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This week in ocean news Whales on treadmills and dolphin harassment	Andrew Sharpless	08 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

Sea you later Bycatch is the ugliest thing you never see in the fish market	Erik Hoffner	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, oceans, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Rogue flying fish and the 'big, blue rubbish bin'	Andrew Sharpless	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: oceans, fishing, wildlife, whaling (all these topics)

A Beak Outlook More than a quarter of U.S. bird species are endangered		30 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:30 AM on 30 Nov 2007 It's not a good time to be a bird in the U.S. The Watch List 2007, published by the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, finds that 178 bird species in the continental U.S. and 39 in Hawaii are vulnerable to extinction. That's almost all of Hawaii's non-migratory native birds and more than a quarter of total U.S. bird species, including the Gunnison sage grouse, lesser prai ...
Topics: endangered species, Hawaii, lists, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Gray Area Gray wolves in Southwest aren't faring well		29 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:19 PM on 29 Nov 2007 Mexican gray wolves are running into all kinds of trouble in the American Southwest. The wolves were hunted to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s; reintroduction began in 1998, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service originally predicted that by now there would be a self-sustaining population of 100 wolves and 18 breeding pairs. Instead, the agency's last official count came up with 59 wolves and six b ...
Topics: news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Bat an Ai-yi-yi Heat waves take a toll on Australian fruit bats		28 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:51 PM on 28 Nov 2007 Climate change has, ahem, taken a swing at bats. Unable to deal with scorching heat waves, thousands of Australian fruit bats have flapped their wings, panted, drooled -- then dropped dead. Which begs the question: Do bat researchers spend a lot of time yelling, "Quick -- to the bat cave!" We really, really hope so. sources:� Agence France-Presse, The Telegraph Fr ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

A jelly new world An influx of jellies in strange places is not so hard to explain	Andrew Sharpless	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: aquaculture, wildlife, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

More bluefin blues Commission on bluefin conservation comes up empty again	Erik Hoffner	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Winging It Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics)

They Tried to Make Me Go to a Reserve, I Said Bonobo Congo nature preserve set up to protect bonobos		20 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:04 AM on 20 Nov 2007 A swath of Congo rainforest larger than the state of Massachusetts will be designated as a nature reserve in a collaborative effort between American and Congolese environmental groups and agencies. Advocates hope the reserve will be a significant step toward protecting the endangered bonobo, one of humans' closest ape relations. Bonobos, which live only in the Co ...
Topics: Congo, news, progress, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Is It Hump Day Already? Japanese whaling fleet to hunt up to 1,035 whales, including 50 humpbacks		19 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 19 Nov 2007 Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years. Humpback whales numbered only about 1,200 in the 1960s, but the popul ...
Topics: Japan, news, politics, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news ... A bottom trawler scores underwater pot, and it's open season for Japanese whalers	Andrew Sharpless	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, whaling (all these topics)

Brash Monkey Thousands of monkeys uprooted by sprawl move into New Delhi		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 14 Nov 2007 Last month, the deputy mayor of New Delhi fell from a terrace to his death while trying to fend off a gang of wild monkeys. This weekend, rampaging monkeys attacked up to 25 people in the Indian capital. While the scenes are tragic, it would be a stretch to call them unexpected: In the center of New Delhi, monkeys scamper through buildings, bathe in fountains, and frolic in parks and on gro ...
Topics: India, news, placemaking, sprawl, wildlife (all these topics)

Where It Stops, Nobody Knows Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:54 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Update on the seemingly endless saga of whether the U.S. Navy should restrict underwater sonar use in the interest of whale health: A federal appeals court has ruled that while the Navy may continue its current training exercises in southern California as is, exercises that begin in January must operate under better safeguards for marine mammals. The plan will have to be appro ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Junk the Bunker Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in wake of S.F. oil spill		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 13 Nov 2007 In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill in San Francisco Bay, green group Friends of the Earth has started a petition drive urging Congress to ban the use of bunker fuel, which is gooey, chock full o' toxins, and slow to break down. The fuel, a byproduct of oil refining, is favored by the shipping industry because it's cheap; it's also "the dirtiest fuel on the planet," ...
Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, news, oil, Russia, San Francisco, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Trouble a-Bruin Six of world's eight bear species under threat of extinction		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:01 PM on 12 Nov 2007 Pop quiz: Can you name the world's eight bear species? (Answer: American black, Asiatic black, brown, polar, panda, sun, sloth, and Andean. Gummy and Care are not acceptable answers.) Six of those eight are under threat of extinction, as the sun bear today joined four of its bear-ethren in the "vulnerable" classification on the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened ...
Topics: endangered species, lists, news, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

It Takes a Spillage to Raze the Wild Tanker spills over 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in Black Sea		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 7:07 AM on 12 Nov 2007 On Sunday, a storm in the Black Sea sank five ships and ran others aground, including an oil tanker that split in half, spilling about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil -- roughly half its cargo. Two other ships carrying fuel oil were among those that hit shore, but they apparently didn't spill anything. At least two of the sunken ships were carrying thousands of tons of s ...
Topics: news, oil, severe weather, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Six tons of fish soup in Russia, 500 tons of pee in the Pacific	Andrew Sharpless	10 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Kitty Twister On cats and birds	Umbra Fisk	07 Nov 2007	Ask Umbra

Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news ... Iraqi catches shark, blames America	Andrew Sharpless	03 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Loony behavior Mercury pollution is driving loons crazy	Erik Hoffner	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, mercury, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

The Early Lawsuit Gets the Worm Groups will sue over protections for giant spitting worm		31 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:06 AM on 31 Oct 2007 No Halloween would be complete without an update on the Palouse earthworm, which can grow up to three feet long, spits on predators, and smells like flowers -- even when not in costume. The pinkish-white worm was denied federal endangered-species protection earlier this month on the grounds that the filed request was incomplete and unclear. "This is absurd!" says S ...
Topics: endangered species, litigation, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

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