Leopard Shark Poachers to Pay to Restore Habitat
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By Megha Satyanarayana  MONTEREY -- To right the wrongs of one of the largest poaching stings in Northern California, the native habitat of   465 illegally sold leopard sharks will be restored by fines totaling nearly $1 million, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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The sharks are starting to circle some beaten-up financial stocks.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 9--Funding for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, particularly covering the department's expenses without relying solely on hunters and fishermen, is a perennial issue. It has come up again in the form of payment for searches and rescues.
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Olive ridley sea turtles are making a comeback, largely because of Mexican conservation efforts.
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Anti-poaching measures mean Tanzania's rhino populations have a chance to recover, reports Tira Shubart.
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Sharks will migrate into Antarctic waters if warming continues, threatening marine animals, scientists warn.
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The international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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Great white sharks are among many endangered species to gain better international protection at a meeting of 166 countries in Thailand. Restrictions on black rhinos were eased.
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A white shark in captivity could offer new insights on the mysterious and feared creature.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 3--The cost of poaching in the state is about to go up, drastically, if state lawmakers approve a bill introduced last week in the Ohio House of Representatives.
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A great white shark that killed a teenage surfer off the South Australian capital Adelaide will be hunted down and destroyed after it returned to stalk the city's beaches, authorities said.
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DNA from seized ivory could help conservationists and police identify hotspots where elephants are in particular danger from poachers.
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ULUSABA, South Africa  - Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomized by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill.
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Indian authorities plan to release 47 leopards into the wild with electromagnetic chips planted in their tails but will haul them back to captivity if they attack people, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
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By DILIP GANGULY  CALCUTTA, India - Poachers seeking to bag a Royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans reserve are encountering a unique new security measure to keep them away: hundreds of crocodiles that have been released in the mangrove forest.
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Recent sightings of the ivory-bill&#8212;believed extinct for 50 years&#8212;have experts hopeful the species can make a comeback if its forest habitat gets better protection.