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(AP) -- A partial federal assessment of Pacific walruses estimates their minimum population at just 15,164 but says the count likely missed a number of animals. http://www.physorg.com/news164593598.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:50:01 EST news164593598 Legal loopholes and insufficient law enforcement mean that Thailand continues to harbour the largest illegal ivory market in Asia, says a new report from the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. http://www.physorg.com/news164594748.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:46:13 EST news164594748 (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act. http://www.physorg.com/news163910542.html Biology Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:42:32 EST news163910542 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), in an effort to safeguard its natural heritage, has released the country's first-ever list of protected species now banned from hunting or harvest. http://www.physorg.com/news163330977.html Biology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:48:12 EST news163330977 Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news163103381.html Biology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:30:10 EST news163103381 (AP) -- Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news161676121.html Biology Sat, 16 May 2009 07:02:35 EST news161676121 (AP) -- A species of birds able to fly immediately after hatching from eggs buried beneath the tropical sand has just been given its own private beach in eastern Indonesia, a conservation group said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news161583289.html Biology Fri, 15 May 2009 05:15:44 EST news161583289 (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can reconsider the critical habitat designation of two threatened fish species in New Mexico and Arizona after a probe found political interference likely affected scientists' findings. http://www.physorg.com/news160893976.html Biology Thu, 07 May 2009 05:46:45 EST news160893976 Wildlife imports into the United States are fragmented and insufficiently coordinated, failing to accurately list more than four in five species entering the country, a team of scientists has found. The effect, the scientists write in a paper in this week's issue of Science, is that a range of diseases is introduced into the United States, potentially decimating species, devastating ecosystems and threatening food supply chains and human health. http://www.physorg.com/news160321726.html Biology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:50:09 EST news160321726 A wolverine first photographed by a remote-controlled camera on the Tahoe National Forest in February 2008 is most closely related to Rocky Mountain populations, according to a team of 10 federal, state and university scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news160238567.html Biology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:43:08 EST news160238567 A limestone countertop, a practiced eye and Google Earth all played roles in the discovery of a trove of fossils that may shed light on the origins of African wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news160157349.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:09:49 EST news160157349 Populations of major wild grazing animals that are the heart and soul of Kenya's cherished and heavily visited Masai Mara National Reserve -including giraffes, hartebeest, impala, and warthogs -have "decreased substantially" in only 15 years as they compete for survival with a growing concentration of human settlements in the region, according to a new study published today in the May 2009 issue of the British Journal of Zoology. http://www.physorg.com/news159599572.html Biology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:13:35 EST news159599572 (AP) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to overturn a controversial Bush administration regulation that limits the reach of the Endangered Species Act. http://www.physorg.com/news159346025.html Biology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:47:47 EST news159346025 (AP) -- Federal wildlife officials say they plan to spend more than $14 million to prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian crow, one of the rarest forest birds in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news159344591.html Biology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:23:29 EST news159344591 Lack of law enforcement against illegal trade in Indonesia threatens the survival of orangutans and gibbons on Sumatra, a new study by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC shows. http://www.physorg.com/news159190623.html Biology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:37:26 EST news159190623 Do zoos have serious programs to save endangered species, besides putting a few captives on display for everyone to see? (Kelly Traw, Seattle) http://www.physorg.com/news158839948.html Biology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:12:54 EST news158839948 Longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay-Delta do not warrant protection under the federal endangered species law, regulators said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158518103.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:49:10 EST news158518103 (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a formal rule Wednesday to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered list in Montana and Idaho while keeping protections in Wyoming. http://www.physorg.com/news157831782.html Biology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:38:41 EST news157831782 (AP) -- For decades, the poisonous cane toad has plagued Australians, breeding rapidly, eating voraciously and bestowing death upon most animals that dare consume it. http://www.physorg.com/news157290216.html Biology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:44:40 EST news157290216 New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote cameras. The software, described in an issue of the journal Biology Letters, may also help identify the origin of tigers from confiscated skins. http://www.physorg.com/news156085481.html Biology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:05:45 EST news156085481 The Wildlife Conservation Society`s India Program (WCS - India) has released a unique training video on YouTube that showcases the latest scientific methods for estimating the numbers of wild tigers and their prey. http://www.physorg.com/news155831310.html Biology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:29:18 EST news155831310 President Barack Obama on Tuesday restored rules requiring assessment by wildlife experts on the impact of government projects on endangered species, revoking the policy of the former Bush administration. http://www.physorg.com/news155322997.html Biology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:17:18 EST news155322997 Magnets taped to the heads of captured crocodiles could keep them from returning to South Florida neighborhoods where they're not wanted, state wildlife officials said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news154696554.html Biology Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:16:19 EST news154696554 A Wildlife Conservation Society-supported survey of the Sahara has captured the first camera-trap photographs of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah in Algeria. The survey was conducted by researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the Office du Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA), and the Université de Béjaďa, with support from WCS and Panthera. http://www.physorg.com/news154695999.html Biology Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:07:26 EST news154695999 A quarter-century of data reveals how changing weather patterns and land use, combined with overfishing and pollution, are taking a heavy toll on penguin numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news153684137.html Biology Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:03:29 EST news153684137 The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish. http://www.physorg.com/news153494857.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:06 EST news153494857 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador -one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news152294109.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:55:31 EST news152294109 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, likely from regional warming and related drought conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news151856202.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:18 EST news151856202 New data released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) reveals that a population of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park may be the largest in Southeast Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news151160631.html Biology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:51 EST news151160631 (PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping water vole and mink populations apart is vital if efforts to reintroduce water voles, one of Britain`s most endangered mammals, are to be successful. http://www.physorg.com/news150728581.html Biology Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:03:01 EST news150728581