SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Scientists are tracking two great white sharks off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina as part of an effort to learn more about their migration patterns and raise awareness of the species. The Savannah Morning News reports that Genie, a 14-foot, nearly 2,300-pound shark, and Mary Lee, a 16-foot, nearly 3,500-pound shark, were both tagged with a satellite tracking device in September.

The sharks are being tracked by Ocearch, a nonprofit research organization named for a combination of "ocean" and "research." It is funded by sponsors and donors, and a South Africa expedition was the subject of History channel's "Shark Wranglers." The project aims to help shed light on the sharks' migration patterns, protect breeding and birthing sites, improve public safety and raise awareness about sharks.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy grizzly bear hunts as the government moves toward lifting the animal's threatened species status. It's expected to be another two years or more before roughly 1,600 bears in the regions around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks lose their federal protections.

Yet state and federal officials say the populations already have recovered enough that limited hunting could be allowed at that time. That could include areas of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho that have seen rising bear-human conflicts and livestock attacks. A federal-state committee that oversees grizzly bears will consider adopting a pro-hunting policy next week. It's taken decades for grizzlies to rebound from widespread extermination. Some wildlife advocates say it's too soon to talk about a hunt.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court appears to be resisting an effort by environmentalists to use a lawsuit against Los Angeles area governments to crack down on pollution from urban storm water runoff. The justices strongly suggested Tuesday they will throw out an appellate ruling in favor of the environmentalists in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Flood Control District. At issue is responsibility for billions of gallons of polluted water that flow into the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers, and eventually the Pacific Ocean, after heavy rainfalls.

The environmental groups say levels of bacteria from animal feces and toxic metals frequently exceed water quality standards. But the only real question Tuesday was whether the justices would end the case or give it back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) - A top official of the World Wide Fund for Nature says that two gangs of heavily armed poachers from Sudan are heading for northern Cameroon to slaughter elephants. WWF Cameroon conservation director Hason Njiforti said Tuesday that despite armed guards Cameroon's dwindling elephant population is being decimated by international poaching rings.

Early this year, poachers traveled more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) on horseback from Sudan, crossing through the Central African Republic to reach northern Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park where they killed more than 300 elephants in two months. The killings wiped out about 80 percent of the park's elephant population. Njiforte warned that intelligence surveillance shows that two large groups of the same armed poachers are again on their way to Cameroon, travelling through the Central African Republic.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A Greek court has convicted an elderly villager and four local officials on charges of negligence that led to 36 deaths five years ago in one of the country's worst-ever wildfires. Judges gave a suspended 10-year sentence to Sofia Nikolopoulou, who was accused of starting the fire accidentally while cooking outdoors in the southern Peloponnese region.

A former local mayor, a regional governor and a fireman received the same sentence for allegedly failing to take sufficient precautions, or not reacting efficiently after the fire started. The court in the southern town of Pyrgos on Tuesday also handed down a suspended five-year sentence to a local fire brigade official. The August 2007 wildfire ravaged more than 170,000 hectares of land, destroying scores of homes. All five defendants appealed their convictions.