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Migrate Expectations Climate change taking its toll on North American wildlife		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Migrate Expectations Climate change taking its toll on North American wildlife Never mind polar bears and penguins -- turns out global warming is having its way with the feathered and furry throughout North America. A three-year study released yesterday by the Wildlife Society, a nonpartisan group of wildlife experts, suggests that climate change in North America is affecting migration routes, breeding habits, and bloomin ...
Topics: climate, North America, wildlife (all these topics)

The Rise and Fall of the Bird Reich Ten percent of all birds could go extinct by 2100		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
The Rise and Fall of the Bird Reich Ten percent of all birds could go extinct by 2100 By the end of the century, 10 percent of all extant bird species may be extinct, with another 15 percent on the brink, according to a comprehensive new study. The analysis, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, considered the fate of 9,787 living bird species, modeling the effects of habitat loss, invasive species, and climate cha ...
Topics: climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge		10 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge A cargo ship that ran aground Wednesday on the shore of Unalaska Island, 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, has begun to leak fuel into sensitive wildlife habitat. After an unsuccessful search for lost crew members, officials have begun to survey the damage from the wreck; the freighter, which was loaded with soybeans and h ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes		09 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes A high-sugar diet is slowly fattening and sickening American people, but we're getting off easy. Turns out the sweet stuff is outright killing endangered Florida panthers, not to mention the ecosystem in which they live. Almost 700,000 acres of the Florida Everglades have been drained to create the Everglades Agricultural Area, about 80 per ...
Topics: Australia, Florida, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Grousal Abuse Sage grouse unlikely to receive protection under ESA		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Grousal Abuse Sage grouse unlikely to receive protection under ESA A panel of biologists and managers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended against listing the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. FWS Director Steve Williams will make a final decision by Dec. 29, but observers say he's likely to follow the panel's advice. The recommendation is seen as a vic ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Moss Def Moss gathering worries biologists, few others		01 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Moss Def Moss gathering worries biologists, few others Valued by florists and craft mavens as basket liner and wreath adornment, moss is a hot commodity, according to several researchers raising concerns about the loosely regulated moss-gathering industry. Moss harvesters roam public and private lands scraping the plant from logs and boulders at an estimated rate of 10 million to 40 million pounds per year. In areas where any comm ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Cope Nonetheless Inuit don't have words for the species global warming sends their way		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Cope Nonetheless Inuit don't have words for the species global warming sends their way Among the many cruel and unexpected ironies of the melting Arctic -- and fasten your seat belts, kids, there are plenty more coming! -- is the fact that the Inuit people who populate the region are quite literally unable to describe their changing world. As global warming melts the polar ice, plant and animal ...
Topics: climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Better Red Than Dead Annual 'Red List' of threatened species says lots of species are threatened		17 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Better Red Than Dead Annual "Red List" of threatened species says lots of species are threatened The World Conservation Union released its annual Red List of threatened species today, and it ain't pretty. Some 15,589 species -- 7,266 animals and 8,323 plants and lichens -- are in danger, up more than 3,000 from just last year. Nearly an eighth of all birds, a quarter of mammals, a third of amphibians, and half ...
Topics: wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Kick the Habitat GOP has set its sights on revamping the Endangered Species Act	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Nov 2004	Muckraker
The newly empowered Republican majority on Capitol Hill will grease the skids for plenty of legislation that's sure to gall environmentalists and delight developers, but the most galling and delighting of all could be sweeping changes to the 30-year-old Endangered Species Act. A Florida panther wonders whether ESA is really past its prime. Photo: U.S. FWS. Business leaders, top Bu ...
Topics: endangered species, legislation, Muckraker, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa Heavy European Union subsidies for fishing fleets off the coast of West Africa are driving the illegal bushmeat trade in the region, to devastating effect. As Euros eat more of their fish, there's less left for West Africans, who turn to bushmeat -- or the meat of wild animals, including gorilla ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, wildlife (all these topics)

Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy		11 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy The question of whether to list the sage grouse -- a chicken-sized bird that roams the sagebrush plains of the U.S. West -- as threatened is shaping up as an epic conflict, with millions of dollars in revenue from oil and natural-gas drilling on the line. There were once some 2 million sage grouse ranging over the 270 million acre ...
Topics: mining and drilling, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Flarey Bird On birds bursting into flames	Umbra Fisk	11 Nov 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I saw the following on the CNN website. Can this possibly be true? I see birds hit, land on, peck at, and poop on power lines all the time, but I've never seen one burst into flames. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Weather forecasters predicted little relief Monday for firefighters battling wildfires that have scorched thousands of acres and forced hundreds of people to leave their homes in California. Firefighte ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, wildlife (all these topics)

Un-bear-able Last known indigenous female brown bear in Pyrenees shot and killed		05 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Un-bear-able Last known indigenous female brown bear in Pyrenees shot and killed The last known reproducing female brown bear in the Pyrenees along the French-Spanish border -- known as Cannelle, French for "cinnamon" -- has been shot and killed by hunters. The whereabouts of her 10-month-old cub, which fled after seeing his mother shot, are unknown. French gendarmes and wildlife officials have sealed off a wide area near the i ...
Topics: France, wildlife (all these topics)

Faster, Pussycat! Krill! Krill! Food web unraveling in Antarctic, thanks to global warming		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Faster, Pussycat! Krill! Krill! Food web unraveling in Antarctic, thanks to global warming Krill, the shrimp-like crustaceans at the center of the Antarctic food chain, are rapidly disappearing, and scientists suspect global warming may be the culprit. In some key ocean regions, krill have declined by more than 80 percent in the last 25 years, according to a study in today's issue of the journal Science. Numerous Antarctic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Windbalkers Wind farms ignite controversy in Scotland and California		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Windbalkers Wind farms ignite controversy in Scotland and California A proposal to build the world's biggest on-shore wind farm on Scotland's rugged Isle of Lewis is triggering a pitched battle. Lewis Wind Power, a joint venture between British Energy and construction group AMEC, claims the project would create hundreds of jobs and generate enough electricity to meet the annual needs of 1.1 million peo ...
Topics: California, energy, Scotland, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry		28 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry The Bush administration has just proposed a regulatory change that would grant the hydropower industry exclusive rights to appeal Interior Department rulings on dam licensing and operation -- and deny those rights to states, Indian tribes, and environmental groups. Many privately owned dams, bui ...
Topics: dams, Department of Interior, energy, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Feather Report Birds in decline across North America		20 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Feather Report Birds in decline across North America Last week we heard that amphibians -- the alleged environmental "canaries in the coal mine" -- are dying off in record numbers. But what if birds, not amphibians, are the better environmental indicators, as John Flicker of the National Audubon Society claims? Well, then ... we're still hosed. According to a new report by the group, close to 30 percent of bird species ...
Topics: North America, wildlife (all these topics)

Frog and Toad Are Dead One-third of amphibians threatened with extinction		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Frog and Toad Are Dead One-third of amphibians threatened with extinction If it is true that amphibians are, as Conservation International's Russell Mittermeier puts it, "one of nature's best indicators of overall environmental health," then we are all in big trouble, because amphibians are having a seriously rough time of it. According to a massive new worldwide study involving more than 500 scientists from over 60 countries, p ...
Topics: health, wildlife (all these topics)

Let a Thousand Species Bloom Organic farming increases biodiversity, research indicates		13 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Let a Thousand Species Bloom Organic farming increases biodiversity, research indicates According to the largest review yet done of studies comparing organic to conventional agriculture, organic farming increases biodiversity at every level, from bacteria to birds to mammals. The two groups that conducted the reviews -- English Nature, a government group, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- had no vested int ...
Topics: food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species		07 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species Many Chinese believe that wild game improves health. Whether or not that's true, the country's enormous market for rare and exotic "delicacies" is not improving the health of endangered species. "Just in the last two years, 12 to 13 species have had to be CITES-listed because of China's food trade," said Gail Cochr ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Please Hold for the Next Available Wildlife Protection Bush administration puts Forest Service wildlife protections on hold		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Please Hold for the Next Available Wildlife Protection Bush administration puts Forest Service wildlife protections on hold The Bush administration issued a temporary rule yesterday suspending strict wildlife protections used by national forest managers since 1982. That year, the Reagan administration instructed forest managers in the U.S. Forest Service to maintain "viable populations" of f ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Last Resort A new resort complex threatens a Japanese paradise	Jeff Shaw	29 Sep 2004	Main Dish
The elusive and endangered yamaneko. Photo: Makoto Yokotsuka. The Iriomote cat is a survivor. For centuries, it employed the surest survival technique of all -- avoiding humans -- before being scientifically described for the first time in 1967 by Dr. Yoshimori Imaizumi of Tokyo's National Science Museum. Its home, Iriomote Island, is one of the southernmost points in Japan. Located more than 1,200 miles ...
Topics: Japan, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Creature Comforts A new push for protecting sharks and lions		28 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: wildlife Creature Comforts A new push for protecting sharks and lions Despite the relative infrequency of its attacks on humans, the great white shark has achieved a fearsome reputation, thanks largely to the 1975 film "Jaws." Viewed with trepidation and fascination, it is now a prized catch for trophy hunters, who sell its jaws and teeth at great profit. Similarly prized by hunters is the African lion, a formidable cat whose fame has almost nothing to do with the 19 ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

My Pet Goat Masai tribes eye white settler land in Kenya		23 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
My Pet Goat Masai tribes eye white settler land in Kenya The Masai tribespeople of Kenya are running out of land for their herds of goats, cows, and sheep, and they are starting to covet the vast swaths controlled by the country's white settlers -- land that contains copious wildlife, including endangered species like the black rhino. The conflict is touchy. Many of the whites are sympathetic to the Masai, whose land was stolen a ...
Topics: Kenya, travel, wildlife (all these topics)

Have Modified Genes, Will Travel Genetically modified plants spreading hither and thither		21 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Have Modified Genes, Will Travel Genetically modified plants spreading hither and thither Genes from genetically modified grass can spread much farther than previously believed, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study focused on a new strain of creeping bentgrass -- commonly used on golf courses for its resilience -- developed by two companies, Monsanto and ...
Topics: GMOs, United States, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics)

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