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Posted Fri Oct 17 2008: from Associated Press:
Government declares beluga whale endangered http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1224269608
The federal government on Friday placed the beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, concluding that a decade-long recovery program has failed to ensure their survival... The findings by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service conflict with claims by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has questioned scientific evidence that the beluga whale population in the waters near Anchorage continues to decline.
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'Doc Jim says:
It almost onomatopoetically sounds like the alarm siren for threatened species: beLUga! beLUga!

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