National Wildlife Humane Society

 Wildlife Conservation News
 
February 06, 2010  
 
In This Issue
Member News
Eagles And Lead
10 Animals On Brink
Fish Evolves

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  NWHS Member Newsletter #21 

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Patrick D. Webb
President - National Wildlife Humane Society
Founder/Director - Top Of The Rock Wildlife Sanctuary

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  Are we sending bald eagles back to endangered list?
Source: Le mars Daily Sentinel - By: Magdalene Landegent

Bald eagles are being attacked by an emerging predator. It's in the food they eat. Eagle protection agencies have been seeing eagles that are oddly sick, explained Plymouth County Naturalist Victoria De Vos.

"They started testing the blood and they are finding out that they had very high levels of lead -- a neurotoxin," De Vos said. "It was basically paralyzing them in different ways."

Bald eagles are getting lead poisoning by eating deer carcasses that have fragments of lead slugs in them. These carcasses are often those of deer wounded by hunters but not retrieved...
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Note: NWHS requests that hunters move away from lead ammo.

Wildlife On Brink

   
Animals on the brink of extinction
Source: Replanting the Rainforest Org - By Jake Richardson  
 
What are the 10 animals that are in the most danger of extinction?
 
1.Iberian lynx, 2.Saiga antelope, 3.Sumatran tiger, 4.Silky sifafka, 5.Vaquita, 6.Javan Rhino, 7.Cross River Gorilla, 8.South China Tiger, 9.Amur Leopard, 10.Frogs and other amphibians.
 
This list of animals is only an introduction to a very large number around the world under threat of extinction. For a more comprehensive examination visit the Edge of Existence.
 
NWHS Note: This article contains photos and information concerning these specific wild animals on the brink of extinction, as well as the link to "Edge of Existence". Interesting information to view.
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  Fish Evolves
 
Fish Caught Evolving Into Three Different Species
Source: Discovery News - By Emily Sohn
 
THE GIST:

*What was long thought to be one species of tropical fish may actually be three.
*There's still a whole lot we still don't know about diversity in the oceans.
*We may be losing species before we even know they exist.
 
The King demoiselle is not just one type of fish, but three distinct groups that recently split from each other, according to a new study. By essentially catching one species in the process of turning into three, the study suggests that conservation efforts might be failing a variety of species that have yet to be identified.
 
"This work, along with others, is starting to show that there is a lot more biodiversity in the oceans than we previously thought," said Joshua Drew, a marine conservation biologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. "We really are in a situation where we are losing things before we even know they exist"...
Click Here To Read More (Includes a cool lizard video)
 
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