Endangered and extinct animals alerts August 26 2011

Report: Tea Party's Favorite Snake Needs Government Aid Mother Jones As my colleague Kate Sheppard has reported, many tea partiers view the Endangered Species Act as a tool of an overreaching federal government—if not something even more nefarious. In Florida, conservative activists are fighting to roll back manatee ... See all stories on this topic » Mother Jones

The looming extinction of Earth's plants and animals The Week Magazine That's the finding of a new scientific report, whose authors also warn that we may be causing animals and plants to go extinct faster than we can count them. Here, a brief guide: What don't we know about life on Earth? Plenty. ... See all stories on this topic »

Nature: climate change leads to 67-84 percent intraspecific biodiversity loss ... Bits Of Science But, as the researchers have last weekend stated in their Nature Climate Change publication, the genetic diversity within species and subspecies also declines as they are put under strain and many local populations become extinct. ... See all stories on this topic » Bits Of Science

Are Rattlesnakes A Threatened Species? Care2.com (blog) In Tallahassee, FL, researcher Bruce Means told the AP that the rattlesnakes are a "wildlife treasure" that shouldn't be allowed to go extinct. Mark Sasser, a wildlife coordinator with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in Alabama, ... See all stories on this topic »

Bangalore: 'Treat Amruthamahal Kaval Lands as Ecologically Sensitive Areas' Daijiworld.com ... wood logging and poaching of wild life, local encroachments and undue land allotments as well as invading species. 'All these factors led to pushing the rare and endangered cattle and bio-diversity to the extinct," the report said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Groups: Make rattlers threatened species – Endangered and Drained ... By Tom Palmer The threatened designation is designed to keep a species from becoming endangered. Species classified as endangered are in danger of becoming extinct. The arguments in the petition for listing are compelling. ... Endangered and Drained in Polk

It's Been Put On the Endangered Species List - Rage Comics By Cheezburger Network rage comics - It's Been Put On the Endangered Species List. Rage Comics

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