The addition of the cheetah to the endangered species list last week was a sad blow to wildlife conservation groups that have fought hard to protect the species. However, in the past, the cheetah had been seen as a conservation success. What happened to drive the cheetah back to the brink?

Nothing.

 
The cheetahs didn’t need a [...]

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As promised, President Bush is trying to ram through a sweeping change to the Endangered Species Act by Friday that would remove scientific review and completely undermine the effectiveness of the act.
Scientific review, the effective core of the Act, would be removed:
The rules eliminate the input of federal wildlife scientists in some endangered species cases, [...]

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CNN released a new video today documenting the plight of polar bears, this time in Alaska past the ege of the Arctic circle.
By this time of year, polar bears have been without food for 4 or 5 months, but can’t get out to hunt the fatty seals that sustain them through the cold winter months [...]

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There’s a lot of buzz about the election in Washington right now - as you might imagine - but the one sector that isn’t jumping out of their seats right now are the environmentalists.
Why?! We’re getting rid of Bush, who’s gutted the Endangered Species Act and done countless favors for Big Oil! It even looks like [...]

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The latest big news coming out of Spain is that the World Conservation Union has voted to push for a ban on tuna fishing in the Mediterranean, a huge but necessary step to stop this whole ecosystem from being driven to extinction.
What’s really remarkable about this vote, though, is that Japan got on board and [...]

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