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Senate Urging Extended Hunting Season for Resident Canada Geese to Control Nuisance
(Chambersburg Public Opinion)
The Pennsylvania Senate is urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend the hunting season for resident Canada geese in Pennsylvania. Resident geese have fouled local ponds and golf courses. Extending the hunting season would eliminate some of the nuisances and provide additional recreational hunting opportunities for state residents, according to resolution sponsor Sen. Richard Alloway II. MORE

Managed Timber Harvest Expected to Boost Wildlife Habitat in New Hampshire
(The Associated Press via The Republic)
Instead of relying on Mother Nature, New Hampshire officials are creating patches of young forest to provide better homes for all kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the New Hampshire Division of Forest and Lands say 157 acres of the 1,000-acre Kearsarge Wildlife Management Area in Andover, N.H., will be harvested. MORE

Fastest US Land Animal, the Pronghorn, Gets Help Crossing Wyoming Highway
(NBC News)
The fastest land animal in the U.S. now has safe passage across a Wyoming highway — extending a seasonal migration that’s been going on for 6,000 years. Pronghorn antelope have started using two overpasses atop Highway 191 that were completed this fall, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced. Eight-foot high fencing channels the animals to the crossing points. MORE

Plane, Wildlife Collisions on Rise Nationwide
(The Mercury)
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a potentially deadly encounter. Collisions between wildlife and aircraft increased five-fold from 1990 to 2011 nationwide, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which was criticized in a recent federal report for alleged gaps in its monitoring of wildlife hazards in and around the nation’s airports. MORE

Officials to Cull Bison Herd Awaiting Release in Alaska Wilderness
(Fairbanks Daily News Miner)
More than four years after importing a herd of wood bison from Canada to release into the Alaska wilderness, the animals still are being held behind fences at a wildlife conservation center south of Anchorage, Alaska. State and federal bureaucrats have spent the last 2 1/2 years wrestling over a special rule under the federal Endangered Species Act and allow the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to release the animals on the Innoko Flats in Southwest Alaska. MORE

Florida Crab Season Starts
(The Associated Press via CBS News)
Florida’s stone crab season has started. Recreational and commercial stone crab claw harvest season runs through May 15 in state and federal waters. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission press release says stone crab claws must be at least 2 inches in length. MORE

Conservation Groups Sue to Stop Montana Wolverine Trapping Season
(The Associated Press via Missoulian)
A coalition of groups trying to halt wolverine trapping in Montana filed a lawsuit that aims to provide new protections for an animal scientists warn will be imperiled by climate change in coming decades. Montana is the only state in the Lower 48 to allow wolverine trapping. As many as five can be trapped annually, a level state officials said is sustainable. MORE

Saskatoon Wildlife Federation Bring Game Meat to Food Bank
(CKOM Radio)
Food hampers at the Saskatoon Food Bank will soon be filled with moose, deer and maybe even elk thanks to a partnership with the Saskatoon Wildlife Federation called “Hunt for Hunger.” It allows hunters to give their excess meat to those in need of food. MORE

India Pledges Millions for Global Biodiversity
(The New York Times)
India will be the first nation to contribute funds toward international targets aimed at protecting the world’s biodiversity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. The Indian government will earmark $50 million toward reaching the so-called Aichi targets, 20 goals set in Nagoya, Japan, two years ago to curb damage to the world’s ecosystems and the extinction of its plants and animals, the prime minister said, speaking at a United Nations conference on biodiversity in Hyderabad. MORE

Members of Parliament: UK wildlife Crime Laws a Mess
(Guardian)
Britain’s laws to tackle wildlife crime — such as the poisoning of birds of prey and illegal trading of species online — are a “mess,” an influential committee of members of parliament said. The report from the environmental audit committee comes amid fears over the funding of the police’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, which is due to expire in March 2013 and has not yet been guaranteed by the government. MORE

25 Endangered Animal Species on Brink of Extinction
(Latinos Post)
Twenty-five primates are on the brink of extinction, according to a newly released study. Species of monkeys, langurs, lemurs and gorillas are in danger due to illegal trafficking and deforestation, according to a recent article by The Associated Press. The report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature released the study saying six of threatened species live on the island of Madagascar, located off southeast Africa, five from South American and nine species in Asia. MORE