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After the Bobcat fire, rangers and biologists consider rescue operations for protected species in the San Gabriel Mountains. 
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There’s some of the most majestic creatures in the world, and some of the most endangered. While whales are now receiving many protections from hunters,
Megan Brown's comment,
September 21, 2020 7:15 PM
It's exciting that the scientific community is coming up with creative solutions to protect whales. I wonder if they could develop a way to safeguard the data to prevent any potential negative repercussions. For example, if the technology could be used in other parts of the world and used by people that are engaged in whaling. Overall, it is still amazing that we are taking steps to protect whales.
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Myanmar’s conservation ministry is considering captive breeding of as many as 175 threatened species, including tigers, Irrawaddy dolphins and rare birds that exist only in the wild.
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OR-54, a 3- to 4-year-old female, was found dead on Wednesday in Shasta County. It wasn't clear yet whether the animal died from an accident, natural causes or was killed.
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California banned the sale of alligator skins decades ago, but for years, lawmakers granted exemptions. Not anymore.
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While I sympathize with concern about alligator populations, I also know that the recovery of the American alligator is a major conservation success story. That success is due in no small part to the proliferation of alligator farms which seem likely to be harmed by this ban.
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Scientists reveal one million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report
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Officials were concerned the boxes of shark jaws from southeast Asia might include illegal specimens from endangered species.
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An estimated 7,000 to 14,000 lions are held in captivity and bred in South Africa. Increasingly, the animals are slaughtered for their bones and other body parts, many of which are sold in Asia for their purported — and scientifically discredited — health benefits.
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Biologists and engineers are hoping to bring steelhead trout back to the concrete confines of the Los Angeles River.
loretta davidson's comment,
October 7, 2020 3:43 PM
This will be great. Thank you for a bright spot in the news, Rafael.
Tess Davidson-Henney's comment,
October 9, 2020 6:06 PM
I hope they get the funding they need to complete this project and that it brings more attention to the issues that the channelization of our waterways causes.
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Is it appropriate to intervene to help wildlife amid a disaster? That question has arisen in fire-scorched Point Reyes, where Tule elk are short of water.
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Wow...the sage at Point Reyes National Seashore continues. There is so much here that is not being said:
1) the activists that previously defeated efforts to cull the population that has included the numbers now that are beyond the carrying capacity of the current territory. 2) activists who think they know best how to respond to wildlife 3) people who have multiple agendas, but hide behind charismatic megafauna ...and the list goes on...
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Slammed by heavy winds and bearing precious amphibian cargo, the helicopter heaved skyward from a remote mountain ranch on the Baja California Peninsula.
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The welcome mat for California sea lions has been rolled out in San Francisco, but is nowhere to be seen in La Jolla and many of the state's fishing ports.
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Scientists have now quantified the global decline of big freshwater animals: From 1970 to 2012, global populations of freshwater megafauna declined by 88 percent - twice the loss of vertebrate populations on land or in the ocean. Large fish species are particularly affected.
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The single most modified, fragmented, and outright destroyed ecosystems on planet earth and flowing rivers and waterways.
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(Honolulu) –The last known Achatinella apexfulva in the Hawaiian Islands, “George,” died on New Year’s Day, 2019. George was approximately 14 years old and his name was derived from the Pinta Islan…
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Ingestion of degrading ocean plastics likely poses a substantial risk to the survival of post-hatchling sea turtles because the particles can lead to blockages and nutritional deficiencies, according to new research.
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The article discusses how micro plastics are causing many hatching and juvenile sea turtles to die before they reach productive age. The turtles eat the plastics as a food source and then die from a blockage or a nutrient deficiency. This can have devastating effects for the already endangered sea turtles.
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