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Africa’s endangered species

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All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. The Northern Bald Ibis is listed as Critically Endangered.

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Endangered Birds: 50th Anniversary for the Class of 1967

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Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. The first list of U.S. The links are to the U.S.

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Endangered Species Act: Potential Downlisting for Hawaiian Goose (nene)

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More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting it from “endangered” to “threatened.”.

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Fire and Rain

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Fire is also more unpredictable than even floods, more sudden and acute than drought, falling close to the class of natural disasters that we dread the most, like earthquakes and avalanches, the sudden killers. Conservation black-backed woodpecker endangered species fire olive-sided flycatcher'

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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Virtually all of the identification articles are geared towards world-class ID experts. The ABA has sporadically commented on proposed regulations, but it should develop a more formal process to comment on issues such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act , the Endangered Species Act , the Duck Stamp , and others.

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I Remember Elephants

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Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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They had two world-class datasets on which to draw the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey. … Conservation Audubon endangered species Extinction Week longspurs science' we are hosting Extinction Week here on 10,000 Birds from 7 September to 13 September. And get angry and take action.

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