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Rare S.F. bush gets federal protection

The last Franciscan manzanita, in 2010, is placed onto a truck at the Presidio, where it was discovered, to be replanted away from Doyle Drive construction. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle / SF

September 4, 2012,  www.sfgate.com | “Federal wildlife officials will issue a final ruling Wednesday designating as an endangered species the last wild Franciscan manzanita found in the world.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision after years of intensive study, a lawsuit and much hand-wringing over the plant, which was thought to be extinct until a single shrub was discovered in the Presidio in 2009.”

“Rare S.F. bush gets federal protection
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Federal wildlife officials will issue a final ruling Wednesday designating as an endangered species the last wild Franciscan manzanita found in the world. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision after years of intensive study, a lawsuit and much hand-wringing over the plant, which was…”
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Endangered wild cat discovered in Jordan

July 5, 2012, www.nature.com | “Conservation efforts are underway to ensure the survival of a rare wild cat captured on camera in Jordan’s Dana Biosphere Reserve. The caracal was last spotted in Jordan in 1995 and the species was thought to have disappeared.”

“good news regarding the caracal
Endangered wild cat discovered in Jordan : Nature Middle East
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Extinct Toad Back From The Dead

June 20, 2012, www.globalanimal.org | “A toad that was thought to be extinct is making a sudden comeback. The Kandyan Dwarf toad has not been spotted since 1872 and was listed as extinct by the IUCN. Recently scientists rediscovered the toad at the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary in Sri Lanka.”

The Kandyan Dwarf Toad Spotted In Sri Lanka And Not Extinct | Global Animal
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(ANIMAL DISCOVERY) SRI LANKA — A toad that was thought to be extinct is making a sudden comeback. The Kandyan Dwarf toad has not been spotted since 1872 and was listed as extinct by the IUCN. Recently scientists rediscovered the toad at the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary in Sri Lanka. Unfortunately it ap…

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    • Robert Brothers ‎”NATURE IS STILL FULL OF SURPRISES! For more critters who can say, with Mark Twain, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” see this category on the GoodNewsfortheEarth.org, https://goodnewsfortheearth.org/category/animals-plants/species-re-discovered/”
    • Sharon Morgan “Nice–thank you!!”
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Extinct toad rediscovered after hiding for 133 years in Sri Lanka

June 18, 2012, news.mongabay.com | “A small toad not seen since 1876, and considered by many to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a stream in Sri Lanka. First recorded in 1872, the Kandyan dwarf toad had (Adenomus kandianus) vanished for over a century before being found by scientists during a survey in 2009 in the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, according to a new paper in Zootaxa.”

Extinct toad rediscovered after hiding for 133 years in Sri Lanka
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A small toad not seen since 1876, and considered by many to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a stream in Sri Lanka. First recorded in 1872, the Kandyan dwarf toad had (Adenomus kandianus) vanished for over a century before being found by scientists during a survey in 2009 in the Peak Wilderness …
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5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth

Credit: NASA.

April 20, 2012, www.motherjones.com | “Most news from nature is depressing—species extinctions, changing climate, dying oceans. Yet it’s not all bad… though we might never know it, since positive news is underreported. I wrote about this tendency in my latest MoJo print piece about my old friend Enriqueta Velarde and her work to save an island and a whole ecosystem called Can One Incredibly Stubborn Person Save a Species?”

5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth
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A lot of people are working overtime to save endangered species and ecosystems. We don’t hear enough about them.
  • COMMENTS:
    GoodNews FortheEarth ~ great article, with reference to the need to publicize good news!
    read it and check these out:
    1) Huge Drop in PCB Levels in Norwegian Polar Bears
    2) Amur Cats Get Their Own 650,000 acre National Park
    3) Half Billion Dollars Funds Most Ambitious Conservation Programs Ever
    4) Right Whales Return to New Zealand
    5) Arabian Oryx Returns from Extinction
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

 

Feb 29, 2012, www.npr.org | The Lord Howe stick insect, Dryococelus australis, or Tree Lobster, was thought to be completely wiped out by a rat infestation in the 1960’s.  But a small island off the coast of Australia has been hiding something from us for a very long time.

Hannah Urpeth shared a link.

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years : NPR
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“The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it’s been dubbed a “tree lobster.” It was thought to be extinct, but some enterprising entomologists scoured a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean and found surviving Lord Howe Island stick insects.”
    • GoodNews FortheEarth‎~ Mother Nature is full of surprises. The more we look, the more we will find. The more we act, the more we will receive.
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Rainbow Toad Rediscovered, Photographed for First Time

The rainbow frog.

July 14, 2011, www.news.nationalgeographic.com | “A colorful, toxic toad that was last seen 87 years ago—and never photographed—has been rediscovered in the jungles of Southeast Asia.  Called the Sambas stream toad or Bornean rainbow toad, the elusive amphibian was last spotted by European explorers in 1924.”

GoodNews FortheEarth
“~ Rainbow Toad found again after 87 years! This is an adult female, 2 inches long, found at night at an undisclosed location in remote mountains.”

  • Comments:
  • Bob Hughes “wonder why no dissclosure of location”
    • Virginia Bryan “Protection?”
    • Sandra Beal “yes protection I reckon… and what a good idea.. such a precious discovery :)”
    • Robert Brothers “No disclosure of location is part of the good news, because it was not found in a protected area, and they are concerned about poachers.”
    • Carol Nel “good thing about the no disclosure, poachers who would want to sell such a rare find for big money….and arent the little toads colourful?”

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Bioluminescent mushroom rediscovered after 170 years

Jul 13 2011, www.mnn.com | “Spotted once in 1840 and then never seen again, one of the world’s most bioluminescent mushrooms has been rediscovered deep in the Brazilian wilderness.”

“~ old good news from July, 2011. For more info, seehttp://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2011-07-09-bioluminescent-glowing-mushroom_n.htm?csp=34tech”
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Thought extinct in the 1940s, bird found on U.S. soil

Dec 9, 2010 www.content.usatoday.com | “A bird once thought extinct and then found only in two breeding sites in Japan has turned up on U.S. soil. Nests of the endangered Short-tailed Albatross have been discovered on two tiny islands in the northwestern Hawaiian islands. Previously the birds were only known to nest on Torishima and Senkaku islands in Japan.”

“~ Nests of the endangered Short-tailed Albatross have been discovered on two tiny islands in the northwestern Hawaiian islands. Mother Nature is full of surprises.
Thought extinct in the 1940s, bird found on U.S. soil – Science Fair: Science and Space News – USATO
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Thought extinct in the 1940s, bird found on U.S. soil – Science Fair: Science and Space News – USATODAY.com”
    • Janie Harwood “Now they won’t be as safe! Human intervention, not always a good thing. Good luck to these lovely birds”
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