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Nature 436, 14-16 (7 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436014a; Published online 6 July 2005

Conservation biology:  Is this any way to save a species?

Rex Dalton1

  1. Rex Dalton is Nature's US West Coast correspondent.
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Thanks to the influence of a powerful US senator, more than $120 million has been pumped into research on Alaska's endangered Steller sea lions in just four years. Rex Dalton asks what we've learned.

A hardy creature of Alaska's forbidding Aleutian Islands, the mighty Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) survives where few other mammals can. In freezing temperatures and battered by Arctic storms, bulls of the species can reach 1,000 kilograms.

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