The ancient Atlantic sturgeon is the latest species to be added to the Endangered Species List.

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The delicately hued petals and striking brown florets of Tennessee’s purple coneflower once seemed fated to live on only in description, or as a ghostly sketch yellowing on the page of some dusty botanical volume, yet today it’s thriving. For over half a century after it was first discovered, the flower was believed to have died out entirely, never to be seen again dotting the cedar glades of central Tennessee. But now, after years on the endangered species list, the purple coneflower has made a remarkable …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With the Gulf oil spill threatening Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning grounds, and rampant and ongoing overfishing wiping them out with abandon, the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a formal petition to the US government to place the species on the Endangered Species List. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spread throughout Madagascar’s most isolated forests, the rare Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur is a poorly understood species hovering near the edge of the endangered species list.

Once thought to be a single species, Coquerel’s lemur was divided into two distinct species in 2005. Now, following the discovery of a new population of giant mouse lemurs, it may be split again….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Asiatic jackal, shown here in Tanzania, Africa, is under consideration for Afghanistan’s endangered-species list thanks to student research. Photo by Stig Nygaard via Flickr.

The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has made it nearly impossible for researchers to conduct on-the-ground fieldwork to find out how species such as the Kashmir cave bat, Asiatic jackal, and Afghan tortoise have fared during the last 30 years of war. So conservation organizatio…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The white marlin, a prized trophy fish, is one of the most overfished marine species under international management. It has been nominated for inclusion on the United State’s endangered species list multiple times and has been included in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Species of Concern List.

Now, researchers believe that population data has been unrealistically inflated due to the marlin’s similarities to another species, th…Read the full story on TreeHugger

A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Fidelis Orozco via Flickr.

Two years after the grizzly bears of Yellowstone Park were removed from the Endangered Species List, a federal district judge in Montana has ordered the bears be placed back on it. According to United States District Court Judge Donald Molloy’s 46-page ruling, the re-listing of the bears was necessary to p…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Starting tomorrow, the gray wolf is about to be hunted for the first time in decades. The Obama administration removed the wolves from the endangered species list last March. And unless a federal judge decides to halt the hunt and reopen the question of whether the species is threatened, the gray wolf hunt starts tomorrow in Idaho–and hundreds of wolves will be killed. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Within weeks, grey wolves in the Northern Rockies will be on the business-end of high-powered hunting rifles. Most people remember back in May 2009 that the Obama Administration delisted the wolves from the endangered species list. Now, since their current status isn’t protected by the federal government, Read the full story on TreeHugger