Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• California Gives ESA Protections to Lone Wolf and His Pups – Animal Legal Defens...

  

  Fantastic news! The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect wolves under our state Endangered Species Act (ESA). See on aldf.org Share... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• ExposeFacts – For Whistleblowers, Journalism and Democracy

  

  For Whistleblowers, Journalism, and Democracy GR: Visitors and employees of factory farms, zoos, aquaria, and government wildlife management agencies can get... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Help Save the Grasslands – Prescott, Arizona

  

  A consortium of government agencies wants to hear from the public about its plan to try to protect and restore Central Arizona’s dwindling grasslands. The... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Appalling Conditions in Spain’s Rabbit Farms Exposed by Animal Rights Charity

  

  Shocking footage shows rabbits left lying dead in cages for days, while others have their throats slit still conscious See on www.theolivepress.es Share... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• She Spent 449 Days Living In A Tree, But This Forest Is Still Falling

  

  Tasmania’s ancient trees are being increasingly singled out – for one young woman, the fight to protect these national treasures against logging is... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Too Little, Too Late.

  

  President Obama recently unveiled his plans for America to cut its CO2 emissions 30% compared to 2005 levels by 2030 “to limit warming below the 2˚C ceilin... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wolves Need Trees Too

  

  For thousands of years, black wolves have roamed the snow-covered islands of southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago. But even in this remote stretch of more... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Biodiversity of Species and Rates of Extinction

  

  Barn Owl at Coldwater Farm “The numbers of known species with very small ranges are increasing quickly, even in well-known taxa. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• In Which I Search for Otters and Water Shrews, and Find Something Even Rarer

  

  I may not have told you this before, but my favourite British animals are otters. I love them. They’re so good at what they do, and they look like they have fun... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• New Study Warns World is Facing Sixth Great Extinction

  

  May 2014 – ECOLOGY – Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene, and the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Changes in the Global Value of Ecosystem Services

  

  Costanza et al. 2014: “Abstract: In 1997, the global value of ecosystem services was estimated to average $33 trillion/yr in 1995 $US ($46 trillion/yr in 2007... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 200 Tons of Illegally Caught Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Show How We’re Driving These...

  

  (Warning: This post contains a graphic image) Atlantic bluefin tuna is tasty. So tasty, in fact, that the fish is also endangered. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Photographer Captures Tar Sands ‘Destruction’ From Above

  

  Photographer and pilot Alex MacLean wanted to learn more about the Keystone XL pipeline, which if approved will carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, so... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Fact-checking Recent Claims About Climate Change

  

  In May, the White House released the National Climate Assessment, a report written by a committee of 60 scientists that assessed risks from man-made climate... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Time to Divest in Arms, Chemicals, Energy, Finance, and Insurance (ACEFI)

  

  Image from Britannica Who agrees that it is time to divest in the largest arms manufacturers, chemical manufacturers, energy companies, financial institutions,... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Demand Closure of Cruel Elephant Park

  

  Elephants are being beaten, electrocuted, and starved at a South African elephant park. Demand that the facility be closed for its cruel and torturous... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Where the Threatened Wild Things Are

  These global biodiversity maps – the most detailed yet – show that hotspots of diversity and threat don’t always go hand in hand. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human-Destabilized Antarctica Capable of Glacial Outbursts Contributing to Sea...

  

  “Our new results suggest that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is more unstable than previously considered…” — Peter Clark, Paleoclimatologist at Oregon State... Read more

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

• Global Warming Vs. Climate Change

  

  In January 2014, we conducted a nationally representative experimental study and found that the terms global warming and climate change often mean different... Read more

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

• Updating the Climate Scienc What Path is the Real World Following?

  

  Our aim is to help people understand global climate change — and how the factors that drive climate are changing. We start with climate diagnostics — people... Read more

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