Pelican may get off endangered list
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The brown pelican, once on the brink of extinction, has become so abundant that it should be removed from the list of endangered species, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said on Friday.
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The federal government appears poised to remove the bald eagle from its list of threatened and endangered species, a change in status that would cap a 40-year comeback for the national icon.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) has banned sales of a rare Asian dolphin. Environmentalists say the move is necessary to save the Irrawaddy dolphin, whose numbers are thought to be as low as 1,000 in the wild.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.
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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.
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DOUGLAS, Arizona  - A plan to fence off a third of   the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may   harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and   jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
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Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with dozens of parrots &#151; a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the Puerto Rican parrot may lie in forest aviaries where these captive birds began their nesting in January under close observation.
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Two years after denying Endangered Species Act protection to killer whales that live much of the year near Washington's San Juan Islands, the federal fisheries agency said Thursday it plans to list the struggling population as a threatened species.
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By Mike Belt, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 15--The bald eagle population has made such a dramatic comeback during the last 40 years that it might be removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list later this year.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jan. 30--TWIN FALLS -- The Endangered Species Act's list of vulnerable plants and animals soon will become one species shorter when wolves are pulled from the register in about a month.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service took the first step toward declaring that 10 species of penguin need Endangered Species Act protections.
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By Salatheia Bryant, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 12--The whooping crane could be removed from the endangered species list by 2035 if current recovery efforts continue to show progress, say federal officials based in Texas.   U.S.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 16--Removing the bald eagle from the list of endangered species would be an important milestone for America, placing the official stamp of success on a decades-long effort to save this magnificent bird -- our nation's symbol -- from extinction.
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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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The Chinese crested tern, a rare sea bird whose eggs are prized by some as a delicacy, is likely to be extinct in five years if authorities do not step up protection efforts, a conservation group said Friday.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.