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Anglers Want to Remove Black Bass from List of Threats to Japan's Ecosystems
November 29, 2004 12:00 AM - The Yomiuri Shimbun
Industry groups and lawmakers have begun lobbying to remove black bass from a list contained in a new law that targets nonindigenous species believed to be damaging the country's native species and ecosystem.
Sperm Whale Found Dead in Contaminated Waters off Puerto Rico
November 29, 2004 12:00 AM - Associated Press
A sperm whale beached itself on a coral reef and died in contaminated waters in Puerto Rico on Sunday, officials said.
Skin Trade Threatens World's Few Surviving Tigers
November 26, 2004 12:00 AM - Reuters
The world's tiger population has plummeted by 95 percent from the start of the 20th century to as few as 5,000 now and is further threatened by the lucrative trade in their skins, officials told a forum on Friday.
Dead Cicadas Help the Soil, Study Reveals
November 26, 2004 12:00 AM - Eileen Putman, Associated Press
Even in death, the 17-year cicadas made their mark. Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
Aborigines Hope Camel Exports Will End Poverty
November 25, 2004 12:00 AM - Kylie Stott, Reuters
A group of Aborigines shelter from the blazing outback sun beneath a large desert oak, sipping strong bush tea and hungrily eyeing the camel meat burgers sizzling on the camp grill.
World Conservation Union Says Bangkok Talks Boost Nature Protection Efforts
November 25, 2004 12:00 AM - Daniel Lovering, Associated Press
Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world's habitats in talks in Bangkok, but governments need to work harder to promote conservation, an international environment agency said Thursday.
Species-Threatening Snails Found in Colorado
November 24, 2004 12:00 AM - Associated Press
Tough and tiny snails that threaten to crowd out native species by hogging all the food have shown up in a Colorado creek for the first time, state wildlife biologists said Tuesday.
Catalina Foxes Back After Near Extinction
November 24, 2004 12:00 AM - Associated Press
A unique subspecies of fox that is about the size of a house cat is back from the brink of extinction on Santa Catalina Island and can survive on its own thanks to a captive breeding program, the head of a nonprofit group that manages most of the island said Tuesday.
Half of Brazil's Amazon Jungle Occupied, According to Study
November 24, 2004 12:00 AM - Andrew Hay, Reuters
About half of Brazil's original Amazon rainforest has been occupied by man, deforested or used for industry like logging and its destruction is worse than government data shows, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.
Ducks Continue to Thrive in Long Island
November 23, 2004 12:00 AM - Michael Gormley, Associated Press
Before the shopping malls, before Levittown and Jones Beach, before the traffic jams on the Long Island Expressway, there were the ducks.