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Pickled Pikas Climate change endangers American pika, say groups		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 20 Aug 2008 The American pika should be listed as an endangered species because climate change could cause its extinction, say Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against California and the federal government. The pika, a rabbit cousin characterized by inordinate cuteness and a squeaky call, is "the polar bear of the Lower 48," says Greg Loarie of Earthjust ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Riau wow Indonesian province puts moratorium on rainforest destruction	Glenn Hurowitz	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I just started as Greenpeace's media director, in part because I wanted to help Greenpeace save the world's rainforests, a topic I've written a lot about at Grist and elsewhere. Within a week of starting the job, I knew I'd made a good decision when I got this news release from our Southeast Asian office: Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its forests and peatlands; a move that will prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from enterin ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, food, Indonesia, wildlife (all these topics)

Tell us what you think! (Quickly.) (By postal mail only, please.) Bush administration hustles through ESA rule change with minimal feedback; Obama opposes	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
So, remember that proposed rule change for the Endangered Species Act, the one that would effectively gut it? A few interesting details. Normally, the Fish and Wildlife Service has a 90-day comment period for a rule change like this. When the draft of this rule change was first released, it was cut to 60. Now it's down to 30. "In this case, it was determined that we need to move forward in a timely fashion," said Interior Department spokeswoman Tina Kreishe ...
Topics: endangered species, politics, regulation, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics)

Hoot and Holler Feds axe acreage of spotted owl habitat		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The amount of old-growth forest designated as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl was slashed 23 percent, or 1.6 million acres, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. One might think that means that spotted owls are doing well for themselves, but no: the spotted owl population is dropping by 4 percent each year. Despite widespread efforts to protect their Northwest old-growth home, the ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, logging, national forests, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Seal the Deal On eco-conversions	Umbra Fisk	13 Aug 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In all sorts of corporate environmental reports, you see claims that compare apples to oranges -- "By reducing our emissions by X pounds this year, we've saved the equivalent of 17 gazillion trees." Or "If every person in the U.S. bought our eco-friendly product, we could save all the baby harp seals." OK, perhaps I exaggerate a little bit. But where do people come up with these eco-unit conversions? I'm ...
Topics: advice, Arctic, Ask Umbra, business, carbon offsets, endangered species, greenhouse-gas emissions, wildlife (all these topics)

Top of the food chain Global warming unleashes 'world's largest land predators' on humans	Joseph Romm	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
It could be the premise of a new horror movie -- based on an all-too-true story. We have 'a new and unusual threat: a polar bear stuck on land due to climate change': Five scientists studying shorebirds in northern Alaska had to themselves take flight after a polar bear showed up at a time of year it should have been out on ice floes hunting seals.Polar bears would normally be out on sea ice in spring and summer, the group said in a statement, 'but with recent warm ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

Like there are so many other reasons to visit the barren tundra? Alaska claims protecting wildlife would hurt tourism	Miles Grant	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Somehow this one went under my radar last week, but I couldn't let it slip by: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The state of Alaska has sued the U.S. government, arguing that listing polar bears as a threatened species will hurt Alaskan oil and gas exploration, fisheries and tourism.The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in Washington, seeks the withdrawal of a May 14 decision to list the big Arctic bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because climate ch ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, litigation, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

I'll Have the Marsupial of the Day Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 08 Aug 2008 Australians who want to make a dent in climate change just need to eat more kangaroo, says a new study in the journal Conservation Letters. The methane-producing burps and farts of sheep and cattle contribute 11 percent of Australia's annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, emit little methane. Researchers say that 175 million kangaroos could produc ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, livestock, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Good Day, Primate Gorilla census finds 125,000 more western lowland gorillas than expected		05 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:44 AM on 05 Aug 2008 A new gorilla census in the Republic of the Congo has found about 125,000 more western lowland gorillas than expected living in the northern part of the Montana-sized country, effectively doubling the known population of the species. Western lowland gorillas are one of four gorilla subspecies, all of which are in danger of extinction. "These figures show that northern ...
Topics: Congo, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Blast From the Mast Groups sue Navy over underwater explosions		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:29 PM on 30 Jul 2008 Environmental groups are up in arms about training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy -- not sonar this time, but underwater explosives. The Wild Fish Conservancy and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have filed a federal lawsuit against the Navy, saying its practice of training divers to explode dummy mines in Washington State's Puget Sound poses an unacceptable hazard to salmon, o ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Duck! Wildlife so far largely safe from Mississippi River oil spill		28 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:10 PM on 28 Jul 2008 Louisiana wildlife have so far largely escaped harm from the oil spill that shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River last week. But biologists remain nervous as the oil slick heads downstream toward the Delta National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring marshy areas, where nearly 100,000 migratory birds will alight in the fall. Barriers are being erected to keep oil away from marshes, and folks ...
Topics: habitat loss, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

The Hunter is a lonely heart Former GOP prez candidate left up the creek without a wildebeest	Kate Sheppard	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), one-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had the best of intentions for a trip to Africa. Having heard that there are 230,000 hungry refugees from Darfur currently residing in Chad, Hunter's staffers called the country's embassy and proposed that their boss come hunt wildebeest and distribute the meat to refugees. Photo: Chris Eason Problem? There aren't any wildebeest in Chad. And even if there w ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, national parks, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Powers of Darkwoods Canada protects B.C. caribou habitat		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 24 Jul 2008 A giant tract of land in southeastern British Columbia will become protected habitat, the Canadian government and Nature Conservancy Canada announced Thursday. The so-called Darkwoods area, purchased from a private forester, adds up to 550 square kilometers of mountains, valleys, and wetlands (that's 212 square miles, for metric-system hatas). The area is home to endangered mountain caribou, grizzly be ...
Topics: Canada, endangered species, habitat protection, Nature Conservancy, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

The Judge Who Cried Wolf Endangered-species protections reinstated for gray wolves		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:01 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A federal judge has ruled that wolves should be returned to the endangered-species list for now, derailing plans for wolf hunts in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The 2,000 or so gray wolves that inhabit the three states were removed from the endangered list in March; environmentalists sued to get them back on, saying populations were not yet stable. According to the Natural Resource ...
Topics: endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Ice, Ice Scraping Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:14 AM on 18 Jul 2008 The warming Antarctic is changing life on the seafloor as well as above as icebergs freed from surrounding sea ice earlier than in previous years can pummel bottom-dwelling creatures for much of the year, according to a new study. "Our results suggest that as the winter sea-ice season shortens, the thousands of icebergs that float around the coastline of the Antarct ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Mark His Words New Nature Conservancy prez chats about jumping from Goldman Sachs to the green scene	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
The stereotypes of biz-begrudging enviros and planet-pillaging business leaders were upended years ago. These days, green groups and corporations team up on everything from preserving land to pushing for climate regulations. Now, in the latest example of cross-pollination, they're even swapping executives. Mark Tercek Photo: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservan ...
Topics: biodiversity, business, climate, economy, environmental movement, Nature Conservancy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The bees	David Roberts	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
(thanks LL!)
Topics: agriculture, video, wildlife (all these topics)

Salmon lesson Atlantic Salmon restoration efforts face grim realities	Erik Hoffner	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Stocks of wild salmon in the North Pacific are in trouble. That's news. What isn't news is that the spring has passed us by in Massachusetts again without returning more than a handful of wild Atlantic Salmon. The river closest to me, the Connecticut, saw just 132 salmon return, nearly all of which were captured at either of two dams and whisked away by biologists working for the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Restoration program. The fish are bred at hatcheries so n ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, Massachusetts, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

Primate Fear Orangutans heading toward extinction		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:09 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Orangutans are on their way toward extinction, says a new study that points out worrying declines in fuzzy-orange-ape populations. Orangutans only live in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo; the Sumatra orangutan population has dropped nearly 14 percent since 2004, while the Borneo population has fallen 10 percent. "Unless extraordinary efforts are made soon, it could become the first great ape sp ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, Indonesia, logging, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Olympic trials: The locusts of control A locust swarm worries Chinese officials ahead of Olympics	Sara Barz	04 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Officials in the Northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia have mobilized 33,000 people to stop a swarm of locusts 267 miles outside of Beijing. Concerned that the locust swarm may descend on Beijing during the Olympic Games, the regional government has set aside 4 million yuan for pesticides and large-scale spraying machinery. As of July 2, the swarm had infested 5,000 square miles.'The larvae are in the hatching stage in the counties and cities near Beijing, Gao Weny ...
Topics: China, Olympics, severe weather, sports, wildlife (all these topics)

Where the Farmed Things Are 30,000 farmed salmon escape off B.C. coast, endangering wild stocks		03 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 03 Jul 2008 Some 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped from their pen off the coast of British Columbia into the Pacific Ocean. Farmed salmon can harm wild salmon stocks -- which are already declining on the west coast -- by competing with them for food as well as spreading disease. In this case, the escaped salmon are also a different species which is not native to the area ...
Topics: agriculture, British Columbia, fishing, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Macaws and Effect An interview with author Bruce Barcott	Michelle Nijhuis	02 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Bruce Barcott. In his new non-fiction book Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, environmental journalist Bruce Barcott follows Sharon Matola -- a former Air Force survival specialist and circus-tiger trainer turned zookeeper -- as she fights the construction of a hydropower dam in her adopted country of Belize, and attempts to save the nesting site of the country's last scarlet macaws. During her years of ba ...
Topics: Belize, books, grassroots activism, green living, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

A Penguin for Your Thoughts Penguin declines don't bode well for the rest of us		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Penguin populations are declining, which is bad news not just for the tuxedoed birds but for, well, the world in general. A new scientific review published in the journal BioScience shows that everywhere they live, penguins are suffering from a combination of climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing, tourism, and development. "Many penguins we thought would be safe because t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, water pollution, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Whale, You Were Out! Makah tribe members sentenced for illegal whale hunt		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:09 AM on 01 Jul 2008 The five members of the Makah tribe who participated in an unsanctioned hunt of a gray whale last year were sentenced earlier this week. The Makah tribe, whose reservation is located in northwestern Washington state, is the only tribe in the country with treaty rights to hunt whales. However, the long, arduous process of obtaining a waiver to actually conduct a legal hunt has fueled the pr ...
Topics: animal welfare, news, politics, United States, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

An Unimpressive Volley Wimbledon under fire for shooting pigeons		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:50 PM on 24 Jun 2008 As the Wimbledon tennis championships get underway, the real drama isn't on the court but in the air. After the players' lawn and an open-air restaurant were dive-bombed by pigeons, officials sent marksmen to take 'em out. The tournament employs two hawks for pigeon-scaring, "and by and large they do the job," says a Wimbledon spokesperson. "But unfortunately there were one or two ar ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, news, sports, wildlife (all these topics)

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