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Satellite Study Reveals Critical Ha...
Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world’s rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously thought, including vital corridors that, if protected, can help the... 
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Obama’s Forest Service Weaken...
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Forest Service today released a new proposal for the nation’s 193-million-acre national forest system that will weaken rules protecting fish and wildlife from logging, livestock grazing, mining and off-road... 
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The World is Still Consuming Dolphi...
Not too long ago, a big problem with the fishing industry was that dolphins were being captured in the large nets used to harvest tuna. They would get mixed in and their meat would be ground up and served with the tuna in the tuna... 
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Mexico pipeline oil spill may take ...
Two weeks after a pipeline leak in coastal Mexico sent oil gushing into a river, state oil monopoly Pemex has recovered about two-thirds of the spilled crude, but the full clean-up could take another month. Mexico’s environmental... 
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Top-secret snake!...
by Jess Zimmerman. This newly-discovered snake species , named Matilda's Horned Viper after the discoverer's 7-year-old daughter, lives in Tanzania somewhere. Beyond that, who can say? The answer is nobody (except Matilda's... 
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Nature is trying to reabsorb the ex...
by Greg Hanscom. Great news for folks who have watched the value of their exurban McMansions circling the drain over the past few years: These fringe habitations can be returned to nature to find new life as wildlife habitats. It’s... 
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‘Christmas miracle’ for...
Conservationists and wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah airlifted a young female Sumatran Rhinoceros — one of the world’s most endangered animals — to an area of forest where she would encounter a potential... 
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The eco travel guide to Finland...
Finland has become synonymous with Christmas thanks to its northern Lapland region. But with buzzing cities and wonderful wildlife, there’s far more to the country than Santa Claus. Scandinavia’s youngest country and its... 
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Wildlife Protection at Glover’...
Belize, the small Central American nation facing the Caribbean Sea on the Yucatan Peninsula, is home to extremely diverse and tropical wildlife. A large stretch of sea surrounding Glover’s Reef, an atoll reef lagoon that is home... 
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Border fence is bad for bears...
by Sarah Laskow. Ever since America decided the best way to keep the teh-rur-ists and immigrants out was to build a fence along the southern border, environmentalists have worried about the impact of a gigantic, impenetrable fence... 
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Great Lakes wolves to lose federal ...
Thousands of gray wolves in the Midwest will soon be stripped of federal safeguards under the Endangered Species Act, the government said on Wednesday, in a move that could open the animals to state-licensed hunting. An estimated 4,000... 
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Great Lakes wolves to lose federal ...
Thousands of gray wolves in the Midwest will soon be stripped of federal safeguards under the Endangered Species Act, the government said on Wednesday, in a move that could open the animals to state-licensed hunting. An estimated 4,000... 
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This Chicago park will be almost 10...
by Sarah Laskow. On Chicago's South Side, 140,000 acres of brownfields and other underused land are just sitting there. But Illinois is putting $17 million into turning that fallow ground into what will be the largest city park... 
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Radioactive monkeys will patrol Fuk...
by Jess Zimmerman. Scientists have a new approach to monitoring radiation levels around Fukushima: They're outfitting local monkeys with radiation-measuring collars , then releasing them back into the wild. The monkeys will spend... 
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New species from Asia include nosel...
by Jess Zimmerman. There are still way more kinds of creatures out there than science knows about — we're discovering new species all the time, and it always seems like the new ones are the weirdest yet. The World Wildlife... 
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International Mountain Day – 11th...
Since 2003, the United Nations General Assembly has designated the 11th December as International Mountain Day, in order to raise global awareness of the importance of mountains. The annual celebration was born from the success of... 
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Brits make disused landfill into wi...
by Sarah Laskow. There are a few options of what to do with an old landfill: cover it over and leave it alone; turn it into a field for solar panels; convince people t o play soccer on top of it . One town in England is going a step... 
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Psychedelic gecko, "Elvis"...
A wildly-colored gecko, a fish that looks like a gherkin, and a monkey with an Elvis-like hairstyle are among the more than 200 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year, environmental group WWF said on Monday.... 
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It’s panda-countin’ time!...
by Jess Zimmerman. Get out your panda-counting equipment, because it's panda census time ! China's government is organizing the first panda census in a decade, sending out teams of wildlife biologists over hill and under dale... 
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It’s panda-countin’ time!...
by Jess Zimmerman. Get out your panda-counting equipment, because it's panda census time ! China's government is organizing the first panda census in a decade, sending out teams of wildlife biologists over hill and under dale... 

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