Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• OR7 The Journey – World Premiere – Sunday May 25, 2014!

  Photo: Courtesy Ann Sydow “ “‘OR7 – The Journey’, is a mesmerizing new documentary film about one adventurous young wolf, from Northeast Oregon, who struck out... Read more

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

• Endangered Wildlife Black Market Thriving Online with Illegal Listings on eBay,...

  

  Australia’s black market for endangered wildlife is thriving, with mainstream websites eBay and Gumtree caught out listing illegal ivory and native reptiles... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide

  

  Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Encourage Conservation of Small Wild Cats

  

  Target: Mark Watts, President of the World Society for the Protection of Animals’ International Board Goal: Devote more resources to the protection of... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Old Cat Loves Soy Cheese

  

  My Friend Leery Loves Soy Cheese A 16 year old cat my daughter named Leery for his sensitive nature, ruled the Coldwater Farm cat community for more than a... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Equal Opportunity Genocide

  

  Our rhinos are dying. In Kenya and Sumatra, in Zimbabwe and Assam…killed by poachers, by trophy hunters…from Thailand, South Africa, America, Kenya, Russia,... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 113 – The Asiatic Lion

  

  “Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• EwasoLions.org

  

  It was a top honour to win the Whitley Award last week, but now we have our very own video narrated by none other than the legendary Sir David Attenborough.... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Drought and Bad Weather Make Last Year’s Oklahoma Deer Hunt Season Worst This...

  

  The Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation released the deer harvest numbers for the 2013-14 hunting season. Fewer deer were killed by hunters in Okla. last seaso... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Mighty Mouse: Rare Rodent Raises Tensions Over Water Access

  

  WATER WAR: The U.S. Forest Service has locked out cattle belonging to ranchers in Otero County, N.M., because it wants to protect the habitat of the meadow... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Stop Rhino Poaching in South Africa

  

  Rhinos are majestic, docile animals that have walked the earth for millions of years. Yet 1004 rhinos were murdered in South Africa in 2013. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Go Ahead, Laugh About Climate Change

  

  We welcome any recommendations on how to get the message out more effectively, perhaps especially when there is laughter involved: HOW TO LAUGH AT CLIMATE CHANG... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Happy Weekend: The Return of the Prodigal Elephant

  

  This clip shows a beautiful bull elephant named Ely. A young Amboseli male elephant, Ely gained international notoriety in the early 1990′s when he was... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Tell President Obama: Fight for Net Neutrality

  

  The FCC just met and voted to potentially undermine Net Neutrality. Obama promised to defend the Internet — and now he needs to keep his promise! See on... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Landscape Restoration

  

  Restoring degraded ecosystems — or creating new ones — has become a huge global business. China, for instance, is planting 90 million acres of forest in a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• World’s Oldest Orca (She’s 103!) Spotted Along Canadian Coast

  

  Despite being a 103-year-old great-grandma, the orca named J2 — or, more affectionately, Granny — is in great shape. In little over a week, Granny and her pod... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Speciesism: If You Aren’t Angry, You Aren’t Paying Attention

  

  Kathleen Stachowski, Other Nations: If you aren’t angry, it’s possible that you aren’t concerned about speciesism. If you are concerned about speciesism but... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Is This What’s Killing off All the Bees?

  

  Sum of Us.org: Bees are dying off around the world in record numbers — but big retailers are still selling the poison that is killing them. Last season, 37... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Advocating Nature Conservation With Fiction

  

  Nature Conservation Novel A reader of my novel, Corr Syl the Warrior, emailed a review today that I decided to share. The novel is my first attempt to use... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Swaziland Protects Its Wildlife

  

  Both black rhino and white rhino were absent from Swaziland for nearly 70 years until in 1965, when the first pair of white rhinos returned to Mlilwane... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT