Agency takes species off endangered list
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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GRANTS PASS -- A petition from environmentalists to put four species of lamprey -- jawless fish resembling eels that swim with salmon -- under protection of the Endangered Species Act has been rejected again by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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By Jennifer Bowles, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 7--Environmental groups on Tuesday put the U.S. Fish and Wildlife  Service on notice they intend to sue the agency for approving development on a  key Inland endangered-species preserve although land was set aside elsewhere.
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Sage grouse should not be listed as an endangered species, said a US Fish and Wildlife Service panel of biologists Friday. The panel of regional managers and senior scientists made their recommendation to
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) has banned sales of a rare Asian dolphin. Environmentalists say the move is necessary to save the Irrawaddy dolphin, whose numbers are thought to be as low as 1,000 in the wild.
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Federal wildlife officials released a long-range plan Monday for removing a tiny bird that nests on West Coast beaches from Endangered Species Act protections by 2047 with the help of volunteers from the Audubon Society, the Boy Scouts and other nonprofit groups.
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The Bush Administration is dropping its effort to standardize how government agencies develop risk assessments intended to protect the public or the environment.
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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The American bald eagle, pushed to  near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is  now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species  list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Jun 28 (OneWorld) - As federal authorities declared today that the bald eagle is no longer on the list of threatened species, environmental activists and conservation groups across the United States expressed joy with the fruition of efforts to save the national symbol from extinction.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it is recommending that the orcas that ply the Puget Sound should be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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The bald eagle, the U.S. national bird whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, is expected to be removed on Thursday from the list of creatures classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list it six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended against listing the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species, the agency announced Friday.