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Pangolin Traffickers Across Southeast Asia Busted

September 3, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Pangolin Traffickers Across Southeast Asia Busted

 

BANGKOK, Thailand, September 3, 2012 (ENS) – Forty people have been arrested in five Southeast Asian countries in the largest coordinated operation against the illegal poaching and trade [...]

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Conservationists Howl as Feds Drop Wyoming Wolves From Endangered List

August 31, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Conservationists Howl as Feds Drop Wyoming Wolves From Endangered List

WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today declared the Wyoming population of gray wolves to be recovered and removed federal protection under [...]

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EPA Asked to Set National Marine Plastic Debris Standard

August 23, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on EPA Asked to Set National Marine Plastic Debris Standard

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday that asks the agency [...]

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Underwater Noise Surrounds Whales With ‘Acoustic Smog’

August 17, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Underwater Noise Surrounds Whales With ‘Acoustic Smog’

 

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, August 17, 2012 (ENS) – High levels of background noise, mainly from ships, have reduced the ability of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in [...]

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Food

Fins of Endangered Sharks Found in U.S. Soup Bowls

August 14, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Fins of Endangered Sharks Found in U.S. Soup Bowls

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Genetic testing of shark fin soup from cities across the United States has found DNA from eight endangered and threatened shark [...]

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Oceans

Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on Galveston Island

August 13, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on Galveston Island

 

GALVESTON, Texas, August 13, 2012 (ENS) – Thousands of dead fish that washed ashore on Galveston Island over the weekend were killed by a toxic algal bloom, state officials [...]

Energy

U.S. Opens Alaska Reserve to Onshore, Offshore Drilling

August 13, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Opens Alaska Reserve to Onshore, Offshore Drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 13, 2012 (ENS) – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today proposed to allow additional oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, [...]

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At Risk

Bird Flu Jumps to Seals, Humans Could Be Next

August 6, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Bird Flu Jumps to Seals, Humans Could Be Next

 

NEW YORK, New York, August 6, 2012 (ENS) – A bird flu virus known for 10 years has now infected aquatic mammals, and the scientists who discovered the [...]

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Legal International Elephant Ivory Trade Proposed

August 4, 2012 Sunny Comments Off on Legal International Elephant Ivory Trade Proposed

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 25, 2012 (ENS) – “We meet at a time when the illegal killing and illegal trade in African elephants and rhinoceros have reached the highest levels [...]

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Business

World Trade Body Gets Serious About Alien Species

July 19, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on World Trade Body Gets Serious About Alien Species

 
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 19, 2012 (ENS) – World Trade Organization rules on food safety and animal and plant health can be used to control environmental damage caused by [...]

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Oceans

South Korea Backs Away from ‘Research’ Whaling Plan

July 18, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on South Korea Backs Away from ‘Research’ Whaling Plan

SEOUL, South Korea, July 17, 2012 (ENS) – South Korea has abandoned its recently announced plan to hunt whales for scientific research, according to senior government officials.

First mentioned [...]

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Oceans

Whaling Nations Erode Moratorium, Toxics of Universal Concern

July 7, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Whaling Nations Erode Moratorium, Toxics of Universal Concern

 
PANAMA CITY, Panama, July 6, 2012 (ENS) – Hundreds of delegates from the 89 International Whaling Commission member governments today agreed to a resolution asking the UN World [...]

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2012 Rolex Awards Honor Three Conservationists

July 3, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on 2012 Rolex Awards Honor Three Conservationists
2012 Rolex Awards Honor Three Conservationists

GENEVA, Switzerland, June 27, 2012 (ENS) – A Russian ecologist protecting Siberian tigers, an American marine biologist, and a Bolivan conservationist of the [...]

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Oceans

Web of Marine Life Dissolving Under Human Onslaught

May 22, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Web of Marine Life Dissolving Under Human Onslaught

 

NEW YORK, New York, May 22, 2012 (ENS) – Oceans cover about 72 percent of Earth’s surface area and there are an estimated 250,000 marine species. “Yet, despite [...]

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Wildlife

Sea Shepherd’s Watson Jailed in Germany for 2002 Shark Defense

May 19, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Sea Shepherd’s Watson Jailed in Germany for 2002 Shark Defense

 

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 19, 2012 (ENS) – Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson has been granted bail by the German Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, and his attorney [...]

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Air/Climate

Western Hemisphere Monkeys Likely to Perish in Climate Squeeze

May 15, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Western Hemisphere Monkeys Likely to Perish in Climate Squeeze

 

SEATTLE, Washington, May 15, 2012 (ENS) – As the climate heats up across the Western Hemisphere, many animals will not be able to move fast enough to find [...]

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Air/Climate

Climate Change Pushes Europe’s Alpine Plants Toward Extinction

May 9, 2012 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Climate Change Pushes Europe’s Alpine Plants Toward Extinction

 

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 9, 2012 (ENS) – As the climate warms, plant species that prefer a colder environment are disappearing from the mountain ranges of Southern Europe. Since [...]

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Wildlife

Amur Tigers to Get Protected Area on China-Russia Border

August 31, 2010 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Amur Tigers to Get Protected Area on China-Russia Border

 

HUNCHUN, China, August 31, 2010 (ENS) – China’s Jilin province and the neighboring Primorsky province in Russia have agreed to jointly establish the world’s first transboundary protected area [...]

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Wildlife

Biodiversity Target Missed: World Fails to Slow Loss of Animals, Plants

April 29, 2010 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Biodiversity Target Missed: World Fails to Slow Loss of Animals, Plants

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 29, 2010 (ENS) – World leaders have failed to fulfill their commitments to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead [...]

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Wildlife

Climate a Factor in Decline of Minnesota’s Moose Population

February 18, 2010 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Climate a Factor in Decline of Minnesota’s Moose Population

 

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 10, 2010 (ENS) – The moose population in northeastern Minnesota declined again this year, according to results of an aerial survey released Monday by [...]

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