Rare Sparrow Halts Housing Development
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By Sandra Tan The Henslow's sparrow prefers to stay hidden. But the threatened species has been found in Lancaster, and its presence has stopped a developer from moving forward with its plan for a major housing development.
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The listing of Link Real Estate Investment Trust will not proceed as originally planned on December 20, Secretary for Housing, Planning &amp; Lands Michael Suen says, adding the Housing Authority will prepare for a re-launch after all the legal impediments
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  A Northern Neck property owner wants permission to build homes on 15-story-tall cliffs in an area known for attracting hundreds of bald eagles.  Terrell W.
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A vulnerable British bird has experienced an extraordinary population revival, figures have shown.
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One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--WARSAW  -- The Richmond County Board of Supervisors late Thursday night killed a proposed subdivision slated for one of the most important bald-eagle habitats on the East Coast.
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An evaluation of Pacific herring stocks in Lynn Canal could land the fish on the endangered or threatened species list, blocking or slowing development in the area.
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Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
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The palm trees that narrowly missed Leo Berard&#39;s pondside condominium in Naples, Fla., when they toppled Friday spared him from major repairs on his second home.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 9--BELLINGHAM -- National builder D.R. Horton's project to construct a major housing development on 72 acres in north Bellingham may stall over a disagreement with the city on fixing roads.
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By Howard Fischer, CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES  PHOENIX - Home builders have won a crucial victory in their effort to defeat an initiative to set aside up to 690,000 acres of state trust land as off- limits to development.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 4--A year-old development moratorium in the traffic-stuffed Salmon Creek area may be extended for another 12 months and could have to stretch three years beyond that.
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Atlantic Civil has taken steps to halt plans for an amped-up rock mining operation on nearly 600 acres in Florida City originally planned for a mega-development of some 6,000 homes.
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One of Britain's biggest property funds shuts its doors to withdrawals after panic selling
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Science & environment: Â· Biodiversity Action Plan list doubles in size Â· House sparrow, cuckoo and hedgehog added
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Incensed bird lovers have intensified their protests outside a ritzy Upper East Side New York apartment building in the United States that removed the nest of famed red-tailed hawk Pale Male even as meetings were set to discuss bringing back the hawk&#39;s
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By Karen Holzmeister  CASTRO VALLEY -- Yet another former chicken ranch is in the news, facing the competing issues of preservation versus development.   Hayman Homes of Burlingame is temporarily shelving plans to subdivide 10.5 acres on Proctor Road for 22 homes.