"Despite Few Hunters, Seal Pups Face Threats"
"The annual hunt for harp seals off the coast of eastern Canada will barely take place this year. But this is not good news for the seals."
Source: NYTimes, 04/06/2010
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"Meetings Slated on Grizzly Conflicts"
"With grizzly bears being found farther out from the Rocky Mountain Front than in past years, officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are holding community meetings — including one in Wolf Creek next month — to discuss better ways to co-exist with them."
Source: Helena Independent Record, 03/30/2010
Feds Launch New Tool For Locating Endangered Species
Find out if an endangered or threatened animal or plant species lives in counties of interest to your audience, and cover it in the context of current news developments or some other at-risk-species angle.
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Birds: New Listings, Cutting-Edge Research, and At-Risk Assessments
For the first time in 25 years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has updated the list of federally-protected migratory birds. The net result is the addition of 175 species, bringing the total to 1,007.
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1 in 7 Wildlife Refuges Has Genetically Engineered Crops
Three organizations file a lawsuit against the USFWS, a new study finds three strains of GE maize likely damaged organs of rats that ate the foods for just three months, pesticide use associated with GE crops may actually be greater than for traditional crops, and GE seed prices skyrocket.
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"New Pentagon Effort Targets Illicit Wildlife Trade"
"U.S. troops heading to Iraq and Afghanistan will soon be trained to confront a new enemy, the trade in products made from endangered animals."
Source: Greenwire, 03/17/2010
"Alaska: Aerial Wolf Hunt Begins"
"State employees began an aerial wolf hunt on the Yukon border on Tuesday in what officials describe as an effort to preserve caribou for shooting by hunters."
Source: NYTimes, 03/17/2010
"A Decade on, Southwest Wolf Reintroduction Effort Faces Long Odds"
They call it "wolf jail." Efforts to reintroduce the Mexican gray wolf to a New Mexico border area depend on whether the wolves play by the rules.
Source: Greenwire, 03/12/2010
"Cancer Kills Many Sea Lions, and Its Cause Remains a Mystery"
"For 14 years, since they first reported that a disturbing proportion of deaths among rescued California sea lions were caused by metastatic cancer, researchers have been trying to pinpoint the source of the illness."
Source: NYTimes, 03/05/2010
"Plague Poses Widespread Risk to North American Wildlife"
"Sylvatic plague -- a close cousin of the dreaded disease that killed one-third of all European residents in the six years between 1347 and 1353 -- persists in rodents in the American West even when the disease does not erupt into epidemic form, new research demonstrates."
Source: ENS, 03/02/2010
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