— “the animals are facing extinction for many reasons, chief among them habitat loss from logging and sprawl, groundwater overuse, global warming and pollution” read article: rare southern california flying squirrel moves closer to endangered species act protection more: national wildlife federation
art ecology science & animals
By storm
MEET ALEXANDER ARCHIPELAGO
— “the federal government has agreed to a deadline of the end of next year for an endangered species review for wolves in southeast alaska” read article: southeast wolves to undergo endangered species act review
BURN AND SAVE, THE PLIGHT OF A SPECIES
“i think it sends a really good signal to the rest of europe that this zoo and other zoos and other organizations joining today are just not interested in perpetuating the trade in rhino horns,” read article: czech zoo burns rhino horns to help save endangered species more: burnhorns.org
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
“the window of opportunity is short. if we have a mild winter, it will be easier to do, but if we have a lot of storms, then there are delays” read article: piping plovers win this round, but officials hope not for long
HR 4256
— “unfortunately, not all laws are perfect, and in this case, the interpretation of the law is resulting in inaccurate data collection, potentially preventing healthy and growing species from being removed from the threatened or endangered list” read article: stewart’s endangered species act designed to protect species from extinction
WHEREVER THE ANIMAL IS FOUND
— “the groups actually agreed with one part of the plan: the lynx now is protected wherever it may be, even if it wanders outside the select states and their boundaries of protection” read article: endangered species protection extended to lynx
SHADOWS OF PALM OIL PLANTATIONS
— “check rankings for companies such as kellogg’s, nestle, unilever, general mills, johnson & johnson, the body shop, l’oreal, avon, colgate-palmolive, procter & gamble, pepsico, conagra foods and the hershey company. if you would like to thank a company for its efforts or encourage them to do better, visit pdza.org/pawsforthecause to find out more about point defiance zoo & aquarium’s paws for the cause campaign” read article: Expanding palm oil plantations threaten endangered species more: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
BIOSPHERE TOURS #3
— REVISITED human experiment: biosphere 2, 32540 s. biosphere road, oracle, AZ directions: from tucson, take oracle road (highway 77) for about 30 miles and turn right at the sign. hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily”
DESEGREGATING WILDERNESS, JOURDAN KEITH
— while the lack of access to wild places is beginning to be recognized as an issue of inequity, the absence of more than just a shadow of wilderness in and around urban places is not. at the signing of the civil rights act, president johnson said, “freedom would be secure only if each generation fought to renew and enlarge its meaning.” i think the same is true for wilderness. read article: desegregating wilderness more: the urban wilderness project
EBOLA ZOONOTICS
— “the ebola virus is thought to be carried by wild animals and believed to cross into humans through contact with blood, meat or other infected fluids. these jumps by viruses from animals to humans are known as zoonotic events” read article: ebola map shows people in more african regions risk infection from animals
INVISIBLE AFRICAN AMPHIBIANS
— “the researchers examined data on 733 african amphibians in sub-saharan africa. the found that a total of 400 of the species have too few records to be used in species distribution modeling at continental scales. this included 92 percent of those listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered on the iucn red list” read article: african amphibians invisible under climate-change
WARREN GROVE RANGE SPECIES SANCTUARY
— “military installations such as warren grove include ecosystems in their planning. each year, the government gives the university $100,000 or more to perform studies of plant and animal life on the range. last year, the range was awarded the gen. white natural resources conservation award against strong competition from installations across the u.s. air force. read article: snakes find unlikely habitat at s.j. miltary base
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