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Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving 'rewilding' in cities

Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving ‘rewilding’ in cities

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DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metropolitan area of ​​4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into secluded thickets to study Detroit’s most elusive inhabitants — coyotes , foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and his colleagues have placed surveillance cameras in the wooded sections of 25 city parks over the …

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A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration declared the northern bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. “White-nose syndrome is decimating cave bat species like the northern myotis at an unprecedented rate,” said Martha Williams, director of …

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California lake dried up to secure $250 million in US drought funding

California lake dried up to secure $250 million in US drought funding

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government announced Monday that it will spend $250 million over four years on cleanup and environmental restoration work around a dried-up Southern California lake fed by the depleted Colorado River. The future of the Salton Seaand who is financially responsible for it, has been a key question in discussions …

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