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"The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades.""Endangered Listing Eyed For US Loggerhead Turtles"
AP, 03/11/2010
"Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its chefs, alleging they had sold meat from an endangered whale."Santa Monica Sushi Restaurant Charged With Selling Whale Meat
LA Times, 03/11/2010
"The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse, a dweller of the high plains of the American West, was facing extinction but would not be designated an endangered species for now.""No Endangered Status for Plains Bird"
NYTimes, 03/08/2010
"Environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Monday accusing the service of illegally allowing farmers to grow genetically modified crops in a national wildlife refuge.""Lawsuit Filed Over GMO Crops In Nature Refuge"
Reuters, 03/03/2010
"The mysterious pelican malady that left hundreds of the birds sick and stranded along the Oregon and California coasts this winter was probably caused by a combination of bad weather and fish shortages related to El Nino, state Fish and Game officials said Monday.""Pacific Coast Pelican Illness Linked To Bad Weather, Scarce Food"
LA Times, 02/23/2010
"A landmark agreement to protect shark species threatened with extinction was reached Friday as 113 countries signed up to a United Nations-backed wildlife treaty to conserve migratory sharks.""113 Governments Agree to Conserve Endangered Sharks"
ENS, 02/18/2010
"While lawmakers and the White House ratchet up efforts to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan, boating and fishing communities along the Illinois River are under siege.""River Town on Front Line of Asian Carp Invasion"
Chicago Tribune, 02/15/2010
"The Obama administration will consider federal protection for 82 coral species threatened by warming water temperatures."As Seas Warm U.S. Mulls ESA Protection for 82 Coral Species
Greenwire, 02/12/2010
"Despite a backlog of endangered species issues and a host of current lawsuits, the Fish and Wildlife Service plans to focus firmly on the future.""Obama Budget Retools FWS for Warming World"
Greenwire, 02/11/2010
The bright-golden spray toads, small as a dime, once lived in the spray of a waterfall on the Kihansi River in Tanzania. A dam funded by the World Bank destroyed the species habitat, and they are now extinct in the wild. They now live only in captivity."Saving Tiny Toads Without a Home"
NYTimes, 02/10/2010
"Anti-whaling protest group Sea Shepherd said a Japanese whaling vessel 'intentionally rammed' one of its protest boats on Saturday during a standoff in Antarctic waters.""Whaling Ship 'Rammed' Protest Boat: Sea Shepherd"
Reuters, 02/09/2010
"Federal land managers said Monday they'll delay a roundup of most of the nearly 600 wild horses in a range in eastern Nevada, at least until after the herd's spring foaling season.""BLM Delays Eastern Nevada Wild Horse Roundup"
AP, 02/09/2010
"Blue whales are updating their playlist, according to new research on the huge mammals.""Blue Whales Croon A New Tune"
NPR, 02/08/2010
"All along the Oregon coast over the last month, hundreds of brown pelicans have turned up dead, starving or begging for food. ...Researchers, at a loss to explain the casualties, are looking at unusual ocean currents and the depletion of fish stocks -- as well as warmer temperatures, toxic runoff and algae blooms -- as possible causes.""Brown Pelicans Struggling To Survive"
LA Times, 02/05/2010
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday evening that it would not grant the American pika -- a tiny mammal whose mountainside habitat is being threatened by climate change -- protection under the Endangered Species Act.""Pika Does Not Get Endangered Species Protection"
Post Carbon, 02/05/2010
