Zoo Tycoon 2 : Endangered Species
Safari Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wildlife crisis worse than economic crisis - that's the very sobering report from the IUCN. In relation to Africa, some of the very dire reports state: ...28 percent of all fishes in Eastern Africa are threatened.. The Sidamo Lark (Heteromirafra sidamoensis), from the Liben Plain of Ethiopia, has been moved from Endangered to Critically Endangered and is in danger of becoming mainland Africa’s...
Science Mag (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Flagship endangered species, such as the Large Blue butterfly have driven conservation programs worldwide. However, the Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) became extinct in the United Kingdom. The apparent driver … [Read more]
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today. In its latest four-year assessment of endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added several new entries to the Red List of Threatened Species. Judging from...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Amur Tiger at the Zurich zoo, photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr A few months ago I included the Amur Tiger (also know as the Siberian Tiger) in a slideshow of animals which very well could go extinct in the coming decades. It was for good reason, as a new piece from the BBC shows. This largest of all the tigers has an effective wild population of just 35 individuals:...
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Thrifty kids save up for Symbio tiger exhibit BY GREG ELLIS 27/06/2009 The Illawarra will soon have another major tourist attraction thanks to the thrift of children under 15. Young "Wildlife Savers" are helping Symbio Wildlife Park realise a dream of building a big cat exhibit. The first occupants will be a pair of year-old tiger cubs from New Zealand. It all started in September 2007 when...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Environmentalists have asked the Obama administration to declare the three-foot-long, highly aromatic Palouse earthworm an endangered species, reversing the Bush administration’s mystifying refusal to protect them. Scientifically known as Driloleirus americanus, or “lily-smelling American worm,” the Palouse earthworm was once abundant in the prairies of eastern Washington and northern...
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
After just a couple months off the endangered species list, the gray wolf in the western Great Lakes is back to “threatened” status. A government reversal, not a sudden drop in the 4,000-plus wolf population, put the animals back on the protected list, the Associated Press reports. [More]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Just two months after the US Fish and Wildlife Service dropped its protection of wolves in the Great Lakes region, it announced it would add the animal back to its endangered list.“The Service is withdrawing its 2009 decision to remove the Western Great Lakes population of gray wolves from the federal list of threatened and endangered species,” the agency said.The announcement comes as...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Tiger cubs find it's a tough old world with mum Monday, June 29, 2009, 09:13 PAIGNTON Zoo's new tiger cubs are learning the hard way that it's a tough life. The four rare Sumatran tiger cubs are starting to get to grips with meat, but not before their mum Banda has had her share. The four, males Aryo and Bintang and females Kemala and Surya, were born in February. They share the public enclosure with...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
More than 4,000 gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list, at least temporarily.
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
I have finally identified the greatest bane of conservatives, their bugaboo, their bête noire -- the great barrier that retards them from winning many of the most vital political arguments of today. But let me sneak up on it a bit: What do all these contemporary issues hold in common? Cap and Trade -- rather, Cripple and Tax The expansion of nuclear power generation The EPA's attempt to outlaw...
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
The Navy’s Gators An Endangered Species? by Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, Small Wars Journal The Navy’s Gators: An Endangered Species? (Full PDF Article) For over five decades the nuclear powered Aircraft Carrier has been the center of naval strategy and policy for the United States of America. In the 1950’s the big guns of the gray-hull battleships had been America’s...
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Until last week, U.S. trophy hunters had the legal right to hunt three species of endangered African game at American ranches, thanks to a “blanket exemption” to the Endangered Species Act issued during the Bush Administration. [More]
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
More "Save the Bees" Success: What Can Other Environmental Campaigners Learn? Image credit: The Guardian 20,000 honeybees released: great news, but why such big news? Anyone who has spent time campaigning on environmental issues will know that it can be hard to get the general public engaged with the plight of an endangered species, or worried about pollution. [...]
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