Senator: Alaska natives need whale quota
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Renewing a five-year bowhead whale quota for Alaska native communities that rely on subsistence whaling is crucial, a U.S. senator said Monday at opening of the International Whaling Commission meeting.
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A lone whale with a voice unlike any other has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years. Marine biologist Mary Ann Daher of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, US, and her colleagues
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A marked decline in sea ice off Alaska's coast is not enough to take the drastic step of listing polar bears &#151; a species dependent on ice &#151; as threatened, critics said Thursday at the first of three public hearings on the proposal.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quote for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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REYKJAVIK: Arctic people aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer the most.
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The International Whaling Commission holds its annual talks in Alaska next week amid pressure to end an impasse over commercial and scientific whaling threatening the conservation of the gentle giants.
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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 Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--The state fisheries board wants Gov. Sarah Palin to add another item to her growing list of scratched-out Murkowski actions.
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Bowhead whales and boreal owls are among the wide range of research projects proposed for the upcoming year through the Alaska Department of Fish and Game&#39;s nongame program.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Anti-whaling nations said on Monday they oppose Japan's proposal to permit whale hunting in its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions on other issues.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she wants some answers from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, a fellow Republican, who is under federal investigation.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 1--Rural villagers from Southwest Alaska launched a passionate  debate in Juneau on Wednesday over sweeping new legislation to protect salmon  and restrict mining in their region.
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Tuesday agreed to renew quotas for whale hunts by natives in the United States and Russia but deferred Greenland&#39;s bid for a quota expansion.
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A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.