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Bird Litigation: Is the Golden-cheeked Warbler Still Endangered?

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The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered ” under the Endangered Species Act.

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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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Which species are endangered? Which animals could be on a slippery slope to becoming endangered? Knowing this information is vital for coming up with timely solutions, perhaps most of all for animals and plants truly on the brink of being lost forever. Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).

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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Despite the long history of impacts and steady population decline, the Andean Flamingo has been declared endangered as recent as September 2010. Foraging Andean Flamingo (Photo: Emily Chin – Flickr).

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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

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The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. These islands and their surrounding waters are protected as part of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

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We live in a world of information over-saturation. The internet is great at collecting information, but it is at best so-so at working out what’s actually important. (It’s Efforts to protect some of the most vulnerable species would be redirected to better protecting the larger swathe of species held in important habitat.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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And, it is this spirit of acceptance, an embrace of this pristine wilderness and its inhabitants–even when he’s fording a river in icy slush up to his waist or waiting in bitter cold for a fish owl to come into a trap or getting lost in the middle of a snowy nowhere—that informs this book and brings us totally into his world.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

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