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New Agreement Governing High-Seas Fishing in Indian Ocean

Faced with a marked increase in fishing on the high seas, six countries and the EU have signed an agreement covering a vast area of the South Indian Ocean in what a United Nations official has hailed as a major step forward in conservation and sustainable fishing.

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Butterflies Fly Freer in the Americas

A glimmer of orange will continue to blossom across Canada, the United States and Mexico. All three have agreed to designate thirteen Monarch butterfly preserves as part of a new Trilateral Monarch Butterfly Sister Protected Area Network.

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Rays of Hope in the Philippines

Nine manta rays were recently spotted for the first time in 20 years gliding through Basura, the internationally-renowned dive site in the Philippines.

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500,000 Oysters Added to the Bay in Record Year

Volunteers with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation planted hundreds of thousands of baby oysters into a specially prepared habitat made of recycled chunks of concrete last week.

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Elk Return to British Columbia

Elk are alive and well in the Lower Mainland of BC for the first time in a century, following the transplanting of two separate populations two years ago.

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'Amphibian Ark' Planned to Save Frogs

Zoos and aquariums from around the world are being rallied to collect frog species to build a virtual Amphibian's Ark of preservation against an epidemic of frog-felling fungus that threatens thousands of species from the American Rocky Mountains to the rice paddies of Japan.

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U.S. Admits Threat to Polar Bears from Global Warming, Moves Toward Action

The Bush Administration has formally proposed to list the Polar Bear as “threatened with extinction" under the Endangered Species Act due to Arctic ice melt from global warming.

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Sea Turtles Nesting in Record Numbers on African Coast

Loggerhead nestings have reached record high levels in South Africa, a positive sign for the endangered marine turtle...