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Unfortunately, though, the loss of species in the islands has been staggering, and what remains occupies but a fraction of their historical range. Much of the loss has been due to biological invaders, which are particularly troublesome on island habitats, where native species don't have strategies to protect against non-native newcomers. (www.usgs.gov....aii01.html)
The Hawaiian Islands provide an ideal laboratory for addressing harmful invasive species problems, because invasive species are the state's dominant biological resource issue today. Hawaii 's invasive species crisis affects the state's many native plants and animals, overall environmental and human health, and the viability of its tourism- and agriculture-based economy. (www.usgs.gov....aii01.html)
USGS scientists from the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center are taking steps to nip in the bud new plant invasions on the island of Maui. Plans are now in place for detecting new invasive plants that are starting to spread and alerting the control crew of the Maui Invasive Species Committee-a voluntary partnership of private, government, and non-profit organizations-to remove and destroy the plants. (www.usgs.gov....aii01.html)
Some of Hawaii 's ancestral colonizing species are sources of the world's most amazing examples of adaptive radiation: Hawaiian honeycreepers, picture-winged flies, and the silversword plant group. The animals and plants of these islands are an important part of Hawaii 's, America's, and the world's natural heritage, and comprise a valuable natural resource. They are much of what make up the beauty and wonder of Hawaii . (www.usgs.gov....aii01.html)
Since the 1970s, Hawaii 's national parks, especially Hawaii Volcanoes and Haleakala, have led the nation in innovative management techniques to control harmful non-native species . The Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is pioneering efforts at effective invasive species eradication in areas where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages entire islands. (www.usgs.gov....aii01.html)
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): Scientists have discovered three previously unknown species of salamanders in La Amistad International Park on the Costa Rica-Panama border, which is Central Americaâs biggest rain forest reserve. (www.topnews.in....ica-211951)
Costa Rica is one of the best studied countries in the world at the level of herpetology, but despite this we are still describing new species , Boza told National geographic News. (www.topnews.in....ica-211951)
There are many different species of bacteria. Scientists often classify bacteria on the basis of shape, size, and other morphological characteristics, as well as the genetic material that each type of bacteria contains. The Gram stain is one important tool that scientists use to identify and characterize bacteria. (www.britannica.com....leTypeId=1)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday reversed seven rulings that denied endangered species increased protection , after an investigation found the actions were tainted by political pressure from a former senior Interior Department official. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
The rulings came under scrutiny last spring after an Interior Department inspector general concluded that agency scientists were being pressured to alter their findings on endangered species by Julie MacDonald, then a deputy assistant secretary overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
Rahall in a statement said that MacDonald, who was a civil engineer, should never have been allowed near the endangered species program. He called MacDonald's involvement in species protection cases over her three-year tenure as an example of this administration's penchant for torpedoing science. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists said the acknowledgment of seven instances of wrongdoing does not begin to plumb the depths of what's wrong at the wildlife agency and its implementation of the Endangered Species Act. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
It also said it will examine the continued listing of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse, as well as a separate ruling that had been made concerning the mouse's critical habitat. The agency decision to take the mouse from under the protection of the Endangered Species Act was questioned after MacDonald's involvement became known. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
MacDonald resigned in May after the Interior Department's inspector general rebuked her for pressuring wildfire agency scientists to alter their findings about endangered species and leaking information about species decisions to industry officials. The IG found that she had broken federal rules by those actions. (www.cnn.com....pecies.ap/)
February 16, 2008 Biologists urge that interactions among species , the effects of climate change, and the effects of human impacts such as harvesting are among the factors that need to be considered in moving toward . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
February 14, 2008 A young scientist has discovered a previously undescribed species of parasite that infects farmed fish and produces serious disease. Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
February 7, 2008 A 'barcode' gene that can be used to distinguish between the majority of plant species on Earth has been identified. This gene, which can be used to identify plants using a small sample, could lead . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
February 1, 2008 An unusual new species of whirligig beetle from India is being named Orectochilus orbisonorum in honor of the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
January 14, 2008 All species of termites are social insects, like ants. Entomologists have listed over 2000 species across the world and more than one-third of them live in Africa. This continent harbors 160 from the . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
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Scientists have discovered that a species of Amazonian ants (Allomerus decemarticulatus) builds a tiny 'honeycombe-like' trap that enables them to trap unsuspecting larger insects whose legs slip into the matrix of holes. (animals.about.com....e-prey.htm)
London , Feb 6: Scientists have discovered a previously unknown sub-species of bird in the southern grasslands of Nepal, which might provide an important geographical link between previously-known varieties in Pakistan and India. (www.topnews.in....pak-218928)
Though the bird had been spotted first in 2005 in a wetland area, it is only now that taxonomists have decided it is distinctive enough to be described as a separate sub-species . (www.topnews.in....pak-218928)
According to Hem Sagar Baral of Bird Conservation Nepal, the find is exciting because while the other two types belong to Pakistan's Indus river basin and the Brahmaputra of north-east India, this Nepalese sub-species fills the gap. (www.topnews.in....pak-218928)
They are however elated that it has been found in a reserve which is well monitored by bird-watchers, and are now speculating that there may be more species waiting to be found new to Nepal, or even to the world. (ANI) (www.topnews.in....pak-218928)
Invasive species are a growing threat to the Department of the Interior's stewardship of the Nation's natural resources. They are currently estimated to infest more than 30 percent of the acreage of the National Park System in the lower 48 states. By various estimates, these species contribute to the decline of 35 to 46 percent of U.S. endangered and threatened species . (www.usgs.gov....tor01.html)
Ten other plant species , including four orchids, are still under examination, but researchers believe they would also be in all likelihood new species . (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
âDiscoveries of so many new species are rare and occur only in very special places like the Green Corridor. Several large mammal species were discovered in the 1990s in the same forests so these latest discoveries may be just the tip of the iceberg,â said Dr. Chris Dickinson, WWFâs chief conservation scientist in the Green Corridor. (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
Three of the new orchid species are entirely leafless, a rarity even among orchids. Containing none of the chlorophyll or green pigment commonly found in plants, these orchids live on decaying matter like many fungal species . (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
The other new plants include an aspidistra, which produces a nearly black flower and a newly-discovered species of arum with beautiful yellow flowers. Arum plants have funnel-shaped leaves surrounding the flowers. (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
The two new butterfly species are among eight discovered in the province since 1996. One is a skipper â a butterfly with quick, darting flight habitsâfrom the genus Zela, and the other is a new genus in the subfamily of Satyrinae. (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
According to WWF experts , all of these species are at risk from illegal logging, hunting, unsustainable extraction of natural resources and conflicting development interests. (www.topnews.in....idor-22421)
Ottawa , Nov 15: A research on tropical petrel seabirds by biologists has confirmed Charles Darwin 's 150 year old theory that it is possible for different species to develop in the same place. (www.topnews.in....ence-26183)
We're taught today that new species generally emerge as a result of a geographic barrier such as a mountain range or river, creating two separate populations that can't easily move from one place to the other, says Dr. Friesen, an expert in evolutionary biology. (www.topnews.in....ence-26183)
While that model fits for many parts of the natural world, it doesn't explain why some species appear to have evolved separately, within the same location, where there are no geographic barriers to gene flow, he added. (www.topnews.in....ence-26183)
The research team also learned that the seasonal species had not bred with each other for periods ranging from around 1,000 to 180,000 years, providing a series of time shots of divergence. (www.topnews.in....ence-26183)
This is important for us to know, not just as an explanation for how new species can arise, but also because biodiversity is part of a healthy ecosystem and each bird species is part of our natural heritage, said Dr. Friesen. (www.topnews.in....ence-26183)
Conservationists To Fight In Court For Gray Wolves Environmental conservationists groups plan to fight in courtagainst the US Department of the Interior, after the latter decided that graywolves should be removed from the endangered species list. (www.efluxmedia.com....11952.html)
Given the name Pecari Maximus, this new animal was found in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã. It was confirmed to be a distinct species via a genetic analysis conducted by the Leiden Centre for Environmental Sciences in the Netherlands . (www.topnews.in....ered-25252)
Peccaries are hoofed animals closely related to swine and hippopotami. Until now, only three species were known to science the collared peccary, the white-lipped peccary and the Chaccoan peccary. (www.topnews.in....ered-25252)
Measurements of the new peccary's body and skull confirm that the new species is larger than the other peccary species , said Roosmalen. The giant peccary has longer legs and its fur markings are completely different, he added. (www.topnews.in....ered-25252)
 Also, the giant peccary has a gland that is active in other peccary species and used to mark territories as well as each other. However, the new peccary is scentless, said Roosmalen. (www.topnews.in....ered-25252)
The habitat of the giant peccary is limited to dry wooded areas in a small region of the basin of the Rio Aripuanã. The researchers therefore expect the giant peccary population to be small and recommend that this new species should be placed on the Red List of threatened species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. (ANI) (www.topnews.in....ered-25252)
In a report which will be published in the February 4 issueof The Journal of Zoology, they confirmed the existence of a new species of elephant -shrewsor sengi. (www.efluxmedia.com....00104.html)
This initiative will for the first time in history, enable scientists, students, and citizens have multimedia access to all known living species such as animals, plants, and other forms of life, as well as those that are just discovered. (www.techtree.com....7-643.html)
While initial work will emphasize species of animals, plants, and fungi, the design can be extended to encompass microbial life. To provide depth to the portal page for each species , scanned and digitized pages of scientific literature will be offered for detailed knowledge. (www.techtree.com....7-643.html)
Shafer was charged in Federal Court with violating the Endangered Species Act, including the killing , possession , and transport of a gray wolf, a threatened species . (www.fws.gov....042004.htm)
are the home of many mysteries and unknown species . Because of the age,isolation and fragmented nature of the forests the mountains, which are stretchingfrom southern (www.efluxmedia.com....13536.html)
According to The Red List of Threatened Species compiled bythe IUCN one in four mammals and one third of all amphibians are in jeopardy andthe most alarming aspect is that the conservation measures had made only alimited impact. (www.efluxmedia.com....08587.html)
IUCN said that the number of species threatened byextinction is up with 88 percent compared to last year. In other words thismeans that from 41,415 species 16,306 will disappear over the next years. (www.efluxmedia.com....08587.html)
declaredthe species endangered in 1979. In 1986 official estimates placed the Baijipopulation around 300 but an extensive survey in 1998 found only 7 individuals.The last confirmed sighting was in 2004 and the last captive baiji, Qi Qi, diedin 2002 at the (www.efluxmedia.com....08587.html)
According to the survey, only one species had moved to alower category of threat, the Mauritius Echo Parakeet had shifted fromCritically Endangered to Endangered as a result of conservation action. (www.efluxmedia.com....08587.html)
This one achievement was a disappointing tally for conservationists,said Jean-Christophe Vié of IUCN's species programme. This is reallyworrying in light of government commitments around the world, such as the 2010target to slow down biodiversity loss. (www.efluxmedia.com....08587.html)
Holyan [NTP] will present at the First Spokane Beaming Bioneers Conference on the 20th. He will be among 5 scheduled speakers in the Preservation of the Wild section that addresses current threats toward these species and the efforts being made to protect and preserve them and their habitat. (www.fws.gov....192007.htm)
Researchers also rediscovered the mysterious Berlepschs Six-Wired Bird of Paradise, a species that was first described in the late 1800's but had eluded scientists ever since. (animals.about.com....guinea.htm)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies willbe removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-yearrestoration effort that helped the animal's population soar,federal officials said Thursday. (news.aol.com....5209990058)
"Gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains are thriving andno longer require the protection of the Endangered Species Act,"said Interior Deputy Secretary Lynn Scarlett. "The wolf's recoveryin the Northern Rocky Mountains is a conservation success story." (news.aol.com....5209990058)
Wolves have increasingly preyed on livestock as they expandedinto new territories. At the same time, ranchers and wildlifeagents have made more wolf kills, which are allowed under theEndangered Species Act in response to livestock conflicts. (news.aol.com....5209990058)
Scientists in Israel have discovered eight new species of sightless critters living in a cave that has been closed from the rest of the world. Unfortunately, they look more like scorpions than Sanrio characters. He said the cave's ecosystem probably dates back around five million years when the Mediterranean Sea covered parts of Israel . (www.boingboing.net....nd-ca.html)
Fossils of two new species of ancient flying reptiles have been unearthed by paleontologists working in Liaoning, China. The new species , Feilongus youngi and Nurhachius ignaciobritoi , belong to a group of flying reptiles known as pterosaurs. (animals.about.com....-china.htm)
Prior to this study, most genetic research on extinct species focused on mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA helps reveal evolutionary relationships among species , but it falls short when trying to describe how an extinct animal differs from related species still alive today. (animals.about.com....mapped.htm)
Populations of pepperweed can establish and spread by seeds or by root fragments. This enables the species to expand into large, mostly one-species stands in a variety of environments, including wetland perimeters, rangelands, meadows, riparian areas, salt marshes/estuaries, roadsides, irrigation channels, and even irrigated alfalfa fields. (www.usgs.gov....rweed.html)
Athreya published his findings in a paper in the journal Indian Birds (Volume 2, Number 4). In it he describes he suggests that the bird is a new species of Liocichla and proposes the name Bugun Liocichla (Liocichla bugunorum). (animals.about.com....-india.htm)
We thought the bird was just too rare for one to be killed. With today s modern technology, we could gather all the information we needed to confirm it as a new species . We took feathers and photographs, and recorded the bird s song. ~ Ramana Athreya (animals.about.com....-india.htm)
The Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala) is a newly named species of monkey that has recently been discovered in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India. This is a significant finding, as it represents the first new monkey species to be discovered in over a century. (animals.about.com....-india.htm)
In September of 2007 two new plethodontid species were found in the same area Gomezâs Web-footed Salamander, Bolitoglossa gomezi and Brameâs Web-footed Salamander, Bolitoglossa bramei. (www.freelantzsolutions.com....vered.html)
"It is like having a lot of genetic mutations at once. Enzymes allow DNA to be excised from one species to us," Deem said. "Bacterial geneticists have worked on HGT for 15 to 20 years, but not many of the other evolutionary biologists (have)." (www.news.com....tag=cd.hed)
Many HGT insertions, like most genetic mutations, will have no impact on the development of a species , and some transfers will be deleterious, he said. A small fraction of the transfers, however, will lead to sudden, beneficial changes in an organism's genome. (www.news.com....tag=cd.hed)
BirdLife International reports that of the world's estimated 9,799 bird species , 2,005 are classified as threatened or endangered. The most critically endangered species include Peru's Purple-backed Sunbeam Hummingbird (Aglaeactis aliciae) and Tanzania's Uluguru Bush-shrike (Malaconotus alius). (animals.about.com....ngered.htm)
In the southwest United States, federal and state agencies and tribes have been contributing field observations on invasive plant distribution and abundance for inclusion into a regional database. In just three years, the Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Program has built a database that now contains nearly 5000 observation points on 45 invasive plant species . (www.usgs.gov....asive.html)
The longest known insect migration in the world. They travel distances that would impress a whale or a seabird but unlike those species the monarchs only make the journey once. It's their great-grandchildren that make the next leg of the journey . How do they know where to go? (www.bbc.co.uk....butterfly/)
An ant that is native toEurasia is threatening tobecome the latest in aprocession of species toinvade Europe , as a resultof inadvertent humanintroduction. The invasive . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....e_species/)
December 16, 2007 The sea louse, a parasitic copepod, is widely distributed among wild fish species along the Norwegian coast. The parasite is found in large numbers in the lumpfish, which is now considered to be one . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....e_species/)
Recent USGS research from the Western Ecological Research Center in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains shows that grazing by different types of livestock in foothill woodlands may alter the composition of plant species and the distribution of vegetation types. (www.usgs.gov....dfire.html)
Because these ecosystems have been heavily invaded by non-native grasses and forbs, low-to-moderate livestock grazing is no longer a major factor in shifts of native/non-native plant dominance. However, nonnative plant dominance is affected by the grazing patters of different species : cattle grazing favors a different type of invasive species than horse grazing. (www.usgs.gov....dfire.html)
The real scary part? If they had more money to spend on these studies, they are positive that they would find even more species disappearing quite rapidly. Lovely news, no? (www.thegoodhuman.com....net-earth/)
An introduced species (alsoknown as an exotic species )is an organism that is notnative to the place or areawhere it is consideredintroduced and instead hasbeen accidentally ordeliberately transported to . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....e_species/)
February 18, 2008 Garlic mustard has become an invasive species in temperate forests across the United States, choking out native plants on forest floors and threatening ecosystem diversity. Ecologists have now . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....e_species/)
Here are descriptions and illustrations of 1,492 species from 77 families virtually all of the wildflowers found from British Columbia to Baja California, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific . read more (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers , grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are . read more (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopards that prowl the islands of Sumatra and Borneo are very different to those that inhabit mainland southeast Asia. Recent genetic analysis shows that they are so different, in fact, that they should be classified as a separate species . (animals.about.com....eopard.htm)
The flying squirrels are atribe of squirrel. There are43 species in this tribe,the largest of which is thewoolly flying squirrel. Theterm "flying" is somewhat ofa misnomer, since flyingsquirrels are actually . full story (www.sciencedaily.com....w_species/)
May 16, 200752; Hundreds of new species of deep-sea animals, such as the baby isopod Ceratoserolis above, have been discovered during expeditions in the waters off Antarctica. (news.nationalgeographic.com....w-species/)
Ceratoserolis is just one of 585 new species of isopod52;a type of marine crustacean related to wood lice52;found during the Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiversity Project, or ANDEEP, trips between 2002 and 2005. (news.nationalgeographic.com....w-species/)
We were astonished by the enormous biodiversity we found in many groups of species , said Angelika Brandt, a marine biologist at the University of Hamburg in Germany . (news.nationalgeographic.com....w-species/)
Even as world human populations grow, other life is shrinking. With the imminent and ever-growing threat to endangered species , how much longer will they be around? This escalating crisis of earths biodiversity loss is moving at a fast rate,. (www.greendiary.com....d-species/)
In a move to protect wildlife and ensure that endangered species stay protected from poachers, Britain has strengthened its laws through the Habitats Regulations and new Offshore Marine Conservation Regulations. The new law proclaims that the offenders. (www.greendiary.com....d-species/)
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