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State Protections Sought for Imperiled Southern California Butterfly
The Center for Biological Diversity and Endangered Habitats League petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today ...
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$25 Million Federal Grant Awarded for Red Wolf Crossings
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Federal Highway Administration today announced a $25 million grant for North Carolina to build wildlife crossings that will help save critically endangered Red Wolves. Only 16 red ...
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Four Caribbean Lizards Proposed for Endangered Species Protections
Three of the species included in today’s notice are from the territory of Puerto Rico: the Culebra skink (Culebra and the ...
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Forest Service Urged to Update N.C.’s Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Plan in Wake of Hurricane Helene
Conservation groups sent a letter Tuesday urging the U.S. Forest Service to amend the Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan because of the tremendous damage from Hurricane Helene to North Carolina’s Nantahala ...
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Map: U.S. Threatened and Endangered Species by County
For every county in the United States, the map below shows information on all the animals and plants protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered. To see the number of ...
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Caribbean’s Pillar Coral Protected as Endangered
In 2014 the Fisheries Service listed 20 species of corals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, with 12 of them ...
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New Court-Ordered Monitoring Gauges at Arizona’s San Pedro Conservation Area Already Below Required Levels
TUCSON, Ariz.— Three of four monitoring gauges added by a judge last week to track the health of the San Pedro National ...
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TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The U.S. transportation sector is responsible for about a third of our country’s climate-damaging emissions. In California transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas pollution, accounting ...
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Legal Agreement Sets Deadlines to Protect Four Imperiled Bees
The Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have reached an agreement that requires the agency to make decisions on protecting four imperiled bee species under the ...
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Saving the chambered nautilus
The chambered, or pearly, nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is a charismatic cephalopod species known for its exceptional spiraling, chambered shell. It belongs to a family that has barely changed since ...
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California Grants Waiver for Dangerous Santa Barbara Pipeline
A Texas-based oil company announced to investors today that the California Office of the State Fire Marshal has waived federally required anti-corrosion measures for the Las Flores pipeline system.
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SAVING THE GOPHER TORTOISE
As this keystone species' name suggests, the gopher tortoise is an expert at living underground — like a gopher. Gopher tortoises have shovel-like front legs and strong, thick back legs to help them ...