[PCA] NEWS: Saving Species No Longer a Beauty Contest

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802961.html?hpid=topnews

Saving Species No Longer a Beauty Contest
Homely Creatures Receiving More Help
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 29, 2009

MENDOTA, Calif. -- Are we ready to start saving ugly species?

When it began compiling lists of threatened and endangered animals and 
plants more than 35 years ago, the U.S. government gave itself the same 
mandate as Noah's Ark: Save everything.

But in practice, the effort has often worked more like a velvet-rope 
nightclub: Glamour rules.

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