Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Don’t Forget Butterflies! Our Pollination Crisis Is About More Than Honeybees

  

  When the White House signed an order on pollinator health last week, it included all pollinators — not just honeybees. “Obama announces plan to save... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Petition: Pigs Want Out

  

  For those who still eat meat it should become more and more important to know where their food comes from. And for those who no longer support this violence... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Friday 5: Good Week

  

  This last week was a great one for me bug-wise! I did several insect themed citizen science programs and presentations with a variety of groups, from leading... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• My Yardbirds

  

  Birds Photos of Birds that live around my home on Coldwater Farm in central Arizona. (More about Arizona Birds) We call our 20 acres Coldwater Farm and we keep... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Temperatures Over Greenland Fast Approaching 400,000 Year High, Risk 15-19 Feet...

  

  It’s getting hot over Greenland. Not the kind of hot we think of as each summer rolls along. But the kind of hot that melts massive two-mile-high slabs of ice.... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Undercover Exposé–Pigs Suffer and Die at Top Breeder

  

  “This video was captured by a PETA investigator at a leading supplier to other pig meat companies of pig semen and the sows who are artificially inseminated to... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Late June 2014: Arctic in Hot Water as Sea Ice Thins and Tundra Fires Erupt

  

  Huge tundra fire smoke plumes just to the right of the center. “Atmospheric warming due to human-caused climate change. It’s the general measure we’ve used to... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Petition – Ban Trapping!

  

  This petition represents an appeal by concerned taxpayers, citizens, tourists and visitors to the United States, to ban trapping on public lands in the United... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Geos Institute – Phase Out of Tongass Old-Growth Logging Can Begin Immediately

  

  “A recently released study of second growth availability on the Tongass National Forest shows that the U.S. Forest Service can end industrial old growth... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• IUCN: Pesticides Pose A Global Threat To Biodiversity And Ecosystems

  

  Systemic pesticides pose global threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The conclusions of a new meta-analysis of the systemic pesticides neonicotinoids... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Sea Star Disease Epidemic Surges in Oregon, Local Extinctions Expected (USA)

  

  June 4th, 2014. CORVALLIS, Ore. – Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon Coast and created an... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Sea Star Disease Epidemic Surges in Oregon, Local Extinctions Expected

  

  June 4th, 2014. CORVALLIS, Ore. – Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon Coast and created an... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• What a Hidden Camera Captured Inside These Livestock Auctions

  

  Every year, millions of cows, pigs, goats, sheep, and other animals are funneled through livestock markets on a stressful and terrorizing journey that often end... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Victory-New York Addresses the Elephant in the Room

  

  “The US is a huge part of the global trade in ivory, second only to China. And within the US, New York is the number one importer ivory into the country. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Tanzania to Employ 500 Wildlife Conservators

  

  Tanzania will employ about 500 new wildlife conservation staff in the upcoming fiscal year to reduce the staff shortage at the country’s wildlife authority,... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Kenya: Six Poachers Shot Dead At Timau, Meru County

  

  Six suspected poachers have been killed at the Timau police road block during a shoot out with police Tuesday morning. Source: allafrica.com Now that’s what... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• WWF Supports Sport Hunting

  

  7 WWF Supports Sport Hunting WWF Supports Sport Hunting – The International Marches For Elephants and Lions was a game changer around the world in that they... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• We’re in a War Over Climate Change…

  

  By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — America’s “WWIII, the Global Warming War” was launched by the Bush Pentagon in 2004... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Welcome Political Initiative to Preserve Life in The Oceans

  

  “It has been a while since this blog waded into the murky sordid waters of politics, but recent national news demands notice…and, for once, the political... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wolf Execution ‘quota’ a Measure of Wisconsin DNR’s Ignorance

  

  “On Wednesday, June 25, the Natural Resources Board, comprised predominantly of appointed hunter activists, will “consider” the hunter-controlled wolf... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT