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24,000 baby eels illegally taken from N.J. creek, officials say
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25.5.2013 |
Philly.com News |
| Three Maine men stand accused of some slimy fishing in the Absecon Creek near Atlantic City, according to authorities Friday in announcing a grand jury indictment for allegedly trapping 24,000 undersized eels that are a delicacy in Japan. |
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Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife corridor'
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24.5.2013 |
Survival International |
| A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'.
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Survival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife corridor’.
The Bushman community at Ranyane has allegedly been told by the local government that trucks will arrive on Monday to remove them from land they have inhabited for generations. Their houses will be destroyed.
The Bushmen’s land is in a proposed ‘wildlife corridor’ which American organization Conservation International, whose Board members include Botswana’s President Khama, has pushed for over a period of many years. The land lies between the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ( CKGR ) and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and is also occupied by some settlers and farms.
Survival International has contacted President Khama and Conservation International, ... |
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Gov. Dayton sides with Lessard-Sams Council in Legacy dispute
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24.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
| Governor vetoed part of a bill that would have funded a slate of habitat projects in metro parks. |
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Feds keep Preble's mouse on threatened list
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24.5.2013 |
Denver Post: News: Local |
| Feds keep Preble's mouse on threatened list |
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Gov. Dayton vetoes portion of Legacy bill
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24.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Legislature |
Two outdoor projects in the Legacy bill passed by the Legislature have been line-item vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton: one which provides funding for habitat in the metro area and the other which targets aquatic invasive species. The governor says he responded to citizen pressure to drop funding for the two items. |
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11 Critically endangered turtle species
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23.5.2013 |
TreeHugger |
Today is World Turtle Day and we want to bring attention to these beautiful, unique, and sometimes odd critically endangered species. |
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Habitat Restoration Can Drive Economic Recovery
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22.5.2013 |
Main Feed - Environmental Defense |
| By Ben Weber, National Wildlife Federation. This article was originally posted on the Vanishing Paradise blog .
Vanishing Paradise's Ben Weber.
After years of habitat loss and abuse, the story of the Mississippi River Delta is starting to look a bit different. Following the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a monumental piece of legislation called the RESTORE Act is providing a rare opportunity to address decades of mismanagement and habitat degradation.
Among other things, the RESTORE Act created the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which is a multi-state, multi-agency group that has been tasked with developing a comprehensive ecosystem restoration plan for the Gulf. The Council is currently developing the plan, with a draft due for public comment this spring.
The Vanishing Paradise team is working to make sure the Council remembers the national hunting and fishing community was at the forefront of the efforts to pass the RESTORE Act, and we intend to see this through.
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Scientist at Work Blog: A Forest Denizen at Risk
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22.5.2013 |
NY Times: Science |
| Scientist at Work Blog: A Forest Denizen at Risk |
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Ontario's wildlife needs continued protection
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22.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| In the early 1970s, a significant shift occurred in the relationship between North Americans and the world we live in. People started to recognize that nature’s bounty isn’t bottomless and that human activities often strain the Earth’s limits. Across Canada and the U.S., faced with society’s perpetual penchant for economic growth as an end unto itself, many people started to advocate for protecting nature lest it be irreparably broken by our actions.
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PHOTOS: Falcon Chicks Living On GW Bridge
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22.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| NEW YORK -- Four peregrine falcon chicks roosting high above the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge were pronounced healthy Tuesday and fitted with... |
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4 falcon chicks living on NY-NJ bridge are banded
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22.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| NEW YORK (AP) — Four peregrine falcon chicks roosting high above the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge were pronounced healthy Tuesday and fitted with tracking bands to help biologists keep tabs on them. ... |
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Leading wolf researchers oppose plan to remove Endangered Species Act protections nationally
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21.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC:
Yesterday a group of leading wolf researchers and prominent conservation biologists sent a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, urging her to reconsider plans to remove Endangered Species Act protections from wolves across the remainder of the... |
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Decision on wolf protections in Lower 48 delayed
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21.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states. |
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Protecting Eagles While Working to Guide Wind Development
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21.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Katie Umekubo, Western Renewable Energy Project Attorney, Washington, D.C.:
Recent reports of eagles being killed by wind turbines have stirred up a lot of emotion and controversy and understandably so. On the one hand, more wind energy will get the U.S. on the right side of the climate... |
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas, oil in ANWR
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21.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas, oil in ANWR
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21.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| JUNEAU, Alaska—The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential |
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Plans would turn naturalist's home into refuge
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19.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Plans would turn naturalist's home into refuge |
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Effects of a Warming Planet on Tropical Lizards May Not be Significant
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18.5.2013 |
Wildlife and Habitat Conservation News - ENN |
A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming planet.
Most predictions that tropical cold-blooded animals, especially forest lizards, will be hard hit by climate change are based on global-scale measurements of environmental temperatures, which miss much of the fine-scale variation in temperature that individual animals experience on the ground, said the article's lead author, Michael Logan, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology. |
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Another Family Rescued From Everglades
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A father and son from Palm Beach County were rescued in northwest Broward after their airboat ran aground and took on water in the Everglades... |
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Conservationists Argue for Protection of Arizona National Monuments
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17.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
Conservationists went before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today, in a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) initial management plan for the Vermilion Cliffs and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monuments. read more |
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