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• African children on gorilla warfare mission in run-up to COP15

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  "It’s the gorillas I’ve got to thank for bringing me here,” said Sephora Binet-Mboti, (13), as she gazed up, wide-eyed, at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.She was a long way from her in home in Central Africa where she lives in Gabon at subsistence level in a clapboard house with her parents and nine brothers and ...
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• Video: rare footage of the sun bear, the worlds smallest, making a nest in the canopy

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Sun bear expert, Siew Te Wong, has captured rare footage of the worlds smallest bear making a nest high in the canopy. The sun bear in the video is a radio-collared individual that Wong is keeping tabs on in Borneo.
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• What types of primates are most prone to extinction in small forest fragments?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  According to the most recent IUCN assessment, 48 percent of primates are threatened with extinction. Major threats to primates include habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting, and the wildlife trade. A new paper published in Tropical Conservation Science looked at ones of these threats — fragmentation — in an ...
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• An Orangutans Best Friend

  
  MAGICK RIVER — Authority: 130
  Suryia and Roscoe live at the T.I.G.E.R.S sanctuary in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina. The orangutan was in the rescue center and was not doing well. This old hound wandered in truly emaciated and the orangutan took to him the moment the dog arrived . He stayed with the hound night and day until he was ...
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• Indonesia: Suspect in smuggling of rare kangaroos held

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea, a police spokesman said yesterday. The Indonesian suspect was detained on Friday as he offloaded the kangaroos, of a small, rainforest-dwelling variety, in Surabaya, capital of East Java. Five of them had died. The five ...
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• National Zoo prepares to bid farewell to Tai Shan, giant panda born there in 2005

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 633
  A young giant panda who became a major draw after his birth at Washingtons National Zoo will leave for China early next year for breeding. Zoo officials announced Friday that Tai Shan (pronounced "ty shawn") will be leaving the Smithsonian Institution park as soon as January or February. Panda mother Mei Xiang ...
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• Eli Roth Tweaking Endangered Species Script After Notes From Quentin Tarantino, Will Shoot Next Year

  
  MTV Movies Blog — Authority: 715
  In the spring, Eli Roth stopped by MTV News and revealed plans to write and direct a film he declared was "along the lines of Transformers or Cloverfield, " only more fully "science fiction-based and with lots of chaos and mass destruction." In an interview on Friday with MTV, Roth let us know that film — ...
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• Obama: “Restore The Scientific Process To….The Endangered Species Act”

  
  Conservative Zone — Authority: 127
  If only that were true. President Obama yesterday announced that he will rescind actions taken during the Bush administration that would once again restore the process by which actions are taken on endangered species. He also intends to repeal the special rule that exempted energy efforts in the Arctic and the polar ...
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• DNA Forensics Traces Sharks Killed for Their Fins

  
  80beats — Authority: 622
  DISCOVER has covered scientists using DNA to investigate ivory smuggling in Africa and whether that’s endangered bluefin tuna in your sushi in New York City. Now an American team is using to that tactic to get on the trail of another questionable animal market, the sharks killed to make shark fin soup in Asia. ...
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• Report: Rhino Poaching on the Rise

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 716
  Nearly all rhino poaching in Africa since 2006 occurred in Zimbabwe and South Africa, according to a new report compiled by environmental groups.
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• Washington D.C.s baby panda Tai Shan to go to China

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 545
  Tai Shan (tie-SHON), the first surviving giant panda cub born at the Smithsonians National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., will be sent to the Peoples Republic of China in early 2010, as stipulated in the agreement between the Zoo and the Chinese government, the zoo said at a press conference today. Photo of Tai Shan ...
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• Stop now! Destruction to the Environment in Pictures

  
  Art for Gorillas — Authority: 408
  [IMG: http://artforgorillas.wildlifedirect.org/files/2009/12/1-stop-now.jpg][IMG: http://artforgorillas.wildlifedirect.org/files/2009/12/2-stop-now.jpg][IMG: http://artforgorillas.wildlifedirect.org/files/2009/12/3-stop-now.jpg][IMG: http://artforgorillas.wildlifedirect.org/files/2009/12/4-stop-now.jpg][IMG: ...
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• Agency finds prairie dogs not endangered

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 432
  Greenwire : The black-tailed prairie dog should not be listed as an endangered or threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday. The prairie dog population has gone from roughly 1 billion since the early 1900s to an estimated 24 million today. And there may be some new threats that ...
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• Feeding birds can change their evolutionary future

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, December 4 (ANI): A new research has suggested that feeding birds can have profound effects on their evolutionary future, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. The research showed that what was once a single population of birds known as blackcaps has been split into two reproductively ...
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• Birds can tweak their evolutionary fate by feeding

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 4 (IANS) Birds can tweak their evolution with the seemingly innocent pastime of feeding, says a new study.For instance, this feeding habit became instrumental in splitting a single population of blackcaps into two reproductively isolated groups in less than 30 generations, even though they continue to ...
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• Komodo Dragon NXT

  
  The NXT STEP - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Blog — Authority: 428
  This Komodo Dragon is from the Endangered Species NXT book by Fay Rhodes. The still photo in the video is by Dave Parker. The models in the book are built with the Education NXT (#9797) and the Education Resource Set (#9648). For those with other NXT kits, a chart of parts needed to build the books models is below. ...
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• Greenies not happy w/Obama dragging his feet on endangered species and environment

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 153
  http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2009/new-york-times-11-24-2009.html I daresay....HE DOESNT GIVE A RATS ASS. He doesnt care if wild horses and burros, an important part of our culture and heritage, are rounded up, transported in horrible conditions to be slaughtered and put in cans in Mexico ...
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• Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands species

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  We may never see again the Galapagos black-spotted damselfish, the beautiful 24-rayed sunstar, or the Galapagos stringweed. These species from Galapagos waters may all very well be extinct. Other species are on the brink, such as the Galapagos penguin and the Floreana cup coral. A new report in Global Change Biology ...
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• Rare Owls

  
  StrangeArk — Authority: 131
  A profile here on the rare Anjouan scops-owl of the Comoros.
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• Forgotten Species: the haunting whistle of the Anjouan scops-owl

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  I know a two-year-old who is already an owl expert. My friends daughter, Harper, can identify all of North Americas owls by photos or drawings; even more impressive she can identify them by call. There is one owl call, however, that she may never hear. The Anjouan-scops owl, native to Anjouan island apart of the ...
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