This Q&A is with one of the first conservationists who reached out to me when I started this blog: Matthias Fiechter. At the time he was the Communications Manager for the Snow Leopard Trust, but now he’s a Media and Communications Officer for the IUCN. via Q&A with Matthias Fiechter: Media and Communications Officer for the …
For the Birds: DIY steps to help save birds — Birds of New England.com
Here’s the latest For the Birds column. The study released a few weeks ago that reported a 29 percent decline in the number of birds in North America since 1970 did not merely throw out some discouraging facts and leave it at that. It also included many reasons why bird populations are decreasing, most notably […] …
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Bay Area Conservation Group Kicks Off Effort to Buy World’s Largest Remaining Private Giant Sequoia Forest — KTLA
A San Francisco conservation group has kicked off a public fundraising campaign to buy and protect the world’s largest remaining privately owned giant sequoia forest. It just needs $15 million. Save the Redwoods League announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to purchase the 530-acre property, known as Alder Creek, from the current owners… via …
Review of No Entry: Young-Adult Novel about Elephant Conservation — The Jaguar
No Entry is a young adult novel about Yael: a 17-year-old girl who enrolls in a conservation-training program in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Yael learns that one of the rangers in her training program is involved in an elephant-poaching ring, which turns her world upside-down. via Review of No Entry: Young-Adult Novel about Elephant Conservation …
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Show Earth Some Love on February 14th!
If you could send Earth a Valentine's Day card, what would you write? A poem, an essay, one word? For this Valentine's Day, tell planet Earth how much you love her! Click here to share your Valentine's Day wishes to the place we all call home!
New Study: Snow Leopard Conservation and Ecotourism — The Jaguar
Snow leopards (Panthera uncia), the ever-elusive ghosts of the mountains, are undoubtedly one of the most charismatic species on Earth. Unfortunately, they are in decline: threatened by habitat loss and degradation, climate change, decreasing availabilities of natural prey, poaching, and human-wildlife conflict. I have written about the latter threat many times. When creatures like snow […] …
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‘Death sentence’: butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump’s border wall
'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/butterfly-sanctuary-border-wall-mission-texas?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Killing Thousands of Animals in Conservation’s Name – The Atlantic
by Emma Marris - The Atlantic (via MSN) The desert of south-central Australia is crenellated with sandstone hills in shades of ivory, crimson, and apricot. The ground is littered with dead trees and tree limbs, big hunks of transparent mica, dried cow dung, and thousands of stone spearheads and blades made by the Aboriginal people …
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