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		<title>High Ethical Standards Will Rule Interior Department, Salazar Vows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; The Obama administration&#8217;s new Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, has promised that high ethical standards will be the norm at the department that has been plagued with scandals under the Bush administration. In an address to thousands of Interior Department employees Thursday broadcast live by satellite to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Freezes Pending Federal Rules, Wolves May Benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; In one of his first presidential acts, President Barack Obama has ordered federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel issued the memorandum Tuesday shortly after Obama took the oath of office at noon on the [...]]]></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>Bush Adminstration Proposes Second Interagency Group for Bison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; In the waning days of the Bush administration, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne Tuesday announced a plan to conserve bison, also called buffalo, with a second interagency group. He said the department will work with state, tribal and agricultural interests to promote cooperative conservation in bison management. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecosystem Approach to Hawaii Wildlife Welcome But Not New</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU, Hawaii, October 5. 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Conservationists are expressing mixed reactions to the federal government&#8217;s proposal to add 48 species found only on the island of Kauai to the federal endangered species list and also to designate critical habitat for them. While advocates support the ecosystem approach proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Administration Peppered With Endangered Species Lawsuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Oregon, October 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity today filed five separate lawsuits in federal court all charging the Bush administration with political interference in designation of critical habitat for six western species that are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The species include two birds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria, Cameroon Cooperate to Save Most Endangered Ape</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/09/nigeria-cameroon-cooperate-to-save-most-endangered-ape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, New York, September 5, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; With just 300 individuals left in the wild, Cross River gorillas have found new conservation support from the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, the only two countries where these great apes live. Representatives from the two nations agreed last week to improve trans-boundary cooperation to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameroon-Canada-U.S. Ivory Smuggler Gets Five Years</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/08/cameroon-canada-us-ivory-smuggler-gets-five-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AKRON, Ohio, August 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; An art dealer who operated import and export businesses in Canada and Cameroon that were fronts for smuggling raw elephant ivory has been sentenced to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for smuggling ivory from Cameroon into the United States. Canadian citizen and former Montreal resident [...]]]></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>California&#8217;s Delta Smelt Could Merit Endangered Listing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, California, July 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The delta smelt, a small silvery fish that has come to represent the condition of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, may be declared an endangered species under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service action announced Wednesday. The federal agency made a positive preliminary finding on a petition by three environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Tries to Clear the Air at Two National Parks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas, June 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; To comply with federal air quality requirements for national parks, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is revising the State Implementation Plan, SIP, to address visibility at both Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains parks and at protected areas in neighboring states. The federal rule calls for visibility improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Boot Dealer Jailed for Smuggling Sea Turtle Skins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado, June 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Jorge Caraveo of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Denver to serve 18 months in prison for his participation in the sale and smuggling of sea turtle and other exotic skins and skin products into the United States from Mexico. Along with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law Would Save Half Million Acres of California Wilderness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Legislation to protect almost half a million acres of federal public lands in California has been introduced in Congress on a bipartisan basis. The Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act will give wilderness designations to 472,804 acres of public land, the highest level of protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Million Acres of Hawaii Watersheds to Be Conserved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOLCANO, Hawaii, May 27, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A new partnership of public and private landowners has been created to protect watersheds and natural resources across more than one million acres on Mauna Loa, Kilauea and Hualalai on the island of Hawaii. The Three Mountain Alliance watershed partnership will consist of nine partners who will cooperate [...]]]></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>Everglades Ablaze, Suspected Arsonist Arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI, Florida, May 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A 7,000 acres fire, most likely human-caused, in Everglades National Park will be fully suppressed, according to park superintendent Dan Kimball, because it is burning close to two populations of a federally listed endangered species, the Cape Sable seaside sparrow. &#8220;Our highest priority, as always, is firefighter and [...]]]></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>Galveston Bay Bird Sanctuary Protected From Erosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GALVESTON, Texas, May 9, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Three bird species of concern have been conserved by completion of an erosion-protection project on North Deer Island in West Galveston Bay. Project partners protected the densely populated bird nesting habitat by armoring 1.7 miles of shoreline, including the north side of the island adjacent to the Intracoastal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Woman Honored for Saving Puerto Rican Coastal Wetland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI, Florida, May 7, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Mildred Ramos Majoros of Miami has been named the winner of the 2008 National Wetlands Award for Conservation and Restoration. The award honors her multi-year effort as a project manager with the Trust for Public Land to preserve 270 acres of critical coastal habitat in Puerto Rico that [...]]]></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>Corps Hears Missouri Flood Concerns, Neutralizes Spring Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMAHA, Nebraska, March 27, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will adjust releases from five tributary dams in Missouri and Kansas to eliminate the spring pulse, also called the spring rise &#8211; the release of millions of gallons of water on the Missouri River below Kansas City. The 48 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Knots Get to Feast on Horseshoe Crab Eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRENTON, New Jersey, March 26, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Governor Jon Corzine Tuesday signed legislation imposing a moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs in New Jersey so that starving shorebirds can feed. Horseshoe crab eggs at Delaware Bay are a primary source of food for red knots on their way north to breed in the Canadian Arctic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crush, Don&#8217;t Flush Campaign Launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO, California, March 18, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Monday signed a formal agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association, APhA, to help protect fish and aquatic resources from the improper disposal of medication. The campaign &#8211; tagged &#8220;SMARxT DISPOSAL&#8221; &#8211; informs people [...]]]></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>Wolverine Denied Endangered Species Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Bush administration announced today that it has no obligation to protect endangered wildlife, provided their U.S. populations are contiguous with larger populations in Canada or Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it has determined that protecting the wolverine in the contiguous United States as a [...]]]></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>Canada Lynx May Win Back Critical Habitat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 28, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released revised plans to establish critical habitat for Canada lynx in Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. The new habitat protection plan is in response to an investigation that found that a Bush administration political appointees interfered with the scientific [...]]]></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>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>Court Rules Against Arizona Cattlemen, for Mexican Spotted Owl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 15th, Phoenix, AZ &#8211; The federal district court in Phoenix has upheld protection of 8.6 million acres of critical habitat for the threatened Mexican spotted owl in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. For the Mexican spotted owl, critical habitat ensures that Forest Service logging does not drive the owl to extinction or limit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Government Petitioned to Protect Pacific Walrus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 7, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Pacific walrus is threatened by global warming and oil development throughout its range and needs the shelter of the federal Endangered Species Act, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity warned today, filing a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the walrus for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old-Growth Nesting Seabird Keeps Threatened Species Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A federal district court Tuesday turned back the timber industry&#8217;s latest attempt to remove federal protections from the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in the old-growth trees of the Pacific Northwest. In order to increase logging of trees over 100 years old, lawyers for the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain Wolf Killing Rule Goes to Court</title>
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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>
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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>Manatee Protection Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Even as it seeks to downgrade protections for the endangered Florida manatee, the Bush administration is withholding records about how well key protections are being implemented, claims a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a national nonprofit association of government workers in natural resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationists: Jaguar Recovery Abandoned in Favor of Border Wall</title>
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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>
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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>Chinese Smugglers Caught With Endangered Sea Turtle Shell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado, January 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Guitar picks and violin bows made from the shells of endangered hawksbill sea turtles plus several pounds of raw hawksbill shell sent to the United States from China were intercepted by U.S. authorities, who busted a group of Chinese nationals and charged them with smuggling. Fu Yiner, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Company Convicted of Queen Conch Smuggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, January 9, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; An 18 month long investigation into trafficking of meat from the endangered Caribbean Queen conch into Florida has resulted in a British Columbia company being fined a Canadian record high wildlife fine of over $78,000. On Friday, Pacific Marine Union Corporation entered a guilty plea in [...]]]></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>Grants of $20.5 Million Safeguard Coastal Wetlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Twenty-nine conservation projects encompassing nearly 10,000 acres of coastal wetlands will be funded with $20.5 million from 2008 National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Friday. The grants will be used to acquire, restore or enhance coastal wetlands to provide long-term conservation benefits to fish, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery Starts for Most Endangered U.S. Waterbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDWAY ATOLL, Near Hawaii, January 3, 2007 (ENS) &#8211; The rarest native waterfowl in the United States, a species of duck called the Laysan teal, has increased its numbers five-fold over the past year at a rat-free refuge that was once part of its historic range. Biologists with the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish and Wildlife Service Claims Sacramento River Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, California, January 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Two islands in the Sacramento River owned by the federal government have been closed to filing of new mining claims and are proposed to be withdrawn from the general land laws and transferred from the Bureau of Land Management to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Todd Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Coastal Wind Farms May Put Birds at Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON, Texas, January 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Two wind power projects under construction in Kenedy County, Texas will pose a threat to migratory and resident birds and bats, according to a scientific study released today by the Coastal Habitat Alliance. The two projects, both being built on private ranch land, will be the first wind [...]]]></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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