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• Madagascar: nature conservation gains lose out to political turmoil

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 577
  In environment360 , Rhett Butler writes, “Since the government’s collapse after a coup last March, Madagascar’s rainforests have been plundered for their precious wood and unique wildlife. But now there are a few encouraging signs, as officials promise a crackdown on illegal logging and ecotourists begin to ...
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• We Need A “More Sophisticated Understanding” Of Coyote Management

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  In Maine’s debate about what to do about predator control, some towns and local sporting clubs have started up coyote hunting contests in hopes of helping to save a deer or two. In places the deer herd is beyond serious trouble, it’s become unsustainable and will be extirpated. The contests have stirred up ...
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• QDMA schedules Deer Steward Certification classes for 2010

  
  Whitetail Woods — Authority: 437
  The QDMA which stands for "Quality Deer Management Association" is holding Deer Steward certification classes again if any are interested. Quality Deer Management Association REACH PROGRAM DEER STEWARD CERTIFICATION UPDATE ...
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• Intellectuals And Wildlife Management

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  There exists a divide between the “educated” wildlife biologist and the hunter, fisherman, trapper and outdoors person. It is unfortunate that this divide prohibits better wildlife management. Let’s call the divide what it is. On the one side you have the college educated intellectual who can prove most anything ...
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• Nerve tumor may be causing Tasmanian devil deaths

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  GreenWire : The tumors that have wiped out 60 percent of the wild Tasmanian devil population probably came from Schwann cells, which normally play a role in protecting and cushioning nerves, an international team of scientists reported last week. If left unchecked, the cancer could force the animals into extinction ...
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• So Why Not “Predator Free Zones” In Maine?

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  Open for discussion! Please use the comment section at the bottom of the page. I tossed out a suggestion a few days ago as one of several on ways to help protect and rebuild Maine’s depleted whitetail deer populations. That suggestion was to create predator free zones, mainly around deer wintering areas. My idea ...
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• Polar bear prognosis, next steps unclear

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  ClimateWire : Efforts to pin down the current polar bear count and chart a course to ensure the animals’ future have become hot-button issues among experts, who cannot even agree on whether the bears’ numbers are shrinking or growing. The most thorough studies of the Arctic dwellers concede that the tallies may ...
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• looking back 7

  
  nature calling — Authority: 124
  • Ten favorite photos of 2009 in chronological order, number 7: The sunflowers at Forks of the River Wildlife Management Area were a highlight of June and July. I took lots of photos but this wilting one came near the end of their run. •
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• Maine Deer Management Heading South, Warden Service Investigating Illegal Waste Dumping

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  Most of you know that I have complained for years that fish and game departments funded mostly by license fees cannot do their job of managing our game populations when resources are used up taking care of non-game business. The state of Maine is no exception. Maine is in the middle of a serious deer management ...
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• Animal Rights Groups And Governor Oppose Maine’s Coyote Hunts

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  Right on schedule, animal rights groups, environmentalists and anti-hunting groups are lining up in opposition to coyote hunting in Maine and more specifically the current coyote tournament sponsored by the Jackman-Moose River Chamber of Commerce. 6 hunters have enrolled and have killed one coyote since it began Dec. ...
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• If You Care About Horses, You Won’t Eat Cows.

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 135
  In Nevada, home to the majority of America’s wild mustangs, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is rounding up as thousands of wild horses. One of the most frustrating aspects of Nevada’s wild horse round-up is that the BLM may not be telling an accurate story. They have spun a tale about “overpopulation” and ...
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• African Leaf-Eating Primates ‘Likely to Be Wiped Out’ by Climate Change

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  Science Daily : Monkey species will become ‘increasingly at risk of extinction’ because of global warming , according to new research, published this week. It reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a diet of leaves may be wiped out by a rise in annual temperatures of ...
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• 9-Year Project in Oregon Secures Habitat, Access

  
  Winded Bowhunter — Authority: 121
  MISSOULA, Mont.—A nine-year land conservation project has been completed near La Grande, Ore., permanently protecting habitat and securing public access on nearly 850 acres. The parcel, now part of Ladd Marsh Wildlife Management Area, has been transferred to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) from the ...
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• Timber Wolf Tracking And Ecology Clinic Offered

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 591
  Timber Wolf Tracking And Ecology Clinic Offered Wisconsin DNR BABCOCK, WI - -(AmmoLand.com)- The Sandhill Outdoor Skills Center and Timber Wolf Information Network are co-sponsoring the first of two Timber Wolf Ecology Clinics on Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2010 from 9 a.m. Saturday to noon on ...
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• cockle bird

  
  nature calling — Authority: 124
  • It is always difficult for me to pass a common cocklebur and not think of the extinct Carolina parakeet. On the surface, the two species—one a bristle-seeded plant, the other the most colorful bird to ever fly through our skies—seem to have little in common. But the two are inexplicably linked because ...
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• Sucker-Footed Bats Don’t Use Suction After All

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  Science Daily : In first-time experiments in the wild, a researcher at Brown University has discovered that a species of bat in Madagascar , Myzopoda aurita, uses wet adhesion to attach itself to surfaces. The finding explains why the bat — unlike almost all others — roosts head-up. It also helps to explain how ...
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• 9-Year Project in Oregon Secures Habitat, Access

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 447
  Photo from fOTOGLIF MISSOULA, Mont. – A nine-year land conservation project has been completed near La Grande, Ore., permanently protecting habitat and securing public access on nearly 850 acres. The parcel, now part of Ladd Marsh Wildlife Management Area, has been transferred to the Oregon Department of Fish ...
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• BLM approves Nev. wild horse roundup

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  Greenwire : The Bureau of Land Management yesterday approved the removal of some 2,500 wild horses from a range near Reno, Nev . In its decision, BLM said removal of the mustangs is necessary to bring population numbers down in the Calico Mountains Complex to prevent habitat deterioration. The roundup is designed ...
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• Conservation group restores river near one-time Nev. brothel

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 441
  Greenwire : The Nature Conservancy has led an effort to restore the lower Truckee River, located 8 miles east of Reno and home to the Mustang Ranch, the first licensed brothel in the United States. “We joke that in Nevada that we only work on properties near brothels,” said Mickey Hazelwood, project director ...
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• Zimbabwe faces expulsion from CITES

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 140
  By Owen Chikari MASVINGO – Zimbabwe risks being expelled from the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, CITES, after losing about 26 percent of its rhino population in less than three years due to rampant poaching. The country is believed to have lost about 160 rhinos since 2006 a figure which ...
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