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Alberta grizzlies listed as threatened
Source: Boston Globe By:Matthew Brown, AP
Grizzly bears have been listed as threatened in the Canadian province of Alberta, and a ban on hunting has been extended by officials who say the animals are suffering from habitat loss and low reproductive success.
While bears elsewhere in the Northern Rockies have been rebounding from near-extermination last century, fewer than 700 roam Alberta outside of Banff and Jasper National Parks. Residential construction, logging and energy development have pushed deeper and deeper into the grizzly's wilderness refuges, breaking up the province's bear population into increasingly isolated small groups.
Thursday's announcement by Alberta's minister for sustainable resource development follows years of warnings that more protections were needed. Conservationists welcomed the move, but said the government must follow through with regulations to ensure better protections for the bears. Even then it could take decades for the population to rebound...
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See California condors
Source: Utah Wildlife News
If you arrive at the right spot in southern Utah early enough, some of the largest and rarest birds in the world might be soaring directly over your head.
On June 19, 2010, the Division of Wildlife Resources will host its annual California condor viewing event. Dubbed "The Day of the Condor," the free event runs from 8 a.m. to noon at an area 21 miles north of Virgin in southwestern Utah.
Those who attended the event last year were thrilled as they watched 17 condors soar in the sky above them. "To give yourself the best chance to see the greatest number of birds, try to arrive at the site as close to 8 a.m. as you can," says Keith Day, regional sensitive species biologist for the DWR...
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Pelicans, Back From Brink of Extinction, Face Oil Threat
Source: New York Times By:John Collins Rudolph and Leslie Kaufman
FORT JACKSON, La. - For more than a decade, the hundreds of brown pelicans that nested among the mangrove shrubs on Queen Bess Island west of here were living proof that a species brought to the edge of extinction could come back and thrive.
The island was one of three sites in Louisiana where the large, long-billed birds were reintroduced after pesticides wiped them out in the state in the 1960s. But on Thursday, 29 of the birds, their feathers so coated in thick brown sludge that their natural white and gray markings were totally obscured, were airlifted to a bird rehabilitation center in Fort Jackson, the latest victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Another dozen were taken to other rescue centers.
Six more pelicans were brought here on Friday, [June 4] and as visitors to the center looked on the birds huddled together in makeshift plywood cages and, in their unnatural stillness, looked as if the gooey muck had frozen them solid. The 29 pelicans brought in Thursday were being treated in hot rooms by workers in protective clothing...
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