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US takes brown pelican off endangered species list
Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.One more excerpt:"The birds' recovery and removal from the...
Tags: pelican, brown pelican, species list, green, Pakistan, Lahore, DDT, Extinction, Megafauna, Endangered Species Act, Environment, Gaillard Island, Salazar, endangered species, Tom Strickland
Brown pelican removed from endangered species list
Washington :: DC :: USA | 24 days ago
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Federal officials announced Wednesday that they were removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore Roosevelt. The brown pelican is a fixture in Southern California and...
Tags: brown pelican, endangered species, species list, U.S, Florida, Washington, Elkhorn Slough, DDT, Bird, Gaillard Island, Pelicans, Megafauna, Environment, Louisiana, Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, American White Pelican, Pelican Island, Pelican, National Wildlife Refuge, Endangered Species Act, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Ken Salazar, Extinction, Pesticides
World's smallest snake slithers into charts
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 6 months ago
Credibility Environment correspondent THE world's smallest snake and longest insect are among the top ten new species discovered over the past year. Measuring almost 2ft, a bug that resembles a stick became the world's longest insect when it was spotted in Malaysia.
Tags: species list
Turtles on threatened species list
Sydney :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility The federal government will on Sunday put the world's largest sea turtle on the threatened species list. Fairfax newspapers say the leatherback turtle will now be classed as endangered. Environment Minister Peter Garrett will assess any coastal or marine...
Tags: turtle, leatherback turtle, Peter Garrett, species list, sea turtle, largest sea, threatened species, endangered species, minister peter, environment minister
Government makes decision on gray wolf protection
Billings :: MT :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The Bush administration says it is removing gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains from the federal endangered species list. But Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett said Wednesday wolves in Wyoming will remain under federal...
Tags: wolves, survival, Bush, species list, gray wolves, bush administration, endangered species, gray wolf, federal endangered, Lynn Scarlett
Court rules against U.S. in Great Lakes wolf case
Traverse City :: MI :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list...District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., sided with environmental groups that accused...
Feds back down on delisting wolves
Billings :: MT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The federal government plans to withdraw a rule that removed wolves in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and parts of Utah, Oregon and Washington from the endangered species list...District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula agrees, a lawsuit filed by environmentalists...
Request made to remove Hawaiian Hawk from Endanger Species list
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility 7 a.m., Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Request made to remove Hawaiian Hawk from Endanger Species list The Hawaiian Hawk, on the Endangered Species list since 1967, may soon be leaving federal protection...Fish & Wildlife Service today proposed to remove the...
Groups sue federal government to protect gray wolves
Missoula :: MT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Mont. (AP) � Environmental and animal rights groups sued the federal government Monday to force it to restore endangered species status for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies...Fish and Wildlife Service lifted federal protections for the estimated...
Tags: gray wolves, endangered species, Big Bad Wolf, federal government, Rockies Montana, restoring endangered, protection gray, Wolf Unit, endangered list, species list
UPDATED: 9:22 a.m. -- Federal officials removing gray wolves from endangered species list
Billings :: MT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies are being removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year restoration effort that has seen the animal�s population soar. An estimated 1,500 wolves now roam Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. That�s a
Tags: gray wolves, species list, endangered species, Northern Rockies, Montana, AP Photo This, restoration effort
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