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Groups fight caribou protection in Idaho

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 7:19am

Idaho’s caribou are the mammals most likely to go extinct in the United States, but some state residents say the large creatures don’t need the security of the Endangered Species Act.

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Francena is readied for the CAT scan, Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Brookfield, Illinois. Three of Brookfield Zoo's eight Mexican gray wolves were examined tip to tail by the veterinary staff and consultants for a study of the occurrence of nasal carcinoma in the wolves. The three four-year-old females had their eyes, teeth and blood examined and had CAT scans of their head. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Saving the Mexican gray wolf a study in genetics

Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune

Last updated Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 10:20am

CHICAGO -- It is not a scene you expect to witness: a wolf, out cold, immobilized, its feral snout inside the giant doughnut ring of a high-tech medical device.

It's also striking purely on the level of language: a canine in a CAT scan. The Brookfield Zoo recently used the internal imaging technology common in human medicine to check its eight Mexican gray wolves for nose cancer.

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First-grade students hold stuffed animals representing the endangered wildlife they and other students helped through a schoolwide fundraising effort at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington.

Fighting extinction: Farmington students earn money for animals

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 6:59pm

FARMINGTON — When students at Eagle Bay Elementary learned from their media specialist that there are only about 200 tigers left in the wild, they jumped into action.

The students donated enough money to adopt several tigers and help in the efforts to prevent their extinction.

Several years ago, Media Specialist Anita Mortimer at Eagle Bay Elementary was trying to find some interesting activities for the student body of 900 to do in conjunction with Earth Day. She decided to talk with the students about different endangered animals.

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(KIN CHEUNG/The Associated Press) In this Nov. 15, 2011 file photo, customs officers stand guard near seized rhino horns at the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong when Hong Kong Customs seized a total of 33 unmanifested rhino horns, 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets, worth about HK$17 million ($2.23 million), inside a container shipped to Hong Kong from Cape Town, South Africa. Experts say Vietnam’s surging demand of rhino horn is threatening to wipe out the world’s remaining rhinoceros populations, which recovered from the brink of extinction after the 1970s thanks to conservation campaigns. Illegal killings in Africa hit the highest recorded level in 2011 and are expected to worsen this year.

Vietnam craves rhino horn; costs more than cocaine

Mike Ives The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 9:37am

HANOI, Vietnam — Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate.

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Group to give away 100,000 'endangered species' condoms on Earth Day

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 1:53pm

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Center for Biological Diversity will mark this year's Earth Day by distributing 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms around the country.

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FILE - This undated image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. After Montana's wolf hunt failed to reduce the number of predators in the state, some groups and individuals are considering the added incentive of paying bounties for each carcass returned. (AP Photo/US Fish & Wildlife/FILE)

Court upholds Congress act that ended wolf protections

Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:51am

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Congress acted legally when it eliminated Endangered Species Act protections for the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves and opened the door to wolf hunts.

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In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

US gray wolves rebound but face uncertain future

John Flesher, Matthew Brown The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:08am

ATLANTA, Mich. -- After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states -- and the wolves themselves -- to determine the future of the legendary predator.

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Grizzly bear mother with cub. (Wikipedia)

Court rules against grizzly de-listing

Carol J. Williams, Julie Cart Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 11:01am

LOS ANGELES -- Conservationists touted a major victory Tuesday in their battle to protect Yellowstone grizzly bears when a federal appeals court ruled that wildlife managers erred when they removed Endangered Species Act protection from "one of the American West's most iconic wild animals."

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Workers lay piping at BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System on 3,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. (JOSIE LEPE/San Jose Mercury News)

Solar gold rush in Mojave Desert

Dana Hull San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:34pm

MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. — The Mojave Desert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becoming speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will generate electricity for millions of homes.

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In this Sept. 22, 1994, photo, U.S. National Parks Director Roger G. Kennedy is seen at the Field Museum in Chicago. Former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy, who staunchly defended his agency from budget cuts, has died at age 85. He had melanoma. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Roger Kennedy, former National Park Service director, dies at 85

Julie Cart Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 10:40pm

One day deep in the administration of George W. Bush — a time of tumult among environmentalists and conservationists — Roger Kennedy found himself shaking his head and sighing. The Endangered Species Act was in the cross hairs of a Republican Congress and his beloved National Park Service, which Kennedy directed from 1993 to 1997, was under assault.

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows a Texas kangaroo rat. The Obama administration is taking steps to extend federal protections to hundreds of animals and plants across the country, including the Texas kangaroo rat, compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements that targeted species mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential extinction. (AP Photo/Texas Parks And Wildlife Department, File)

Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections

Matthew Brown The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 1:50pm

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark -- from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.

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Rare snail could stop Vegas pipeline

Scott Sonner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 12:03pm

RENO, Nev. -- Federal wildlife officials have agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for more than two dozen species of tiny snails in Nevada, Utah and California that environmentalists say are threatened by a big water pipeline project for Las Vegas.

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Wolf sightings more common in Northwest

Eric Barker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 8:04am

Wolf sightings in the Blue Mountains are becoming more frequent this summer, but wildlife officials for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have yet to document firm evidence of a pack forming in the southeastern corner of the state.

Paul Wik, district biologist for the department at Clarkston, said the canyons and timbered ridges southeast of Dayton have been a hot spot for wolf reports this year. Some hunters have even captured images of wolves with trail cameras, he said.

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A fisher has a long, slim body with short legs, rounded ears, and a bushy tail. Fishers are larger and darker than martens and have thick fur. Fishers are agile and swift and are also excellent climbers.

Fanged predator won't be protected in Rockies

Matthew Brown, The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 10:26am

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal wildlife officials said Wednesday that endangered species protections are not needed for the Northern Rockies fisher, a small, fanged predator that thrives in the region's remote, old growth forests.

Following a yearlong review, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that trapping, residential homebuilding, logging and other pressures do not appear to be hurting populations of the weasel-like animal or limiting its range in Montana and Idaho.

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