Endangered Species

                   

U.S. military technology protects critically endangered goliath grouper; 'world's first use of an...

underwatertimes.com
Nov 24, 2008
        

Fort Pierce, Florida -- The Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) and its collaborators announced today the world's first use of an acoustic underwater camera to survey juveniles of goliath grouper in mangrove...

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South Korea builds city from sea at wetland's expense (Reuters)

yahoo.com
Nov 24, 2008 9 related
        

Reuters - South Korea is betting a multi-billion dollar land reclamation project about seven times the size of Manhattan will lift the economy but environmentalists say it could be one of the country's biggest ecological blunders.

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Vultures In South Africa Endangered

suite101.com
Nov 23, 2008
        

Demand For Traditional Medicine Impacts on Vulture Populations Traditional Medicine in Southern Africa is the realm of the Sangoma (Healer). Sangomas in Africa are seen as a type of Shaman, a link between dead ancestors and the...

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How much does Obama know about the West?

tri-cityherald.com
Nov 23, 2008 2 related
        

WASHINGTON -- Here's the question: What does a community organizer from Chicago who spent only three years in the Senate before being elected president know about spotted owls, endangered salmon, mountain bark beetles, Western...

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Environmentalists await Obama's nominees

chron.com
Nov 23, 2008 1,483 related
        

President-elect expected to be ally; land-rights backers have different view By LES BLUMENTHAL McClatchy-Tribune CHARLES DHARAPAK ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Barack Obama gets ready to leave in a van Friday after a visit...

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Environmental groups optimistic, industry wary about Obama

bradenton.com
Nov 23, 2008 1,266 related
        

The new administration also faces more fundamental issues. The budgets of such agencies as the U.S. Forest Service have been sharply trimmed in recent years. The Forest Service budget has been sliced by a third, while at the...

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Residents dispute water taxes

thespectrum.com
Nov 23, 2008
        

A recent survey of 428 adults in Washington County showed that almost half had never heard of the Washington County Water Conser-vancy District, although 92 percent believed that water is the most important environmental issue...

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Why is it important to save manatees?

usgs.gov
Nov 22, 2008
        

administers the Sirenia Project, which encompasses a team of scientists dedicated to long-term research on the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Florida. Why save the manatee? It boils down to a fundamentally basic...

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Under U.S. Proposal, Climate Change Wouldn't Be Factor in Assessing Risks to Endangered Species -...

newsvine.com
Nov 21, 2008
        

The Bush administration is finalizing changes to the Endangered Species Act that would ensure that federal agencies would not have to take global warming into account when assessing risks to imperiled plants and animals...

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Lame Duck Bushies: Changing the Rules

ibrattleboro.com
Nov 21, 2008
        

In keeping with their behavior from day one in office the Bush administration has not so much skirted the law & constitution as driven over them then back up and done it again. This from today's Progress Report from the Center...

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