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Delegates to a United Nations wildlife conference have agreed to ease a 13-year-old global ban on ivory trading. The decision is a victory for southern African nations, but conservationists see it as a defeat for elephants. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

The Republican leadership has pulled a provision to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge out of a House budget bill in an effort to secure support for passage. But opponents are seeking a written guarantee the measure won't reappear in the conference report.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Lynne Duke, author of Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Bittersweet Journal of Africa. Duke talks about her memoir of her experiences as the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Washington Post. From 1995 to 1999, she covered wars, epidemics, and political upheaval all over Africa. The book is published by Doubleday.

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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Christensen, Washington orrespondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, about Newt Gingrich's igh-profile rise to the position of Speaker of the House. They also discuss the n-going controversy between the National Park Service and the family of Dr. artin Luther King over who will control a visitor's center which is being built cross the street from Atlanta's King Center For Social Change. (Today would ave been the 66th birthday of Dr. King.)

on the "State of Black America." Aside from some gains in political representation and black college enrollment, the report characterizes life in urban Black America as comparable to the years during the Great Depression.

Kentucky wildlife officials are proposing to allow hunters to kill hundreds more sandhill cranes in the state each year. The Courier Journal reported…

Environmental groups say the federal government approved permits for a natural gas pipeline without fully considering the impacts on imperiled bat species.

Florida's Kissimmee River was channelized and dredged for flood control, but after a decades-long restoration effort, headwaters of the Everglades have returned to a more natural wetlands ecosystem.

More than 200 manatees have died in Florida's waterways this year from an algae bloom called red tide. The deaths come as wildlife officials try to remove the marine mammal — whose biggest killer is usually boat propellers — from the endangered species list.