{"id":407176,"date":"2010-03-09T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:11:04","slug":"yellowstone-grizzlies-back-on-endangered-species-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407176","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone grizzlies back on endangered species list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/wildlife\/article\/40508\" >Environmental News Network:<\/a> A federal district court ruling in Montana today returned Endangered Species Act protections to the Yellowstone grizzly bear population. In the case, brought by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Judge Donald Molloy ruled that inadequate regulatory mechanisms were put in place to manage the bears after federal protections were dropped in early 2007, and that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to address the loss of an essential food source for the bears, whitebark pine seeds. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and six other groups, represented by Earthjustice, have a similar case pending in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/wildlife\/article\/40508\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/image_for_articles\/40508-1.jpg\/medium\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>For years, NRDC has been vigorously engaged in efforts to protect Yellowstone\u2019s grizzly bears and whitebark pine. Whitebark pine forests are being decimated throughout their range by an array of threats that have emerged in high elevation environments as a result of climate change. Researchers worry that the trees are being driven to functional extinction, radically altering some of the continent\u2019s most iconic landscapes and eliminating a crucial food source for Yellowstone\u2019s grizzly bears. NRDC petitioned to have the tree added to the federal Endangered Species List in December 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/wildlife\/article\/40508\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3180&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3180\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental News Network: A federal district court ruling in Montana today returned Endangered Species Act protections to the Yellowstone grizzly bear population. In the case, brought by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Judge Donald Molloy ruled that inadequate regulatory mechanisms were put in place to manage the bears after federal protections were dropped in early 2007, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}