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Amazon Wildlife
Amazon Fish Vanishing
Today’s Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts The New York Times has a front-page story this morning quoting members of a major indigenous Amazon rainforest tribe, the Kamayurá, as saying…
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Endangered Species
Endangered Cottontail Rabbits?
Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please,” said Brer Rabbit. “Only please, Brer Fox, please don’t throw me into yonder briar patch.” –Brer Rabbit to Brer Fox…
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Endangered Species
Endangered Spotted Owl Update
The northern spotted owl, emblem of the Pacific Northwest’s old-growth forests, dodged a bullet last week when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar opted to scale back on old-growth-forest logging…
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Endangered Species
More On Invasive Species
In yesterday’s wildlife news, our topic was about how the up to 100,000 Burmese pythons slithering through Florida’s Everglades provided a dramatic example of the dangers of releasing non-native animals…
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American Wildlife
Burmese Pythons Hunted In Florida
Today In Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts In the wake of a human death, Florida wildlife officials last week began commissioning “snake hunters” to track down and kill as…
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Poaching & Illegal Hunting
Wildlife Declines In Kenya’s Parks
Wildlife Declines In Kenya’s Parks And Kenyan wildlife officials call for a complete ban on ivory sales to save the country’s remaining elephants Top 10 Endangered Species News A troubling…
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American Wildlife
Elks and Wolves In Yellowstone
Today’s Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts Yellowstone National Park’s elk population has probably been more affected by the reintroduction of wolves than any of the park’s other large creatures.…
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