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• Tigers ‘now literally on the verge of extinction’

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 144
  By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Governments need to crack down on illegal tiger trading if the big cats are to be saved, the UN has warned. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Doha, Qatar heard that tiger numbers are continuing to fall. ...
  4 hours ago

• Potential CITES Trade Ban for Rare Salamander Underscores Wildlife E-commerce

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 452
  A little-known Iranian salamander is poised to become the first example of a species requiring international government protection because of e-commerce – a major threat to endangered wildlife that authorities are struggling to address. The Kaiser’s spotted newt, found only in Iran, is considered Critically ...
  5 hours ago

• Alaska legislators VS Obama Administration over Endangered Species Act.

  
  The Immoral Minority — Authority: 598
  (Hat tip to Phil Munger for the photo) Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation met with two top Obama administration environmental officials Friday to discuss several issues that could have wide-ranging impacts on the state. Of most concern to the delegation is the proposed listing of a critical habitat ...
  7 hours ago

• Your morning adorable: Polar bear cubs frolic in St. Petersburg snow

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 643
  At the Leningrad Zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia, two polar bear cubs took advantage of the snow in their enclosure by "sledding" -- albeit sans sled -- and roughhousing on a chilly Friday last week. (They looked for all the world like two joyous kids whose school has been canceled due to snow, we think.) The cubs ...
  7 hours ago

• White House CEQ responds – nicely – to ESPN folk tale

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 438
  The confusion over the ESPN article led the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the coordinating entity for federal environmental efforts, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), to issue the following statements: Eric Schwaab, NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for the National Marine ...
  7 hours ago

• Tigers on the verge of extinction in the wild, official says

  
  L.A. Unleashed — Authority: 643
  DOHA, Qatar — The world has "failed miserably" at protecting tigers in the wild, bringing an animal that is a symbol for many cultures and religions to "the verge of extinction," a top official with the United Nations wildlife agency said Monday. Just 20 years ago, there were 100,000 tigers in Asia, but now only ...
  7 hours ago

• Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  Pressure is building on the French shipping company Delmas to cancel large shipments of rosewood, which was illegally logged in Madagascar during the nations recent coup. Today two environmental groups, Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) called on Delmas to cancel the shipment, which is ...
  7 hours ago

• World’s Wild Tiger Population ‘On Verge of Extinction’

  
  Greenr : We All Play a Part — Authority: 112
  For an animal that’s religiously revered in many cultures and is legendary in literature, the tiger has not received royal treatment by the planet’s caretakers. A United Nations group now reports that, in the wild, the tiger is on the “verge of extinction”. Asia is now home to only 3,200 tigers in the wild, ...
  8 hours ago

• Will Man Survive?

  
  The Earth Is Not a Trash Can — Authority: 119
  The Vanishing of a Species? by Peter Gretener is about the future of homo sapiens. Will we survive as a species? Peter Gretener wrote most of the book in the 70s. He was a geologist and geophysicist. Since his death, his son Nicholas edited and published the book. Many chapters are undeveloped, but the themes are ...
  9 hours ago

• Socotra: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth? (Slideshow)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 641
  Photo: Valerio Pandolfo The island of Socotra may lie a mere 150 miles off the coast of Africa, but judging from its strange and exotic organisms that live there, it could be 150 light/years away. From towering, umbrella-shaped trees, to yellow-faced vultures and architect crabs, the islands wildlife evolved for ...
  9 hours ago

• Shanghais First PETA Benefit Gets Wild

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 641
  This is a guest post by Rebecca Kanthor , a journalist based in Shanghai. Who showed up to Shanghais first anti-fur benefit show on a recent Thursday night? Local indie pop band Candy Shop and opening emo band Forget and Forgive rocked, rapped, screamed and headbanged their way through an energy packed set to a ...
  10 hours ago

• Falklands Dispute: Argentine Sovereignty Won’t Solve the Problem

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  With Britain now moving to explore for oil and gas in the Falkland Islands, Argentina has cried foul. Buenos Aires claims that the Falklands, or the Malvinas as Argentines refer to the islands, represent a "colonial enclave" in the south Atlantic. The islands have been a British possession since 1833, and the local ...
  10 hours ago

• Coyote Hills housing development scaled back

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 595
  Pacific Coast Homes to reduce development of West Coyote Hills. Water and energy-conservation were cited as reasons for the proposed cutback in addition to public opposition. Photo by Christa Connelly/Daily Titan Photo Editor Representatives from Pacific Coast Homes (PCH) presented their efforts to meet regulatory ...
  10 hours ago

• Scientists Identify Driving Forces in Human Cell Division

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 551
  Metaphase in a human cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cell. Chromosomes (red), microtubules (green).If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed — you can imagine what happens to a chromosome ...
  11 hours ago

• My First Bird Photo

  
  Poetic Shutterbug — Authority: 129
  Photos taken by me @ San Francisco Botanical Gardens - Click photos to enlarge.Many of you know that I have been trying to get decent bird photos for years. The last one I took that was moderately acceptable was a couple of years ago when I happened on a bluebird perched on a bench with has back to me. You couldnt ...
  12 hours ago

• what is the difference between controlling pollution and controlling an invasive species?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 173
  What common domestic animal could be considered to be invasive? What damage does it cause to the environment? Thanks if you can help.
  13 hours ago

• CBDs Critical Habitat For Jaguar

  
  The Westerner — Authority: 447
  See their action alert with sample letter here . Wilderness is just battle #1 for this area. Critical habitat is #2. And #3 will be??
  14 hours ago

• Court favors sage grouse in Mont. grazing lawsuit

  
  The Westerner — Authority: 447
  The U.S. Forest Service must re-examine how livestock grazing affects sage grouse habitat in southwestern Montana after an appeals court ruled its original assessment was not reliable. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Forest Service Tuesday to prepare a new environmental assessment for its livestock ...
  14 hours ago

• World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies Reject Tiger Bones

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 641
  photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Since its the Year of the Tiger by the Chinese calendar and the UN Year of Biodiversity, the whole internet seems to have gone tiger crazy. Not without reason, truth be told. By a number of estimates, wild tigers arent long for this planet as continued habitat loss and ...
  14 hours ago

• Where are those haskaps anyway?

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 436
  A friend was excited to see a recent Nibble about the edible blue honeysuckle berry, or haskap. Alas, as she politely pointed out, “the link goes nowhere”. Which is weird because it obviously went somewhere when we wrote about it. On checking, though, and much searching, it turns out she is right. It seems like ...
  16 hours ago

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