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Federal grant available for Missouri land rights to protect endangered species

Columbia Missourian - 36 minutes ago

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Conservation is seeking landowners in watershed areas of southwest Missouri with endangered cave fish, crawfish and grotto salamanders in underground caverns on their property. The department has a $300,000 federal grant to partner with the Ozark Regional Land Trust to buy development rights of land tied to caves where the endangered species are known ...

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Conservation groups teaming up
Sherwood Park News - Mon Nov 9, 11:27 pm ET
Seven conservation agencies in the province are teaming up to preserve 1,509 acres of ranch land in eastern Strathcona County's Cooking Lake Moraine Natural Area, an estimated $12 million conservation project.[...]
Flock of Turkeys Found Hiding Out at Prospect Park Zoo
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor - 58 minutes ago
"Franklin", a Magnificent Male Wild Turkey in Protective Custody at Prospect Park Zoo By Fran Hackett Brooklyn, NY - "Franklin", a magnificent male wild turkey, resides with his female companions at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Prospect Park Zoo. The wild turkey is an American bird, originally brought to Europe in early 16th century by Spanish conquistadors. The species was transported to ...
Indian crocodiles "video blog" for survival
People's Daily - Mon Nov 9, 9:19 pm ET
Call it video blogging for reptiles: conservationists are attaching cameras to the critically endangered Indian gharial, a crocodile-like creature, to understand more about its life in a bid to save it. Only about 1,000 gharials, who have a characteristically narrow snout, are believed to live in the wild in India's Chambal and Yamuna rivers. The species is almost extinct in several other ...
One in Five Mammals Threatened With Extinction
CommonDreams.org - Tue Nov 3, 5:21 pm ET
by Mark Henderson A fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest "Red List" of endangered species. Of the 5,490 mammal species that have been identified by scientists, 79 are extinct or extinct in the wild, 188 are critically endangered, 449 are endangered and 505 are classed as ...
Degraded Habitats Push More Species to Extinction
Environmental News Network - Mon Nov 9, 7:23 am ET
The latest global assessment of biodiversity ruled yesterday that an additional 11 species are either fully extinct or extinct outside of captivity. As climate change, invasive species, and habitat destruction place greater pressure on wildlife, more species are disappearing at rates faster than conservationists can react to ensure the species' survival.
Noted entomologist to receive science excellence award
EurekAlert! - 2 hours 44 minutes ago
( The Academy of Natural Sciences ) The Academy of Natural Sciences today announced it will give its highest science award to a noted behavioral ecologist who has done more than anyone to document one of the most economically important groups of insects -- grasshoppers.
Florida fern, bat endangered candidates
Miami Herald - Sat Nov 7, 1:00 am ET
The Florida bristle fern, found only in pine woods in Miami-Dade and Sumter counties, is among five new candidates for the federal list of endangered and threatened species.
Species evaluated for endangered list
Deseret News - Mon Nov 9, 12:30 am ET
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Humpbacks not endangered?
Cape Cod Times - Sun Nov 8, 12:13 pm ET
For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans -- once hunted to near extinction -- appear to be thriving world-wide.
2 endangered gorillas move to Fla.
UPI - Sun Nov 8, 3:18 pm ET
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The Jacksonville, Fla., zoo recently acquired two female gorillas, members of an endangered species, to join one of the zoo's males, zoo officials said.