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It is now home to more than 120 species, many of them endangered.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
These were probably giant kangaroo rats, a native species whose numbers have been growing since their listing as an endangered species in 1987.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Around the same time, the committee also met to review an exemption application related to water management at the Grayrocks Dam in Wyoming and its effects on endangered whooping cranes downstream in Nebraska.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe hopes these salmon, exported more than a century ago, will revive the genetic diversity of the few remaining endangered salmon in the Sacramento River.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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