Conservation of Endangered Species in Captivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Suny Series in Endangered Species)
Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins To the iconic image of a polar bear struggling onto a crumbling ice floe, or that of a condor chick peering from its human-made nest, we must add another image: that of an American worker at his or her trade. Endangered species are a concern to all environmentalists, and the plight of the worker should be no different. This is not hyperbole. The unemployment rate continues...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act after federal officials concluded the once prevalent species showed signs of rebounding.
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | yesterday
OTTAWA, December 3, 2009 — The controversy surrounding the unintended effects of herbicide and pesticide use has intensified as researchers from the University of Ottawa’s Department of Biology have identified that atrazine, a heavily-used herbicide, alters the sexual development in frogs. There have been numerous scientific and journalistic reports on the detrimental effects of herbicides,...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | yesterday
by ELIZAH LEIGH , Contributing Writer They don't vogue for the camera or strut the catwalk in search of fame and fortune, but one might easily imagine that "America's Hottest Species" refers to nature's most attractive critters. In actuality, those three telling words adorn the cover of The Endangered Species Coalition's most recent report . Yes, it's certainly getting hot in here, but the...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sundarbans water warming eight times faster than global average NEW DELHI: In the Sundarbans, surface water temperature has been rising at the rate of 0.5 degree Celsius per decade over the past three decades, That makes the Sundarbans one of the worst climate change hotspots on the globe. The study, carried out over 27 years from 1980 by scientists from India and the US, found a change of 1.5 degrees...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Rhino poaching worldwide is on the rise, according to a new report [ pdf ] by TRAFFIC and IUCN. The trade is being driven by Asian demand for horns and is made worse by increasingly sophisticated poachers, who now are using veterinary drugs, poison, cross bows and high caliber weapons to kill rhinos, the report states. Since 2006 the majority (95 percent) of the poaching in Africa has occurred in Zimbabwe...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Rhino poaching worldwide is on the rise, according to a new report by TRAFFIC and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The trade is being driven by Asian demand for horns and is made worse by increasingly sophisticated poachers, who now are using veterinary drugs, poison, cross bows and high caliber weapons to kill rhinos, the report states.Since 2006 the majority (95 percent)...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Photo by Mara 1 via Flickr "It's not a job. It's an adventure." That old Navy recruitment slogan can be readily applied to voluntourism , perhaps the most environmental way to fly off to remote lands. Opportunities abound, from replanting secluded sections of rainforest to protecting rare endangered species, to monitoring the sex lives of crocodiles. Use your skills, learn new ones, immerse...
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I should start this podcast off with an admission--I have a serious problem with shark fin soup. Fishermen slice the fin off the shark and toss the creature back into the water to die. This happens to millions of sharks around the world, and some of those shark populations are endangered. Scientists have been trying to figure out which shark populations are most at risk by the slash-and-toss. Now...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
These breakthrough findings provide strong evidence for enacting international trade protection for hammerhead sharks at the March 2010 CITES meeting in QatarMillions of shark fins are sold at market each year to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, but it has been impossible to pinpoint which sharks from which regions are most threatened by this trade. Now, groundbreaking new...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
These breakthrough findings provide strong evidence for enacting international trade protection for hammerhead sharks at the March 2010 CITES meeting in QatarMillions of shark fins are sold at market each year to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, but it has been impossible to pinpoint which sharks from which regions are most threatened by this trade. Now, groundbreaking new...
Kitsch'n'Zinc (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Have you heard the one about the marine biologist who walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna? It’s no joke because he ends up with a fish called escolar, sometimes sold as butterfish, a particularly nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhoea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. Well these things happen don’t they, especially in places like the...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Global warming religion becoming a Joke - Blogger News Network The problem is that Climate Change is now a religion, with celebrations and sins. Dogma means simplifying things so that you don’t have to think of complicated things. Australia: Carbon trading legislation triggers Liberal party “meltdown” The opposition Liberal party is tearing itself apart over a pending parliamentary...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Jake Richardson Published on November 26th, 2009 A recent study has produced some astonishing and disturbing results. Tuna was ordered from 31 sushi restaurants. Genetic tests were then used to identify the species of fish ordered. Nineteen of the restaurants surveyed incorrectly described or could could not indicate which species of fish they had served. A few establishments actually served endangered...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, Friday, 27 November 2009 Concern is growing about the huge number of seabirds being killed by fisheries in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) said yesterday. Although conservationists' fears have so far focused on seabirds in the Southern Ocean, especially albatrosses, there is mounting alarm over...
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