May 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
One third-grade class at San Francisco’s Lafayette Elementary School wasn’t going to let another California sea lion get shot without its voice being heard. In the past two weeks, students in Angela Casey’s class have created and launched a political campaign to stop the...
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April 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
As the tally of sea lion deaths at the Bonneville Dam in Washington state grows to four, happier news comes from Chicago, where the Shedd Aquarium has pledged to take the next sea lion caught eating salmon. "It's what we all would prefer see happen," said Craig Bartlett, a...
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April 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
The long-lost Bururi long-fingered frog has been found. Feared extinct, a team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences announced last week that they have discovered a single long-fingered frog living in the southwestern forests of Burundi, in East Africa. The species...
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March 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
A group of 100 environmental organizations has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate lead in ammunition as a toxic substance. The groups argue that more than 75 species, including the California condor and bald eagle, are harmed when they feed on the carcasses of...
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March 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
If the climate continues to warm and development doesn’t slow down, the first avian calamities are likely to the California black rail, the California and Yuma clapper rails, and a few species of coastal song sparrows. In the first study of its kind, the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, an...
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October 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Adding more protections for an unglamorous but endangered fish and a yellow-bellied bird is sure to set off a clash today among environmentalists, government agencies and business groups at a congressional hearing in Southern California. Protecting the Santa Ana sucker – a river fish...
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August 31, 2011, 12:05 AM
For nearly 70 years, the McCloud River in Northern California has been bereft of the Chinook salmon spawning runs for which it was once known. But for a few hours this summer, the Winnemem Wintu tribe revived the river’s memory of the lost, sacred fish. “We Winnemem are a salmon...
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February 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Environmentalists are up in arms about a federal logging project that would destroy almost 75 percent of a rare woodpecker’s habitat near Lake Tahoe. The Earth Island Institute and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in a California federal court last week challenging the...
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February 8, 2011, 12:05 AM
How do you save an owl? You kill an owl. That’s the plan officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are likely to recommend later this year to save the northern spotted owl from extinction. According to The Oregonian, federal wildlife officials will take “to the...
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