Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Australia Should Enlist Dingoes to Control Invasive Species

  

  Introduced species pose one of the greatest threats to Australia’s fauna and flora, but expensive efforts to control them aren’t working. Read more

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

• VERY GRAPHIC MEDIA: Petitions to Sign: “Torneo De Lazo” Horses Eviscerated...

  “I actually started writing this several weeks ago, but can only now bring myself to finish it, as my tears have dried up given way to anger! No animal... Read more

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

• Zimbabwe: Hwange Land Takeover ‘Threatens’ Presidential Elephant Herd

  

  There is rising concern for the future welfare and safety of Zimbabwe’s Presidential Elephant Herd, because of the takeover of a piece of land in Hwange, which... Read more

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

• State Allowed Logging on Plateau Above Landslide

  

  In recent decades the state allowed logging — with restrictions — on the plateau above the Snohomish County hillside that collapsed in last weekend’s deadly... Read more

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

• Science: for the Sheer Fun of It: How Nature is Saved.

  

  Richard Flavell promotes the view that observation-driven studies have a place in science. . . . . Garry Rogers: Observation is the foundation of nature... Read more

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

• Idaho Fish and Game – News Release

  

  A Washington County poaching spree during the fall of 2012 that left more than a dozen deer and three domestic cows dead has come to light, and the four... Read more

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

• Hope for the Diminishing Saskatchewan River Delta?

  

  The first thing a visitor from southern Canada might notice about Cumberland House is the almost complete absence of commerce. There’s no Tim’s, no car... Read more

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

• Kenya Wildlife Service Struggles to Stop Poaching

  

  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s wildlife authority said Tuesday it needs help to curb the escalation of killings of the country’s endangered elephants and rhinos... Read more

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

• A Tar Sands Skirmish for Human & Animal Rights

  

  Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations Well I won’t back down, no I won’t back down. You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won’t back down. ~Tom Petty ... Read more

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

• Giraffe-Killing Copenhagen Zoo Euthanizes 4 Lions

  

  The Copenhagen Zoo, which generated controversy by euthanizing a healthy giraffe last month to prevent inbreeding, has now euthanized four healthy lions. See... Read more

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

• Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 110 – Przewalski’s Horse

  

  “A horse is a thing of such beauty. . .none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor” Xenophon By the early part of the... Read more

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

• Urge Circus World to End Cruel Elephant Exhibits!

  

  Earlier this year, Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, confirmed that it intends to put on a cruel and antiquated elephant act during its 2014 season. Read more

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

• Is This All Humans Are? Diminutive Monsters of Death and Destruction?

  

  George Monbiot: New research suggests that there was never a state of grace. We have always been the nemesis of the planet’s wildlife . . Read more

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

• 10 Limitations on Progress in Ecology

  

  Charley Krebs: “Ecological science moves along slowly in its mission to understand how the Earth’s populations, communities, and ecosystems operate within the... Read more

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

• Urge Congress to Protect Conservation Funding! – Defenders of Wildlife

  

  The future of imperiled species and public lands rests heavily on our federal financial support decisions. But you can make a difference. Read more

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

• Bison and They Said Never Again

  

  Bison slaughters in Yellowstone over for season after almost 600 killed, removed Yellowstone announces end to 2014 bison slaughter following one-man blockade... Read more

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

• Oklahoma Rattled by 15 Earthquakes

  

  March 2014 – OKLAHOMA – The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded 15 earthquakes in Oklahoma since about 9:30 p.m. Friday, the largest being a magnitude 4.0. The... Read more

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

• Monster El Nino Emerging From the Depths: Nose of Massive Kelvin Wave Breaks...

  

  (A monster Kelvin wave, possibly more powerful than the 1997-98 event, is now rushing toward the surface of the Eastern Pacific. Image source: NOAA/ESRL.) We ar... Read more

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

• Stop Militaries’ World War on Animals!

  

  Only five NATO nations—Canada, Denmark, Norway, the U.S., and the U.K.—continue to use animals in these barbaric exercises. The Canadian military cuts apart... Read more

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

• Sea of Cortez: Conserving the World’s Aquarium

  

  Jacques Cousteau called it the “world’s aquarium”: a place of flying mobula rays, frolicking sea lions and colorful reef fish. Read more

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