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The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S.

Survivalism may be going mainstream , what will all the new cave men and off-gridders . But for Heimo and Edna Korth, survival in the wild has been a way of life for three decades.

photo: Kevin Walsh via flickr. You’ve probably heard the stat that extinction rates are currently somewhere between 100-1000 times historic levels, which is bad enough, but now the Guardian reports the head of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that we’ve “almost certainly” crossed the thresho…

Image credit: tibchris /Flickr Two tiger cubs were found dead in the Ranthambhore national park in India this weekend. Though an investigation is still under way, officials reported that early evidence suggests the cubs were poisoned…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Guyon Morée via flickr. Let’s take the idea of animal rights in a legal direction. Over the weekend voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to start public funding for lawyers to defend animals in court .

The Utah prairie dog.

Workers at a golf club in China. Photo by Dan Washburn via Foreign Policy

Forest recovering after the B&B Complex fire in 2003 in the central Oregon Cascade Range. Photo by Garrett Meigs, Oregon State University via Flickr

Without a commercial trade ban, illustrations and photos will be the only Atlantic bluefin tuna the world sees. Image: Wikipedia . Some good news for critically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna : The Obama administration says it will back a proposal to place the species in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , thereby prohibiting further trade.

Photo via Whitepod . Consumer demand for greener hotels has been on the rise over the last few years — and as a result, many hotels now use green practices as marketing messages , not always truthfully. When it comes down to it, most ‘eco’ hotels and resorts could be doing more.