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Bats and Shade Grown Coffee
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Birds have always gotten a fair amount of the credit for ridding shade grown coffee plants of various insect pests. But a new study now shows that bats have a huge positive impact in this area as well. The study also shows something else interesting: These insect eating bats often use a “perch and wait”…
Cambodia’s Water Birds
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2008 Storks, pelicans, ibises, and other rare waterbirds from Cambodia’s famed Tonle Sap region are making a comeback, thanks to round-the-clock protection by a single team of park rangers. In a project established by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Ministry of Environment of the Royal Government of Cambodia, former hunters and egg collectors have…
Nature News
Posted by Greg Laden on April 10, 2008 Deep-sea sharks wired for sound from PhysOrg.com Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing. [...] Shorebird numbers crash: survey alarm from PhysOrg.com One of the world’s great wildlife spectacles is under way across Australia: as many…
Save the Great Cormorants of Lake Constance
Posted by Greg Laden on April 8, 2008 Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU – BirdLife in Germany) is protesting vehemently against the planned destruction of Lake Constance’s only colony of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo. “It is hard to believe that Freiburg local authority intends to commit such a destructive act, not only in a National Nature Reserve but especially within a European…
Agri-tourism could help save colorful prairie chicken
Posted by Greg Laden on April 8, 2008 This is a photo of a Tympanuchus cupido male drumming away on the lek to find a mate. The lek is the traditional breeding ground of the prairie chicken (and many other animals uses lek’s) on which the males display, and to which the females travel to pick a male with whom to mate. This…
Its Seal Hunting Season Again!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2008 Canada, land of the holier than thou. Hey, some of my best friends are Canadians, but really, most Canadians look down on Americans for being all the bad things that we truly are. So fine, we deserve it. But if you are a non-Canadian of any nationality, the next time a Canadian condescends to you,…
Power Line Safety for Hungary’s Hawks
Posted by Greg Laden on March 30, 2008 Power lines kill raptors. Tens of thousands of raptors a year die on power lines. But there are ways to avoid this. On 26 February, the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME; BirdLife in Hungary) signed an agreement with the Ministry of Environment and Water (MEW), and all relevant electric companies in Hungary, to…
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