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Gillnetters get the boot Latest victory protects Pacific sea turtles	Andrew Sharpless	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Endangered leatherback sea turtles migrating from an Indonesian beach to feed on jellyfish off the Pacific coast have one less obstacle to overcome. NOAA has denied issuance of the special exempted fishing permit required for gillnet boats to operate in an area of coast stretching from central California to central Oregon, during the time critically endangered leatherback sea turtles are feeding there.Commercial fishing operations kill an estimated 10,000 sea tu ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Birds of a Feather Decline Together Common American bird populations have dropped sharply		15 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Birds of a Feather Decline Together Common American bird populations have dropped sharply Populations of 20 common American bird species have declined by at least half in the last 40 years, according to a new analysis from the Audubon Society. Hard-hit species include the whippoorwill, meadowlark, common tern, field sparrow, ruffed grouse and -- our favorite to say -- common grackle. Bird declines "reflect other ...
Topics: biodiversity, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Buffalo and Behold Herds of migrating wildlife survive and thrive in southern Sudan		14 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Buffalo and Behold Herds of migrating wildlife survive and thrive in southern Sudan Wildlife populations are thriving in, of all places, war-wracked southern Sudan. The first aerial wildlife survey of the country taken in 25 years found herds of more than a million gazelle and antelope, migrating in formations up to 30 miles across and 50 miles long. The numbers compare to or even surpass the throngs of wildebeest on the famous Serengeti pl ...
Topics: Sudan, wildlife (all these topics)

Raptor 'Round Their Fingers U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls		05 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Raptor 'Round Their Fingers U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls Despite 17 years of conservation measures, the northern spotted owl is still in trouble. So the Bush administration has issued a cease-and-desist order on logging in the owl's Pacific Northwest habitat. Ha ha ha! No, the feds' recent draft spotted-owl protection plan instead vilifies the barred owl, a nonnative competito ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, news, wildlife (all these topics)

With Protectors Like This ... Wildlife-trade regulators approve massive sale of ivory		04 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
With Protectors Like This ... Wildlife-trade regulators approve massive sale of ivory The world's only body that can limit trade in endangered species kicked off a 12-day meeting this weekend with one hell of a bang: The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, approved the sale of some 60 tons of ivory by three African nations to Japan. That's what the kids call ironical, ...
Topics: biodiversity, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Not to Mention It's Wildly Inhumane Critics say U.S.-Mexico border fence could threaten wildlife, cause flooding The U.S. government is moving forward with plans to build 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border, but opposition is swelling faster than the Rio Grande after a rainstorm. This week, the International Boundary and Water Commission said the fence could not only cause flooding but could, in effec ...
Topics: insanity, Mexico, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for May '07 Good reading on Mongabay	biodiversivist	23 May 2007	Gristmill
There is so much good stuff over there I hardly know where to start. You might consider subscribing to the weekly email. Top of the list is an interview with Luke Hunter (the same biologist I pissed off with my pincushion post). Coincidentally, roughly a fifth of the interview dealt with that topic: ... does conservation of the species require radio-tagging? There are many, many cases where it does not. I often read proposals by graduate students who are wishing to ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, endangered species, energy, ethanol, wildlife (all these topics)

The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study The West Nile virus soldiers on, declares a report published yesterday in Nature. Eight years after the virus left the West Nile and made its way to the U.S. Northeast, chickadee populations in the region have dropped 53 percent, while Eastern bluebird populations have been diminished by 44 percent. American crows have been hit the harde ...
Topics: green living, health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Wikipedia rules Encyclopedia of Life off to a slow start	biodiversivist	13 May 2007	Gristmill
A couple of emails and an article in the latest issue of Science have roused me to post on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. The site is not functional yet but has a whiz-bang demo (completely fake) put together by a company called AvenueA\|Razorfish that is well worth checking out. However, that was the only thing that impressed me about the site. The article in Science just inflamed my skepticism:Hands up if you've heard this before: An ambitious new project p ...
Topics: biodiversity, websites, wildlife (all these topics)

All that we have left behind What was it like 430 million years ago	Adam Browning	01 May 2007	Gristmill
The earth, as a living organism, leaves behind breadcrumbs from millenia of development. And beautiful breadcrumbs they are. Check out Frans Lanting's project and fall in love all over again. From Stewart Brand's account of a presentation as a part of the Long Now series: It began on a New Jersey beach. Frans Lanting was photographing horseshoe crabs for a story about how they are being ground up for eel bait and at the same time their blood is used for drug test ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shark tales down under Bull sharks abound in Golden Coast canals	Andrew Sharpless	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
It's no wonder so many people flock to Queensland, Australia. The fastest growing region on the southeast side of the continent down under offers a subtropical climate with an outdoorsy lifestyle -- and an abundance of bull sharks? These feisty elasmobranches are so abundant in fact that residents are catching them off apartment balconies with rigs no more complicated than a pork chop tied to a string.Though bull sharks abound in the Golden Coast canals, sharks o ...
Topics: fishing, food, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Dead frog hopping Not all amphibians are toast	biodiversivist	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Not all amphibians are toast. From Mongabay: Poison arrow frogs appear to make special effort to avoid exposure to damaging ultraviolet-B radiation ... The researchers found that the two species of frogs appear to be exhibiting UV-B avoidance behavior, with vocalizing frogs found at sites where UV-B levels were more than six times lower than average. The ozone depletion problem is generally assumed to be under control for now, though I'm sure you can find scient ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, wildlife (all these topics)

The Elephant in the Room Hammer Simwinga provides alternatives to African poaching	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
In the 1970s, one of the densest populations of elephants on the African continent roamed the Luangwa Valley of Zambia. By the end of the next decade, massive poaching for the ivory trade had decimated herds throughout Africa, and the elephant population in North Luangwa National Park had plunged from 17,000 to 1,300. Though international authorities shut down the ivory trade in 199 ...
Topics: heroes, wildlife, Zambia (all these topics)

Megadroughts projected for southwest: bears	Kit Stolz	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
To be "environmental," in simplest terms, is to be aware of the existence of "our fellow mortals," as John Muir liked to put it. In the Southwest, where a new study for Science -- based on the results of nineteen climate model runs -- projects "megadroughts" that will be at least as devastating as the Dust Bowl, some of these mortals, such as black bears and oak trees, have already noticed changes in the climate and begun to change their behav ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

Buzz Light Year Could cell phones be the culprit in honeybee disappearance?		17 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Buzz Light Year Could cell phones be the culprit in honeybee disappearance? Apiarists in the U.S. and Europe have been scratching their heads for months over rapidly waning honeybee populations. Now some scientists who have combed through the data are all abuzz with a new theory: cell phones. In bad news to mobile-attached ears, British researchers are suggesting that phone radiation could be disrupting bees' navigation system ...
Topics: green living, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Birds fight back Beaked inhabitants of the world, unite	Adam Browning	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In a disturbing development, there are indications that birds, apparently pissed at the concerted assault on their habitat, are organizing to fight back against the man they hold responsible. Also at issue are what birds claim are repeated efforts to shoot them in the head.'It's happened so many times that the old 'Sorry, I was drunk and cleaning my gun' routine just doesn't cut it anymore,' said Mal R. Duck in a recent interview. "He shoots his buddy and it ma ...
Topics: wildlife, funnies (all these topics)

Tastes like chicken T. Rex with feathers	biodiversivist	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yahoo News puts it this way: Based on the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives (to T. rex),' says geneticist John Asara of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, co-leader of a team reporting the discovery of faint traces of chicken-like bone lining preserved inside a dinosaur drumstick. Science says it this way: To address this latter possibility, we generated aligned sequences obtained from chicken collagen 1t1 (the most closel ...
Topics: biodiversity, funnies, wildlife (all these topics)

Wildlife pincushions Sometimes you have to take risks to save endangered species	biodiversivist	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I received an irate email the other day from Luke Hunter, who is the (taking a deep breath) Global Carnivore Program Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society and an Associate Conservation Scientist in the Science and Exploration Program. Apparently, somebody ratted me out and sent him a copy of one of my posts where I made a passing comment about the absurd amount of darting and radio collaring that is now going on in this human-dominated world: Here i ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Drown and Out Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins		04 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Drown and Out Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins Pop an antidepressant before reading this: Canada has reduced this year's quota for its annual harp seal hunt by 20 percent, to a mere 270,000 -- not because of pressure from conservationists and animal activists, but because thousands of baby seals have already fallen through melting ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and drowned. ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

In case you're feeling down	David Roberts	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
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Topics: cutesy, wildlife (all these topics)

Tomb Aiders Taiwan freeway officials help butterflies find their way		27 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Tomb Aiders Taiwan freeway officials help butterflies find their way Bracing for the migratory peak of millions of purple milkweed butterflies, officials in Taiwan are closing one lane of a major highway, installing netting to encourage the butterflies to rise above traffic, and using ultraviolet lights to guide them under a busy bridge. "Human beings need to coexist with the other species, even if they are tiny butterflies,&qu ...
Topics: news, Taiwan, wildlife (all these topics)

Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild We hope you had a chance to relax this weekend, to cast aside your cares and spend hours soaking in the jasmine-scented bubble bath of life. Because now it's back to the putrid mudbath of reality. From Russia comes news that the country is planning to build two nuclear reactors a year through 20 ...
Topics: Cambodia, climate, energy, G8, news, nuclear power, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Knitting for dolphins Get to stitchin', bitchez	Sarah van Schagen	02 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Yo-ho-ho me fellow lovers of the briny deep. I realized just recently that me li'l column be runnin' for a whole year now. Remember that first arrrr-ticle? With the joking about poop decks and the promise to shiver ye timbers? (And speaking of that, we should get together soon, matey ...) How the time flies when ye be drinking rum! But that be enough reminiscing for now. Let's move on to more recent headlines, like, oh, say, "Navy may deploy anti-terrorism ...
Topics: oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Edible media: Bee here, now Please?	Tom Philpott	28 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web. Of mites and men (and bees) [Insert perfunctory 'buzz' reference into lead:] Buzz about the collapse of domesticated honeybee populations hit the front page of the New York Times yesterday. The steep drop in bee numbers is alarming: A bee laid its little tentacles on the flower that produced every fruit, vegetable, and nut you've ever eaten. And that means you, too, ...
Topics: food, wildlife (all these topics)

You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up		28 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Can Poach an Egg, But You Shouldn't Poach an Elephant Elephants massacred as ivory trade picks up As many as 23,000 elephants may have been killed in just one year, as an international effort to stem the ivory trade has fallen to the wayside, particularly in Africa. Increased demand for white tuskiness in Japan and China, combined with declining funding for anti-poaching programs, has overwhelmed the intenti ...
Topics: Africa, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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