Garry Rogers

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• Jaguar Habitat Protected in U. S.

  

  Habitat for Jaguars in the United States Protected Areas are Key to Reestablishing Rare Cats in the U.S. Contact: Taylor Jones (505) 490-5141 Washington, DC –... Read more

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

• Over Population: 7,177,568,766 Human Beings

  

  Issac Asimov once calculated how long it would be at the current global population growth rate for the mass of humanity to equal the Earth, the Solar System, an... Read more

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

• Death-defying Elephant Recovers from Fourth Poaching Attempt

  

  Mshale the elephant’s tusks weigh almost 100 pounds — and they could fetch $16,000 on the black market. But he’s not giving them up easily. See on grist.org... Read more

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

• Russian Team Being Trained in Panna to Boost Tiger Conservation – The Times of...

  

  In a bid to boost tiger conservation efforts globally, International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) in collaboration with the... Read more

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

• Prominent Indonesian Muslim Clerics Declare Hunting, Trading of Endangered...

  

  JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesia’s highest Islamic body has issued a religious edict declaring that the hunting and trading of endangered species are immoral, an... Read more

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

• Salmon Fishing Wolves of Alaska

  

  Wolves have learned to fish for salmon by watching coastal brown bears. Filmed and photographed by naturalist guide Brad josephs on Natural Habitat Adventures... Read more

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

• NOAA: El Nino is Coming. Extreme Weather, New Global High Temperature Records...

  

  In the masterfully constructed fantasy world of Westeros, George R.R. Martin’s characters have a saying — Winter is Coming. The words are spoken with an air of... Read more

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

• Cities Causing Genetic Changes in Plants, Animals

  

  Plants and animals have a long history of acclimatizing to city living – think of raccoons and their expert pillaging of compost bins. But now biologists are... Read more

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

• Antarctic Research Bases Spew Toxic Wastes Into Environment

  

  Antarctica is one of the most pristine environments on Earth, but it’s wrestling with a pollution problem. And the very people who are working hardest to protec... Read more

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

• Texas Gasses Its Rattlesnakes This Weekend–Maybe for the Last Time

  

  Members of the Texas State Parks and Wildlife Commission had a rare opportunity in January to commit an act of political courage. If they’d done it, hundreds... Read more

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

• Upcoming Conservation, Ecology and Modelling Conferences

  

  Our lab just put together a handy list of upcoming ecology, conservation and modelling conferences around the world in 2014. Others might also find it useful. Read more

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

• The Mauritius Kestrel is a Scrappy Bird but Will It Survive Humans? –...

  

  The Mauritius kestrel, once “the world’s rarest bird,” was a conservation success story. But their troubles aren’t over, thanks to habitat loss. Luckily, they... Read more

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

• Any Way You Look at It: Vegetarians Live Longer – MFA Blog

  

  A recent article published by “Time” details seven different ways in which vegetarians are poised for longer, healthier lives than their meat-eating... Read more

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

• Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

  

  * Believing that non-human consciousness exists is like believing the Earth orbits the Sun. Oliver The Cambridge Declaration summarizes and affirms non-human... Read more

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

• Baby Animals and Their Nursing Mothers Are Living (and Dying) in Horror at UK Lab

  

  An undercover investigation conducted by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has exposed a world of nightmares for companion animals who are born... Read more

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

• Earth Our Home Too : Parrots

  

  See on Scoop.it – Garry Rogers Nature Conservation News (#EcoSciFi) The parrot is a medium sized group of birds, with the parrot being best known for it’s... Read more

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

• Concern Over Decline Of World’s Rarest Sea Lion

  

  Wellington, March 6 (IANS) New Zealand’s expanding fishing activities were again under fire Thursday with falling numbers reported of yet another of the... Read more

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

• Whither the Hunter/Conservationist?

  

  By George Wuerthner On March 5, 2014 Many hunter organizations like to promote the idea that hunters were the first and most important conservation advocates.... Read more

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

• The Sixth Extinction: Earth is on the Brink of Another Massive Loss of Animal...

  

  Earth is on the brink of a sixth mass extinction – and this time the calamity isn’t an asteroid or a cold snap There have been five mass extinction events in... Read more

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

• A Faustian Bargain on the Short Road to Hell: Living in a World at 480 CO2e

  

  On the highway to a smokestack hell, Faust met a devil who said to him: “Give me all your tomorrows, all your children and all your children’s children, and I... Read more

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