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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)

Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans It may come as a surprise to some that the U.S. is still home to about 27,000 wild, free-roaming mustangs, not yet driven from their open ranges by human development. But just wait. The Bureau of Land Management is set to round up one of Colorado's five remaining mustang herds and remove it from its terrain in ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

This Exstinks Number of Threatened Species May Be Drastically Underestimated		10 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
This Exstinks Number of Threatened Species May Be Drastically Underestimated The number of species in danger of extinction may be some 50 percent higher than currently estimated, according to a new study in the journal Science. The International Conservation Union's Red List cites 12,200 species teetering on the brink, but researchers say at least 6,300 may be "co-endangered," meaning their survival depends on ...
Topics: wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Taint Misbehavin' Pollution Causes Animals to Act All Freaky		07 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Taint Misbehavin' Pollution Causes Animals to Act All Freaky It seems to some folks that humans behave in more and more bizarre fashion these days, but animals have tended to go about their animal business in a generally ordinary fashion. No more: Ubiquitous chemical pollutants known as endocrine disruptors -- everything from heavy metals to PCBs -- are altering animal behavior in zany ways. Male gulls are trying to mate with each other ...
Topics: toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird The Bush administration took a big step yesterday toward removing the marbled murrelet, a Northwest seabird, from the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, a move enviros say will lead to further logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The ruling from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service states that the declin ...
Topics: logging, Northwest, wildlife (all these topics)

The Windshield Beneath My Wings Splatometers Reveal Possible Insect Decline in U.K.		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Windshield Beneath My Wings Splatometers Reveal Possible Insect Decline in U.K. Many bird populations in the U.K. have declined precipitously in recent years -- for instance, house sparrows have dropped by 65 percent since 1973 -- and some scientists suspect that a cause is a possible corresponding decline in the insect populations upon which the birds depend. To test the theory, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds o ...
Topics: United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico A guerilla war is underway in Mexico's idyllic Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where millions of black-and-orange monarch butterflies alight every year at the end of a migratory journey that begins in Canada and the Great Lakes states. On one side lie conservation groups, government agencies, and local forest-watch community groups strug ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Me-ouch! Conservationists Struggle to Preserve the World's Big Cats		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: wildlife Me-ouch! Conservationists Struggle to Preserve the World's Big Cats Perhaps the most charismatic of charismatic megafauna, the world's big cats -- lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my! -- are in big trouble. Just last year, conservationists discovered that Africa's population of lions, once considered one of the safer big-cat families, has seen its numbers plunge; similar problems plague snow leopards, jaguars, and Iberian lynx. Large felines are fiercely territorial, ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Where Have All the Big Fish Gone?	Suzy Becker	29 Mar 2004	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Forgive Me, Padre, For I Have Drilled Drilling on a Texas barrier island could mess with sea turtles and other critters	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Mar 2004	Main Dish
Life's a beach -- and then you die. Photo: NPS. This time of year, a slim strip of Texas beach known as South Padre Island is hopping with bikini-wearing, hard-drinking college students on spring break. On neighboring North Padre Island, however, the scene tends to be quite a bit calmer. Nearly 70 miles of this Gulf Coast barrier island are natio ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, oil, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem A massive dam project planned for the Nu River in southwestern China threatens to wreak havoc on a region that contains one of the world's least-disturbed temperate ecosystems. The area, designated by the U.N. as a World Heritage Site, contains old-growth forests, 7,000 species of plants, and 80 rare or endangered animal species -- all to ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Wanderlost Migratory Routes Increasingly Threatened		09 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: wildlife Wanderlost Migratory Routes Increasingly Threatened One of the significant but little-noted shortcomings of wildlife preserves is that they only protect animals that stay put. Biologists who study large-scale animal migrations worry that many of nature's most spectacular feats of persistence and survival are threatened by habitat loss and development. For instance, each winter pronghorn antelope travel 300 miles south from the Grand Teton Mountains in northwestern Wyomi ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Eek-otourism Ecotourism May Be Harming Wildlife		05 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Eek-otourism Ecotourism May Be Harming Wildlife Ecotourism -- and tourism erroneously billed as eco -- may be harming the very animals and ecosystems it claims to venerate. As many as one in five tourists are "ecotourists" under some definition, and those numbers are expected to continue their dramatic rise in coming years. It's a booming business sector that can benefit poor countries, allowing them to make money by showing off ...
Topics: travel, wildlife (all these topics)

The Real Macaw Dispatches from a Macaw Research Trip in the Amazon		04 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Amazon, wildlife (all these topics)

Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Bush administration today to complete a major fence project along the westernmost portion of the U.S.-Mexico border despite concerns that such a project could harm habitat for threatened and endangered birds. The California Coastal Co ...
Topics: California, Department of Homeland Security, wildlife (all these topics)

Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing A perfect storm of widespread poverty, corrupt and inefficient communist leadership, and international indifference has made the Southeast Asian nation of Laos a virtual case study in environmental decline. Although it is one of the world's poorest and least developed nations, Laos is rich with natural resources, which represent an almost-irresistible source ...
Topics: Asia, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend The Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Va., yesterday, allowing the Rappahannock River to flow unmolested from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since 1910 -- and making it the longest free-flowing river feeding into the Chesapeake, ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, California, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling A coalition of seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a plan to open 8.8 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas development. The groups -- including t ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling The Environmental Investigation Agency and the Indonesian environmental group Telapak yesterday accused the Malaysian government of turning a blind eye to the widespread trafficking of timber illegally logged from Indonesia. According to an investigative report by the two groups, large quan ...
Topics: business, globalization, Indonesia, logging, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles Yesterday we wrote about longline fishing wiping out large numbers of albatrosses; today, there's news that the fishing technique is messing with another charismatic critter -- the sea turtle. "In the year 2000, longline fishermen from 40 nations set at least 1.4 billion hooks on longlines that average about 40 miles long ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

The Minnow Would Be Lost Senator's Plan Would Move Endangered Fish to Wetter Habitat		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Minnow Would Be Lost Senator's Plan Would Move Endangered Fish to Wetter Habitat The New Mexico habitat of the silvery minnow, an endangered fish, too often goes dry, so Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has come up with an unusual plan: relocate the fish to wetter territory. The minnow, which lives primarily in the Rio Grande River south of Albuquerque, has been the subject of substantial ...
Topics: marine life, New Mexico, politics, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans Ships that carry ballast water -- used to balance and stabilize the vessels -- also carry thousands of aquatic species across the globe to foreign habitats, where they can have environmentally catastrophic effects. Recognizing this as one of the top four environmental problems facing the world's oceans (al ...
Topics: globalization, marine life, oceans, placemaking, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: ... Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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