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India Pledges $50 Million for Biodiversity Conservation

October 16, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on India Pledges $50 Million for Biodiversity Conservation

 

HYDERABAD, India, October 16, 2012 (ENS) – India will invest US$50 million over the next two years to strengthen conservation of biological diversity, the variety of life on [...]

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At Risk

Primates Vanishing Under Relentless Human Pressure

October 14, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Primates Vanishing Under Relentless Human Pressure

 

HYDERABAD, India, October 15, 2012 (ENS) – More than half the world’s species of apes, monkeys and lemurs –  humanity’s closest living relatives – are on the brink [...]

Siberian cranes
Latest News

Cost to Save All At-Risk Species + Habitats = $80 Billion a Year

October 12, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Cost to Save All At-Risk Species + Habitats = $80 Billion a Year

HYDERABAD, India, October 12, 2012 (ENS) – Investing US$80 billion a year would cut the risk of extinction for all threatened species and protect the most important global conservation [...]

Wyoming wind farm site
Energy

Wyoming Site Approved for Largest U.S. Wind Farm

October 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Wyoming Site Approved for Largest U.S. Wind Farm

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2012 (ENS) – Clearing the way for the largest wind farm in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday approved the Chokecherry and [...]

Mexican wolf pup
Latest News

Wolves Losing Ground State by Western State

October 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Wolves Losing Ground State by Western State

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 8, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a petition by conservation groups to list the endangered Mexican gray wolf separately [...]

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Energy

Groups Sue Canada Over Pipeline Danger to Species At Risk

September 26, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Groups Sue Canada Over Pipeline Danger to Species At Risk

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, September 26, 2012 (ENS) –Environmental groups are suing Canada, claiming failure to implement the Species at Risk Act  endangers wildlife along the Northern [...]

Amazon pink river dolphin
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Bolivian President Protects Amazon Pink River Dolphins

September 24, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Bolivian President Protects Amazon Pink River Dolphins

 

LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 24, 2012 (ENS) – President Evo Morales has signed into law a measure to safeguard Bolivia’s Amazon pink river dolphin and assigned the country’s [...]

jaguar
Latest News

Andes to Cloud Forest: Bolivian Park a Wildlife Haven

September 14, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Andes to Cloud Forest: Bolivian Park a Wildlife Haven

 

JEJU Island, South Korea, September 14, 2012 (ENS) – Jaguar and ocelots stalk the forest and harpy eagles soar high above Bolivia’s Madidi National Park, where more than [...]

Lesula
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Rare Discovery: New Monkey Species Identified in Africa

September 12, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Rare Discovery: New Monkey Species Identified in Africa

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 12, 2012 (ENS) – Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey in a remote forested part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]

Hainan gibbon
At Risk

Human Ethical Choice Could Save 100 Most Endangered Species

September 11, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Human Ethical Choice Could Save 100 Most Endangered Species


JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, September 11, 2012 (ENS) – The 100 species at greatest risk of extinction were named for the first time today at the World Conservation Congress [...]

Clinton and Lavrov
Land Use/Forests

U.S. and Russia Link Parks Across Bering Strait

September 10, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. and Russia Link Parks Across Bering Strait

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, September 10, 2012 (ENS) – To protect their shared natural and cultural resources on both sides of the Bering Strait, the United States and Russia will create [...]

Colombia landslides
Land Use/Forests

IUCN’s New Red List for Ecosystem Alerts, Green List for Rewards

September 9, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on IUCN’s New Red List for Ecosystem Alerts, Green List for Rewards

 

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, September 9, 2012 (ENS) – A new conservation tool – the Red List of Ecosystems – debuted today at the World Conservation Congress to [...]

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Scotts Miracle-Gro Fined $12.5 Million for Toxics in Wild Bird Food

September 8, 2012 News Editor Comments Off on Scotts Miracle-Gro Fined $12.5 Million for Toxics in Wild Bird Food

 

COLOMBUS, Ohio, September 8, 2012 (ENS) – Scotts Miracle-Gro, a producer of pesticides for commercial and consumer lawn and garden uses, was sentenced Friday in federal district court [...]

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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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