Debate Over Border Fence Ignores Effects on Wildlife
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Down to Earth  Something's been largely missing in the debate over building a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants: the potentially devastating impacts on wildlife.
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The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, once seen as a costly impediment to development, is now viewed by the government as a critter that never really existed &#151; and is no longer in need of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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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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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.
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By World Capitol Bureau  The measure was designed to protect owners of land devoted primarily to farming, ranching or forestry.   OKLAHOMA CITY -- Gov. Brad Henry has vetoed a measure that was designed to protect landowners from hunters who stray onto their properties.
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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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A bird at the center of a controversy that impacts the nation&#39;s multibillion-dollar energy industry should not be included on the endangered species list, a panel of federal wildlife officials has concluded.
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Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.
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Property owners' resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about its feasibility.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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A disturbance free zone for nesting birds is put at risk by vandals who cut down the boundary fence.
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&quot;The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army nor advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner
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Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From  a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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The best available science indicates that the current level of sage grouse protection implemented in oil and gas fields is not enough to maintain the bird's population, according to wildlife biologists in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, North Dakota and Utah.
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Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.