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The slowdown in human activity—a period scientists are calling the “anthropause”—was a mixed bag for animals. By Daisy Yuhas Reporter, Audubon Magazine March 09, 2021 Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirped—and to many list...
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By Matthew Brown and Iris Samuels The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » Payments for dead wolves. Unlimited hunting of the animals. Shooting wolves from the air. Wolf hunting policies in some states are taking an aggressive turn, as Republican lawmakers and conservative hunting groups push t...
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By Mead Gruver The Associated Press CHEYENNE » Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died more than 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, is cute as a bu...
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  SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS » Residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes, have been rescuing cold stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention center in a South Texas resort town. “Every 15 minutes or less there’s another truck or SUV that pulls u...
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration said Thursday it was delaying a rule finalized in former President Donald Trump’s last days in office that drastically would have weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law protecting m...
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By Patrick Whittle The Associated Press BATH, MAINE » The commercial fishery for herring has suffered in recent years because of new restrictions, but those same rules could benefit some of Maine’s most beloved birds — puffins. Atlantic puffins, known for their colorful beaks and waddling walks, ...
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PBy Catrin Einhorn © The New York Times Co. In just the last half-century, humans have caused a staggering worldwide drop in the number of sharks and rays that swim the open oceans, scientists have found in the first global assessment of its kind, published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Oc...
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By Becky Bohrer The Associated Press JUNEAU, ALASKA » The U.S. government held its first-ever oil and gas lease sale Wednesday for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an event critics labeled a bust, with major oil companies staying on the sidelines and a state corporation emerging...
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By Rebecca Mitchell Guest Commentary Colorado is headwaters to a hardworking river that provides for 40 million people. The importance of the Colorado River to the state and the nation cannot be overstated, and its recent hydrology serves as a reminder that we must continue to find workable soluti...
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Trump administration has completed a review of plans to ease protections for a struggling bird species in seven states in the U.S. West, including Colorado, but there’s little time to put the relaxed rules for industry into...
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Traverse City Mich, The interior least terms  whose habitat was destroyed by dams and was hunted for plummage has recovered after 35 years protection. This is a great victory brought about by extensive cooperation across many groups and sectors. The Associated Times 
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Paris, The Denver Post Wire Service At least 30 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit Monday aimed at protecting the world's biodiversity. About 30 leader...
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Donate Flooded fields offer food and habitat for sandhill cranes, egrets and other species. But changing crop choices and rising temperatures are a growing threat. By Liza Gross December 6, 2020   KNIGHTS LANDING, Calif.—On a warm, sunny afternoon in late November, Roger Cornwell stopped h...
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA » When they’re hungry, they’ll let you know by coming up to you and looking beseechingly at you and the container of food. If that doesn’t work, they’ll sniff and paw at your leg. No, we’re not talking about dogs. We’re talking about kangaroos. Researchers at the University o...
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  By Anita Snow The Associated Press GUADALUPE CANYON, ARIZ. » Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ...
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      By John Flesher The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. » Federal officials on Tuesday declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status, but said no action would be taken for several years because of the many other species already awaiting ...
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Climate change, beetles, and disease imperiling long term survival of high elevation pine tree, key source for grizzly bears and found across the US West. Fish and Wildlife Study published Wed. would protect the whitebark pine tree under Endangered Species Act. The trees can live up to 1,000 ye...
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By Mead Gruver  The Associated Press CHEYENNE » The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence — a discovery made by scientists using wildlife GPS tracking techniques...
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  By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press SPOKANE, WASH. » The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal cour...
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    By Jim Robbins © The New York Times Co. Are the wolves of Yellowstone National Park the first line of defense against a terrible disease that preys on herds of wildlife? That is the question for a research project underway in the park, and preliminary results suggest that the answ...
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