Groups Sue to Protect Marine Mammals
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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
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New agreement on whales and dolphins conservation    WELLINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A new international framework to conserve Pacific Island whales and dolphins (cetaceans) and their habitats has been endorsed by nine countries.
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(CP) - A Canadian-led international Inuit group is beginning legal procedures to convince a major international organization that global warming violates their human rights.
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Hunting is not the only threat to whales and dolphins, and many governments need to take these other threats seriously.
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Conservationists on Wednesday blasted President Bush's decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using high-power sonar in its training off Southern California Â a practice they say harms whales and other marine mammals.
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Federal scientists want permission to kill Galapagos sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in an effort to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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Police and conservation groups join forces to tackle wildlife crime along the Clyde coast.
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Volunteers are battling to save whales and dolphins who have beached themselves off the coast of Australia. More than a hundred of them have already died after getting stuck on beaches off Tasmania over the weekend.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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A Greenpeace protest ship located Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and is pursuing it to stop the hunt for the giant sea creatures, the environmental group said Saturday.
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Alaska's wolf-killing program to boost moose and caribou numbers is facing a new legal challenge.
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A study to be released this week will show that an endangered species of whales is under threat from a Royal Dutch/Shell-led energy project off Russia's Pacific coast, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday.
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Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction.
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By Mladen Rudman, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 12--EGLN AFB -- The federal government could soon find out if testing sophisticated weapons in the Gulf of Mexico can coexist with protecting marine mammals.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.
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Conservationists sued a federal agency Monday for allegedly failing to protect North Pacific right whales, which were hunted nearly to extinction more than a century ago and remain among the world's most endangered animals.
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A conservation group filed a formal petition Wednesday seeking to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act.