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• Transmitters implanted in orangutans for tracking after release into the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  For the first time transmitters have been implanted in orangutans to track their daily movements. The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) has implanted transmitters into three orangutans that have been released back into the wild from Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of ...
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• District Court judge: Yellowstones grizzly bears must stay on endangered species list

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 650
  Billings, Mont. — A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service two years ago said grizzlies in and around Yellowstone National ...
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• Sushi "Tuna" Might Be Endangered, Dangerous, Or Fake [Busted]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 789
  Biologists testing DNA code identification technology discovered that the tuna they ordered at sushi restaurants was actually hazardous or fake fish, or even an endangered species . According to Wired , the biologists visited 31 restaurants in Denver and Manhattan to evaluate technology that analyzes the DNA ...
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• NYC Sushi Contains Endangered Bluefin Tuna… And Other Surpises, DNA Barcoding Shows

  
  80beats — Authority: 646
  Sushi lovers, we’ve got some bad news. For a study that came out in PLoS One , researchers ordered sushi at restaurants across New York City and Denver, Colo., and found that an alarming percentage wasn’t made from the fish it was advertised to be. More than half of the eateries weren’t completely clear and ...
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• Your morning adorable: Elephants canoodle at new Thai elephant retirement home

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 650
  Thailands new Pang La Elephant Rehabilitation Center officially opened over the weekend, becoming the first facility of its kind in the country known for its love affair with elephants.  The center, in Thailands Lampang province, plans to care for up to 200 elderly and disabled Asian elephants ; currently, about ...
  8 hours ago

• Rhino ‘Bodyguards’ Making a Difference in Nepal

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  In Nepal’s Bardia National Park, bodyguards are protecting greater one-horned rhinos from poachers. The rhino bodyguards - riding atop elephants - are making a difference: Since deployment of the program 18 months ago, there have not been any rhinos killed by poachers in Bardia National Park. Read more of this ...
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• Idaho Extends Wolf Hunt In Some Regions

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 525
  It was decided by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission last week to extend the wolf hunt in seven of the wolf hunting zones. This is because of the lack of reaching desired quotas during the initial hunt that is scheduled to end on December 31, 2009. The wolf hunts were set up to run a specific duration but would be ...
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• All Hail the Unendangered Wild Turkey: A Thanksgiving Reflection

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 519
  Imagine sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner in a world without wild turkeys . It’s hard to conceive —if you live in the United States, chances are you’re just a short distance away from a large population of these birds. They roam forests, wood lots, farm fields and prairies from Maine to Florida , ...
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• Endangered species sold for hunting

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  The scimitar horned oryx, one of the endangered species kept at Tipperary, has been sold to a hunting safari.
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• The koala wars

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Its cute and its cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politics When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a ...
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• November 22, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 117
  November 22,  2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber .  If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every ...
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• The NXT Frog

  
  The NXT STEP - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Blog — Authority: 132
  Some days ago, I received a copy of Fay Rhodes new book "Robots Alive! Endangered Species" and this weekend, I started to build some of the very nice animals included (of which already two movies have been posted here). First one was the leaping NXT Frog : Building time: 20 minutes Programming time: 3 minutes ...
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• St Louis Zoo Exhibits Robotic Bears as a Sad Social Commentary on Climate Change

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 140
  St Louis Zoo will showcase electronic bears for their upcoming holiday special Wild Lights exhibition. Polar bears have been most prominently featured animals in the global warming and climate change campaigns. They are facing most threat due rising temperature and melting polar caps. St Louis Robotic Bears will be a ...
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• Trout Fishing Causing the Demise of...Frogs

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  photo: Vance Vredenburg I wrote about the plight of California frogs back in August as a result of a pesticide cloud blowing into Californias Sierra Mountains, deforming and killing off Californias Pacific tree frogs and foothill yellow-legged frogs. Now another threat to Californias frog population comes in the ...
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• Dolphin killed by poachers in Patna

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) A Gangetic dolphin, an endangered species, was killed by poachers on the banks of the river here, an official said Sunday.The official said the 1.6 metre long national aquatic animal is suspected to have been killed by poachers Saturday.Bihar’s chief Wildlife Warden B.A. Khan has ordered the ...
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• DNA Tests Uncover Sushi Fraud At Restaurants

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Photo: Is that really tuna? ( LFL16 on Flickr) The next time you order tuna at a sushi restaurant - watch out! - it may not be what you think it is. A team of scientists from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History conducting a genetic research project found that more than half of tuna ordered ...
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• “Delta Smelt, What’s that (Dead) Flower You Have On…”

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  “Delta Smelt, What’s that (Dead) Flower You Have On…” By justinwashingtontheblogger “Could it be a Faded Rose from Days Gone By?” Lyrics (Polluted) by Justin Washington and Tribute to Tanya Tucker As the plaintiff song wafts in the air, so goes California’s golden dream — because of a small, silver fish ...
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• Editorial: Tuna’s Death Spiral

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The United States should stick to its guns and list the bluefin tuna as an endangered species to protect it from being fished into extinction.
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• Your morning adorable: Three bumps -- er, Siberian tiger cubs -- on a log

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 650
  Germanys Nuremberg Zoo welcomed Rangar, Khan and Domur, Siberian tiger cubs, back in August. Since Siberian tigers (also called Amur tigers) are endangered -- its believed that only about 400 to 500 animals remain in the wild in eastern Russia and parts of China and North Korea -- these three healthy cubs have ...
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• Biodiversity loss is Earths immense and hidden tragedy, Darwins natural heir warns

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Problem of biodiversity loss has been eased off centre stage by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as Darwins natural heir The diversity of life on Earth is undergoing an "immense and hidden" tragedy that requires the scale of global response now being deployed to ...
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