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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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New York Aquarium to Reopen Saturday With Half the Fish
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24.5.2013 |
NY Times: NY Region |
| New York Aquarium to Reopen Saturday With Half the Fish |
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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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Bill allows Sunday deer hunting with bow and arrow
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24.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Bill allows Sunday deer hunting with bow and arrow |
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City Room: Zoo Chief’s First Tweet Stars a 650-Pound Tortoise
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24.5.2013 |
NY Times: NY Region |
| City Room: Zoo Chief’s First Tweet Stars a 650-Pound Tortoise |
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Dayton signs Legacy bill; vetoes metro parks, invasive species funds
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24.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Latest |
| Governor's letter to Thissen underscores rift between House Legacy Committee, sportsmen and sportswomen. |
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Government licensed buzzard egg destruction, documents reveal
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23.5.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Eggs and nests of protected raptors destroyed to protect pheasant shoot, according to FoI documents
A government agency has licensed the secret destruction of the eggs and nests of buzzards to protect a pheasant shoot, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The action sets a historic precedent, being the first time such action has been licensed against any bird of prey to protect game shoots since raptors gained legal protection decades ago. Buzzards are recovering from near extinction and now number 40,000 breeding pairs, while 35m pheasants are bred each year for shoots.
It is also less than a year after the wildlife minister, Richard Benyon, abandoned related plans citing "public concerns". Benyon, whose family estate in Berkshire runs shoots, cancelled plans to spend £375,000 on testing control measures for buzzards around pheasant shoots after a public outcry in May 2012. "I will collaborate with all the organisations that have an interest in this issue ... |
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Mall of America expansion funding has $9 million bridge to cross
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23.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Local |
| MOA allotment is linked to approval of New Cedar Avenue span. |
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Hedgehogs are disappearing fast – gardeners to the rescue | Patrick Barkham
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22.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| The decimation of the UK's prickly population hasn't been recognised as the tragedy it is. They need some champions
Hedgehogs are disappearing as fast as the tiger. And if the latter was roaming our countryside it might have more of a fighting chance: I wouldn't find two dead tigers squashed on the road within a mile of each other like the little prickly carcasses I saw last weekend.
Tigers are also getting plenty of international help – charismatic "megafauna" always does – but for all the "ahhs" induced by Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, the hedgehog was not even counted scientifically in Britain until recently.
A new State of Nature report by 25 conservation groups including the Wildlife Trusts, the RSPB and the Mammal Society is predictably depressing: most British species are struggling and one in three have halved in number in the past half century. Hedgehogs have disappeared even more dramatically. Even if the 30 million population estimate from the 1950s is a massive over-exaggeration, ... |
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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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Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife
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22.5.2013 |
New Scientist: Sex and Cloning |
| Bees start to buck trend of decline in UK wildlife |
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Indonesia's natural riches in pictures
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22.5.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Indonesia's marine and forest life is at risk from industrial overfishing and relentless deforestation, Greenpeace International warns on the UN's International Day for Biological Diversity
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Wildlife 'at crisis point' in Wales
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22.5.2013 |
BBC: Front Page |
| Wales has seen 60% of its wildlife species decline over the last five decades, with one in 10 now endangered, warns a report. |
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Anti-nature narrative in UK politics
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22.5.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| An absence of positive political debate about the natural world is even more troubling than the decline in UK wildlife revealed by State of Nature report
More than half the wildlife species found in our islands are declining , under an assault of development, air pollution and chemical attack. Bumblebees, wildflowers, songbirds and butterflies are among the more obvious casualties.
Perhaps even more troubling than freefall declines in red squirrels, harbour seals, hedgehogs, starlings and all the others, is the fact that the crisis facing the living fabric of our environment is hardly mentioned in politics. And not only have ministers recently turned their attention away from the protection of nature, they have presented efforts to protect it as the enemy of growth, development and business.
George Osborne's claim that laws to protect rare species are a 'ridiculous burden on business' , Owen Paterson's championing the cause of Bayer and Syngenta in opposing the moratorium on the use of ... |
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VIDEO: 'Tough times for toads'
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22.5.2013 |
BBC: Science |
| A "stocktake" of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years - and one in 10 could end up disappearing. |
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10% of UK wildlife 'endangered'
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22.5.2013 |
BBC: Science |
| A "stocktake" of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years - and one in 10 could end up disappearing. |
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Scientists: Don't drop fed. wolf protections
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22.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
Groups of scientists are urging federal officials not to remove protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states. |
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Most UK species in decline, wildlife stocktake shows
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22.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| The unprecedented analysis shows that many animals, birds, insects, fish and plants are in trouble
An unprecedented stocktake of UK wildlife has revealed that most species are struggling and that one in three have halved in number in the past half century. The unique report, based on scientific analysis of tens of millions of observations from volunteers, shows that from woodland to farmland and from freshwater streams to the sea, many animals, birds, insects, fish and plants are in trouble.
The causes include the intensification of farming, with the consequent loss of meadows, hedgerows and ponds and increased pesticide use, as well as building development, overfishing and climate change. Three in every five of the 3,148 species analysed for the report have declined in the last 50 years and one in 10 are at risk of extinction.
But the report also reveals a few bright spots, such as the reduced water pollution that has allowed otters to return to every county in the UK, and the numerous ... |
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Scientists: Don't drop federal wolf protections
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22.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Scientists: Don't drop federal wolf protections |
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4 falcon chicks living on NY-NJ bridge are banded
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| 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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