"Call To Close Ivory Markets Agreed At CITES Conference"
"Delegates at a UN wildlife conference have endorsed calls for the closure of all domestic ivory markets."
Source: bbc, 10/03/2016
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"Mystery of Bizarre Bird Deformities May Be Solved"
"Scientists working with sophisticated DNA sequencing technology think they may have solved a 20-year-old mystery of what has caused thousands of Alaska’s wild birds to be afflicted with deformed, twisted beaks."
Source: National Geographic, 08/17/2016
"Warming Climate Expected To Squeeze Out Arctic Bird Habitat"
"Many species of shorebirds that migrate to the Arctic each year to breed their young will lose substantial amounts of their summer habitat to climate change, and the biggest losses in the coming decades will be in Alaska and neighboring parts of Russia, new research concludes."
Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 08/08/2016
"Donald Trump Loses His War Against a Scottish Wind Farm"
"Donald Trump may have been grabbing headlines in Cleveland [last] week, but over in Europe it looks like he’s just lost an ongoing, albeit more low-profile battle."
Source: Citylab, 07/26/2016
"Endangered: A Bird and a Tribe"
"The fate of a mysterious hummingbird — and that of the indigenous population that shares its territory — hangs by a thread."
Source: Undark, 07/21/2016
"Iraq's Marshes, Once Drained By Saddam, Named World Heritage Site"
"A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday."
Source: Reuters, 07/18/2016
"First Ever Biosafety Report Details 199 Mishaps With Toxic Agents"
"The Federal Select Agent Program, which oversees dangerous substances such as anthrax and bird flu in federal, academic and private labs, reported 199 incidents in which lab workers were potentially exposed to infectious or toxic agents in 2015, though there were no losses of select agents."
Source: Reuters, 07/06/2016
"Prairie Chicken Numbers Plunge"
"A coalition of state wildlife regulators today announced that the population of lesser prairie chickens in the wild has fallen by more than 13 percent since the last annual aerial survey -- a troubling outcome the Obama administration predicted earlier this year."
Source: Greenwire, 07/04/2016
"California Condor Population Reaches New Heights in 2015"
"After years of intense — and often controversial — restoration efforts, biologists are finally reporting some good news for the beleaguered California condor: More chicks are surviving in the wild, and the birds are becoming increasingly independent and expanding their range."
Source: YaleE360, 06/17/2016
Washington: "State, US Agree To Dismantle 4 Dams On Klamath River"
"The Obama administration and California officials are expected to announce a landmark agreement Wednesday to tear down four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, bypassing Congress to restore a major salmon fishery on the Oregon border."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 04/07/2016
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