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Giving Nature a Helping Hand
May's Machete | October 9th 2008 by May
There is so much bad news in the animal world these days: since 25% of mammals (that includes you btw) are now endanger of extinction, water mammals can't function properly because of noise pollution (whales are dying because of it), wind turbines ar read more
Sign Of The Apocalypse: 10/09/08
Tech Kills | October 9th 2008 by John Vinson
Today’s Sign Of The Apocalypse is credited to VHEMT. Today’s Sign Of The Apocalypse is all about the people I’ve credited it to. VHEMT is an organization that is for the voluntarily extinction of the human species. That’s righ read more
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Catherine Sherman | October 7th 2008 by Catherine Sherman
This is the Year of the Frog. Although it’s late in the year, it’s not too late to raise awareness about the serious problems facing amphibians. Scientists believe that one-third to one-half of the earth’s 6,000 amphibian spe read more
Mammals going extinct, humans not far behind
Grendiary | October 7th 2008
What do the ferocious Bengal Tiger, the majestic Gorilla and the extremely swift African Cheetah have in common? They are all either threatened, endangered or equally in peril. Destruction of habitats and poaching are the main reasons for the rapid.. read more
Updating the Red List: wild mammals in peril
RTSea Blog | October 7th 2008 by Richard Theiss
According to the World Conservation Congress, meeting in Barcelona, Spain, up to 25% of all wild mammals are threatened with extinction due primarily to loss of habitat and hunting/poaching. Of that total, up to 33% of all marine mammals are in peri read more
EQUAL Views for October 7, 2008
The Whole Writing Blog | October 7th 2008
Welcome to "EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense", a new daily column at Joe-Perez.com. Subscribe to the RSS feed or get it delivered by e-mail. Inquiry: What's Going On? Matthew Fox, a male feminist who rediscovered the noble warrior: "It read more
25% of Mammals in Danger of Extinction
Animal Fact Guide's Wildlife Blog | October 6th 2008 by Abi
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an environmental network of government agencies, non-government organizations, and volunteer scientists, released their latest findings on the status of the world’s mammals. Their read more
1 in 4 mammals on their way to bad times…
Patriot Missive | October 6th 2008 by Ms. Missive
and by bad times I mean, you know, extinction. “Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions,” said Julia Marton-Lefèvre, the director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an int read more
One in Four Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Planetsave | October 6th 2008 by Lucille Chi
A comprehensive, international survey released today, showed that half of all 5,487 mammal populations are declining. Just today, data from a global survey was revealed at a meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Bar read more
1 in 4 Species Face Extinction Threat
Critter News | October 6th 2008 by Patrick Hennessey
This sucks."Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, concluded."We estimate that one in four species is read more
Damned, Dirty Apes
Blaque's Blog of Horrors | October 6th 2008
Hat-tip pure_doxyk...From majestic African elephants to tiny and often unappreciated rodents, one in four mammal species on Earth is being pushed to extinction, according to the Global Mammal Assessment, the most comprehensive assessment of the world read more
A Quarter of Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Views from the Emerald Isle | October 6th 2008 by The Emerald Islander
At least a quarter of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a first assessment of their status for a decade.The Red List of Threatened Species says populations of more than half of mammalian species are falling, with Asia read more
Weather Takes A Backseat
Global Warming and our Changing World | October 6th 2008
It’s so wild the number of intense and far-reaching issues that have taken up news time lately. Just a little while ago we had a hurricane problem. Then a war with Russia possibly looming. And then at that point Sarah Palin took all the focus. read more
1/4 of mammals on the brink of extinction
Observations of a Nerd | October 6th 2008 by Christie Wilcox
How's that for a frightening figure? 1/4 of all mammals on earth are on the IUCN's newest "Red List," animals threatened with extinction - that's 1,141 of them, at least, with 188 being 'critically endangered.' I say 'at least' because almost as man read more
Mammals facing Threat of Extinction
Fordac's Blog | October 6th 2008 by Rajesh Pandiyan
According to a survey 25% of the mammals are on the verge of extinction. The Red List of Threatened Species says populations of more than half of mammalian species are falling, with Asian primates particularly at risk. The main cause of this due to t read more
Not a good day to be a mammal ...
Bio-Fuel! | October 6th 2008 by Thomas Joseph
... 1 in 4 mammalian species in danger of becoming extinct.The new report updates the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, which overall includes 44,838 species, of which 16,928 are threatened with extinction. Of these, 3,246 are in the highest cat read more
The Story of the Lost and Found Frog
Susan's Zoo | October 2nd 2008 by Susan B. Evans
From National Geographic:A rough-skinned frog species thought to have gone extinct more than 20 years ago has been found alive in a Honduran rain forest, experts said. Craugastor milesi — also called the miles' robber frog — was considered "local read more
Got Milk?
Happily Oblivious | September 30th 2008 by Coralie
PETA activists sometimes come across as being a little bit loony and caring more about people than animals. They’ve really ratcheted up their reputation as loonies with a recent request they made of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Their mode read more
Still Buzzing: When worlds collide
what it feels like for a boi | September 25th 2008 by elliott bledsoe
It's a science fiction, double feature this week when worlds collide. No, literally. No colloquial saying, were talking about when when worlds collide. Not some famous 1930s novel (or it's now chic 1951 film adaptation), were talking about the first read more
Well, I Have Something
Critter News | September 23rd 2008 by Patrick Hennessey
Bringing back extinct species. Scientists keep saying they can do it. Should they? The latest example is an extinct Galapagos tortoise species.I just don't feel it's right, as great as it would be to correct the mistakes we've made. It cheapens l read more
For those who actually care about global warming…
Eternal Vigilance | September 23rd 2008 by Gabrielle Faust
As you know, I try to keep my political and environmental statements off this particular website. However, every once in a while I feel the overwhelming urge to share something profoundly moving with you all. Today I found this new animated ad campai read more
How Capitalism Is Counter-Evolutionary (Part I)
Sementivae | September 20th 2008 by James Garry
In the late 19th Century many American industrialists - such as Carnegie and Rockefeller - promulgated the idea of laissez-faire capitalism as Darwinism by extension of Englishman Herbert Spenser's "survival of the fittest" theories. In other words, read more
92: Thylacine in Civic Square
Launceston Daily Photo | September 19th 2008
More bronze statues in Launceston - this time a family of Thylacine (including some scrapping joeys). The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus AKA Tasmanian Tiger) features on the Launceston City Council logo, as well as in numerous other logos, brands read more
The Last Days of the Critically Endangered Oriental White-Backed…
Susan's Zoo | September 18th 2008 by Susan B. Evans
With a seven-foot wingspan, the oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) was an awesome presence in south Asia until the mid-1990s, when populations began to collapse. At first the cause was unclear, but researchers eventually zeroed in on an read more
Red Kites
The Spicy Cauldron | September 16th 2008
The BBC news website reports that the Red Kite bird of prey population in Scotland has risen to its highest level in 200 years, having been hunted close to extinction during Victorian times. The Red Kite was once common across the UK, and yesterday o read more
E is for Extinction
The Well Behaved Dingo | September 15th 2008
We’ve reached a stage in the Dingo’s training where we’ve decided it will be easier to move forward if we extinct her reactions to certain scenarios. The dog has got pretty chill, or zen as they call it on the training levels, but t read more
Spotlight on the Amur Tiger
Susan's Zoo | September 12th 2008 by Susan B. Evans
The Amur or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is the largest of the tiger subspecies. Males can grow up to 11 feet long and weigh up to 300 kilograms 660 pounds. Females are smaller, measuring about 9 feet from head to tail, and weighing about read more
Not Dead Animals - Weekly Recap
Zooillogix - Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage | September 11th 2008 by Andrew Bleiman
A quick wrap-up of the animals discovered not to be extinct this week: Armoured mistfrog This Armoured Mistfrog, thought by many experts to be extinct due to the recent amphibian chytrid fungus epidemic, was rediscovered by my boss, Chris Clevela read more
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