Biologists say grouse not a species in peril
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended against listing the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species, the agency announced Friday.
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Some might think fewer rodents would be a good thing, but scientists are concerned about the dwindling populations of two small fury creatures on New Mexico's list of endangered mammals.
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Agile prey would have had no trouble keeping clear of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex, a study confirms.
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The survival of some bird species in Iowa is threatened, and urban sprawl is part of the problem. That&#39;s according to a state group that keep tabs on the conversation of wild birds.
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A UN meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity&#39;s closest living relatives, the orang-utan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador  - While scientists search for a mate for "Lonesome George" -- the last known survivor of a species of Galapagos tortoise -- some say the effort to fend off extinction may be in vain.
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It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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Science & environment: Almost half of common European birds are heading towards 'continental extinction', a new report warns
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Thousands of years before white and Indian hunters drove the buffalo of America&#39;s Great Plains to virtual extinction, the ancestors of those lordly animals suffered a similar fate -- but it was major climate change, not hunting, that did them in, says an
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WORK by a British scientist may show that humans were not responsible for the bison almost becoming extinct in the 19th century, it was disclosed yesterday.
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Department of the Interior biologists recommended Friday against adding the greater sage grouse to the endangered species list, benefitting natural gas and oil producers but adding to environmentalistsâ concerns.
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A rare species of mountain sheep could face extinction if it is not given a safe haven from the conflicts tearing apart its natural habitat in central and south Asia, conservationists say.
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WASHINGTON - Hunters may not be to blame for the decline in bison populations, according to a new study that points the finger at climate change.
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Paris - Wolves, lions, cheetahs and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, New Scientist says.
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Amid an intense lobbying effort by energy and ranching interests in the West, a team of Interior Department biologists has recommended that the sage grouse, a bird
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An initiative by the Bureau of Land Management to conserve the habitat of the northern sage grouse is complicating efforts to earn the bird designation as an endangered species.