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Technology To Prevent Roadkill Launched By Colorado

Treehugger | Andrew Posner | Posted 11.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Deer, Roadkill, Driving, Highways, Elk, Extinction, Environment, Endangered Species, Colorado, Animals, Green Technology, Green News

We recently covered the top five roadkill sites in America, as well as a dire IUCN report stating that "25% of all the world's mammal species are at...

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Time To Save Endangered Species Act

Cindy Letchworth | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Animal Rights, Animals, Wildlife, Bush Administration, Sarah Palin, Polar Bears, Endangered Species Act, Home News
Cindy Letchworth

Palin is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because she believes the polar bear should not be on the Endangered Species list. This is an example of what happens when non-scientific individuals start making decisions on which animal or plant deserves protection.

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Atlantic Wolffish Needs Protection, Conservation Group Says

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 11.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Arctic Wolffish, Arctic Wolf Fish, Animals, Horrifying Animals, Scary Animals, Animals From My Nightmares, Endangered Animals, Endangered Species, Endangered Fish, Atlantic Wolffish, Green News

PORTLAND, Maine — A ferocious-looking denizen of the deep that can gobble up whole urchins and crabs in a few swift chomps needs protection, acc...

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Wanted: Sustainable Sushi

Gourmet.com | Trevor Corson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Fishing, Sushi, Food, Endangered Species, Green Living, Politics of Food, Sustainable Sushi, Green News

Seafood chefs around the U.S. are paying a lot more attention to sustainability and the environment these days, but one group of fish-wielding chefs h...

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Zoos Use Online Dating For Rare Species

AP | KATRINA A. GOGGINS | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Animals, Online Dating, Zoo, Online Matchmaking, Endangered Species, Green News

COLUMBIA, S.C — Attention, amorous guys: Killarney's an Australian cutie, but woo her with care. The feisty gal once swatted at a beau who got ...

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Death by Definition: Save the Endangered Species Act! Now!

George Lakoff | Posted 10.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Animals, Endangered Species Act, Green News
George Lakoff

Our major environmental protection legislation is being gutted -- now. Not by Congress. Not by the courts. Not even by Bush. It is being destroyed by redefinition, by a series of linguistic tricks.

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Sarah Palin's Cruel Streak

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, John McCain, Aerial Hunting, Beluga Whales, Sarah Palin, Environment, Mitt Romney, Polar Bears, Wolves, Vice-President, Animal Rights, Endangered Species, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Bears, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin Vp, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, McCain VP, Palin Vp, Mccain Palin Ticket, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Glenn Hurowitz

One of Palin's first acts in office was to put a $150 bounty on the heads of her state's wolves, allegedly with the goal of increasing the moose and caribou population.

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Plague Kills Off Prairie Dogs, Ferrets Running Out Of Snacks

AP | CHET BROKAW | Posted 10.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Prairie Dogs, Ferrets, Black-Footed Ferrets, Prairie Dog Plague, Food Chain, Endangered Species, Conata Basin, Green News

INTERIOR, S.D. — On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been wag...

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What the Heck Is Biodiversity? And Why Should We Care?

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 09.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Paul Ehrlich, Climate Change, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Robert Pringle, Biodiversity, Environment, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

We should care about biodiversity because it is increasingly threatened as we keep encroaching on natural habitats and polluting our air, water and soil.

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"No Comment" from McCain on Bush's Evisceration of Endangered Species Act

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Bruce Babbitt, John McCain, War on the West. Dirk Kempthorne, George W. Bush, League of Conservation Voters, Department of Interior, Jim Leach Obama, Clear Skies, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Richard Pombo, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Leach, Endangered Species, Sierra Club, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Josh Dorner

While environmentalists and the public at large have been almost singularly focused on energy issues when it comes to the environment and the presiden...

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Administration Diverts Comments On New Endangered Species Act

Treehugger | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 09.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Green News, Green, Environment, Endangered Species, Bush Administration, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Green News

Sure, the Fish and Wildlife Service is interested in reading your comments about the Bush administration's latest gutting of the Endangered Species Ac...

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Bush's Swan Song -- Bad News for the Swans?

Patt Morrison | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Environmentalism, Environmentalism, Endangered Species, Bush Environment Record, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species and Environment, Bush vs Environmentalists, Politics News
Patt Morrison

This is the most radical change in the Endangered Species Act in 20 years and because it's regulatory and under the control of the executive branch, Congress can't do a darned thing about it.

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Bush "Antagonizing Environmentalists" With New Endangered Species Proposals: AP

Posted 09.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Bush vs Environmentalists, Bush Environment Record, Bush Environmentalism, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Endangered Species and Environment, Environment, Green News

WASHINGTON — Just months before President Bush leaves office, his administration is antagonizing environmentalists by proposing changes that wou...

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The Interior Secretary with His Pants Down

Carl Pope | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Esa, Endangered Species, Dirk Kempthorne, Endangered Species Act, 100 Days, Green News
Carl Pope

The Bush administration has sent a clear signal that the administration will spend the rest of its days razing the rules and regulations of the Endangered Species Act left standing.

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125,000 Endangered Gorillas Discovered In Congo

Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Andy Revkin, Western Lowland Gorillas, Gorillas, Wildlife Conservation Society, Environment, Green, Green News, Endangered Species, Congo Republic Western Lowland Gorillas, Congo Republic, Green News

A recent census of the forests of the northern Congo Republic revealed a thriving community of 125,000 western lowland gorillas. Discovered through a ...

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Trove Of Endangered Primates Discovered In Africa

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Congo Republic Western Lowland Gorillas, Gorillas, Western Lowland Gorillas, Animals, Home News

A grueling survey of vast tracts of forest and swamp in the northern Congo Republic has revealed the presence of more than 125,000 western lowland gor...

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Should We Move Species To Save Them?

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Extinction, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Assisted Colonization, Assisted Migration, Terry Root, Green News

WASHINGTON — With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move som...

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The Endangered Wild Dogs of Africa

David Mixner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Africa, Wildlife, Animals, Safari, Wild Dogs, Green News
David Mixner

Over the thirty years I have traveled back and forth to Africa, I had never seen the notorious Wild Dogs. I had given up hope of ever seeing these maundering creatures.

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Governor Sarah Palin Has What It Takes To Be The Next Dick Cheney

Chris Kelly | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, McCain Palin, Polar Bears, Endangered Species, Alaska, Sarah Palin, Governor Palin, Anchorage Daily News, Politics News
Chris Kelly

The Anchorage Daily News discovered why Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the perfect person to be the next Dick Cheney: She can look you in eye and tell you black is white. Especially when there's oil involved.

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The Will to Disbelieve

David Roberts | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polar Bears, Washington Post, George Will, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Climate Change, Politics News
David Roberts

If we acknowledge that polar bears' survival is threatened by global warming, the ESA is far more radical than we dreamed when we passed it.

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US Lists Polar Bears As Threatened Species, Joining GOP

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: 23/6: News You Can Misuse, Threatened Species, Polar Bears, Gop, Endangered Species, 236.Com, Republicans, Politics News

The U.S. government announced that it will label the polar bear as a threatened species in order to protect it. Coincidentally, this comes right on th...

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Bush Gutting The Endangered Species Act

Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Interior, Endangered Species, George Bush, President Bush, Endangered Species Act, Bush Envrionmental Policy, Bush Administration Environment, Home News

With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designa...

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Bush Administration Will Offer Oil Leases In Prime Polar-Bear Habitat

Grist.org | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Polar Bears, Chukchi Sea, Endangered Species, Alaska, Offshore Drilling, Business News

The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukc...

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Congo Rebels Seize Endangered Gorilla Refuge

AP via CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Endangered Species, Gorillas, Eastern Congo, Congo, Home News

Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for endangered mountain gorillas, threatening one of the last known popu...

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