Dwarf seahorses threatened by BP oil spill deserve endangered species protection: CBD

By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune 6 April 2011 The dwarf seahorse, which makes its home in seagrass beds along the coastline of Louisiana and other Gulf states, should be given endangered or threatened species status because of threats to its habitat by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its overcollection for the aquarium trade, […]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares eastern cougar extinct

Contact: Mark McCollough, 207-866-3344March 2, 2011  Although the eastern cougar has been on the endangered species list since 1973, its existence has long been questioned. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) conducted a formal review of the available information and, in a report issued today, concludes the eastern cougar is extinct and recommends the […]

Republicans meet with polluters to plan legislative attack on Environmental Protection Agency

By DARREN GOODE & ROBIN BRAVENDER1/20/11 4:32 AM EST Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff the Obama administration’s climate change agenda. With the backing of GOP caucus leaders, aides for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred […]

Global warming may be harming Pacific walrus: scientists

By Yereth Rosen; editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCuneSun Oct 3, 2010 9:11am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Move over, polar bear. The Pacific walrus may be the new icon of global warming. Like polar bears, walruses are dependent on floating sea ice to rest, forage for food and nurture their young. Like polar […]

Vanishing African penguin, threatened by climate change and fishing, wins protections

SAN FRANCISCO— The Interior Department announced Tuesday that the African penguin, the only nesting penguin on the African continent, will be listed as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision responds to a 2006 Center for Biological Diversity petition to protect 12 penguin species under the Act as well as a […]

Bluefin tuna, imperiled by overfishing and Gulf oil spill, may get Endangered Species Act protection

  SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced it will consider protecting Atlantic bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act. The decision is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Sept. 21 and comes in response to a Center for Biological Diversity petition last May to protect the tuna, in dramatic […]

California irrigators lose court battle against wild steelhead protection

SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – An attempt by irrigation districts to strip federal protected status from wild steelhead trout in California’s Central Valley was rejected in a ruling today from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This Endangered Species Act case is a challenge to the decision of the National Marine Fisheries […]

Salmon fishermen losing water war with desperate California farmers

By COLIN SULLIVAN of GreenwirePublished: April 2, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — California congressmen George Miller and Mike Thompson stumped for salmon fishermen yesterday during a political rally here meant to counter the political muscle of San Joaquin Valley farmers who tend to get more media attention in the long-running war over the state’s strained water […]

Power lines contribute to 75-percent decline in endangered Hawaii seabirds

  Lihu’e, Hawaii— Four conservation groups are suing Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative for killing rare seabirds without a permit, in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The complaint, filed in Hawaii’s federal district court on March 24, says the utility’s illegal actions “bear substantial responsibility” for the crash of the Newell’s shearwater population on Kaua’i, […]

First gray wolf hunt in decades begins tomorrow

By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York Starting tomorrow, the gray wolf is about to be hunted for the first time in decades. The Obama administration removed the wolves from the endangered species list last March. And unless a federal judge decides to halt the hunt and reopen the question of whether the species is threatened, […]

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