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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Do Global Conservation Initiatives Undermine Local Conservation Action?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  Here’s an all-too-frequent out-of-office autoreply from conservationists these days: I am currently away from the office attending a UNDP meeting. Following this I am participating in a CBD working group, an IUCN advisory committee, an NGO roundtable, then presenting at a Millennium Declaration follow-up, and ...
  1 week ago

• Taming of the Shrew

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 416
  For about a year now we’ve been experimenting with a method of trapping the elusive and shy Zanj elephant shrew.  This particular shrew is technically a sengi, and is a species that is not only endemic to the east African coast, but is also listed as ‘rare’ and ‘data deficient’ by the IUCN.  Shimoni ...
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• Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  Marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes have a much greater capacity to trap carbon than land carbon sinks such as forests, according to a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization believes ocean ecosystems are essential to combating global ...
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• Conservation Scholars: Georgina Mace

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 410
  The Conservation Scholars series highlights leaders in conservation science and includes a small biography, a list of major scientific publications and a Q & A on each person’s particular area of expertise. Our fifteenth Conservation Scholar is a real stalwart in conservation science and its applications – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saving a Safe, Sustainable System

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 534
    Recently the annual IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published. It shows that 70 percent of identified plants, 35 percent of invertebrates, 37 percent of freshwater fish, 30 percent of amphibians, 28 percent of reptiles, and 12 percent of birds are under threat. The survival of a total of 17,921 species ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kihansi spray toad is now extinct in the wild

  
  Frog Matters — Authority: 107
  The Kihansi spray toad used to live in the spray region of the Kihansi waterfall, in Tanzania, and relied heavily on the spray from the waterfall to maintain a constant temperature and humidity in its environment. But due to the construction of a dam which funded by the World Bank, the waterfall has been disrupted, ...
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• Lawrence Solomon: Top environmental group downplays global warming threat

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  One of the world’s top environmental organizations, the UN-affiliated International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has publicly stated that global warming is being overhyped.
  2 weeks ago

• Lawrence Solomon: Top environmental group downplays global warming threat

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 599
  One of the world’s top environmentalorganizations, the UN-affiliated International Union for the Conservation ofNature (IUCN), has publicly stated that global warming is being overhyped. The Geneva-basedorganization made the surprising comments with regard to the often-heard claimthat global warming is the chief ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ross Perot Jr. Wounds Rhino in South African Trophy Hunt, Sues for Second Shot?

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 542
  Is Ross Perot Jr. taking legal action over the head of a rhino he shot and wounded during a trophy hunt? The son of former American Presidential candidate Ross Perot - Henry Ross Perot Jr. - is reportedly engaged in a legal battle involving South African wildlife authorities over the head of rhino he wounded during a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 5

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  Things are looking up today — climate talks are reportedly going well , America beats the world in geothermal R&D , and great white sharks now have their very own singles bar . Ain’t life Cool? How are things in Barcelona (aside from the shocking underperformance of its namesake soccer team this year)? ...
  3 weeks ago

• List of 10 Countries with The Greatest Number of Endangered Species

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 542
  Have you heard the news? Habitat loss, overhunting, and unsustainable development are wiping out the world’s greatest treasure: Wildlife. The animals and plants that call this planet their home haven’t got a chance if humans keep it up. Wildlife destruction is happening faster than current conservation efforts ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bayawak entered endangered species list

  
  Philippine News on Grabeh.com — Authority: 117
  International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the Panay monitor lizard or bayawak including 164 new endemic species in the Philippines in its updated “red list” of threatened and endangered species. The said specie is threatened by habitat loss or being hunted and served in some exotic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not so ‘looming’ – Anthropocene extinctions

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 410
  © ABC 2009 Yesterday I was asked to do a quick interview on ABC television (Midday Report) about the release of the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . I’ve blogged about the importance of the Red List before, but believe we have a lot more to do with species assessments and getting prioritisation ...
  3 weeks ago

• More than 17,000 species threatened by extinction

  
  Frog Matters — Authority: 107
  Rabbs fringe-limbed tree frog. Photo: Brad Wilson. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just released its 2009 Red List, and it includes over 17,000 species that are currently threatened by extinctin. The Red List is a comprehensive, global approach for evaluating the conservation status ...
  3 weeks ago

• IUCN Academy Colloquium — No Animal Law Here…

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  David Cassuto I’m currently in China having all kinds of interesting experiences.  For example, it was only in Shanghai a few days ago that I saw my first wheelchair-accessible urinal .  I’ve also seen more pictures of Chairman Mao in the last 2 days than I had seen in the previous . . .  well, ever.   ...
  3 weeks ago

• Species threatened with extinction still on the rise, says IUCN

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 539
  Panay Monitor Lizard (Varanus mabitang) © Tim Laman Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A major new assessment of the threats to the world’s biodiversity shows that the continuing encroachment on many species’ habitats is increasing their vulnerability. The 2009 edition of world’s most comprehensive list ...
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• Flying frog and mountain mouse among new species in danger of going extinct

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  A mouse found in the mountains of Madagascar a lizard that can run across water and a flying frog have all been added to this years red list of species in danger of going extinct.
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• Songs My Mother Taught Me . . . Que Sera, Sera

  
  Writerquake — Authority: 125
  There probably arent many women who were little girls in the 1950s who didnt learn this song, and Id venture to guess that most learned it from their mothers.....or at least sang it with their mothers. My mother always tried to keep life up beat. She was into positivity long before it was a movement. But I could tell ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thresher Shark: non-profit dedicated to sharks preservation

  
  RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature — Authority: 122
  Speaking of sharks, heres a species you dont hear too much about and yet faces imminent danger: the thresher shark . One of the more unusual and distinctive sharks due to its namesake elongated upper caudal fin or tail, it is believed that the shark might use its tail as a hunting device to stun schooling fish. ...
  4 weeks ago

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