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The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has rebounded dramatically in Florida and other Southern states, officials say.
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In the prairie grasslands of northwestern Oklahoma, the Lesser Prairie-Chicken is in a fight for survival against development interests of energy industries.
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Scientists face a challenge: A troubled species rebounds thanks to restoration efforts, only to make things worse for others by preying on them or outcompeting them for food and living space.
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for to its "red list" of threatened species and categorized it as "endangered" — two steps from extinct.
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The wide-ranging report found the number of Australian species listed as threatened had increased since the 2016 report.
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Fishing in the Gulf of California has nearly wiped out the vaquita marina. But a new genetic analysis offers hope for the engandered porpoise: the species can make a comeback, if humans protect it.
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Farmers in ten states, including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, are now free to use a herbicide that had been restricted in January.
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Researchers at Oklahoma State University are looking into whether a rare and threatened beetle could provide new ways to preserve meat and fight bacteria.
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Among the 23 species announced extinct recently by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was a freshwater mussel that once lined the banks of Midwestern waterways and the ivory-billed woodpecker, which used to fly through the Mississippi River basin.
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The announcement comes five years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature officially removed giant pandas from its endangered list.