Battle lines drawn on protection of species
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Western governors gathered last week to plan with the Bush administration and Congress how to change the Endangered Species Act, the 31-year-old law they say
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According to the first global assessment of amphibians, disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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Birds and wireless towers are a deadly mix Â a fact that preservationists and policy makers agree to. But the role of the regulators in keeping the two apart has been up in the air.
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Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines.
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Almost 16,000 species are now threatened by extinction, according to the World Conservation Union&#39;s annual Red List released today.
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PARIS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Environmental and scientific experts agree that  degradation of biological diversity has reached historical  dimensions, but a North-South divide is emerging over action to  counter this crisis.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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By Wallace, G K  We must get to the root of eco-problems.  It took threatening to sue, but the Center for Biological Diversity finally prodded the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to add elkhorn and staghorn corals to the federal list of threatened species in June.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction.
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The United Nations is stepping up its campaign to conserve the world's genetic resources so crops and animals can adapt to global warming and other challenges, focusing on fish for the first time since fish are increasingly being bred to meet the world's food needs.