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April 25, 2008

Judge rejects request to stop Oregon, Washington from killing sea lions to protect salmon

Filed under: Endangered, Environmental, Uncategorized - By. Blue Ram

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to stop Oregon and Washington from trapping and killing California sea lions at Bonneville Dam this spring to keep them from gobbling endangered salmon.
The Humane Society of the United States filed a lawsuit against the plan and asked for a preliminary court injunction to stop it.
Humane Society attorneys argued […]




Presumed extinct turtle turns out to be extant

Filed under: Endangered, Turtles & reptiles - By. William

During recent years, a lot of fascinating discoveries have occurred in Vietnam and now scientists from the Cleveland Zoo claim to have discovered a Swinhoe’s giant turtle living in a lake in the northern parts of the country. According to an article from the BBC, the team from Cleveland spent three years looking for the […]




Increased salinity kills river dolphins in Bangladesh

Filed under: Endangered, Whales & Dolphins - By. William

According to the BBC, conservationists are increasingly concerned over the future for the Bangladesh river dolphins since they are now threatened not only by pollution, over-fishing, accidental deaths caused by fishing nets, and shortage of prey, and but also by declining freshwater supplies. The situation is especially serious for the Ganges River dolphin and […]




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