Tag Archive | "conservation"
City Council Spends $120,000 to Move Four Newts
Local government officials in Britain recently spent £60,000($120,000) to move four newts from a building site on a school’s grounds. Image by Christian Fischer Four Great Crested Newts, an endangered species, were found on the grounds of Fallibroome High School in the city of Macclesfield. Under EU and [...]
Continue reading...Red Squirrels Shut Down Controversial Development Project
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It sounds like the plot to an 80s comedy movie. Image by Pawel Ryszawa Plucky townsfolk and conservationists campaign against a developer’s plans to change their beloved town. The townsfolk have little success, and it appears the developers will win the day. Yet in the end an unexpected triumph [...]
Continue reading...Eco-Tourists Giving Great Apes Deadly Viruses
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Eco-tourism was once hailed as the savior of wildlife and impoverished regions of the world alike, but the list of problems associated with the industry has begun to grow. The latest environmental issue attributed to eco-tourists is a massive threat to an already endangered species. It appears that [...]
Continue reading...EU Takes Malta to Court Over Yearly Bird Massacre
Friday, February 1, 2008
The European Union is taking Malta to court for failing to stop the islands’ annual massacre of migrating birds, many of them rare or endangered species. 100 of these protected honey buzzards were killed last year during Malta’s spring hunt. Photo by Robert Dietrich. You may recall an article [...]
Continue reading...Dozens of Indian Crocodiles Mysteriously Die
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The gharial is a rare and strange beast. The gharial is probably best known for its long, narrow jaws. The Indian crocodile is one of only two surviving members of the ancient family Gavialidae, the other being
Continue reading...Wildlife Numbers Decline as Desperate Refugees Seek Meat
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
There are no real winners in Africa’s many tribal and political conflicts and the list of losers keeps growing. A Cape Buffalo Animal conservation groups say they have found a link between the decline of African wildlife, much of it threatened
Continue reading...Most Reintroduced Carnivores Die in the Wild
Monday, January 21, 2008
According to a recent study at Exeter University, a significant majority of captive-bred carnivores reintroduced to the wild are unable to adapt and die. Image by Mistvan Only one in three reintroduced animals survived in their natural habitat. For example, only 16 of the 45 lynx released
Continue reading...Nepalese Group Opens Health Food “Restaurant” for Vultures
Monday, January 7, 2008
A conservation group in Nepal is seeing rare vulture numbers rise after it opened a healthy “restaurant” for the birds that features healthy and delicious drug-free cattle carcasses. Two vulture species, the White-rumped and Slender-billed vultures, have had their numbers decline due to
Continue reading...Low Energy Bulbs Can Cause Cancer, Along With Everything Else Ever Made.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
The cyclical nature of the world has been expounded upon over the centuries by countless thinkers from Toynbee to drunken first year Philosophy majors. While I may not be the world’s foremost philosopher or drunk, despite all my hard work on the latter, I’d like to
Continue reading...Weirdos In Need Of Love
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The world is full of weird, and yet wonderful creatures, many of which we wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for the work carried out by The Edge (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered), a conservation programme launched by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to research and [...]
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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