Updates from the Conservation Field

Here are some tasty tidbits I’d love to share with all of you:

• The Environmental Defense Fund wants you to meet America’s endangered species with their new ‘Warming and Wildlife’ program.  Find out about 7 species you can help today, including the polar bear, monarch butterfly and Canada lynx.

• The state of Florida Wednesday declared the peregrine falcon officially delisted. Due to past DDT use, populations dipped to 650 in 1965, down from 20,000 in the late 1930s. However, there are now more than 3,100 breeding pairs within Florida.

• On Monday, five non-profit organizations filed a complaint regarding the Great Lakes wolf delisting in Federal District Court.  The groups requested an injunction of a reinterpretation of the term ‘listing’–i.e. that delisting should not be implied.  Among the organizations were the HSUS and the Center for Biological Diversity.

More updates soon to come.

>>For now, follow my Endangered Species Coalition Twitter account.

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