Garry Rogers

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• Developers Attempt to Strip Tasmanian Forest Protection

  

  GR: Australian developers are interested in short-term profit, and they are willing to sacrifice ecosystems, wildlife, and their country’s future to get it.... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Deforestation Changes Climate Via Albedo

  

  Source: www.reportingclimatescience.com GR: As stated in the article, “models cannot accurately reproduce local climate effects due to their coarse spatial... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 1980 View of CO2 and Global Warming–Must-See Video

  Global Warming in 1980 This video gives insight to the progress of science on this issue. Must see. Go here for the latest on global warming and climate change. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• ‘Urgent’ Crowdfunding Campaign Hopes to Help Save Three Native Australian Birds

  

  “An international campaign begins to help save three native parrots at risk of extinction. “The swift parrot, forty-spotted pardalote and orange-bellied parrot... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Protecting New England Cottontail Habitat on Cape Cod

  

  Source: blogs.usda.gov Yay, cottontails. From the article: Private landowners, conservation groups, a tribe and government agencies have joined forces to restor... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Major Study Shows Biodiversity Losses Can Be Reversed

  “The study is the first global analysis of human impacts on local biodiversity. It is a major collaboration between the Natural History Museum, United Nations... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Six Solutions for Transforming Your Balcony into a Biodiversity Sanctuary

  

  Your balcony – a little corner of paradise… Source: livingcircular.veolia.com GR: If you live in North America, here’s a good source for beekeeping... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Local Action Needed to Protect Nature from Global Warming

  

  Stronger local management can increase the resilience of nature to the impacts of climate change, writes an international team of researchers in Science. Source... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Converting A ‘Weedy’ Grass To Quality Forage For Livestock

  

  Messing with Nature and Calling it Range Management Purple threeawn “While native plants are adapted to thrive in our region, they don’t always provide the... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Subsidies to Industries That Cause Deforestation Worth 100 Times More Than Aid t...

  

  Brazil and Indonesia paid over $40bn in subsidies to industries that drive rainforest destruction between 2009 and 2012 – compared to $346m in conservation aid... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Other Flowers at Coldwater Farm

  

  Garry Rogers Coldwater Farm Flowers Click here for other photo sets. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Share on Facebook (Opens in new... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Vs. Conservation

  

  Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation? Source: www.newyorker.com GR: Pretty good argument that there is no hope... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Farmers Fields as Nature Conservation Areas

  

  Highly productive agriculture and the protection of biodiversity are hard to reconcile? A joint project involving BASF, farmers and agronomic experts reveals ho... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Drought Damage Leads to Widespread Forest Death

  

  The 2000-2003 drought in the American southwest triggered a widespread die-off of forests around the region. Source: phys.org GR: Die offs are occurring at lowe... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wildfire Critical in Calculating Carbon-payback Time for Biomass Energy Projects

  

  Accounting for wildfire is essential in achieving an accurate and realistic calculation of the carbon payback period associated with converting forest biomass... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Thousands of Cormorants to Be Killed: There Will Be Blood

  

  “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to kill 11,000 and destroy 26,000 nests Post published by Marc Bekoff Ph.D. on Mar 28, 2015 in Animal Emotions In... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Vanishing Nature: Facing NZ’s Biodiversity Crisis

  

  New Zealand’s remarkable indigenous biodiversity is fragile and in decline. The latest publication by EDS is Vanishing Nature: facing New Zealand’s... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking: New Aerial Research to Track Pollutants Above Western Fossil Fuel...

  

  GarryRogers:GR: As always, we study the consequences of our actions after we act. We often do not attempt to determine effects before we act, and if we do try t... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Chilean Wildfires Ravage Rare Species

  

  Huge firestorms raging across parts of drought-stricken southern Chile have “wiped out” hundreds of rare plant species and threatened wildlife as well, accordin... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Earth Hour 2015 Official Video – YouTube

  

  https://www.youtube.com/v/XxIMib4e8f8?fs=1 hl=fr_FR Earth Hour 2015 is about getting the crowd to use #YourPower to change climate change. Take action and go... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT