Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Target the Ring Leaders to Defeat Poaching

  

  Paula Kahumbu: Richard Leakey, founder of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, has called on President Kenyatta to declare a national emergency and take personal... Read more

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

• Wolf Weekly Wrap-Up – Defenders of Wildlife Blog

  

  DeFazio leads 73 Members on bipartisan letter urging Interior Secretary Jewell to maintain critical gray wolf protections; wolf advocates bring strong oppositio... Read more

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

• Wolf OR-7 Expedition

  

  The Wild Peace Wolf OR-7 Expedition is an adventure to celebrate the remarkable journey of an ordinary wolf named OR-7. Follow the adventure Spring 2014. . . . . Read more

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

• The Beauty and Fragility of Nature – Living with Fire (USGS) – YouTube

  

  A compilation of scenes taken out of the original version of the USGS film, Living with Fire, to produce the 11 minute final available on the web. The final …... Read more

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

• STOP the Proposed Silurian Valley Wind/Solar Project!

  

  Dear Readers and friends of the California Desert, I need your help opposing the proposed Silurian Valley Solar/Wind Project which is slated for development... Read more

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

• Injunction Sought to Halt Unnecessary Caltrans Highway-widening Project in Remot...

  

  Caltrans Ignores Impacts to Smith River Canyon, Coho Salmon EPIC along with several other conservation groups filed for a preliminary injunction in federal cour... Read more

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

• Wolf Peer Review Public Comment – Defenders of Wildlife

  

  Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) formally proposed to remove federal Endangered Species Act protection for nearly all gray wolves throughout... Read more

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

• Study Shows What Mexican Gray Wolves Need to Survive – Defenders Blog

  

  And, for the model to work, there must be at least three populations with this movement happening between them. The good news is that this is possible,... Read more

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

• Namibia: Esau Considers War Against Seals

  

  “THERE are about 1,2 million seals along Namibia’s coast – 16% up from 1993 figures – and consisting out of 26 colonies, according to the last survey figures... Read more

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

• World’s Forests Lost to Clearing and Road Expansion

  

  Roads to Ruin The world’s last surviving wildernesses are under assault–from unbridled road expansion. That’s the key message of a press release today,... Read more

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

• The Amazon.com of Japan is the World’s Biggest Online Retailer of Elephant...

  

  Countries around the world are burning ivory stockpiles. It’s a powerful symbol against the illegal trade in elephant tusks that resulted in as many as 30,000... Read more

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

• Deaths of Bighorn Sheep in Arizona Spark Controversy Over Conservation Effort

  

  A plan by Arizona wildlife conservationists to bolster herds of bighorn sheep went awry when the animals were airdropped at a cost of $5,000 apiece into mountai... Read more

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

• The Monsters of Growth Shock Rise: Conflict in the Ukraine, Global Food Crisis,...

  

  Immense Russian wildfires burning through the thawing tundra’s carbon pool during summer of 2012. The bar on the lower left denotes 50 kilometers. From end to... Read more

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

• Whew–Enough Blogging–Have to Hit the Books

  

  Blogging and Books 2014 OneBookAZ Authors at Tucson Festival of Books–March 15 Aggregating nature-conservation news is interesting and worthwhile. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Phragmites Management in the U.S.

  

  In a recent review published in AoB PLANTS, Hazelton et al. reviewed all available studies on Phragmites australis management in the United States in an … . . Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Tragedy of the Uncommon–Kenya: With Their Forests Vanished, Kenya’s Maasai Adapt

  Transmara — Peter Ole Nembo stopped moving his livestock around in search of pasture and water in times of drought about a decade ago, when the government... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Time is Short for Kakapo Flightless Parrots

  

  The first Polynesian settlers, the Maori, found the kakapo easy to catch, and hunted it for its plumage and meat. The Polynesian dog and rat, which came to New... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human-Caused Warming Now Pushing Entire Greenland Ice Sheet into the Ocean

  

  (Leading edge of the accelerating Zachariae Ice Stream meets the warming and increasingly ice free ocean on August 20 of 2013. Satellite image source:... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• South Africa: R1 Million Boost to Help Sanparks Counter Poaching

  

  Anti Poaching Support Kruger National Park “Skukuza — An amount of R1 million has been added to the South African National Parks’ (SANParks) war on rhino... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Take Action | Tell EPA to Step up and Protect Bees!

  

  Honey bees are responsible for producing 1/3 of our food but they are being wiped out by the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides called neonicotinoids. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT