray wolves in Idaho and Montana from the endangered species list could mean Wyoming ranchers will lose the ability to shoot wolves in the act of harming or killing livestock. There are about 300 wolves in Wyoming.
17 comments
Time For Gray Wolves To Become The Prey Once Again
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, hunters, government, bush, obama, salazar, pelts, ebay, endangered, species, wildlife, suffering, sadness, death, cruelty, extinction, protection )

Tom
- 1458 days ago - gliving.com
The United State has officially removed the Gray Wolf from the Endangered Species Act in Idaho and Montana. Which is a very low key way of saying to the world, come shoot them. Yes, once again, you can kill yourself one of those big bad wolves.
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