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	<span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; ">Stressed Aquifers, New Owls Discovered, Citizen Science and the ESA, Underwater Art, Green Olympics, and Other News</span></p>
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		Photo credit:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">www.nytimes.com</a>&nbsp;(Gleeson et al.,&nbsp;<em>Nature</em>)</p>
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		Species Conservation</h2>
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			<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/imperiled-blue-iguanas-on-the-rebound-in-grand-cayman-thanks-to-captive-breeding-program/2012/08/15/8758bba2-e6f7-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html"><strong>B</strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/imperiled-blue-iguanas-on-the-rebound-in-grand-cayman-thanks-to-captive-breeding-program/2012/08/15/8758bba2-e6f7-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html">lue iguanas</a></strong>&nbsp;are on the rebound through a conservation program in the Cayman islands.</li>
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			Environmental groups in the US have requested that&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/13/local/la-me-great-white-20120813">great white sharks</a></strong>&nbsp;be placed on the Endangered Species list.</li>
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			Conservation groups are fighting to save the endangered&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19255703">Indian dolphin</a></strong>.</li>
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			&quot;...Citizens, on average, do a better job of picking species that are threatened than does the Fish and Wildlife Service.&quot; &nbsp;So says an interesting study on&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120816141533.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_environment+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+News+--+Top+Environment%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">citizen involvement in the Endangered Species Act</a></strong>&nbsp;out of Emory University.</li>
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