Protect Caribou By Killing Logging, Not Wolves: Environmentalists
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars.
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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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Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives, says report.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 13:  No one but the timber industry benefits if the U.S. Forest Service allows the continued degradation of the world's largest temperate rainforest _ the Tongass in southeast Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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By AP Wire Service  CHEYENNE, Wyo.  -- Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - Inuit hunters will be able to kill nearly one-third more polar bears in Nunavut this year because of concerns that an increasing number of the predators are prowling the streets of some Arctic communities.
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Last week US President George W. Bush held up a rifle at his ranch and declared that he was a conservationist. The man who wants to open the Arctic to oil companies and who has ripped up more
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Arctic peoples aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer most.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY RENE ROMO Journal Southern Bureau  LAS CRUCES -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill an endangered Mexican gray wolf that is the subject of a Feb. 5 removal order because trapping the animal is too difficult.
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Killer whales in the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound should be protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, government scientists said on Thursday.
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More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; including the entire population in Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.
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Sept. 23, 2004 - Cougars, wolves, lions and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, the British weekly New Scientist announced Wednesday.