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Academic and news articles regarding endangered species and habitats.

HR 4256

  — “unfortunately, not all laws are perfect, and in this case, the interpretation of the law is resulting in inaccurate data collection, potentially preventing healthy and growing species from being removed from the threatened or endangered list” read article: stewart’s endangered species act designed to protect species from extinction

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WHEREVER THE ANIMAL IS FOUND

— “the groups actually agreed with one part of the plan: the lynx now is protected wherever it may be, even if it wanders outside the select states and their boundaries of protection” read article: endangered species protection extended to lynx

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SHADOWS OF PALM OIL PLANTATIONS

— “check rankings for companies such as kellogg’s, nestle, unilever, general mills, johnson & johnson, the body shop, l’oreal, avon, colgate-palmolive, procter & gamble, pepsico, conagra foods and the hershey company. if you would like to thank a company for its efforts or encourage them to do better, visit pdza.org/pawsforthecause to find out more about point defiance zoo & aquarium’s paws for the cause campaign” read article: Expanding palm oil plantations threaten endangered species more: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

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DESEGREGATING WILDERNESS, JOURDAN KEITH

— while the lack of access to wild places is beginning to be recognized as an issue of inequity, the absence of more than just a shadow of wilderness in and around urban places is not. at the signing of the civil rights act, president johnson said, “freedom would be secure only if each generation fought to renew and enlarge its meaning.” i think the same is true for wilderness. read article: desegregating wilderness more: the urban wilderness project

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GROWING THREAT TO AMERICAN BIRDS

—””Right now, about a third of all bird species in the US are in decline,” says Steve Holmer of the American Bird Conservancy, one of the 23 organisations that contributed to the State of the Birds report, the most comprehensive review of bird trends and data ever undertaken in the US.” read article: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29116412

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EBOLA ZOONOTICS

— “the ebola virus is thought to be carried by wild animals and believed to cross into humans through contact with blood, meat or other infected fluids. these jumps by viruses from animals to humans are known as zoonotic events” read article: ebola map shows people in more african regions risk infection from animals

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INVISIBLE AFRICAN AMPHIBIANS

— “the researchers examined data on 733 african amphibians in sub-saharan africa. the found that a total of 400 of the species have too few records to be used in species distribution modeling at continental scales. this included 92 percent of those listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered on the iucn red list” read article: african amphibians invisible under climate-change

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WARREN GROVE RANGE SPECIES SANCTUARY

— “military installations such as warren grove include ecosystems in their planning. each year, the government gives the university $100,000 or more to perform studies of plant and animal life on the range. last year, the range was awarded the gen. white natural resources conservation award against strong competition from installations across the u.s. air force. read article: snakes find unlikely habitat at s.j. miltary base

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DIVERSE MILITARY LANDSCAPES

— “u.s. army’s largest live-fire range in europe creates environments for donor populations of species, which are fighting for survival in civil cultivated landscapes”

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