By Tim Hull (CN) – The desert-nesting bald eagle does not have threatened-species protection because wildlife officials ignored federal law and may have let policy issues cloud their judgment, a federal judge ruled in Arizona, ordering the federal agency to take a […]
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State Wolf-hunting Season Extended
By Eve Byron The season was supposed to end on Dec. 31. But since only 106 wolves out of a quota of 220 have been taken to date, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission decided Thursday to extend the season. “This […]
Continue readingFPL Power Plant Proposal Aims for the Heart of Panther Habitat
By Panagioti Tsolkas, Earth First! Journal According to a letter sent on May 2, 2011 by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, a new power plant proposal has begun the permitting process for a site located in Hendry County—primary habitat of Florida […]
Continue readingTwo Conservationists Arrested in Tasmanian Tree Sit, Clearcutting, Resistance Continues
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snosZmMfVY&feature=player_embedded] March,21–Two conservationists have been arrested this evening in Tasmania’s far south, after spending twelve hours perched in tree sits. The tree sits made up two blockades that were situated on the Peak Rivulet rd, and prevented logging in three high conservation […]
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