RENO, Nev. — A small Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal energy project has been officially declared an endangered species after US wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely used emergency basis in last spring. “This decision makes the listing of the Dixie Valley toad final,” the US …
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — An international wildlife conference has moved to enact some of the most important protections for shark species targeted in the fin trade and dozens of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, …
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“I can’t tell you how special it is to hold something we never thought we’d see again,” Kyle Jaynes, a PhD student at Michigan State University, said after a trip to South America in search of… harlequin frogs. Jaynes, a member of MSU’s Department of Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program, was part …
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