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Amazon Grace		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Grace Here's a little bit of welcome news from the Southern Hemisphere: The rate of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest has fallen sharply, according to Brazilian environmental officials. Between 2000 and 2001, the rate of logging and set forest fires fell by 13 percent, from roughly 7,000 square miles of forest destroyed in 2000 to about 6,000 last year. The Brazilian governme ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Can-do-ada		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Can-do-ada After a decade of debate, the Canadian House of Commons approved yesterday what could become Canada's first nationwide endangered species bill. The bill would prohibit the harming or killing of endangered species on federal land and the destruction of the species' critical habitat. A scientific advisory board would nominate critters to be added to an endangered species list. Environmentalists offered measured praise for the bill ...
Topics: Canada, wildlife (all these topics)

A Shot in the Dark		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Shot in the Dark For the obsessive ornithologists among our readers, some tragicomic news: Once-buoyant hopes for the survival of the ivory-billed woodpecker have faded after sounds thought to be the bird's distinctive double-rap on a dead tree proved to be distant gunshots. Earlier this year, the ivory-billed woodpecker, which has not been confirmed to exist since shortly after World War II, was the subject of a month-long search in ...
Topics: Louisiana, wildlife (all these topics)

Iguana Be Alone!		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Dead Bird Flying		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dead Bird Flying Upon hearing reports of his own demise, Mark Twain famously retorted that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. The same could be said of the golden-crowned manakin, a small Brazilian bird thought to have gone extinct almost a half-century ago but recently rediscovered in the Amazon rainforest. The bird was found by German ornithologist Helmut Sick in 1957. That was also the last year anyone ever ...
Topics: Brazil, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a An agricultural company has agreed to sell 16,500 acres of salt ponds around the San Francisco Bay, paving the way for what could be the nation's biggest wetlands restoration project outside of the Florida Everglades. Cargill Inc., an international agriculture and food company, signed a preliminary agreement yesterday with state and federal governments and private fo ...
Topics: California, land stewardship, San Francisco, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Take the Mahogany and Run	Suzy Becker	28 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: Brazil, wildlife (all these topics)

The Shipping News		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Salmon and other imperiled species would not be damaged by a proposed deepening of the Columbia River channel, federal scientists announced yesterday. Those findings -- biological opinions required under the Endangered Species Act -- will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, fishing, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, placemaking, Washington, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Mammal-mia!		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mammal-mia! Nearly 25 percent of the world's mammals -- more than 1,000 species in total -- are in danger of going extinct within 30 years, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme on the state of the global environment. In total, the report identifies more than 11,000 endangered species, including one in eight bird species and more than 5,000 kinds of plants. The report blames the introduction of invasive ...
Topics: United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Catch a Taiga By the Toe		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
Catch a Taiga By the Toe No one needs to tell the Amur tiger that species worldwide are endangered. A resident of Russia's far-eastern taiga forests, the tigers are severely threatened by insatiable and generally illegal logging in the region. In theory, Russia has some of the world's strictest logging laws, but the taiga's old-growth trees (such as Manchurian oak and Korean pine) fetch the highest prices on th ...
Topics: logging, national forests, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

Mozam-piqued		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mozam-piqued Mozambique has decided to proceed with a $520 million plan to build a harbor and industrial free-trade zone on its pristine southern coast, a decision that has outraged environmentalists. The plan seems likely to put an end to efforts to establish a transnational conservation area stretching from St. Lucia in South Africa through Swaziland and into the Maputo Elephant ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, marine life, Mozambique, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

The Hunt for Cold October		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Hunt for Cold October That's all fine and dandy for panda bears, but the outlook is grimmer for their northern (non)cousins, polar bears. Polar bears face a number of threats -- widespread habitat fragmentation, pollution, excessive hunting -- but the most serious menace of all is climate change, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. Rising temperatures at the top of the world are melt ...
Topics: Arctic, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Rwandering Fools?		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Rwandering Fools? Tragically, education seems to have been insufficient to protect animals in Rwanda, where poachers last week killed two of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas. The poachers were attempting to capture and sell baby gorillas. According to Rwandan wildlife conservation officials, two men killed two female gorillas and trapped one baby gorilla, in the first such attack since 1985. The men are in custody, but ...
Topics: Africa, Rwanda, wildlife (all these topics)

Bloomsday Doomsday		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Bloomsday Doomsday Ah, a lovely rolling meadow in springtime bloom. What could possibly be more British -- or more endangered? Flower meadows in the U.K. are declining at an alarming rate, putting some species at risk, according to a survey of eight English counties conducted by Wildlife Trusts, an organization that manages 2,400 nature reserves in the country. Conditions in all eight counties were deteriorating; in Worcestershire, ...
Topics: United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Fire Walk With Me		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fire Walk With Me Fires being deliberately set all across Africa are having a dire effect on the continent's ecosystems, a wildlife expert warned during a recent U.N. Environment Programme conference on African mountains. Many different groups are responsible for setting the fires, said Kenya Wildlife Service warden Bongo Woodley. These include arsonists hoping the government will give them the scorched land; squatters seeking ...
Topics: Africa, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Conventional Stupidity		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
Conventional Stupidity Almost a decade ago, 183 countries signed the Convention on Biological Diversity to guard against exploitation of their genetic resources. Now scientists say the treaty, although well intentioned, effectively prevents scientists from studying the natural bounty it is designed to protect. The many national bureaucracies spawned by the treaty do not easily distinguish between bioprospecting and basic science, a ...
Topics: United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Enron's End Run		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Enron's End Run Here's another victim of Enron: the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest, one of the two most valuable forests in Latin America and one of the 200 most endangered eco-regions in the world, according to the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The forest was the largest remaining undeveloped land of its kind in South America -- until Enron built a 390-mile natural gas pipeline directly through ...
Topics: South America, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sim Nature A review of Digital Biology	Nicholas Thompson	25 Apr 2002	Arts and Minds
As every picnicker knows, if you spill strawberry jam in the grass, it will be swarming with ants in no time at all. The ants arrive quickly because they always find the shortest route from their nests to the spill -- but how? That question is one that fascinates cutting-edge engineers, computer programmers, and other scientists, who study nature in order to design better and more efficient technology -- a quest compellingly ...
Topics: green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Rodents of Usual Size		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Rodents of Usual Size It's a grand time to be a San Bernardino kangaroo rat -- or as grand as they come for the endangered nine-inch rodent. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 33,295 acres of California's San Bernardino and Riverside counties as critical habitat for the rats, meaning that it will be more difficult to win approval for development projects on the affected lands. The Center for Bi ...
Topics: California, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Now You See Them, Now You Don't In the Andes Mountains, the pace of climate change is far from glacial	Ross Wehner	22 Apr 2002	Main Dish
Even 16,500 feet in the air, perched on the steep slope of a volcano in Ecuador, French glaciologist Bernard Francou moves gracefully. Hopping among ice blocks and jagged rock debris, he stops suddenly before a boulder with blue letters painted on its surface. The thinker: Bernard Francou. Photo: Bernard Pouyaud, Ecuador Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia ...
Topics: climate, Ecuador, renewable energy, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

Pests Aside		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Pests Aside For the first time in a decade, the U.S. EPA will assess the impact of 18 common pesticides on endangered salmon and forest plants, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by three California environmental groups. The pesticides -- several million pounds of them -- are used every year in the state's fie ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

A Rocky Start		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
A Rocky Start Before you celebrate too much ... The Bush administration has already set its sights on another drilling target: the Rocky Mountains. Dozens of petitions to drill on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountain states have been submitted to the White House, which has established a Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining "to expedite the increased sup ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, North America, politics, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Dunces With Wolves		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dunces With Wolves The age-old conflict between wolves and livestock owners is erupting again. Last year, at least 40 farm animals in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming were killed by wolves, which were reintroduced to the American West in the mid-1990s. In response, a significant number of the predators have been killed this year as well (including all 10 wolves from the Whitehawk pack). Under a federal compr ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, ranching, West, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Free Bird		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Free Bird In happier news from the animal kingdom, a California condor hatched in the wild late last week, offering a rare moment of optimism for a species teetering on the edge of extinction. If the chick survives, it will mark the first time in 18 years that adult condors in the wild successfully conceived, hatched, and brooded a baby. So far, so good: The parents defended the egg, helped the chick hatc ...
Topics: California, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

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