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No room for healthy devils to avoid extinction
Sydney :: Australia | 17 days ago
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Four years ago the State Government started sending healthy devils interstate as an insurance population. But the 'Noah's Ark' plan has collected fewer than 200 devils over the past four years. The State Government has been urged to find an island for...
Tags: healthy animal, healthy devils, collect healthy, insurance population, Australia, Sydney, Extinction, Devil, Tasmania, Scavengers, Tasmanian Devil, Maria Island, Health Medical Pharma
Wildlife star Jeff Corwin has animal magnetism
Marshfield :: MA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility L ocal conservationist turned TV star Jeff Corwin takes his animal-rescue message to the New England Aquarium this week with the release of a dramatic book and documentary on some of the world’s most endangered species. Corwin’s book, “100 Heartbeats:...
Tags: Jeff Corwin, star jeff, Marshfield, Tiger, Corwin, Endangered species, Wildlife, Extinction, Conservation, National symbols of India, Environment, Entertainment Culture
Catastrophe likely if rapid extinctions continue: UN
Sydney :: Australia | 20 days ago
Credibility In an interview with the Herald, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, said the legally binding 2010 target to stop the decline in biodiversity would not be met...Biodiversity is the number and...
Tags: Dr Djoghlaf, Australia, Earth, Sydney, Sustainability, Ecology, Extinction, Ecosystem services, Biodiversity Action Plan, Biodiversity, Convention on Biological Diversity, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Environment
Why is maintaining our biological diversity taking a backseat to preserving the numbers of our national animal?
Mumbai :: India | 20 days ago
Credibility This includes the dark brown Pygmy Hog (a tiny pig now confined to Assam), Malabar Large-spotted Civet (a white-grey cat that once thrived in Kerala) and the Jenkin's Shrew (a mouse now rare in the Andamans). This makes India one of the ten countries...
Tags: India, diversity taking, national animal, biological diversity, Mumbai, Endangered species, Biodiversity, Conservation, Evolutionary biology, Extinction, Environment
US takes brown pelican off endangered species list
Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.One more excerpt:"The birds' recovery and removal from the...
Tags: pelican, brown pelican, species list, green, Pakistan, Lahore, DDT, Extinction, Megafauna, Endangered Species Act, Environment, Gaillard Island, Salazar, endangered species, Tom Strickland
Brown pelican removed from endangered species list
Washington :: DC :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility Federal officials announced Wednesday that they were removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore Roosevelt. The brown pelican is a fixture in Southern California and...
Tags: brown pelican, endangered species, species list, U.S, Florida, Washington, Elkhorn Slough, DDT, Bird, Gaillard Island, Pelicans, Megafauna, Environment, Louisiana, Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, American White Pelican, Pelican Island, Pelican, National Wildlife Refuge, Endangered Species Act, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Ken Salazar, Extinction, Pesticides
The Army: making a fast mover out of the Desert Tortoise
California's state reptile, the Desert Tortoise is losing more of its habitat in the Mojave Desert thanks to the United States Army. Their plans to move approximately 1100 tortoises to nearby locations they say is for the purpose of expanding...
Tags: desert tortoise, extinction, army, US army, san bernardino, mojave desert, tortoise, turtle, species, endangered species, endangered, extinct, population, desert, sonoran desert
Planetary warning: frogs, the Earth's coal-mine-canaries have been dying by the millions
Years ago canaries were kept in cages deep underground in coal mines as a warning system to detect odorless poison gases. Seattle Biologist, Kerry Kriger, is on a mission to help frog and amphibian species survive, but it is a daunting challenge. For...
Tags: Extinction, frogs, wildife, Obama, climate change, global warming, Save the Frogs, Dr. Kerry Kriger, biological emergency, pollution
A trip into space and glacier melt -- Make the mental connection by watching these videos
This link brings you to a ‘very cool’ story, about a private astronaut’s trip into space last year. This is a fun one – awe-inspiring and fascinating. Richard Garriott was interviewed by Orlando Science Policy Examiner...
Tags: Climate change, deforestation, extinction, space, atmosphere
Squid Invasion
In the 19th century, H.G. Wells, the father of modern science fiction, wrote a short story called “The Sea Raiders.” His description of the physical appearance and numbers of the sea-monsters of fiction reflect those of a true-to-life...
Tags: squid, humboldt squid, fishing, extinction
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