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Lindsay Gordon

National Wildlife Federation's Photo Contest Winners (thedailygreen.com) - 0 views

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    Highlights from the National Wildlife Federation Magazine Photo Contest in 2009, including tigers, fish, birds, rabbits and bugs.
Patrick Thornton

Government proposes python import ban - 0 views

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    The U.S Fish & Wildlife Service wants to ban the importation of Burmese pythons, and eight other large constrictor snakes that threaten the Everglades.
Lindsay Gordon

Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death : TreeHugger - 0 views

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    11 rare and endangered Siberian Tigers starved to death while confined to 'cold, cramped metal cages' at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in China's North-East. This treatment raises questions about China's conservation efforts, suggesting that "zoos and wildlife parts may be deliberately breeding more animals than they can afford, hoping to sell off the carcasses onto a black market where tiger parts fetch a high price for use in traditional medicines and liquor."
Patrick Thornton

Wildlife Conservation Society Lists "Rarest of the Rare" Species - 1 views

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    Here is the list: Cuban crocodile, Grenada dove, Florida bonneted bat, Green-eyed frog, Hirola, Ploughshare tortoise, Island gray fox, Sumatran orangutan, Vanquita, White-headed langur.
Patrick Thornton

Parks key to saving India's great mammals from extinction - 0 views

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    ""The declines of species were so dramatic, widespread and so recent. I wish I could have seen what the country was like in 1800s with all this wildlife," Karanth says"
Patrick Thornton

Environmentalists and locals win fight against coal plant in Borneo - 0 views

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    The State and Federal government announced today that they would "pursue other alternative sources of energy, namely gas, to meet Sabah's power supply needs." Proposed for an undeveloped beach on the north-eastern coast of Borneo, the coal plant, according to critics, would have threatened the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and Tabin Wildlife Reserve, home to Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinos and Bornean orangutans. Local fishermen feared that discharges from the plant would have imperiled their livelihood.
Lindsay Gordon

Still More Evidence- Warming to Bring Stronger Hurricances (Wildlife Promise) - 0 views

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    Overall strength of storms as measured in wind speed would rise by 2 to 11 percent, but there would be between 6 and 34 percent fewer storms in number, a new report from a World Meteorological Organization panel of 10 experts indicates. There would be fewer weak and moderate storms and more of the big damaging ones. "An 11 percent increase in wind speed translates to roughly a 60 percent increase in damage, said study co-author Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT."
Lindsay Gordon

United Nations Reject Coral Protections: Wildlife Promise - 0 views

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    "Delegates at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) rejected yesterday a proposal that would have regulated the trade of red and pink coral worldwide. The proposal, offered by the United States and Sweden, would have regulated for the first time red and pink coral, which is used for the jewelry, home decor and homeopathic medicine market."
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