Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Plans for New Hong Kong Zoo Condemned by Animals Asia Foundation

  

  The South China Morning Post reports on the response of David Neale, Animal Welfare Director, Animals Asia Foundation, to a suggestion that Hong Kong needs... Read more

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

• Sentinel Spots ‘extraordinary’ Polar Melt: Satellite Reveals That Earth’s Larges...

  

  Austfonna, one of the largest ice caps in the world, is moving much faster than expected. This is according to the recent satellite images which reveal what... Read more

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

• Earth Riparian System Deterioration: A California Example

  

  Kevin Franck: “Bear ecology in riparian habitats, rebuilding riparian ecosystems, Using biomimetics or biomimicry to replicate nature. Read more

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

• BOYCOTT Premier Proten Bars — BS Palm Oil Response

  

  Premier Protein bars are available in our company kitchen. But they contain palm kernel oil, which we all know is 1) evil; 2) destroys rainforest; 3) kills... Read more

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

• Florida Panthers and Other Wildlife Threatened by Big Oil

  

  Protect Florida Panthers from Big Oil From www.credomobilize.com “As a professional nature photographer, I have witnessed firsthand the leading cause of... Read more

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

• Oakland Zoo Plans To Destroy More Fragile Parkland

  

  Reprinted from East Bay Chapter – California Native Plant Society Conservation Oakland Zoo Proposes to Take Even More Public Land for its Expansion May 6, 2014... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Scientists Propose New Classification Scheme for Invasive Species

  

  Triage is a concept that is increasingly infiltrating the hearts and minds of conservationists and conservation researchers around the world. In a world of... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Drought and Shrinking Western Wood Peewee Habitat

  

  Western Wood Peewee (Contopus sordidulus) Takes Over West Lawn A new visitor to my lawn this spring, a Western Wood Peewee, has begun capturing the aerial... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Australian League of Environmental Organisations

  

  ALEO – the acronym has a nice ring to it. Although I must confess that said organisation doesn’t yet exist, but it bloody well should. Australia is in dire... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Something Serious to Protest

  

  We tried to visit Astoria’s East Mooring Basin to see the sea lions yesterday. I hadn’t been there in about a year, but I remember it as one of those special... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Rare Earthquake Warning Issued for Oklahoma

  

  A major increase in seismic activity led to a rare earthquake warning today for Oklahoma from the U.S. Geological Survey and Oklahoma Geological Survey. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Dead Entombed by Progress | What the Street Covers

  

  Beneath the Pavement It is Still and Dark A SciFi Vignette Beneath the pavement of the street and the concrete of the sidewalk lie the corpses of tiny... Read more

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

• Tsaeb Warrior

  

  See on Scoop.it – Garry Rogers Science FictionScifi Vignettes: Warrior Training Never Ends After the assassin’s attack, Corr slipped on his harness, snapped... Read more

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

• Demand Sanctuary for Florida Manatees! – Defenders of Wildlife

  

  Facing a barrage of threats, America’s beloved gentle giants are being overcrowded when they try to seek refuge in natural springs in Kings Bay in Crystal... Read more

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

• Nigerian Kidnappings: The Link to Poaching

  

  Rhino and elephant poaching is detrimental not only to the rhino and elephant, but to global security. Poaching profits fund terrorist activity, like the... Read more

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

• Is Sustainable Forestry Sustainable?

  

  George Wuerthner: “Is Sustainable Forestry Sustainable? George Wuerthner There has been a lot of positive talk about sustainable forestry by the timber industry... Read more

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

• Wildlife Extra News – Chernobyl’s Birds Are Adapting to Radiation

  

  “Birds in Chernobyl are adapting to long-term exposure to radiation, ecologists have found. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which took place in April 1986, has... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Alienation: a Short, Short Story

  

  There must have been thousands standing in the rain that day. The stark grey cityscape with glass buildings that loomed like giants high in the atmosphere... Read more

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

• S Africa Rhino Horn Trade

  

  By Paula Kahumbu, 25 April 2014 I am sitting in a large meeting room at Pretoria University in South Africa at a conference to discuss the trade in rhino horn. Read more

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

• A New Report Highlights Depth of African Poaching Crisis

  

  The African Poaching Crisis From WildlifeExtra.com: A new report from Born Free USA accuses the governments of Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Sudan,... Read more

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