Category Archives: Endangered Species

9 animals that are feeling the impacts of climate change

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RT @Interior: These animals are too cute to lose to climate change: https://t.co/N7FSQjxD9K #ActOnClimate https://t.co/xiVSQ4EHlw

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.doi.gov

GR:  This beautifully illustrated blog post explains how climate change threatens these species.  The U. S. Department of the Interior provide the post.  This is the agency that:

  • approves fossil-fuel exploration and extraction,
  • approves excessive livestock grazing that removes forage needed by wildlife, spreads weeds, and increases fires,
  • approves power production and transmission projects that benefit humans and harm wildlife,
  • promotes recreation and tourism often at the expense of wildlife habitat, and
  • decides which species get to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

All of this indicates that resource management cannot be sustainable in a political system like that of the U. S.

Biologists Brought Wyoming Toads Back From the Brink of Extinction

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The only Wyoming toads in the world live in Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Wyoming, where they were common until the 1970s, hopping around at the edges of creeks, ponds, and small lakes. From: gizmodo.com

GR:  The toad was saved by captive breeding and is being reintroduced to its former habitats, but it still faces the great danger of the chytrid fungus that we have spread around the planet.  The disease has probably reached Wyoming by now, and we should know within a few years if the Wyoming toad is immune enough to survive.

SAVING TIGERS MEANS ~ SUPPORTING THE “LEGIT ORGS.” ON THE GROUND

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There are so few left. There are no words to justify their Beauty, their Elegance and the Vital Role they have in sustaining a healthy forest eco system
Please be careful who you are supporting and where your money is going. If you don’t know for sure, your money will not reach these Tigers that need your help.  Please support those “On the Ground” working endlessly trying to Save the Last of the Remaining Tigers…….

Please Join and Follow Tiger Awareness on FB to find out more about their Work and what they are doing to help Save Tigers.  See the links at: greatcatsoftheworld.wordpress.com

Wildlife Weekly Wrap-Up – Defenders of Wildlife Blog

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Turning to the Courts to Save Red Wolves

“This week, Defenders and our conservation partners took the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to court for its failure to protect the world’s only wild population of red wolves, and for its illegal actions including authorizing the killing of a breeding female red wolf in a population of only 50-75 red wolves in the wild. The most significant threat red wolves face in the wild is from being shot when mistaken for coyotes. Red wolves are also threatened by other factors such as loss of habitat and interbreeding with coyotes. This species needs help on the federal, state and local levels to ensure its continued survival. In the words of Jason Rylander, our senior attorney on the case: “The red wolf is in grave danger of extinction, . . . ” www.defendersblog.org

GR:  Too often, we have to invest in legal action to force the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to support wildlife.  How can we wrest this key organization out of the hands of the corporations and politicians and let it do its job?  Will our next president place development first and nature last?

Nature News Digests

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World Animal Day Was October 4 | Here are Six Ways to Keep Supporting Animals

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#Animals, #Extinction

Wishing to increase awareness of endangered species, concerned ecologists declared World Animal Day in 1931.  A catastrophic world-wide extinction has taken place since then.

Please help stop the immoral and irresponsible destruction of nature.  Here are a few links to things you can do for animals this Sunday.

  1. Sign some petitions.
  2. Retweet a few animal tweets
  3. Tell someone that 52% Earth’s wildlife has died since 1970.  (We learned this near the end of 2014 when we saw the report from a survey of more than 10,000 populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.)
  4. Promote elimination of pesticides and restoration of damaged natural habitats.  If you have a yard, you can act directly:
    1. Stop using herbicides and insecticides.
    2. Plant animal-friendly native plants (fall is the best time for shrubs and trees)
  5. Switch to clean nonpolluting energy.
  6. Advocate for reducing the human population.

Feds finalize plan to save country’s most endangered toad

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“After more than a quarter century on the Endangered Species List, Wyoming toads may have a chance at recovery under a new plan that sets specific targets and requires long-term monitoring.

“The once-common toads died off in massive numbers starting in the 1970s, succumbing to a deadly fungal disease that has afflicted amphibians around the world.

“Listed as endangered in 1984, the Wyoming toad is considered one of the four most endangered amphibian species in North America and is currently classified as “extinct in the wild” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Approximately 500 individuals are currently held in captivity for breeding and reintroduction efforts.”  More at:  Summit County Voice

GR:  The goal is to establish stable populations at five sites.  It will be tough.  Amphibians face the harshest human impacts of any species group.  They face declining habitats, increasing pollution, increasing short-wave solar radiation, increasing invasive predators and competitors, and disease.  It will be tough.

Endangered Tasmanian Devils Return To the Wild in Test of New Cancer Vaccine

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Tasmanian devils have been close to extinction several times over the 10 years due to a rare kind of cancer first discovered in 1996. Now, researchers have increased their efforts to save the aggressive marsupials. After being treated with a new vaccine, 20 captive-bred Tasmanian devils were returned to the wild in hopes that their population and diversity will rebound.  Read more at: www.natureworldnews.com

GR:  There are cases where people do try to help animals.  Fingers crossed for the Devils.

Can the Endangered Species Act withstand the GOP assault?

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Rare species like lynx would face increased threats under GOP proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Photo courtesy Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

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