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GRANTS Pass, Ore. - A conservation group is threatening to go to court if the Obama administration doesn't start making progress on a backlog of endangered species listings.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has completed a status review of the black-tailed prairie dog and has determined it does not warrant protection as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
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...
Canada is home to five of the 10 new "hit list" species identified Monday as the likeliest victims of climate change by the IUCN, a leading global nature organization.
It is not just mankind that is threatened by climate change. As polar ice becomes more scarce, species like the Emperor Penguin and Ringed Seal are struggling to find places to reproduce, feed and rear their young.
The B.C. SPCA has launched an investigation into allegations that animals at an endangered-species breeding facility were inhumanely euthanized by having their throats slit, being hammered to death, or by being shot with multiple rounds from small-calibre rifles.
A report has found koalas, leatherback turtles and clown fish are among species under threat from climate change.
A Czech zoo is at the centre of what is probably the last chance to save an endangered African rhino. The species is believed to have become extinct in the wild. But the project to return four animals to their natural environment has created controversy.
A Fort Langley conservation centre for endangered animals is the site of alarming animal cruelty, a group of current and former employees is alleging.
The B.C. Environment Ministry is getting involved in the animal-cruelty investigation at the Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre in Fort Langley, outside Vancouver.
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 ...
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