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An advisory committee has recommended the state maintain "threatened status" for the pine snake, a reptile that has caused problems for South Jersey builders who want to end protections for the creature. The state’s Endangered and Non-game Species Advisory Committee...
Nearly 130 scientists today asked the Interior Department to change a policy set under the Bush administration guiding how agencies decide whether a species is endangered. At issue is guidance issued in 2007 that redefined when the Fish and Wildlife Service would protect a species as "endangered" or "threatened." The Endangered Species Act requires protection of any species in danger of ...
Ely is the site of an effort Friday to prod federal officials into removing Minnesota's wolves from the federal endangered species list.
A whopping 215 plant species in the state are said to be endangered while 130 species are on the verge of becoming extinct, according to a recent study conducted by city-based Botanical Survey of India, western circle.
The Circus Animal Rights Coalition, consisting of 20 local animal rights organizations has organised a Walk for Animal Rights and Against Animal Circuses as a symbolic protest to the presence of 'Circo Fantasy'.
EL PASO -- An endangered species with sharp teeth and claws rested in El Paso before continuing on to a new home in New Mexico on Friday. Twenty-six black-footed ferrets arrived at the El Paso Zoo on Thursday night from the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado. After the long ride from Colorado, the ferrets spent the night at the zoo and ate their favorite food: frozen ...
A Czech zoo is to transfer four endangered Northern White rhinos to a Kenyan reserve in a last-ditch attempt to ensure the survival of the species.
EL PASO -- Twenty-six Black-Footed Ferrets paid a brief visit to the El Paso Zoo en route to a conservation area in New Mexico today. These ferrets are an endangered species, numbering about 1,000 in all of Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Bobcats and lynx that were rescued from a filthy Thurston County home were examined and readied Friday for a trip to a better life at a Colorado sanctuary, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
A local artist unveils her interpretation of the 16 most " Endangered Species of Austin ." Her pictoral display serves as a warning for a city quickly growing to hold onto its historic landmarks.
Wisps of smoke rise from the dense forest between Rumangabo and the distant crater of the Nyiragongo volcano.
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