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Animals News tagged with threatened

Sierra Club Petitions to Have Critical Habitat for Endangered Florida Panther
Animals  (tags: florida panther, endangered, threatened, petitions lawsuit, conservation, habitat, survival )

Simone
- 3 days ago - news-press.com
The Sierra Club today filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the endangered Florida panther. Such a designation would help the panther survive sea level rise and other impacts of global warming.
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ACTION ALERT: Obama: Step Up Review of Endangered Species Listings!!!
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, imperiled species, threatened, review, obama administration, protection, legalisation )

Simone
- 6 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Obama administration has reviewed and protected species under the Endangered Species Act at a slower rate than any recent President. Tell the Obama administration to step up the review process and protect more species.
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Fewer Than 50,000 Koalas Feared Left
Animals  (tags: tragedy, australian native wild animals, koalas, disappearing, threatened, endangered, wildlife )

Simone
- 14 days ago - theage.com.au
THERE could be fewer than 50,000 koalas left in the wild, according to an estimate released to pressure the Federal Government into listing the animal as a threatened species. Australian Koala Foundation scientists estimate that the koala population
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Scientists Hoping Olympic Torch Run Will Shine Light on Plight of Polar Bear
Animals  (tags: olymic torch, conservationalists, polar bears, threatened, awareness, extinction )

Simone
- 14 days ago - google.com
The Olympic torch is continuing its journey through Canada's north today and some scientists are hoping it will shine an international light on the plight of the polar bear. Environmentalists say the polar bear is in grave danger because of climate
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Tuna Demand Threatens to Wipe Out Albatross, Conservationists Claim
Animals  (tags: tuna demand, destruction, humans, greed, albatross, threatened, endangered, extinction, conservationists )

Simone
- 14 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Atlantic and Mediterranean tuna stocks are one of the most heavily fished in the world as demand rises for the cheap fish. But a new study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) warns that the method used to fish tuna is killing
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Saving the World's Rarest Wolf
Animals  (tags: ethiopian wolves, extinction, threatened, worlds rarest wolf, studies, conservation, breeding )

Simone
- 14 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the world's rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain islands rising over 4,000 meters above sea level on either/both sides of the Great Rift Valley, this unique canid has
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Jaguar Team Ceases Work Amid Disputes, Big Cat's Death
Animals  (tags: jaguar, endangered, threatened, team, disbanded, dispute, macho b death, environmentalists )

Simone
- 36 days ago - azstarnet.com
The team formed to help the endangered jaguar survive in Arizona and New Mexico has ground to a standstill. The Arizona-New Mexico Jaguar Conservation Team has struggled for years because of standoffs between environmentalists and ranching interests and
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Feds: Grizzlies in More Danger After Delisting
Animals  (tags: grizzly bears, threatened, delisted, endangered species list, conservation, protection )

Simone
- 44 days ago - yellowstoneinsider.com
Federal officials are making a surprising argument in opposing the addition of Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears from the Endangered Species List: They say putting the grizzlies back on the list gives them less protection under the law.
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Polar Bears, Oil Workers in Closer Contact
Animals  (tags: polar bears, endangered, habitat, threatened, oil companies, oil workers, destruction, hungry polar bears, human invasion )

Simone
- 45 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Oil companies scouring the coastline of Alaska's North Slope for new production sites are converging on the same territory as hungry polar bears trying to escape shrinking and thinning sea ice. Polar bears have not attacked any workers recently, but
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Feds Will Face Lawsuit for Denying Penguins Endangered Species Protections
Animals  (tags: emperor penguins, threatened, denied protection, lawsuit, conservation )

Simone
- 48 days ago - commondreams.org
The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network today notified the Department of the Interior of their intent to file suit against the agency for denying necessary protections under the Endangered Species Act for emperor and
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WWF- Tiger Rescue Highlights Poaching Threat in Malaysia
Animals  (tags: malaysian tiger, caught in barbed wire trap, poaching, threatened, endangered )

Simone
- 49 days ago - panda.org
A five-year-old male Tiger was freed from a poacher's snare on Sunday after it was found by WWF's Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) just off a highway that cuts through the Belum-Temengor forest complex in the northern state of Perak. WPU members, who
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One in Six Mediterranean Mammals Face Extinction
Animals  (tags: mediterranean animals, threatened, extinction, endangered, survival, studies )

Simone
- 68 days ago - news.smh.com.au
One in six Mediterranean mammals face extinctionSeptember 15, 2009 - 6:04PM One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate
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Protection of Pacific Walrus Under the Endangered Species Act May Be Warranted
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, walrus, threatened, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 77 days ago - ammoland.com
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that a petition to protect the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) under the Endangered Species Act presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that adding the species
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Loggerhead Turtles Threatened
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, loggerhead turtles, threatened, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 79 days ago - redorbit.com
Loggerhead turtles are facing a heightened risk of extinction, due largely in part to commercial fishing, according to a new report.
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