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Little more than 10,000 hectares of rainforest remain on Java
From 2003-2006, Java lost approximately 2,5000 hectares a year (10,000 hectares of forest in total) according to the Forestry Ministry. Despite the rate of loss being far lower in Java than other Indonesian islands (such as Borneo, Sumatra, and Sulawesi), Java is particularly threate...
Sat, Jan 23 | from Mongabay.com
LA Rain So Polluted Pelicans Have to Be Treated Like Oil Spill Victims
Brown pelicans, just removed from the Endangered Species List three months ago, are getting slammed by California's polluted storms. These swimming birds can cope with rain far more gracefully than whiny Los Angelinos have been. But the water is so polluted they have to be treated like o...
Sat, Jan 23 | from AnimalTourism.com
Endangered Species: Humans Might Have Faced Extinction 1 Million Years Ago
New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction . [More]
Wed, Jan 20 | from Scientific American
Five Questions Lesley Stahl Didn't Ask the "Frozen Zoo"
The Thylacine is the emblem of a species that was allowed to go extinct in modern times. So why are we talking about the wooly mammoth? After bringing up the way distant possibility of rewriting DNA to meet our criteria, Stahl then asks, with great surprise, if they could possibly CLONE the e...
Mon, Jan 11 | from AnimalTourism.com
Rainforest conservation: a year in review
who blame palm oil production for destruction of rainforests across Indonesia and Malaysia, key habitat for orangutans and other endangered species. ... and more »
Sun, Dec 27 | from Mongabay.com
'Safe harbor' agreement under review
But landowners have voiced concerns that as habitat moves in, property owners could be subject to regulation if endangered species became established. ... 222 Miles of Sacramento River Habitat Opens to New Voluntary RestorationYubaNet all 3 news articles »
Tue, Dec 22 | from Enterprise-Record
World's worst endangered animal smuggling kingpin - Boing Boing
World's worst endangered animal smuggling kingpin blog) It took the undercover unit of the US Fish & Wildlife Service five years to track down Anson Wong, the world's most wanted smuggler of endangered species. ...
Sun, Dec 20 | from Boing Boing
Opinion: Nine Texas mussels considered for Federal Endangered Species List
The False Spike freshwater mussel is one of nine Texas species the US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing as a threatened or endangered species ... Alaska v. Endangered Species ActAlaska Dispatch Texas Mussels MayCourthouse News Service
Tue, Dec 15 | from San Antonio Express
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: The enormity and majesty of a California redwood captured by National Geographic photographer
Posted in Biology, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Plants, Recommended Image(s), Research, Science Tagged: Biggest Redwood In California, Biggest Redwood Tree In California, Biggest Redwood Tree In The World, Biggest Redwood Trees, Biggest Redwoods, Biggest Tree In the Wor...
Tue, Nov 10 | from The Conservation Report
Opinion: Breaching Northwest dams: push comes to shove
WA “Only recently have they begun to commit the kind of financial and political capital necessary to save these threatened and endangered species, some of which are on the brink of extinction. We simply cannot afford to waste another decade. ...
Fri, May 29 | from Crosscut
Opinion: Bush alters rules for endangered species
The rules also prohibit federal agencies from evaluating the effect on endangered species and the places they live from a project's contribution to increased global warming. Interior Department officials described the changes as "narrow", but environmentalists saw them as eroding...
Thu, Dec 11 | from Albany Times Union
Opinion: The New York Times on the Section 7 proposals
The New York Times stated yesterday that, in the Section 7 consultation proposals, Interior Secretary Kempthorne has "carved out significant exceptions to regulations requiring expert scientific review of any federal project that might harm endangered or threatened species (one...
Sat, Nov 8 | from PLF on ESA
Podcast: Global 'Ark' effort to save amphibians from extinction
Kevin Zippel is helping to coordinate the the Amphibian Ark, a global effort to collect amphibians in zoos and aquariums in order to save certain species from extinction.
Sat, Nov 1 | from Earth & Sky
Podcast: Mostly Trivial #122 Crocodiles vs. Alligators trivia
After surviving nearly unchanged for over 200 million years crocodiles and alligators were hunted to the brink of extinction between 1900 and 1967 in a period as brief as a single man's life, how sad. Also their habitats continue to shrink. Today due to conservation efforts the American al...
Sun, Mar 23 | from Mostly Trivial with your host Johnee Bee
Podcast: Badger state leads in bald eagle recovery
DDT contamination decades ago almost killed off the American Bald Eagle. Once the pesticide was banned, the bird started coming back, and Wisconsin played a key role in the success story. Wisconsin started bald eagle recovery efforts years ago, and Randle Jurewicz with the DNR 's Endange...
Thu, Jun 28 | from Wisconsin Radio Network
Podcast: Wisconsin wolf population growing
The state's wolf population is now at record numbers. The DNR's Adrian Wydeven says there are nearly six hundred wolves. That's good news because it shows they can thrive after coming off the endangered list but he says it's also bad news because we will likely see more cases of wolves attack...
Wed, Apr 18 | from Wisconsin Radio Network
