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Friday, August 15, 2008

Environmental groups sue federal agencies over San Onofre toll road

California | Local | By Susannah Rosenblatt | August 15, 2008
A coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit this week claiming that U.S. wildlife agencies violated endangered species protections in their support of the proposed toll road through San Onofre State Beach. Read more
 

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Tigers make a fresh start in Baghdad

World | By Tina Susman and Caesar Ahmed | August 9, 2008
Tigers have not fared well in Iraq. Read more
 

On risky terrain with animal décor

Home & Garden | By Jeff Spurrier | August 9, 2008
THEY were the kind of browsers that no store wants: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents, armed with a search warrant and intent on seizing computers and questioning employees. Read more
 

Survival of freed condors doubted

California | Local | By Margot Roosevelt | August 9, 2008
The California condor, rescued from extinction in an elaborate and expensive recovery effort, has become tantamount to a zoo animal in the wild and can’t survive on its own without a ban on lead ammunition across its vast western ranges, a scientific study has concluded. Read more
 

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Protections reinstated for wolves

National | By Tami Abdollah | July 19, 2008
Gray wolves in the northern Rockies regained endangered-species protections Friday when a federal judge in Montana granted a preliminary injunction to environmentalists, who had challenged the wolves’ delisting. Read more
 

Friday, July 18, 2008

Endangered species get new aid

California | Local | By Maura Dolan | July 18, 2008
The California Supreme Court gave new protection to the state’s endangered species Thursday, ruling unanimously that developers, loggers and other commercial interests may be required to compensate for unforeseen wildlife losses. Read more
 

Monday, July 7, 2008

Pact splits environmentalists

California | Local | By Louis Sahagun | July 7, 2008
Environmentalists who brokered a landmark agreement with a developer to set aside 240,000 acres of California wilderness are facing the ire of colleagues within the conservation community who contend that they, as one detractor put it, “sold out to the forces of destruction.” Read more
 

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Slow, steady – and under siege

California | Local | By Louis Sahagun | May 11, 2008
As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher Kristina Drake approached with caution as a creature with weary eyes, a scuffed carapace and skin as rough as rhino hide peered at her from the edge of a dirt road just east of here. Read more
 

Friday, May 9, 2008

Lawsuit on gray wolves to move forward

National | May 9, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Off Chile, resurfacing

World | By Patrick J. Mcdonnell | April 28, 2008
From the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile’s cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. Read more
 

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Federal protection considered for the sage grouse

National | April 27, 2008
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Polar bears may have to chill 10 weeks

National | April 18, 2008
The Interior Department wants 10 more weeks to decide whether polar bears should be listed as threatened or endangered, a delay that conservation groups condemned as tied to the transfer of offshore petroleum leases in the animal’s habitat. Read more
 

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Study backing more water for Southland is thrown out

California | Local | By Eric Bailey | April 17, 2008
A federal judge Wednesday invalidated a plan that justified boosted water exports from Northern California, ruling that it failed to account for the effects on endangered salmon and steelhead. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bevy of blues emerges in a breeding frenzy

California | Local | March 18, 2008
Hidden by the darkness of a half-moon sky, nine students and their biologist mentor waded through waist-high brush one night last week, hunting for yellow-flowering deer weed to shelter one of the rarest butterflies in America. Read more
 

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Panthers are at heart of off-road controversy

National | February 17, 2008
It has taken sweat, serendipity and five hours for Matthew Schwartz to find a single paw print of a Florida panther stamped in the swamp muck. Read more
 

Saturday, February 9, 2008

State protects longfin smelt

California | Local | February 9, 2008
In a move that could usher in even tighter restrictions on water exports to Southern California, state wildlife regulators have decided to protect another fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Read more
 

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Groups sue over rule that would allow killing of wolves

National | January 29, 2008
Environmental groups have sued to block a federal rule that would allow state wildlife agents and private citizens to kill more endangered gray wolves in the northern Rockies. Read more
 

Friday, January 25, 2008

Federal rule to allow more hunting of gray wolves

National | January 25, 2008
State game agencies and private citizens would be allowed to kill federally protected gray wolves that threatened dogs or seriously decreased deer, elk or moose populations in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains, under a federal rule announced Thursday. Read more
 

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Black abalone may join endangered species list; action could fund restoration

California | Local | January 12, 2008
The federal government on Friday proposed declaring the black abalone an endangered species, the first step in an effort to bring back the once-abundant mollusk ravaged by disease and excessive harvesting. Read more
 

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Activists aim to protect antelopes from shawl trade

Business | By Shankhadeep Choudhury | December 26, 2007
Help me, please,” pleads the chiru on the poster that adorns several up-market boutiques across this capital city and beyond. Read more
 
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