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