Wood Turtle Makes Top 10 List of Species in Need of Protection

ROCKBRIDGE WEEKLY
New report highlights nation’s species in danger of extinction

Charlottesville, VA – The wood turtle is one of the most in-need species for protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to a report released today by the Endangered Species Coalition. The report, Without a Net: Top Ten Wildlife, Fish and Plants in Need of Endangered [...]

Illegal bird hunting drives rare species toward extinction

AGENCE FRANCE PRESS
BEIRUT: Lebanon, one of the world’s key migratory bird corridors, has turned into a death trap for the avian population due to illegal hunting of increasingly rare species. Environmentalists cry foul every hunting season, which typically lasts from October to December, when poachers kill birds by the thousands in the mountains and the [...]

March of the penguins–onto the endangered species list

DAVID BIELLO – SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Seven species of penguins will now join polar bears on the list of species endangered by climate change and other environmental threats, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said this week. Worst off: the African penguin, which is disappearing due to overfishing and oil pollution.
The other threatened penguins: yellow-eyed, [...]

Brazil maps partially destroyed areas of Amazon

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: A new system for mapping destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reporting a surge in areas that have been partially cut but not yet cleared.
Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research said the system shows that an area roughly the size of Belize or the state of Vermont was partially knocked [...]

Lynx one step closer to endangered species protection

GWYNETH DOLAND – NEW MEXICO INDEPENDENT
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it has begun the process of offering endangered species protection to the Canada lynx, a big furry cat that is protected in other states. As NMI has noted, the animal was reintroduced to Colorado 1999, and since then, approximately 60 [...]

US Agents Investigate Slaughter Of Endangered Fruit Bat Colonies

SAIPAN TRIBUNE
U.S. federal law enforcement officers from a number of agencies have raided five homes on the Northern Marianas island of Rota in connection with the recent mass slaughter of endangered Marianas fruit bats, the Saipan Tribune reports.
An estimated 190 mammals were killed, which officials say nearly decimates two of the three known fruit bat [...]

Could Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs Be Endangered?

WYAAT GOOLSBY – NEWSWEST9.COM
BIG SPRING – We’ve all seen them, Prairie Dogs are a fairly common sight in the Permian Basin. A national petition, however, is making the rounds that could lead to the black-tailed prairie dog on the endangered species list.
“We just live in harmony together out here with the priairie dogs,” Pilot Rhyse Gehrett, with the Air Evac Lifeteam in [...]

Lowering carbon emissions raises biodiversity

THE MANILA TIMES
REDUCING emissions from deforestation combats climate change and help the conservation of biodiversity, from amphibians and birds to primates.
This is shown in the Carbon and Biodiversity [...]

Bulgarian President Shoots Endangered Animal

BULGARIAN NEWS NETWORK
Six hundred and 60 signals have been sent in the European Commission by people about Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov who shot an endangered animal at a hunt during an official visit in Uzbekistan.

Coral faces extinction

INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE
A fifth of the world’s coral are now extinct as a result of human activity, a new study has suggested.
The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) has released a report which claims that the direct consequences of growing levels of pollution will destroy most of the world’s remaining reefs in the next 20 [...]