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The Walrus - The Latest Victim of Global Warming

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 03 October 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Move over, polar bear. The Pacific walrus may be the new icon of global warming. Like polar bears, walruses are dependent on floating sea ice to rest, forage for food and nurture their young.Like polar bears, walruses are suffering because of a scarcity of summer and fall sea ice in Arctic waters...

The Bears are hungry in the Rockies

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 01 October 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

A shortage of berries and other foods that hungry bears normally rely on to bulk up before hibernation has sent conflicts with humans spiraling to unprecedented levels in the Rockies.Wildlife officials in parts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming say they are experiencing a record year for so-called probl...

Lobster Dieoffs Linked to Chemicals in Plastics

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Lobsters in Long Island Sound have suffered intense dieoffs in the past decade, and a peculiar affliction, known as “shell disease,” has been a major contributor. Now, a molecular biologist at the University of Connecticut has discovered that waterborne chemicals, leached from plastics and d...

<p>Lobster showing characteristics of shell disease. Photo courtesy of Rhode Island Sea Grant</p>

Help Save Japan's Dolphins

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 08 August 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

In The Cove, a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, conta...

Scientists condemn current development plan in Kalimantan

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 August 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Scientists with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) have released a resolution opposing the current development plan for a road and bridge crossing Balikpapan Bay in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan. The resolution states that the plan threatens not only the fragile ecosys...

Good News in Galapagos

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

UNESCO says strong action by the Ecuador government has resulted in these amazing islands off their coast being taken off the endangered UNESCO list. The islands were threatened by overuse. This is the island chain that is home to unique animal species that inspired Darwin's ideas on evolution. I ha...

Saving West Africa’s rainforest remnants

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 16 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Curbing poaching, managing the impacts of gold mining andstaving off agricultural encroachment are among the challengesfacingthe people who manage Côte d'Ivoire’s Taï National Park World Heritage site. Taï National Park (Parc National de Taï) in south-western Côte d'Ivoire cont...

For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in Sight

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

No polar bears have been more closely studied than Canada’s western Hudson Bay population. In recent decades, biologists such as Andrew E. Derocher of the University of Alberta have compiled an impressive store of data on everything from the weight of females at denning, to the body mass of bears of...

Global Tiger Forum - Makes Greater Commitment to Conservation

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 03 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

New Delhi, India - At a meeting of the Global Tiger forum (GTF) this week, government representatives of GTF member tiger range countries and other member countries showed a greater desire to make stronger commitments to tiger conservation. There are 13 countries worldwide that still have...

Which of These Whales are OK to Kill?

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

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IWC faces total collapse

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 19 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

On the eve of an international meeting to decide the fate of thousands of whales, New Zealand's foreign minister is warning that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is facing total collapse. Murray McCully told TVNZ's Q and A programme that could result in anarchy on the high seas and ...

Please, your help is needed to save the Leather-back Sea Turtles from extinction!!

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Dear Family and Friends, In six months I will be taking on the challenge of volunteering to help save the Leatherback Sea Turtles in Costa Rica, the largest sea turtle in the world. I will be joining scientist and other...

My Expedition to Costa Rica to save the Leather-back Sea Turtles

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Dear Family and Friends, In six months I will be taking on the challenge of volunteering to help save the Leatherback Sea Turtles in Costa Rica, the largest sea turtle in the world. I will be joining scientist and oth...

Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

By SINDYA N. BHANOO The Center for Biological Diversity is spreading the word about the impact of population growth on the environment by distributing condoms with cheeky slogans. An environmental group is distributing hundreds of thousands of free condoms with hopes that it will educate the publi...

Saving the Columbia and Snake River salmon

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 05 July 2009 in Wildlife Conservation

A judge overseeing endangered salmon on the Columbia and Snake Rivers is raising the possibility of dam removal. If politics trumps science this time, how can we hope to deal with climate change?By Paul VanDevelderJuly 6, 2009 If ever there were a story that foreshadowed the political and legal Wat...

Amphibians disappearing from Yellowstone Park

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 14 March 2009 in Wildlife Conservation

Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...

Endangered Species Act Almost Endangered!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 25 September 2008 in Wildlife Conservation

In 1973, President Nixon passed the Endangered Species Act in an attempt to curb the extinction of large groups of animals based on the Congress' findings that "...various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and de...