Species List Less Endangered; Proposal to Weaken It Dropped
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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A decision announced Friday to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species still leaves open the possibility the approximately 1,000 birds remaining in Washington could be listed.
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By Matt Weiser< Sacramento Bee  The bald eagle, America's signature bird, is likely to be removed from  the endangered-species list within two weeks, after one of the most  successful conservation efforts in history.
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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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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday that it will review eight endangered species decisions that were "inappropriately influenced" by a political appointee of the Interior Department, throwing a lifeline to 18 species that scientists had deemed to be in need of protection.
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Wolves are removed from the endangered species list in three US states, paving the way for hunting.
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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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Elephants and eels may find life  slightly easier after trade curbs imposed by U.N. talks ending  on Friday that are a pinprick to slow what may be the worst  wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs.
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The plight of the disappearing cerulean warbler is not grave enough to warrant protection as a federally threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says.
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State plan would lower its status to 'threatened,' which could benefit boaters by reducing dock and speed limits.
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NEW YORK, Jun 28 (OneWorld) - As federal authorities declared today that the bald eagle is no longer on the list of threatened species, environmental activists and conservation groups across the United States expressed joy with the fruition of efforts to save the national symbol from extinction.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been dropped, a top Japan official says.
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Interior Department biologists have recommended against adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list, a determination that could wind up benefiting natural gas and oil producers but add to environmentalists' concerns.
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By THE GAZETTE  A cactus in Colorado will be considered for removal from federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jun. 2--The federal government on Friday announced its plan to protect bald eagles after the bird flies off the endangered species list later this month.
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A total of 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, according to the so- called Red List of endangered species produced by the IUCN World Conservation Union.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Western governors convening a two-day summit on the federal Endangered Species Act heard a list of complaints: Too few plants and animals saved.