Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• 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

• Victory For The Barnacle Geese In Täby Community, Sweden! Won’t Be Culled! :)))

  

  Personal engagement in a small scale in environmental and animal rights issues could sometimes be very succesful. I read in my local paper in Sweden, that my... Read more

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

• Imperiled Parks — the ‘new Normal’?

  

  Protected areas are our single best hope for conserving nature. But as the human populace expands, more and more parks are facing a growing array of threats. Ar... Read more

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

• Coldwater Farm Wildlife Update

  

  Coldwater Farm Update for Spring 2014 This morning I saw the first Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) of the year. It was flying alone and did not stop to... Read more

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

• Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)

  

  Sign the petition to urge your representatives and leaders in forest and wildlife management to act now to protect and connect wild places. See on... Read more

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

• Corr Syl Vs. Alex Maypole

  

  Science fiction reports possibilities. The novel Corr Syl the Warrior introduces an Earth on which intelligence appeared long before humans. Corr Syl, Alex... Read more

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

• Wildlife Response to Climate Change is Likely Underestimated, Experts Warn

  

  Analyzing thousands of breeding bird surveys sent in by citizen scientists across the western United States and Canada over 35 years, wildlife researchers repor... Read more

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

• Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 112 – The Polar Bear

  

  “Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality” Bill McKibben Global warming – Is i... Read more

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