Environmental Groups Sue Ambrose Over Spotted Owl
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Five environmental groups are suing Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, accusing her of refusing to protect the Northern spotted owl - said to be Canada's most endangered bird.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 17--The price of conservation on the Northwest Side approaches $100,000 an acre.   For some environmentalists, it's a price worth paying to secure a few safe harbors for the threatened pygmy owl.
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BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Environmentalists have attacked the government over  plans for redevelopment of the country's largest national  park after one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the area  in the last hundred years.
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Sydney - An international animal welfare group said on Tuesday it was taking legal action against a Japanese whaling company over the deaths of more than 400 whales in Australian waters near Antarctica.
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Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
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Geena Davis has sued the owners of a Minnesota-based advocacy group for allegedly taking her idea for a charitable foundation and promoting it as their own.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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A fight between environmentalists, industry and Congress over the strutting sage grouse
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list.
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By John Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 26--Environmentalists are claiming victory after a federal judge in Fresno on Friday found a key opinion on the effects of water pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on the endangered delta smelt fish was "legally flawed." U.S.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 9--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that the City of Tacoma to pay a $358,000 fine and restore wildlife habit as a penalty for missing deadlines on the Thea Foss Waterway Superfund cleanup.
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Friends of the Earth says it will start a legal challenge over the sale of GM-contaminated rice in UK stores.
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Animal advocates who want to protect seals living at a beach sued the city of San Diego on Tuesday, the latest episode in a standoff that's included at least two suspicious seal deaths.
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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By Linda GoldstonThe great horned owl had clipped wings, was deathly thin and very aggressive toward humans when it was rescued by the Wildlife Center of the Silicon Valley.
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British animal rights radicals claim to have contaminated dozens of vials of contact lense solution in France and antiseptic cream in Britain to protest against animal testing, Paris prosecutors said Friday.