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Top Cats: How Pumas and Other Apex Predators' Populations Affect The Big Biodiversity Picture
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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The wide-ranging carnivore can adapt to nearly any landscape. It remains to be seen whether it can adapt to the expansive activities of the human being. Photo: Liza Gross Two years ago, a stellar cast of ecologists changed the way conservation
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Dan Walters: Maneuvers accelerate on California water plan
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Gerald Meral, a veteran environmentalist who served in Brown's first governorship, was quoted as saying during a private meeting that the project, known formally as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, "is not about, and has never been about, saving the
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Himachal uproots invasive weed that threaten forests
Shimla :: India | 1 month ago
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Himachal Pradesh's forest department is engaged in a massive project to remove lantana, an exotic flowering shrub that threatens the state's biodiversity, and re-greening the hills with fast-growing native flora, foresters said.
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State House backs stiffer timber-protest penalties
Salem :: OR :: USA | 1 month ago
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The Oregon House has passed two bills targeting protesters who chain themselves to machinery or block roads to interfere with logging operations in state forests...A first offense would be a misdemeanor and subsequent offenses would be felonies. The
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Sei Betung: The spirit of restoration in action
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 1 month ago
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A security post stands in a restoration area of Sei Betung forest in Langkat regency, North Sumatra. Nurturing growth: Chairperson of Kakao Jaya forest collective, Parlan, explains how to make organic fertilizer. Among the 6,000 other seedlings now
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Students study with wetland preservation veteran
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Perhaps no environmental activist in coastal South Louisiana better embodies the power of one than Milton Cambre . The self-appointed guardian and keeper of 12,000 acres of the LaBranche Wetlands, and the founding father of Wetland Watchers Park in
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US nat'ls on drug rap
Port Antonio :: Jamaica | 1 month ago
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Saturday charged jointly on four counts of breaching the Dangerous Drugs Act following the discovery of approximately 400lb of compressed ganja in a mangrove near the old Port Antonio Marina on April 22. Fifty-eight-year-old Albert Torres of a
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Restoration makes good monetary sense
Wellington :: New Zealand | 1 month ago
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More than 200 people attended the Kapiti-Wellington Restoration Day held in Silverstream recently. Restoration Day is a free conference for community groups and individuals involved with ecological restoration projects throughout the Wellington
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Colonel: Mangroves a natural resource
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 1 month ago
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Chief guest Minister for Local Government, Urban Development, Housing and Environment, Colonel Samuela Saumatua said threats to mangroves proved to be a direct threat to human livelihoods. "It's a very important part of our lives and the mangroves
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Court tosses agreement over rare forest species
Grants Pass :: OR :: USA | 1 month ago
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A federal appeals court has thrown out an agreement between environmentalists and the federal government that restored protections for rare species in old growth forests...Circuit Court of Appeals was a victory for the timber industry, which was shut
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