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Global Warming Spreads Diseases That Threaten Wildlife--The Case of Black Abalone

January 14, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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blackabalone, disease, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, nmfs

Today the National Marine Fisheries Service officially classified black abalone as an "endangered species." (I discussed the proposed listing last year.) Rising sea levels and ocean acidification, both caused by global warming, are among the threats to black abalone....continued

Fade to Black

January 11, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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abalone, blackabalone, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, oceantemperatures

Today the National Marine Fisheries Service formally proposed listing black abalone as an endangered species.  Black abalone's historic range extends from Baja California to Del Norte county, well north of San Francisco. Once a dominant feature of the southern...continued

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Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
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