Gray whale numbers have halved in a decade as a warming Arctic starves them of food, and they still lack Endangered Species Act protection.
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El Nino-driven fires have burned tens of thousands of hectares in Indonesian Borneo this year, forcing rescuers to save orangutans suffering smoke exposure as their forest habitat disappears.
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Fewer than 30 giant ground pangolins remain in Kenya, and most of the recent deaths have come from electrocution on farm fences, not trafficking, pushing Maasai communities to start deactivating the fences' lower wires.
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Biologists riding along on Panama's industrial fishing boats are training crews to release sharks and rays caught as bycatch, as lawmakers debate a bill to protect the country's declining shark populations.
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