Rare Sea Creature Climbs onto Seattle Woman's Dock. © LDAHey, stranger!
This guy must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. IUCN Red List 2011. Extremely Rare Primate, Believed Nearly Extinct, Discovered in Remote Borneo Forest. Animals Published on January 20th, 2012 | by Michael Ricciardi.
Are Coral Reefs Literally Sick Of Ecotourists? Time and again we hear arguments in favor of ecotourism, only to then discover cases where human visitation to wilderness sites has negative impacts, both on individual species and entire ecosystems.
One of the most recent examples of this comes from research on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where high levels of disease prevalence have been found among corals near tourist visitation platforms. (Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.) Coral diseases have been recognized as one of the major factors in coral reef degradation worldwide; although it is not yet clear how and why these infections develop, they are likely influenced by human activities that alter the marine environment, reduce immune function in the corals, and/or increase pathogen virulence. EcoAlert: Will the Planet Mimic the Fate of Easter Island? “We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island.
" Frank Fenner, virologist Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change. If past is prolgue, 70,000 years ago the human population was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis by researchers at Stanford University. The estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Our Spiritual Connection to Nature. The realities explored in science and spirituality are often assumed to be unrelated to one another.
Both find their basis in a spirit of inquiry. Modern science is objective analysis, while spirituality is subjective understanding. Fortescue to use remote technology at Solomon iron ore mine. The Great Listening - A Poem by Lyn Dalebout - Yoga @ Northern Beaches. BBC - Earth News - Humpback whale song spreads to other whales. Only the male humpback whales sing their strange and complex songs Recordings of male humpback whales have shown that their haunting songs spread through the ocean to other whales.
Researchers in Australia listened to hundreds of hours of recordings gathered over more than a decade. These revealed how a specific song pattern, which originated in Eastern Australia, had passed "like Chinese whispers" to whale populations up to 6,000km away in French Polynesia. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology. Cultural ripples The research team, led by Ellen Garland from the University of Queensland, say the findings show the animals transmit such "cultural trends" over huge distances.
HD: Arctic 'Unicorns' - Nature's Great Events: The Great Melt - BBC One. Get Short Link | Get Bookmarklet | Original Page | Black backgroundWhite background Playlist: Find out more: In a unique aerial sequence, the migration of narwhal with their distinctive unicorn-like tusks is filmed for the first time.
Haunting Footage Reveals How Chimps Mourn Death. Chimpanzees share over 90 percent of their DNA with humans -- but the similarities between these two species seems to extend beyond genetics alone.
For what is believed to be the very first time, researchers have captured the behavior of a female chimp mourning over her recently deceased 16-month-old child, detailing how non-human primates respond to death. The small print behind African land grabs. Cattle belonging to the Nuer tribe in southeastern Sudan.
Land acquisition deals often provide little protection for existing smallholders. Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters Invest in land, goes the old saw, they're not making it any more. And, as we have reported, many rich countries and companies are doing just that in the developing world. Tiger videos, photos and facts - Panthera tigris. One of the largest of the 'big cats', the tiger (Panthera tigris) is an instantly recognisable animal and an iconic symbol of conservation.
Nine different subspecies of this charismatic carnivore are recognised, three of which became extinct in the latter part of the 20th century: the Bali (P. t. balica), Javan (P. t. sondaica) and Caspian tigers (P. t. virgata). The remaining subspecies are the Siberian (P. t. altaica), South China (P. t. amoyensis), Sumatran (P. t. sumatrae), Indochinese (P. t. corbetti), Malayan (P. t. jacksoni) and Bengal tigers (P. t. tigris) (4). ARKive blog. 13.7 Million Birds Are Dying Every Day in the U.S. Photo: glasseyes view / CC In the last few weeks, a lot has been made of the mysterious mass-animal deaths that have struck in the United States and throughout the world -- and for good reason. The ominous events become the centerpiece of a discussion about what harmful human activity could be behind nature's apparent poor health: ranging from government testing and fireworks, to the usually cold weather and coincidence. Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened.
Continental Europe is home to more than 125,000 known species of terrestrial and freshwater animal, and each year another 700 newly described species join the list. New Squat Lobsters Found Off Australia. Centre for Fortean Zoology Australia: Battle on to save tiger from extinction. Right now the world is focusing on saving one of the great beasts of the jungle, the tiger, from the brink of extinction. This week Russia is playing host to an international tiger summit, and Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $1 million towards the cause . Wildlife activists and officials from 13 nations where tigers live in the wild arrived in St Petersburg this week at the invitation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The 13 countries where tigers still exist are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. Money raised by DiCaprio and WWF through Save Tigers Now will go to fund antipoaching efforts and habitat protection in the 12 priority landscapes across Asia that WWF believes represent the best locations to maintain viable, thriving populations of tigers.
Thought to Exist in the Wild. Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos Text by Derrick Jensen Photographs by Karen Tweedy-Holmes reviewed by Ginger Strand No Voice Unheard, 2007. $19.95, 152 pages. Review published in the January/February 2008 issue of Orion magazine. Thought To Exist In The Wild. By Derrick Jensen Writer Derrick Jensen and photographer Karen Tweedy-Holmes are both longtime contributors to The Sun. After they met through the magazine, the two discovered a shared interest in animals and ended up collaborating on the book Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos (No Voice Unheard), which we’ve excerpted here.
Text © 2007 by Derrick Jensen. 1/5 of Animals Facing Extinction: Mass Extinction is Here – Planetsave.com: climate change and environmental news. Animals Published on November 1st, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan A massive report published last week by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the international journal Science shows us exactly how bad we are doing as stewards of the world. The report, the culmination of 5 decades of work by 174 scientists, examined approximately 25,000 species in nearly 40 countries. The World Takes Action on Biodiversity – EcoLocalizer. Animals. Climate Change Blurs Definition of Native Species. GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Montana — As climate changes, some environments are becoming hostile to the flora and fauna that long nurtured them. The Ecology of Magic - An Interview with David Abram.