Proposal cuts murrelet habitat area
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A federal proposal would slash the critical habitat in Oregon, Washington and California set aside under the Endangered Species Act for the marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird, by about 95 percent, to 221,692 acres.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Science & environment: RSPB calls for urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid 'calamitous' impact on birds
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By Frank Urquhart  A MAJOR initiative to lessen the impact of the north-east of Scotland's "global footprint" on the world's environment is to be launched.
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By Kemper, Steve  Save the deer, lose the suburban ecosystem. Save the sea lions, lose the salmon.  In recent years, basic safeguards of land, air, water and species have been weakened or threatened on the grounds that regulations are too protectionist.
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Population sprawl is not only affecting wildlife habitat, but also drastically reducing opportunities to fish and hunt.
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ASHLAND, Ore.  - A Bush administration decision to  eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered  U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to  protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.Â -- After being sharply criticized for allowing developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, the state wildlife commission on Friday released a plan intended to virtually eliminate the practice and halt the species' decline.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--MELBOURNE -- The state wildlife commission voted Wednesday to stop issuing permits to developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, ending a 16-year policy that had been criticized as both cruel and a cause of the species' decline.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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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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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--Sacramento County supervisors voted Tuesday to move forward with a plan to protect habitat for endangered and threatened species in a huge swath of the county south of the American River.
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Science & environment: Proposals to protect almost 10,000 sq km of sea around Britain will fail, conservationists say
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SANTA FE, NM -- A coalition of environmental groups plans to sue the federal government over its failure to list the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse as an endangered species.
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Ten percent of all bird species are set to disappear by the end of this century -- and with them the services they provide such as cleaning up carcasses and spreading seeds, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Losing urban green spaces will affect people's quality of life and drive out many species of wildlife.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.