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• Recovery of the black-footed ferret

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:25 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species

  Rapid population growth of black-footed ferrets in Shirley Basin, Wyoming, since 2000. Releases of captive-born animals ended in 1994, and abundance was so low by 1997 that monitoring was intermittent during 1998 2002 (no data for 1998 99 or 2002)...The predicted abundance is exponential growth fitted to the minimum number alive (r = 0.47).

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• Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild Her

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species, Religion, Freedom Of Speech, India, Sexism, Crime, Social Commentary, Muslims, Women S Issues, Mass Murder, Moral Decline, Radical Islam, Women, Bangladesh, Death, Human Rights, Moral Values, Domestic Surveillance, Pornography

  I wrote on TMV about Taslima, a poet and doctor, against whom a fatwa to behead her had been called ….for she dared to write poetry about “honor killings”; she was imprisoned for writing about women taken to the stadium and stoned to death while the mullahs present were laughing. Read on TMV May 18, 2007: Four Arrested In Honor

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• Murder, plain and simple

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:49 pm

  Tags: Primates, Dogfighting, Wildlife, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Endangered Species

  I'm outraged.MSNBC.com: Four endangered gorillas found shot deadFour endangered gorillas were murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. While most definitions of murder confine their scope to intentionally killing other human beings, the difference between humans and gorillas is insignificant when it comes to being

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• Diesel spill endangers whales

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:42 am

  Tags: Whale, Oil Spill, Coastal Environment, Coastal Pollution, Endangered Species

  A diesel spill from a capsized barge is threatening pods of vulnerable killer whales in Robson Bight, off Canada's Pacific Coast, environment officials said Wednesday. More than 30 killer whales and other marine animals are at risk of breathing in fumes from a diesel truck dumped Monday morning from the barge into the waters near an ecological

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• Shark Bait

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:18 am

  Tags: Biology, Fish, Extinction, Sharks, Endangered Species, Animals

  thing'. Since sharks are an endangered species thanks to stupid humans.A five-foot-long thresher shark that washed up on a crowded city beach this weekend and was pushed back into the sea by beachgoers is dead. Rockaway Beach was back open Sunday, a day after a shark sighting shut it

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• Endangered turtle nests found in Texas

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:05 am

  Tags: Turtle, Endangered Species

  sea turtles have been on the endangered species list since 1970. Adults grow to about 2 feet in length and weigh up to 100 pounds, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The turtle population has been threatened by factors including shrimpers' nets and their popularity in Mexico as boot material and food."I'm just so happy about the

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• PAVAROTTI Looked as the Stars Trembled With Love and Hope

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Social Commentary, Italy, Obituary

  Have you ever noticed that some brilliant souls seem to come to earth close together in time, eddy near one another in genius, and then also leave the earth within a few short months of one another? … as though they arrive in pods, like creatures of the sea and together swim away at a [...]

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• Sea turtles still endangered, threatened

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:21 am

  Tags: Turtle, Endangered Species

  study."Threatened" means a species could become "endangered," which means the species might face extinction.But some sea species were found to be doing well in specific areas where conservationists and researchers helped to protect their habitat, said Sandy MacPherson, national sea turtle coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

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• Corals Added To IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species For First Time

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:52 am

  Tags: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Endangered Species

  -- as Critically Endangered, while a third -- Polycyathus isabela -- is listed as Vulnerable. The Red List also includes 74 Galapagos seaweeds, or macro-algae, with 10 of them receiving the most threatened status of Critically Endangered. Prior to 2007, only one algae species had been included on the Red List."There is a common

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• Mediterranean's rich marine life under threat

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:49 am

  Tags: Marine Life, Endangered Species

  up to 50 percent of the species," it said.Italy's Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio on Monday termed the situation "a national crisis."He is due to inaugurate Wednesday's conference along with Jacques Diouf, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.The conference will also discuss the melting of Alpine glaciers,

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• Crist urges delay on manatee decision

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:46 am

  Tags: Manatees, Endangered Species

  office.Reclassification of a species from endangered to threatened doesn't mean much change in protections enjoyed by the species and the manatee continues to have federal endangered status.But downlisting the manatee could send the message to those who want to weaken some protection laws that it's OK to do that, because it appears that the

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• Coral

  Published: September 15, 2007, 7:23 am

  Tags: Coral, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Creatures, Dinosaurs, Volcano, Extinction, Marine, Maritimes, Prehistoric, Endangered Species

  on coral. The fact they are endangered and that they have been discovered off the Canadian East Coast.Corals Added To IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species For First Time"There is a common misconception that marine species are not as vulnerable to extinction as land-based species," said Roger McManus, CI's vice president for marine programs.

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• Creatures are Heart Medicine For Humans

  Published: September 16, 2007, 6:27 am

  Tags: Literature, Endangered Species, Health, Health Care, Animals, Medicine, Social Commentary, Storytelling, Psychology, Pets, Cats

  the task of protecting the endangered animals by offering them a home within the walls of their temple. The sanctuary is run by head monk Phusit Khantidharo, who insists all 10 tigers living at the Pha Luang Ba Tua temple in western Kanchanaburi province in Thailand have adopted peaceful Buddhist ways. “We are a big family here and we

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• Trade in endangered species

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species

  on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was adopted in 1973 “to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.” Unfortunately, illegal trade in endangered species threatens many of them, and enforcement in some countries is notoriously lax. CITES is an

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• Clean Air Clean Water No Wildlife

  Published: September 19, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Envrironment, Endangered Species

  environment; wildlife and endangered species and endangered spaces. The Canadian Press September 19, 2007 Toronto -- - Serious budget problems at Environment Canada are threatening wildlife programs and services within the federal

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