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...today the African elephant stands on a precipice once again. The nations of Tanzania and Zambia are petitioning CITES, which begins a major meeting in Doha on March 13, to "downlist" the conservation status of elephants so that they can sell stockpiled ivory on the open market - ivory they say comes from elephants that have died naturally or was seized from illegal poachers. But conservationists argue that over the past decade illegal poaching has risen steadily, and if the elephant is downlisted in some African nations it could have a devastating impact for the species as a whole. Nothing less...
Thanks to successful protection, the Interior Department is proposing to "delist or downlist" some two dozen species on the Endangered and Threatened Species List, including, clockwise, the bald eagle, gray wolf, brown pelican and Aleutian Canada goose. So will the list get shorter? Don't bet on it. Our breakdown of the list...
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