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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)

Gopher It!		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Gopher It! In what could turn into an unprecedented deal to protect imperiled animals and plants in the U.S., the Interior Department and several environmental groups are working on an agreement to safeguard more than two dozen species under the Endangered Species Act. The agreement would cover such species as the coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon and Washington, the Big Cypress ...
Topics: Department of Interior, environmental non-government organizations, wildlife (all these topics)

Rainforest Bunch A review of The Tapir's Morning Bath	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Aug 2001	Arts and Minds
It's easy to glorify field biologists. They travel to exotic locales, hang out with rare wildlife, and further humanity's understanding of the natural world. What could be more valuable -- or more fun? The Tapir's Morning Bath By Elizabeth Royte Houghton Mifflin Co., 288 pages, 2001 Wanna buy it? The Tapir's Morning Bath brings the discipline gently down to earth. Barro Colorado Island, a six-square-mile i ...
Topics: education, Panama, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

See Ya Later ...		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
See Ya Later ... With fewer than 130 of them left in the wild, Chinese alligators may become the first crocodilian to become extinct in the wild, according to a study that will be published soon in the journal Biological Conservation. The alligators, native to lakes and wetlands in the lower Yangtze River Valley, have lost most of their habitat to fish ponds, rice paddies, and, increasingly, development. Not every single bit of hope ...
Topics: Asia, China, wildlife (all these topics)

Bahn Stormer		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bahn Stormer German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kvetched this week that taking steps to protect the environment was causing the cost of highway construction to soar. "I don't have anything against frogs," he said as he inspected a just-completed segment of a long-delayed highway, "but the expenditures we make for protecting the environment while building roads are enormous." Environmentalists ...
Topics: Germany, placemaking, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Other Day, I Met a Bear	Suzy Becker	06 Aug 2001	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Crazy Like a Red Fox		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: California, wildlife (all these topics)

Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to reconsider her decision not to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Norton argued that the lizard has plenty of public land on which to live in southwestern Arizona ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

I've Been Working against the Railroad		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
I've Been Working against the Railroad Environmentalists in Hong Kong won an unprecedented victory this week when an appeals board rejected a plan by a government-owned railway to build a new line through Hong Kong's largest freshwater wetland. The case was the first heard by the Environmental Impact Assessment Appeal Board since an environmental impact law was enacted in 1998. The board sided with environmental ...
Topics: Asia, land stewardship, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Sharps Shooter Colorado man cleans up war-game carnage	David Mayfield	26 Jul 2001	Main Dish
The war is over and Dan Sharps is doing a body count. In a thicket of pinyon and juniper trees, something big and violent has cleared a path. Dan Sharps as a tack. Photo: David Mayfield. "Lost arm," Sharps says, gesturing toward one tree clipped of a big branch. "Lost leg," he says, pointing to another. Straight ahead lay the splinters of what was a large pinyon -- a hearty tree but not w ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Irrigation Irritation		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Irrigation Irritation U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that she had the legal authority to release a small amount of irrigation water for farmers to use in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border. All irrigation water from Upper Klamath Lake has been cut off since April to protect endangered suckerfish and threatened coho salmon ...
Topics: California, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

Infamous Potatoes		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Infamous Potatoes In keeping with her pattern of deferring to the positions of elected officials in the West, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has recommended that the U.S. Justice Department not appeal a ruling by the Idaho Supreme Court that denies water rights for a federal wildlife refuge on the Snake River. In the past, the U.S. has almost always defended its water rights to protect wildlife ...
Topics: green living, Idaho, Snake River, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Ass Getting Whipped		20 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Ass Getting Whipped The wild Persian ass is struggling to avoid extinction in Iran. The animals were once common across central Asia and the Middle East, but no more than 400 of them remain today. Since the Iranian revolution in 1978, uncontrolled hunting and habitat destruction have wiped out 90 percent of the population. Ass fans are pinning their hopes on a project begun four years ago to breed the wild animals in captivity; six of the ca ...
Topics: Iran, wildlife (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycat		20 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycat A single spotted owl roosting in an old-growth tree in British Columbia won a reprieve yesterday when a British Columbia Supreme Court judge overturned permits given to the Cattermole Timber company to log the area where the tree stands. Enviros believe the province's forestry ministry gave short shrift to a warning from the environment ministry that the area is owl habitat. Their c ...
Topics: British Columbia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Barton Finks Austin is losing the battle to protect the Barton Springs salamander	Dan Oko	24 Apr 2001	Main Dish
At first blush, it hardly seems fair to compare the plight of the Barton Springs salamander to that of endangered species such as the fierce grizzly of the Northern Rockies or the no-longer-so-resilient salmon of the Pacific Northwest, totemic animals that characterize whole regions and spark national debate. After all, the Barton Springs salamander is a tiny creature, with full-grown adults ...
Topics: Texas, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Just Say No! A review of Arctic Refuge	Elizabeth Grossman	11 Apr 2001	Arts and Minds
First, the facts. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge covers about 19 million acres in northeastern Alaska, almost all north of the Arctic Circle. It was created in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which renamed and more than doubled the size of an existing wildlife range, designated about 8 million acres within the refuge as wilderness, and prohibited oil and gas production in the refuge unless ...
Topics: Alaska, oil, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Monarch for a Day	Suzy Becker	26 Mar 2001	Ha.

Topics: GMOs, wildlife (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shell-Shocked	Suzy Becker	26 Feb 2001	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Dance of the Burning Vails A review of Powder Burn	Florangela Davila	19 Feb 2001	Arts and Minds
A little over two years ago, fire swept through five buildings and four ski lifts in Vail, Colo., causing more than $12 million in damage, upending a small town already reeling from enormous change, and eventually introducing the word ecoterrorism into the mainstream lexicon. Burning down the lodge. Photo: earthliberationfront.com. Indeed, so prominent were the arson fires of 19 Oct. 1998 that the event not only ...
Topics: Colorado, outdoor recreation, wildlife (all these topics)

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