Endangered Species
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Most Endangered Wildlife List
The trouble with Top 10 Endangered Species lists is that the people putting them together always have to decide which species to leave off. In the end, there’s always a…
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Stop The Wolf Hunt
Conservation groups are fighting in court to prevent wolf hunts that are scheduled to begin in September in Idaho and Montana. The Idaho hunt would kill up to one-third of…
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Orangutans Losing Rainforest Habitat
Orangutans — native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra — are losing habitat at an alarming rate due to logging and the expansion of huge palm oil plantations…
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Endangered Rhino Poaching
Conservationists were once hopeful the invention of Viagra would end rhino poaching. But demand for rhinoceros horn, used in Asian folk medicines, has taken an alarming upswing recently . .…
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Yellowstone Grizzlies
The Bear Facts: Fall food supply looks good for Yellowstone grizzlies . . . while panda reproduction no longer requires sex. Plus, an update on Yellowstone wolves from Ralph Maughan…
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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 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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