Nature conservation:
Wild game is good. More wild game and fewer cattle, in some habitats, would better. But when wild game is extracted en masse from a wild area (usually a rain forest, usually in Africa) and shipped to a city, or an enclave of logger's camps,...
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Posted on July 10, 2008 10:58 PM • 1 Comments •
A dead Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans drowned on a longline. Photo by Graham Robertson/Australian Antarctic Division From Birdlife International: BirdLife International presented the European Parliament with alarming data about the extent of seabird bycatch globally and in Europe yesterday. At the same time, BirdLife...
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Posted on July 8, 2008 4:09 PM • 0 Comments •
The Golden-winged Grosbeak - Socotra Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus socotranus shown in image - has been chosen as Yemen's national bird. Photo by Richard Porter The Golden-winged Grosbeak has been declared, by the Yemen Council of Ministers, to be the Yemen National Bird. This bird is...
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Where can I buy sustainable lobster? Look to Massachusetts for the most sustainable lobster around. And look for the green claw band, or ask your fishmonger to get the green band Massachusetts lobster. Why? Because Massachusetts lobstermen are taking the trouble to reduce harm to...
Posted on July 7, 2008 5:41 PM • 3 Comments •
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NASA's JPL has a new web site which focuses on surface conditions on one specific planet: The Earth. It has a Sea Level Viewer which is basically a very fancy menu for a number of multi-media presentations, and a list of current or proposed missions....
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Posted on June 23, 2008 7:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Utah announces 'major dinosaur fossil discovery' from PhysOrg.com (AP) -- A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah could provide new clues about life in the region some 150 million years ago. [...] Finally, the...
Posted on June 19, 2008 7:48 AM • 4 Comments •
On Sale in Madagascar: Carbon This time, the forest product for sale is 100 percent sustainable and guaranteed to return on the investment. The product is carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that healthy forests can store in vast reserves and prevent from being released into...
Posted on June 15, 2008 3:06 PM • 1 Comments •
By African standards, Kenya's Amboseli itself is small, but it is part of two or more large scale systems that extend far beyond its boundaries. One is the Serengeti Ecosystem, which extends far to the south in Tanzania. The other is the Nilotic (mainly Maasai)...
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Posted on June 15, 2008 10:05 AM • 5 Comments •
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