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Back to the Bush Leagues on Arctic Drilling?

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas, Congress, Wildlife, Bush Administration, Arctic, Oil, Department of Interior, Science, Oceans, Climate and Energy, Obama Administration, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.

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Boy Kills Bear That Wouldn't Leave Family's Front Porch

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Protection, Driggs Idaho, Hunting, Black Bear, Boy, Idaho, Wyoming, Guns, Boy Shoots Bear on Porch, Wildlife, Home News

DRIGGS, Idaho — An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at ...

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Colorado's Black Bears: Coming to a Dumpster Near You

Lise Waring | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Black Bears, Telluride, Aspen, Environment, Trash, Bears, Colorado DIvision of WIldlife, Wildlife, Colorado, Michael Phelps, Denver News
Lise Waring

The nature of the tight box canyon that cradles Telluride means that it's only a few blocks to the edge of civilization. Black bears wander through town in search of snacks -- especially this time of year.

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Experience the Beauty of Exotic Animals in Their Natural Habitat at the Wild Animal Sanctuary

Brett Greene | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Animal Rescue, Lion, Animal Sanctuary, Leopard, Cancun Tigers, Wild Animal Sanctuary, Tiger, Bear, Wolves, Lynx, Wolf, Wildlife, Colorado, Denver News
Brett Greene

A visit to the Wild Animal Sanctuary will warm your heart, put a smile on your face and bring out the joy of being a wondrous child in you.

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Sea Otter Protection: Government Gives Alaskan Habitat Protection

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Wildlife Sanctuary, Marine-Mammals, Sea Otters, Endangered Species, Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were...

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Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks From Global Warming

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Wyoming, Saguaro, Wildlands, Biogems, Wildlife, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Teddy Roosevelt, Rocky Mountains, Grand Tetons, Sudden Aspen Decline, Western Us, John Muir, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Glacier National Park, Climate Legislation, Joshua Tree, Ken Burns, Global Warming, National Parks, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.

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Walking with Lions: The Myth of Conservation

Panthera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Walking With Lions, South Africa, Conservation, Hunting, Lions, Cubs, Lion Conservation, Africa, Wildlife, Green News
Panthera

The 'lion encounter' industry is only that -- an industry. Churning out cubs for photo opportunities is a great revenue earner but none of those cubs are set free.

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Vail woman fends off bear with pillow

Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Pillow, Fight, Attack, Kill, Bear, Trash, Put Down, Vail, Wildlife, Colorado, Home News

A pillow is probably not on the list of official tips on fending off hungry predators, but it worked for Vail resident Sally Rebehn when a bear follow...

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Q&A: Ken Burns on Climate Change, Wolf Hunting and Why Yellowstone Isn't "Geyser World"

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Grizzly Bears, Pbs, Ken Burns, Yellowstone, Wolves, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Wilderness, National Parks, Wildlife, Bison, Pine Beetle, Climate Change, Green News
Scott Dodd

"The national parks are the first time in human history that land has been set aside -- not for kings or noblemen or the very rich -- but for everybody, and for all time," Burns said.

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What's Up in Aspen? The Bears!

Allison Daily | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Bears, Wildlife, Aspen, Maureen Hirsch, Nature, Outdoors, Good Morning America, Colorado, Denver News
Allison Daily

It is a hard line to draw when we want to preserve and protect our wildlife and yet hold onto our own safety. We moved into land that originally they inhabited.

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Celebrating Dolphins (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Slideshow, Marine Life, Marine Mammals, Baby Dolphin, Dolphins, The Cove, Flipper, Baby Animals, Animals, Cute Animals, Wildlife, Slidepoll, Green News

We were feeling the love for dolphins this week -- In honor of plans for The Cove to show at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, check ...

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Uganda Unveils Online Gorilla Tracking

nytimes.com | Pete Browne | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: friendagorilla.org, Animal Rights, Extinction, Animal-Protection, Africa, Gorillas, Online Video, Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Wildlife, Green News

"The project aims to bring attention to the plight of gorillas," said Lillian Nsubuga, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, "and any money...

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Is Wind Power A Catch-22 For Wildlife?

treehugger.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Great Plains, Wind Power, Wind Energy, Wind Power Wild Life, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

Earlier this week a new journal article was released that calculated the amount of land needed for energy production under various future energy and c...

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Conservation's Unsung Heroes: The Best Story's Never Told

Panthera | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Tiger Conservation, Panthera, Siberian Tigers, China, Heroes, Wildlife, Poaching, Green News
Panthera

In many countries around the world, working to save wildlife is viewed as a lowly position with little to no recognition accompanied by a meager and inconsistent paycheck.

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75 Year-Old Ohio Woman Accused of Beating Fawn to Death

AP | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Deer, Animal Cruelty, Fawns, Cleveland, Ohio, Foxes, Fawn, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

EUCLID, Ohio — An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Dorothy Richardson, 75...

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Legislation to Ensure Bird Killers Become Jailbirds

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Eagles, Migratory Birds, Owls, Crime, Peter DeFazio, Hawks, Pigeons, Animals, Raptors, Falcons, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

Club members killed the protected birds of prey by shooting, trapping, poisoning, clubbing, baiting birds into glass panels, and even baiting birds with pigeons rigged with fishing hooks.

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More Than 800 Wildlife Species Now Extinct

Reuters | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Marine Life, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Environment, Conservation, Endangered Species, Wildlife Conservation, Animals, Global Warming, Wildlife, Extinct, Green News

More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the Internation...

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The Quest for One of the Most Elusive Cats in the World

Panthera | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: National Geographic, Panthera, Snow-Leopard, Conservation, George Schaller, Wildlife, Snow Leopard, Green News
Panthera

As few as 3,500 snow leopards may still roam the harsh, forbidding mountains of Central Asia. No one knows for sure.

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Florida Turtle Tunnel Protects Motorists Too

Michael Markarian | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Coburn, Economic Stimulus Package, Turtles, Florida, Government Waste, Animals, Taxpayers, Ecopassage, Wildlife, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Spending federal money to build a tunnel for turtles is not a fleecing of taxpayers. It's a wise solution to a pressing problem.

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Putting a Stop to Pay-Per-View and Pay-to-Kill Hunting

Michael Markarian | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: u.s. Sportsmen's Alliance, Safari Club, National Rifle Association, Steve Cohen, Hunting, Internet Hunting, Ed Whitfield, Canned Hunting, Brad Sherman, Animals, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act would ban the remote shooting of live animals over the Internet and the trophy shooting of exotic mammals held captive inside fenced enclosures.

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Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?

Sheila Shayon | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Youtube, Animals, Animal-Human Relations, Wildlife, Living News
Sheila Shayon

The relationship between human and animal is being looked at anew.

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Wildlife Pays the Interest on Credit Card Reform

Michael Markarian | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Poaching, Gun Owners of America, Tom Coburn, Credit Card Bill, Animals, National Parks, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

You're about 287 times more likely to be murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted if you're outside a national park.

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An Ounce of Python Prevention

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exotic Species, Pythons, Florida, Burkhard Bilger, Animals, Madeleine Bordallo, Wildlife, Politics News
Michael Markarian

There have been well-known cases of exotic species that should never have been introduced in the U.S. Whether they are the zebra mussels, the snakehead fish, or the Gambian rats that caused the 2003 monkeypox outbreak.

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Thoughts After Seeing Disneynature's Earth

Avital Binshtock | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Movie Reviews, James Earl Jones, Earth, Disney, Animals, Film, Disney Nature's Earth, Movies, Cinema, Wildlife, Green News
Avital Binshtock

If it sounds like I'm gushing, that's because I am.

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Stamp Out Extinction

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Postage Stamps, Endangered Species, Henry Brown, Animals, Madeleine Bordallo, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

The new bill introduced by Congressman Henry Brown (R-S.C.) and Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) is a good deal for endangered species and for taxpayers.

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