Pacific Walrus Advances Toward Endangered Species Protection

Court Settlement Requires Feds to Make Initial Decision by September 10, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federal judge today approved a settlement between the Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requiring the agency to consider whether the Pacific walrus may warrant the protections of the Endangered Species Act. Under the settlement, the [...]

Court Orders Endangered Species Protection for Flat-tailed Horned Lizard — for the Third Time

PRESS RELEASE – CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
SAN FRANCISCO— In response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and a number of other groups, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to deny the flat-tailed horned lizard protection under the Endangered Species Act was [...]

Big Cats In Gir Face Extinction

THE HINDU
CHENNAI: The 370 Asiatic Lions in the Gir forest, Gujarat, are facing extinction due to epidemics, fire and cyclone, Ravi Chellam, Country Director, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bangalore, said here on Saturday.
Dr. Ravi Chellam, who made a presentation, said a group of scientists led by him conducted a study on trans-locating a small number of [...]

World to be stung if bee becomes extinct

OTAGO DAILY TIMES
It’s New Zealand Bee Week. Yet another promotional plea for another threatened creature.
Surely we can ignore this one – it’s the size of a blowfly, not as cute as a polar bear cub, and it has a sting.
Even our city council [...]

BP & Exxon ignore pleas to help worlds most endangered whales

WILDLIFEEXTRA
Oil companies refuse to even talk about saving the world’s most endangered whale
April 2009. BP and Exxon have continued ignoring requests to join consultations with an international scientific panel to work to protect the world’s most endangered whales, threatened by oil and gas development around Sakhalin Island in Far East Russia.
Shell & Gazprom have come [...]

New group aims to save the Scots wildcat from extinction

NEIL MACPHAIL – PRESS AND JOURNAL
A NEW charity has been launched to help save the Scottish wildcat from impending extinction.
The Scottish Wildcat Association (SWA) will champion the cause of Britain’s rarest mammal and last wild feline, amid fears that with less than 400 left in the wild, extinction could be just five years away. The [...]

Male Turtle Of Leatherback Species Facing Extinction

BERNAMA
KERTIH, April 18 (Bernama) — The threat of leatherback turtles becoming extinct is getting more serious with no male turtle to incubate some 200 leatherback turtle eggs buried for hatching at the Rantau Abang Turtle Sanctuary.
Terengganu Fisheries director Munir Mohd. Nawi said the leatherback turtle eggs could not hatch because they needed to be incubated [...]

Government caribou plan fails to stop the extinction clock

PRESS RELEASE

Groups urge Premier McGuinty to act before June deadline

TORONTO, April 28 /CNW/ – Save our Species (SOS), a coalition of leading
environmental groups in the province, calls on the Ontario government to halt
logging and road-building in critical woodland caribou habitat in response to
the new Caribou Conservation Plan released by government [...]

Rare herb on verge of extinction

MY REPUBLICA
SANKHUWASABHA, April 26: The rare herb called Tetracentron, which is known as Jharikote (Scientific name: Tetracentron sinense) and is available in only a few forests in Sankhuwasabha, is on the verge of extinction due to deforestation.
The hilly herb is found in limited number in only a few forests in Kimathanka and Chepuwa along the [...]

Iranian black bear facing extinction

PAYVAND IRAN NEWS
TEHRAN, Apr. 25 (Mehr News Agency) – The Iranian black bear is on the verge of extinction.
The black bear inhabits the southern provinces of Sistan and Balouchestan, Kerman, and Hormozqan.
Despite the warning officials from the Environment Department have shrugged off the matter, an expert told the Mehr News Agency.
The farmers in the region [...]