... , Ala.- The Center for Biological Diversity and fisheries biologist Mike Sandel petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday to list the spring pygmy sunfish as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The sunfish is limited to a small stretch of Beaverdam Creek and is threatened by urban sprawl from metropolitan Huntsville, poor agricultural practices, and streamside ...

... a selection of new and upcoming books addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. that week we’re recommending books about endangered species.Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard, $28, Grand Central Publishing, Sept. 2009): that is not your ...

The lion's share of the the Gunnison sage-grouse's population -roughly 4,700 - live in the Gunnison Basin, but an estimated 44 birds live in a 20,400-acre area on Poncha Pass in northeastern Saguache County, according to the agency's 2005 estimates. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will review whether the small bird should be listed as threatened or endangered.

... site that there are well over 5,000 species of officially Endangered or Threatened animals and birds on our planet. With this post ... updated population estimates and other information concerning the status of some of the Endangered, Threatened and Vulnerable species that are of special public ... Eubalena glacialis) Population: Around 350. Status: Endangered Species Trends: Unknown. Driven to the brink ...

... of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list. The bird now prevalent across Florida, the Gulf and Pacific coasts and the Caribbean was declared an endangered species in 1970, after its population was devastated by the use of the pesticide DDT. ... early 2008 proposed taking the bird completely off the endangered species list. In 1985, the Fish and Wildlife ...

... federal funding, and the cress would also be protected on federal land. However, the Endangered Species Act doesn’t protect threatened or ... of dace is found in northeast Tennessee. The federally endangered dace (Phoxinus cumberlandensis) wasn’t recognized as ... a senior special agent with the FWS, said it was the largest Endangered Species fine he’s seen in the nine years he’s ...