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    Rice's whales can grow to 42 feet, but fewer than 100 remain.
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    Scientists Identify New Whale Species In Gulf Of Mexico

    Jan 28, 2021
    The Rice's whale can grow to 42 feet and is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 left.
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    California Accepts Petition To Protect Western Joshua Tree

    Sep 23, 2020

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The western Joshua tree will be considered for protection under the California Endangered Species Act because of threats from climate change and habitat destruction.

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    A Small, Rare Flower Could Stop A Major Mining Plan In Nevada

    Aug 06, 2020

    You may not have ever heard of the 

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    Mine Consultant Agreed Nevada Plant In Danger

    Aug 04, 2020

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A botanist hired by a company planning to mine one of the most promising deposits of lithium in the world believes a rare desert wildflower at the site should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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    US Mulls Endangered Status For Nevada Plant In Mine Fight

    Jul 24, 2020

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says there's enough scientific evidence that two rare plants in Nevada's desert could go extinct to warrant a year-long review of whether to list them as endangered species.

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    A wolf from the Snake River Pack passes by a remote camera in eastern Wallowa County, Ore. A wolf advocate group in Colorado is challenging the model for U.S. wildlife management.
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    Colorado Voters Are Set To Decide If Wolves Should Be Reintroduced To The State

    Feb 11, 2020
    In November, Coloradans are set to vote on whether to return wolves to the state. The ballot initiative may be the first time voters in any state could force reintroduction of an endangered species.
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    Animals
    The head and skin of an East African lion killed at the turn of the century by President Theodore Roosevelt decorates The Explorers Club in New York. A committee designed to advise the Department of Interior on the benefits of big-game hunting was dissol
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    Controversial Trophy Hunting Council Disbanded Amid Legal Battle

    Feb 10, 2020
    The government is calling on a New York federal judge to dismiss lawsuits alleging the group was formed illegally. But animal rights advocates want a ruling.
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    Nevada Man Sentenced For Trafficking In Endangered Species

    Jan 23, 2020
    A 51-year-old Nevada man who admitted illegally trafficking endangered African lion and leopard parts has been ordered to serve 60 days in federal custody.
     
    Robert Barkman of Reno also must complete 100 hours of community service for a wildlife conservation group.
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    Nevada Reviews Possible Mining Threat To Unique Wildflower

    Nov 09, 2019

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is launching a comprehensive review of the status of a rare desert wildflower that isn't known to exist anywhere else in the world.

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    Nevada Suit Seeks To Protect Rare Wildflower From Mining

    Oct 31, 2019

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing the Trump administration to try to block mining exploration in Nevada they say would wipe out the only known population of a desert wildflower.

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    As part of a national plan reassessing the status of animals and plants on the Endangered Species List, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended that Key Deer be "delisted due to recovery."
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    Trump Administration Opens Door To Dropping Florida's Key Deer From Endangered List

    Aug 28, 2019
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials recommended that Key Deer be "delisted due to recovery," but advocates say the Key Deer population was hard hit by Hurricane Irma and its aftermath.
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    How Changes To The Endangered Species Act Will Affect Nevada

    Aug 14, 2019

    This week the Trump Administration announced 

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    Politics, Killings Stifle Wolf Recovery Amid Hefty Price Tag

    May 23, 2019

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Illegal killings and political resistance have undercut the return of two species of endangered wolves despite more than $80 million in government spending.

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    Handlers, known as mahouts, ride elephants along a mountain ridge at the Elephant Conservation Center in Xayaboury, Laos. The center has 29 elephants, most of which spent long careers hauling logs in Laos' logging industry.
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    'A Million Elephants' No More: Conservationists In Laos Rush To Save An Icon

    May 12, 2019
    The Laos government and conservationists estimate there are only about 800 elephants left in all of Laos, just half of them living in the wild.
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    Trump Administration Seeks To Take Gray Wolf Off Endangered Species List

    Mar 06, 2019
    The acting secretary of the interior says the gray wolf's recovery is a "great conservation success." But conservation groups say that without protections, wolf numbers will plummet.
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    East Island is a critical habitat and breeding ground for endangered monk seals. Scientists estimate one monk seal mother and pup remained on the island when the category 5 storm struck.
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    Remote Hawaiian Island Nearly Vanished After Hurricane Walaka

    Oct 25, 2018
    Only two minuscule slivers of East Island have resurfaced since the storm struck the region and wiped out a critical habitat for endangered monk seals and green sea turtles.
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    Keeper Zachariah Mutai attends in March to Fatu, one of only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen where she is kept for observation, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. Scientists have successfully grown hy
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    Scientists Hope Lab-Grown Embryos Can Save Rhino Species From Extinction

    Jul 04, 2018
    Only two northern white rhinos remain, and they're both female. But researchers said Wednesday that they successfully have created embryos using sperm collected from the males before they died out.
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    USFWS Will Consider Endangered Listing For Rare Nevada Toad

    Jun 27, 2018

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for a rare toad in northern Nevada's high desert where one of the biggest producers of geothermal energy in the nation wants to build another power plant.

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    The skull of a new species of ancient ape, <em>Junzi imperialis</em>, an extinct gibbon from China.
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    Long-Extinct Gibbon Found Inside Tomb Of Chinese Emperor's Grandmother

    Jun 21, 2018
    A Chinese tomb has turned up evidence of a new species of long-extinct ape. The gibbon, called Junzi imperialis, lived and died alongside its imperial human caretaker.
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    Judge: USFWS Illegally Denied Bi-State Sage Grouse Listing

    May 16, 2018

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge says U.S. wildlife officials acted illegally in 2015 when they denied Endangered Species Act protection for a distinct population of "bi-state" sage grouse in California and Nevada.

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    One of the six giraffes at the Ruko Conservancy in Kenya's Lake Baringo area.
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    'A Silent Extinction': Finding Peace And Saving Giraffes On A Lake In Kenya

    Apr 29, 2018
    Nearly 40 percent of giraffes were wiped out in one generation. Now, Kenyan conservation efforts are helping to bring them back.
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    Endangered Colorado River Fish No Longer An Extinction Risk

    Mar 23, 2018

    FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An endangered fish that makes its home in the Colorado River basin no longer is at the brink of extinction.

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it will consider reclassifying the humpback chub as threatened within the next year.

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    Protecting Threatened And Endangered Species Along The Colorado River

    Mar 26, 2018

    The Colorado River is far from the river it once was. 

    The river runs through seven states and Mexico and serves more than 25 million people. 

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    Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, grazes at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in May 2017. The 45-year old rhino's health started deteriorating in late February.
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    Sudan, World's Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies

    Mar 19, 2018
    Sudan lived most of his life in a zoo in the Czech Republic, but was brought to a conservancy in Kenya in 2009 as part of a last-ditch effort to save his species. He died at the conservancy at age 45.
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    The Two-Way
    Borneo has lost more than 100,000 orangutans in the last 16 years – about half of the critically endangered species native to the island.
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    Borneo Has Lost 100,000 Orangutans Since 1999

    Feb 15, 2018
    That's more than the number of the critically endangered species remaining. The orangutans have been hit hard by deforestation and hunting. The animals are native to the island.

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