http://www.mail.com/organizations/37068-us-fish-wildlife-service.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/37068-us-fish-wildlife-service.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even tho... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:47:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html 2013-05-14T21:47:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range. The draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The Associated Press contends the roughly 6... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:47:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html 2013-04-26T22:47:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html PATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave. Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill the air, a pulsing undercurrent in the tropical night. To the untrained ear, it's just a mis... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:12:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html 2013-04-10T21:12:16Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981552-western-environmentalists-oppose-wolf-delisting.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray wolves in vast areas where the animals no longer exist. The groups say ending federal protections would keep wolves from expanding their range back into states that could support them, inc... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:17:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1981552-western-environmentalists-oppose-wolf-delisting.html 2013-03-27T05:17:03Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1939970-us-proposes-musical-instrument-passports.html BANGKOK (AP) — Musicians, take note: Next time you travel abroad, you might need a passport — for your instrument. Delegates attending a global biodiversity conference in Bangkok this week are debating a U.S. proposal to streamline international customs checks for travelers with musical instruments that legally contain endangered wildlife products like ex... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:18:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1939970-us-proposes-musical-instrument-passports.html 2013-03-08T07:18:37Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1908588-alaska-senator-pushes-wildlife-refuge-road.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Thin barrier islands five miles off the tip of the Alaska Peninsula shelter Izembek Lagoon from the Bering Sea, but it's what's beneath the surface that makes the lagoon special and part of a brewing, cross-continent fight. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is pushing for a road between King Cove, population 938, where flying is often impossibl... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:17:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1908588-alaska-senator-pushes-wildlife-refuge-road.html 2013-02-22T18:17:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890408-3-charged-smuggling-horns-endangered-rhinos.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people have been charged with participating in an international smuggling ring that traffics in the horns of endangered black rhinos. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Justice Department have launched "Operation Crash" using undercover agents and electronic surveillance in an effort to stop the black market trade in rhino horn... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:18:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890408-3-charged-smuggling-horns-endangered-rhinos.html 2013-02-13T23:18:21Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1886752-animal-welfare-groups-sue-to-midwest-wolf-hunt.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region that were lifted last year. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its parent agency, the... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1886752-animal-welfare-groups-sue-to-midwest-wolf-hunt.html 2013-02-12T21:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861730-apnewsbreak-feds-warming-imperils-wolverines.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change — a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals the government says will lose crucial habitat as temperatures rise. Federal wildlife offi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861730-apnewsbreak-feds-warming-imperils-wolverines.html 2013-02-01T22:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742998-grizzly-managers-toward-hunts-rockies.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in anticipation of the government lifting their threatened species status. It's expected to be 2014 before about 600 bears around Yellowstone National Park lose their federal protections, and poss... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742998-grizzly-managers-toward-hunts-rockies.html 2012-12-04T22:05:00Z