Workers find innards of endangered moose

 Chronicle Herald Nova Scotia
TRURO — Woods workers found the discarded innards of an endangered mainland moose near Debert on the weekend, prompting a provincewide hunt for its poachers.
Chris Ball, regional enforcement co-ordinator for the Department of Natural Resources in central Nova Scotia, says the moose had already been field-dressed and was gone when workers discovered [...]

Endangered Beauties

 Emporia Gazette
At first glance they may appear a little lost, their delicate orange and black wings surfing the early autumn breeze.
But make no mistake. These little creatures are no dummies. In fact, they may be the most sophisticated of all insects.
And for a very brief time, within the next two weeks or so, thousands and [...]

U.S. Report Shows Decline in Loggerhead Sea Turtles

New York Times (AP)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (AP) — After encouraging gains in the 1990s, a federal report now shows populations of loggerhead sea turtles dropping, possibly as a result of commercial fishing.
The report, a five-year status update required under the Endangered Species Act, did not change the turtles’ status to endangered from threatened, but scientists [...]

Endangered coral’s wake up call

City News
THIS year’s “Red List of Threatened Species” features corals as endangered for the first time.The annual list of threatened species, produced by IUCN (the World Conservation Union), includes 16,306 species threatened with extinction.
Vice-President of IUCN, Greens Senator Christine Milne, said the inclusion of corals on this list, and specific reference to climate change as [...]

Endangered albatross chicks to be moved to safer island

 Yoimuri Online
Ten short-tailed albatross chicks will be relocated in February from the birds’ breeding ground on Torishima island, south of Tokyo, to Mukojima island in the Ogasawara island chain–about 300 kilometers away–in an attempt to protect the endangered species from dangers such as a volcanic eruption, an Environment Ministry investigative commission has formally decided.
The ministry [...]

Something Can Be Done

It goes without saying that major changes need to be made in the way we live in order to prevent the ongoing and quickening extinction event is already underway. The chart here (roughly) shows the instances of mammal extinction in the last few hundred years. If you made the same graph for this century alone you would [...]

Two arrested with dead mountain gorilla in DRCongo

AFP
NAIROBI (AFP) — Rangers in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday arrested two men with a dead mountain gorilla near Virunga National park amid fears over the fate of the endangered species, an official said.
The suspected traffickers were seized with the female infant gorilla around 10 kilometres (six miles) from the edge of the park, [...]

The Greatest Dying

The Greatest Dying
By Jerry Coyne and Hopi E. Hoekstra
The New Republic :: Monday 24 September 2007
A fate worse than global warming.
Two hundred fifty million years ago, a monumental catastrophe devastated life on Earth. We don’t know the cause – perhaps glaciers, volcanoes, or even the impact of a giant meteorite – [...]

At 200, gharials now on critically-endangered list

Times of India
NEW DELHI: If tiger numbers were alarming, there is worse news for another species. In its annual Red List of threatened species, published on Wednesday, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) has uplisted the gharial from “endangered” to “critically endangered” following the discovery that there are less than 200 breeding adults left in the [...]

Fears dwarf Australian crocodile face extinction

A remote north Australian cattle station is warning that a rare dwarf crocodile could be threatened with extinction.
Bullo River Station, 500 kilometres south west of Darwin, is home to one of only two known populations of the pygmy freshwater crocodile.
Station owner Marlee Ranacher fears the arrival of cane toads will be disastrous for the crocodiles.
“They [...]