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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

“The overall numbers are still tiny compared with the original populations before whaling started, but the trend is at last in the right direction,” said John Calambokidis, a marine scientist whose research on whale movements and populations has just been published in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

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JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction.

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MAY 8, 2018

More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting it from “endangered” to “threatened.”. Due to substantial improvements in its population and its prospects, the U.S.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 101

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Now with the evidence that the reversal of negative population trend is possible, the next big task ahead is to sustain it and make the 2022 target of 7,000 a reality, hopefully even with a year or two to spare. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' Cover photo: Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. But recent trends are disturbing: after years of stability, the wintering bird community declined dramatically after 2001. Both territories are also part of the U.S.

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JUNE 28, 2018

I point you to a post I wrote a couple of years ago on “ Wildlife Conservation Myths ” that not only pertains to this subject but offers a disturbing trend of Republicans attempting to remove or diminish many of our public lands. It is obvious that hunting is NOT conservation.

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