Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• 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

• Nasa-funded Study: Industrial Civilization Headed for ‘irreversible Collapse’?

  

  Nafeez Ahmed: Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system. . . Read more

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

• We Need To Learn From History And Permanently Shut Down All Ivory Trade

  

  Environmental Investigation Agency The tragic price of ivory – Poachers are killing thousands of African elephants for their tusks. Can the ivory trade be... Read more

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

• Indonesian President Orders Crackdown on Land Burners

  

  . Riau province chokes in haze from forest fires See on www.ucanews.com Rogers: Land clearing is a major threat to Earth’s tropical ecosystems. Share... Read more

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

• Vanishing Innocents: Fish, Dolphins, and Other Sea Creatures in Troubled Waters

  

  By Maddalena Bearzi of the Ocean Conservation Society Sardinia has a unique and unforgettable scent, different from any other place I’ve known. It’s the scent o... Read more

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

• Dolphins Need Some Serious Help off Nova Scotia

  

  EMERGENCY! Location: Cape Ray Newfoundland, Canada (near the light house, you need to walk off the road to see them) 40 white beak dolphins are STRANDED. The ic... Read more

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

• If Biodiversity is So Important, Why is Europe Not Languishing?

  

  I don’t often respond to many comments on this blog unless they are really, really good questions (and if I think I have the answers). Even rarer is devoting... Read more

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

• Global Warming #environment #climate

  

  Vanishing ice warning for ‘Mountains of the Moon’ At 5 109 metres, Mount Stanley’s jagged peak is the third highest mountain in Africa, topped only by Mount... Read more

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