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		<title>Loggerhead Sea Turtle Deaths Prompt Lawsuit Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAINESVILLE, Florida, January 23, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; A coalition of conservation groups has notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of its intent to file a lawsuit as early as March if the agency does not act immediately to protect imperiled sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. The action comes after fisheries observer data showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit Challenges 11th Hour Cuts in Endangered Species Protections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 17, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Regulations announced by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne last week that would exempt many federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act were published in the Federal Register Tuesday. But the regulations are being challenged in court by three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Fish Expert Tries to Save the Last Sawfish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAINESVILLE, Florida, December 8, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; &#8220;Today, it&#8217;s difficult to find a bar in South Florida that doesn&#8217;t have a sawfish &#8216;saw&#8217; hanging on the wall,&#8221; says George Burgess, a University of Florida ichthyologist, or fish expert. Burgess serves as curator of the International Shark Attack File and also as keeper of the newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Redford: Mr. President, Respect Our Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans Rejected &#8216;Drill, Baby, Drill.&#8217; Bush Should Respect Our Choice. By Robert Redford Part of the change Americans just voted for in overwhelming numbers was to move away from the failed energy philosophy of &#8220;drill, baby, drill&#8221; to a more farsighted strategy, emphasized by Barack Obama, based on clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Yet on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People-Panther Guidelines Issued as Florida Panther Population Grows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; There are now between 80 and 100 panthers in Florida, a four-fold increase over the past 25 years, federal wildlife officials said today, announcing new guidelines for human-panther interaction. One of the rarest large mammals in the United States, the Florida panther, Puma concolor coryi, is listed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Boycott Senate Review of Bush Environmental Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, September 24, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing today to review the Bush administration&#8217;s record on public health and environmental matters, but it was conducted in the absence of Ranking Member Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a Republican and former chair of the committee. Senator Inhofe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds Allow More Comment Time on Endangered Species Act Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, September 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Today, the Bush administration announced that it would extend the comment period on a proposed rule that conservationists claim would weaken the Endangered Species Act. Last month, more than 100 citizens groups asked the administration for adequate time to respond to the proposal that would change the conservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sneaky&#8217; Bush Attack on Endangered Species Angers Conservationists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, August 21, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Saying the Bush administration&#8217;s most recent Endangered Species Act rulemaking is &#8220;anti-democratic,&#8221; 104 conservation and scientific organizations today submitted a letter to Cabinet officials calling for increased transparency and opportunities for public participation. The new rule published in the Federal Register last week would change the way the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Proposal Bypasses Endangered Species Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, August 12, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Bush administration has proposed sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act, releasing a plan to give federal agencies the authority to decide without expert consultation whether their activities could harm endangered and threatened species. Administration officials contend the proposal will make the law easier to implement, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Rockies Wolves Temporarily Back on Endangered List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Montana, July 21, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction restoring gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains to the endangered species list and halting the indiscrimate killing of wolves for the duration of a trial in which conservationist plaintiffs contest the removal of the wolves from the protected list. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat Protection Sought for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Three conservation groups filed a formal petition today asking the federal government to protect areas on the main Hawaiian islands as critical habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal under the Endangered Species Act. As monk seal populations plummet on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the main islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caribbean Monk Seal Declared Extinct</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/06/caribbean-monk-seal-declared-extinct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; After a five year review, federal government scientists have determined that the Caribbean monk seal has gone extinct. No Caribbean monk seal has been seen for more than 50 years. Also known as the West Indian monk seal, this was the only subtropical seal native to the Caribbean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Pygmy Owl Could Be Relisted as Endangered</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A petition by environmental groups seeking renewed protection for a miniature Southwestern owl has presented enough new information to persuade the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the bird deserves to be considered for relisting as an endangered species. The agency announced Friday that it will now conduct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Service Could Be Sued as Visitors Trash Arizona Creek</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Arizona, May 23, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity today filed a 60 day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service for Endangered Species Act violations at Fossil Creek in central Arizona. Addressed to Regional Forester Corbin Newman, the notice states that the Forest Service has failed to consult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Lists Polar Bear as Threatened But Balks at New Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/05/us-lists-polar-bear-as-threatened-but-balks-at-new-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Bush administration reluctantly declared the polar bear a threatened species today, concluding that the loss of Arctic sea ice has put the future of the iconic species in peril. But the administration also took steps to ensure the decision will not require new efforts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Now Endangered Species Candidate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Rio Grande cutthroat trout is declining and its conservation status is &#8220;cause for concern&#8221; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said today. After a review of this native fish&#8217;s situation, the Service is recommending that the subspecies be formally proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationists Pursue Legal Protection for Northern Rockies Wolves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Montana, April 29, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Twelve conservation groups Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court here challenging the federal government&#8217;s decision to remove the northern Rockies gray wolf population from the list of endangered species. Management of this population of wolves is now in the hands of three states &#8211; Wyoming, Idaho and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Service Bid to Lift Wildlife Protections Met With Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A coalition of 14 conservation groups filed suit today in federal court to block the U.S. Forest Service from implementing a new rule that would remove protections for fish, wildlife, and other resources throughout the 192-million acre National Forest System. Issued earlier this month, the rule represents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Turtles Containing Mercury and Pesticides Sold as Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Arizona, March 30, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Turtles collected in four southern states and sold as food are often contaminated with mercury, pesticides andpolychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, according to a coalition of conservation and health groups seeking to stop the export of contaminated turtles to international food markets. The Center for Biological Diversity Thursday filed emergency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Orders Renewed Protection for Desert Bald Eagle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX, Arizona, March 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon have won a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue Endangered Species Act protection for the desert nesting bald eagle, found mostly in Arizona. The groups challenged the Service&#8217;s 2006 rejection of their October 6, 2004 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Press Legal Action on Behalf of Polar Bears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Three conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration on Monday for missing the legal deadline to issue a final decision on whether or not to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Administration Sued Over Penguins Harmed by Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Concerned that 10 penguin species are threatened by global warming, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the Bush administration Friday for failing to take action to protect these penguin species threatened by global warming under the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit, brought against Secretary of Interior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Seek Emergency Endangered Listing for Red Knot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 28, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Emergency protections are needed to prevent further declines in numbers of a small migratory shorebird called the red knot, warns a letter submitted to federal officials Wednesday by the American Bird Conservancy and eight other conservation groups. The red knot makes one of the longest yearly migrations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationists Serve Notice of Lawsuit Over Wolf Delisting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Eleven conservation groups fighting to protect wolves in the northern Rockies today notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the agency has violated the Endangered Species Act by removing the northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population from the federal list of endangered species. The groups put the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Delisting of Northern Rockies Wolves Headed for Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 21, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Environmental groups from across the United States are planning legal action in an attempt to reverse today&#8217;s decision by the federal government to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains from the Endangered Species List. &#8220;The gray wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains is thriving and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Orders Cell Tower Safeguards for Birds Along Gulf Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 19, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A federal appeals court today ordered the Federal Communications Commission to establish safeguards to protect the millions of birds killed each year in collisions with telephone, radio, cellular and other communications towers in the Gulf Coast region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that at least five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Ignored on Pitfalls of Arctic Oil Leasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Interior Department is hastening to stop the flow of internal e-mails from its own scientists that undermine the legality of its offshore oil and gas lease sales in federal Arctic waters, according to correspondence released Monday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER. During the past three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain Wolf Killing Rule Goes to Court</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/01/rocky-mountain-wolf-killing-rule-goes-to-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Montana, January 28, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; In a bid to bar states from aerial gunning and other state-sponsored killing of wolves, seven conservation groups today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Missoula to stop the implementation of a new Bush administration rule that lowers the bar for wolf killing when a state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain Gray Wolves in the Crosshairs</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/01/rocky-mountain-gray-wolves-in-the-crosshairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced new regulations that will allow states to kill gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, despite the fact that wolves are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Service says the revision allows states and tribes with approved wolf management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationists: Jaguar Recovery Abandoned in Favor of Border Wall</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/01/conservationists-jaguar-recovery-abandoned-in-favor-of-border-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SILVER CITY, New Mexico, January 23, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it will not prepare a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar and will not attempt to recover the species in the United States or throughout its range in North and South America. The decision was signed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuits Force Listing of Six Rare Birds as Endangered</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/01/lawsuits-force-listing-of-six-rare-birds-as-endangered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed six rare birds from around the world as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Fourteen years after first determining these species warranted protection, the Service responded to a series of lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity and listed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Lawmakers Hot Over Polar Bear Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Key polar bear habitat should be held off limits to oil and gas drilling until federal wildlife officials have determined whether the species should be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming said today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation Groups Sue to Block Electric Transmission Corridors</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/01/conservation-groups-sue-to-block-electric-transmission-corridors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 10, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Eleven regional and national environmental organizations today announced plans to file suit against the Department of Energy over its final designation of a mid-Atlantic National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor. On October 5, the Energy Department published its order designating two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors &#8211; the Mid-Atlantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Administration Abandons Effort to Undercut National Forest Protections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 9, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Conservation groups are declaring a &#8220;victory for public participation&#8221; as the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry Monday abandoned their appeals of a federal court decision that invalidated a Bush administration rule removing environmental protections for the 192 million acre National Forest System. Endangered California spotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Seeking Polar Bear Listing to Sue Bush Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Three environmental groups today said they will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to make a decision about whether or not to place the polar bear on the federal Endangered Species List by this coming Wednesday. To survive, polar bears must contend with shrinking sea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polar Bear Habitats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Warming is causing a 9 degree Fahrenheit average temperature change in arctic areas. This temperature change is wreaking havoc on the polar bear hunting grounds (sea ice) and disrupting their natural feeding habits. Polar bears hunt seals and other fish for sustenance, and they cannot do this without ample supply of sea ice. Depleting [...]]]></description>
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