Wildlife Official: Don't Try to Save Seal Pups: Absent Mothers Likely to Return
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By Kie Relyea, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 20--If you see a baby harbor seal alone on a Whatcom County beach, don't assume it's been abandoned and needs rescue.
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WASHINGTON - 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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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - 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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By JIM FITZGERALD CORTLANDT, N.Y. - Describing abandoned puppies as &quot;terrorists&quot; in a classified ad doesn't seem like a good way to get them adopted. Unless you're in the animal-rescue world of Paula Young.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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The government plans to delay its decision to put the polar bear on the endangered list until after it leases 30 million acres near Alaska for oil and gas drilling. What gives?
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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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The directors of two Interior Department agencies said Thursday they're confident oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska can proceed without threatening polar bears that depend on the sea ice
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By AUDREY McAVOY  HONOLULU - The Navy says it won't comply with sonar training restrictions that aim to protect marine mammals off the California coast, arguing that the commission that imposed the rules does not have the jurisdiction to do so.  The U.S.
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest
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BAKU. June 18 (Interfax) - The decline in the Caspian seal population may be the result of warm winters, declining fish stocks, and pollution of the Caspian Sea, the website of Azerbaijan's Environment and Natural Resources Ministry says.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Here's a dumb idea: The U.S. Department of the Interior has told its U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees in northeastern North Carolina not to respond to public inquiries about the effects of a proposed Navy practice landing field there.
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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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Americans may sometimes wonder whether any branch of the federal government has been left unpoliticized. Among the latest to claim attention is the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), charged with safeguarding plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act.
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SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.