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• Endangered species sold for hunting

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  The scimitar horned oryx, one of the endangered species kept at Tipperary, has been sold to a hunting safari.
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• Intellectual Stimuli For The Avid Toilet Reader

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 153
  It aint Dawkins but he raises some interesting points! In one of the most bizarre rare book finds in Britain, a first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been discovered in a toilet. Yes, the book was sitting on a bookcase in a unnamed family’s  guest lavatory in Oxford (some would argue ...
  4 hours ago

• The koala wars

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Its cute and its cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politics When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a ...
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• Success for Scotland’s red kites

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Scotland’s population of red kites is bucking the trend of Europe-wide declines in the species.Numbers on the bird’s main wintering grounds have halved since 1994 and there have been big falls in the number of breeding pairs in its heartlands of Spain, France and Germany.However, there are now estimated to be 149 ...
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• VIDEO: Explorers census thousands of unique ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 487
  More via PhysOrg.com On the Net: Census of Marine Life :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Posted in Animals, Biology, Environment, Nature, New Species, Research, Science, Video, Wilderness Tagged: Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean Biodiversity, Biogeography of ...
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• Darwin Year 2009: On the Origin of Bad Timing

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 510
  If you were walking through Upper Sproul Plaza last Wednesday and confusedly took a copy of “On the Origin of Species,” you’re not alone. The handouts were the culmination of a couple months’ worth of planning by Ray Comfort and others (in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the book’s original ...
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• Darwin 1st edition found on toilet bookshelf

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwins "On the Origin of Species" found in a familys guest lavatory in southern England.
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• November 22, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 117
  November 22,  2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber .  If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every ...
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• Holy Crap!

  
  Doctor Grumpy in the House — Authority: 507
  After reading this, I realized those old issues of "People" in my john could be worth money someday. And this family is lucky nobody using their bathroom ran out of toilet paper in the last 150 years. Thank you to The Mother , for bringing it to my attention. Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf ...
  6 hours ago

• 5,600 deep ocean species recorded for the first time

  
  ...free your imagination... — Authority:
  Quoted  from the AP article Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean , by Cain Burdeau Nov. 22, 2009 A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life. “Parts of the ...
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• Deep sea census finds bizarre marine life

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  From a translucent jumbo octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living several kilometres beneath the ocean surface and in total darkness
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• Game council was big mistake, say Aussies

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 136
  AN Australian conservation group warns that setting up a game council in New Zealand could lead to the same taxpayer bailouts and pest problems it did for New South Wales. Carol Booth ( right ), policy officer for the Invasive Species Council, says that a similar council set up in New South Wales in 2002 has been a ...
  7 hours ago

• PARROT SPECIES

  
  Home Alone Critter Care of Columbia County, Oregon — Authority: 167
  Parrots have been found upon all pleasant as good as subtropical continents together with Australia as good as a islands of a Pacific Ocean, South Asia, southeast Asia, southern regions of North America, South America as good as Africa. Some Caribbean as good as Pacific islands have been home to autochthonous ...
  9 hours ago

• The NXT Frog

  
  The NXT STEP - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Blog — Authority: 131
  Some days ago, I received a copy of Fay Rhodes new book "Robots Alive! Endangered Species" and this weekend, I started to build some of the very nice animals included (of which already two movies have been posted here). First one was the leaping NXT Frog : Building time: 20 minutes Programming time: 3 minutes ...
  9 hours ago

• Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf = $99,000

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Darwin first edition vs. todays crap authors.
  12 hours ago

• An Introduction to Evolution

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 491
  Book Review: The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution by Carl Zimmer Price: US$43:16 Hardcover: 394 pages Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers; 1 edition (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0981519474 ISBN-13: 978-0981519470 Hello ...
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• St Louis Zoo Exhibits Robotic Bears as a Sad Social Commentary on Climate Change

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 141
  St Louis Zoo will showcase electronic bears for their upcoming holiday special Wild Lights exhibition. Polar bears have been most prominently featured animals in the global warming and climate change campaigns. They are facing most threat due rising temperature and melting polar caps. St Louis Robotic Bears will be a ...
  14 hours ago

• Trout Fishing Causing the Demise of...Frogs

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 720
  photo: Vance Vredenburg I wrote about the plight of California frogs back in August as a result of a pesticide cloud blowing into Californias Sierra Mountains, deforming and killing off Californias Pacific tree frogs and foothill yellow-legged frogs. Now another threat to Californias frog population comes in the ...
  15 hours ago

• Dolphin killed by poachers in Patna

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) A Gangetic dolphin, an endangered species, was killed by poachers on the banks of the river here, an official said Sunday.The official said the 1.6 metre long national aquatic animal is suspected to have been killed by poachers Saturday.Bihar’s chief Wildlife Warden B.A. Khan has ordered the ...
  20 hours ago

• Tassie bird species edge closer towards extinction

  
  eco media — Authority: 424
  Two of Tasmania’s endangered bird species, the swift parrot and the 40-spotted pardelote, appear to be in serious decline, concerning experts and conservationists alike. Urban development, drought and wildfires are believed to be the main causes of the alarming falls in population.
  23 hours ago

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