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Grain and Bear It		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grain and Bear It New policies emerging in China could bode well for that poster child of protection efforts, the panda. In an article published last week in the journal Science, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Beijing University praised China's National Forest Conservation Program and its "Grain-to-Green" policy as likely to preserve habitat crucial to pa ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, national forests, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Hill and Dale		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Hill and Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth upheld a Clinton-era plan on Friday that would increase protection for much of California's Sierra Nevada, although he also called for a review of how the plan would affect fire control in the area and whether it would conflict with a congressionally approved management scheme. The plan, which was the result of a ...
Topics: California, Department of Agriculture, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Trunk Driving		15 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Trunk Driving A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from their deforested home to a nature reserve near Cambodia. One of the elephants was captured and chained ...
Topics: Cambodia, deforestation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front		15 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an industry appeal of a 1997 U.S. Forest Service decision to ban oil and gas exploration on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, a 1.8 million-acre swath of land where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains. The area, which is home to grizzlies, wolves, and bighorn sheep, also contains an estimated 2.5 trillion c ...
Topics: energy, Montana, North America, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Monkey Business		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Monkey Business Illegal trafficking in wildlife has become Brazil's third-most profitable illegal activity after arms and drugs smuggling, generating up to $1 billion annually. An estimated 38 million wild animals are stolen from the country's forests every year, according to a new report by the National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS). Eighty-two percent ...
Topics: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Excuse Me, Can You Tell Me Where the Life Is?		05 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Excuse Me, Can You Tell Me Where the Life Is? "A New Map of Life on Earth," a new project of the World Wildlife Fund, charts the natural world in unprecedented detail and may help environmentalists figure out where to best direct their efforts. The project, which took eight years and the labor of more than 1,000 people to complete, divides the Earth into 867 ecoregions based on climate, plants, animals, soil type, ge ...
Topics: wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Butterflies in Their Stomachs		01 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Butterflies in Their Stomachs Seventy-five percent of butterfly species in the United Kingdom are in decline, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. Some experts had expected butterflies to be doing well as a result of global warming, because milder weather was expected to increase the ranges of many species. But temperature increases in the U.K. haven't been enough to compensate for habitat loss. ...
Topics: climate, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Not OK Corral		31 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Not OK Corral The Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for the Oct. 15 firebombing of a corral owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management near the California-Nevada border. The bomb started a blaze that caused $85,000 of damage to the Litchfield horse facility, 80 miles north of Reno. No one was injured in the fire, and none of the more than 20 ...
Topics: animal welfare, Bureau of Land Management, California, Earth Liberation Front, Nevada, wildlife (all these topics)

Real Geniuses		25 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: wildlife Real Geniuses Two environmental activists were among the 23 people honored with MacArthur "genius awards" yesterday. One of the $500,000 fellowships, which are awarded annually to outstanding individuals by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, was pilot and conservationist Sandra Lanham. Lanham flies researchers to remote areas of the Southwest and Mexico to study endangered species. She is a self-taught naturalist, as is the other environmental ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Sog Story		25 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Sog Story Mexico City's new airport will be built on a soggy former lake bed east of the city, federal officials announced this week. Environmentalists are angry about the decision, saying it will endanger the geese, ducks, and other birds that nest on the lake bed. The airport is also furthering tension between conservative President Vicente Fox, who supports it, and Mexico City's progressive mayor, Andres ...
Topics: lakes, Mexico, placemaking, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Illegal Eagles		24 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Illegal Eagles Federal species protection laws and the religious rights of Native Americans are clashing in a U.S. District Court in Seattle this week, where a 47-year-old man is on trial for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Terry Antoine, a member of the Cowichan band of the Salish Tribe in British Columbia, is charged with smuggling eagle carcasses from Canada into ...
Topics: Canada, politics, religion and spirituality, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Hang In, Chad		23 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Hang In, Chad Nearly 10 percent of African bird species are threatened with extinction, according to a newly completed eight-year study published by BirdLife International, an international coalition of conservation groups. The study said many of the species could be saved if 7 percent of the African continent was protected. It identified 1,228 important bird areas, and found that 51 percent of them were threatened by the expansion ...
Topics: Africa, Chad, wildlife (all these topics)

Whoop-de-do		18 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Whoop-de-do Folks who happened to be scanning the skies in central Wisconsin yesterday were witness to a strange sight, as people in bird costumes flying ultra-light aircraft led a flock of nine whooping cranes on the first leg of a 1,250-mile migration. The flight was part of an experiment to teach the extremely rare birds to migrate from the state's Necedah Wildlife Preserve to the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in ...
Topics: Florida, wildlife, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Holland Daze		16 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Holland Daze An effort to make Dutch farms friendly to native plants and animals has failed, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. Fields managed according to an environmental protection agreement were no richer in plant and bird species than those farmed conventionally. David Gibbons, of the U.K.'s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said he wasn't surprised by ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Netherlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Feeling Horny		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Feeling Horny One of the world's rarest large mammals, the Javan rhinoceros, may have taken a baby step back from the brink of extinction, conservationists say. Information from tracking, DNA analyses, and rhino-tripped cameras hidden deep in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park suggests that four Javan rhino calves have been born in the last two years. The park is home to the only viable Javan rhino population, which accounts for abou ...
Topics: Indonesia, wildlife (all these topics)

Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism	Seth Zuckerman	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir?		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir? A court in Pakistan ruled yesterday that Britain's Premier Oil can go ahead with plans to test for natural gas in the country's largest national park, which is home to rare urial sheep, ibex, and chinkara gazelle. Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment and Friends of the Earth International say Premier' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental non-government organizations, national parks, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

Hot Food		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Hot Food A sting operation by Cambodian wildlife officials uncovered 137 restaurants dishing up endangered species in the country's capital city of Phnom Penh. The officials rescued more than 1,300 critters, including wild boars, rare turtles, scaly anteaters (called pangolins by those in the know), and a sun bear. Although no one was arrested as a result of the endangered species dragnet -- Cambodian law only allows fines in such cases ...
Topics: Cambodia, wildlife (all these topics)

Tusk, Tusk		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Tusk, Tusk Decades of war, poaching, and habitat destruction have decimated Vietnam's Asian elephant population, a trend the Vietnamese government is belatedly trying to reverse. Following a September agreement between Vietnam and Cambodia to cooperate on elephant conservation, a herd of elephants in Vietnam will be moved by truck from the southern coastal province of Binh Thuan to Dak Lak on the Cambodian border. There are onl ...
Topics: Cambodia, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Pygmy-aliens		25 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Pygmy-aliens U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday upheld the listing of the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, rejecting arguments by developers that the owl didn't merit protections because large populations of the species exist in Mexico. She said the act focuses on the status of species in the U.S., regardless of how well the species are surviving elsewhere. ...
Topics: Arizona, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Songbird Populations Drop in the U.S.		12 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Songbird Populations Drop in the U.S. For each species of songbird whose population is on the rise in the U.S., two species are in decline, says Jeff Wells of the National Audubon Society. Of the 116 species whose populations have fluctuated since 1966, 76 have decreased significantly. Urban sprawl, and all that comes along with it (farmland and forest loss, more roads, etc.), is one of the big contributors to the loss in numbers. The ...
Topics: placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Slim Shady		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Slim Shady Tree cover has diminished significantly in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas over the last 25 years, as roads, parking lots, and more buildings have taken root, according to a study released yesterday by American Forests. The enviro group says the loss is a shame -- because trees not only look swell, but they also provide financial benefits to cities. For example, American Forests says that a well-shaded building costs between 20 ...
Topics: placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Alien Nation		04 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: wildlife Alien Nation Some ecologists are saying that not all alien species are bad and that some fit into ecosystems just fine. They believe that efforts to rid ecosystems of all exotics are impractical. Michael Rosenzweig, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, says, "You can't roll back the clock and remove all exotics or fix habitats." He argues that alien species don't actually reduce biodiversity. Daniel Simberloff, a professor of ecolo ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

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