iWild: For more see iWild.orgCan Social Media Save the Planet?July 12, 2011
Maybe so...Check out the possibilities in today’s report at Yale Environment 360.
Then on your bike, as the Brits say, and start posting buds (Project BudBurst) and counting squirrels (yes, Project Squirrel): Citizen Science starts at home. GREAT GRIZ NEWSJuly 6, 2011
Alert hiker Joe Sebille captured the first photos of a grizzly in Washington’s North Cascades National Park in nearly a half-century. Hiking last October, Sebille snapped the bruin with a point-and-shoot and only realized recently, on showing the pic to a park ranger, the momentous nature of his encounter.
And, in further carnivorous (more…) iWild is Back!July 6, 2011
Apologies for the prolonged absence: We were off chuntering about biodiversity in foreign lands and what not. But now we’re back, and there’s lots to catch up on:
*Some good news from the Serengeti! After a recent visit from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Tanzania announced that it would give up (more…) Report from Santa FeApril 15, 2011
Lorene Mills, host of “Report from Santa Fe,” a long-running public affairs show that airs throughout New Mexico, interviews Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding the World. The conversation ranges from rewilding efforts around the world to local conflicts over the Mexican gray wolf. See it April 14-16 on these stations (more…)
Japan's Once-Powerful Nuclear Industry Is Under SiegeMarch 23, 2011
My report at Yale Environment 360 on Japanese activists’ long battle against one nuclear power plant, slated to be built on landfill in a national park.
“Protections for Wildlife are Pretty Weak”February 22, 2011
That’s the word on the USDA Forest Service’s new draft planning rule on forests, dubbed a rule for the “21st Century” since the last one dates back to 1982 and the Reagan administration. Open for public comment until May 16, the proposal has been praised for emphasizing ecological restoration and a landscape-scale approach to (more…)
Road to RuinFebruary 13, 2011
Tanzania’s president Jakaya Kikwete continues to insist that his country will build a 34-mile highway across the Serengeti, against the advice of the World Bank, conservationists, scientists, and the tourism industry in his own country. Most biologists believe that the road will fragment and ultimately destroy the most critically-important, intact, and lucrative migratory (more…)
BIG Rewilding News!February 1, 2011
From Lewa Wildlife Conservancy comes news that a bold and enterprising pachyderm named Tony has made rewilding history in Kenya. On the night of January 1, 2011, Tony took charge, leading several young males through the new elephant underpass on the Cape-to-Cairo highway, opened only four days earlier. His act of bravery has effectively re-forged a (more…)
Buy a Book, Save a Moon BearSeptember 29, 2010
And not just any book: Moon Bear, a delightful children’s book by Brenda Z. Guiberson, with dramatic, inventive illustrations by Caldecott medalist Ed Young. Moon Bear opens up the scritching, snuffling world of these gorgeous, little-known animals and would make a great birthday or holiday gift. A portion of (more…)
“DELAY & FOOT-DRAGGING”August 30, 2010
News comes from the Center for Biological Diversity that today’s Endangered All-Star is now one step closer to protection from the ever-finicky and glacially-slow powers at the US Fish & Wildlife Service. USFWS announced on Monday that the Oklahoma Grass Pink “may” warrant protection on the Endangered Species List.
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