Garry Rogers

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• Scientists Warn of Impending Turtle Dove British Extinction

  

  Turtle Dove Extinction Malta Today: Turtle dove numbers in Britain have plummeted by 93% since 1970 and the migratory bird may be rendered entirely extinct... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Drought, Fire Management and Land Use Changes Have Led to Denser Forests in...

  

  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from several institutions in the U.S. Source: phys.org The researchers need to test their assumption that fire... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Concerned Are CEOs About Climate Change? Answer: Not at All.

  

  GR: Lack of CEO interest in climate change is not surprising, but it is terribly disappointing. Jo Confino, Guardian, Tuesday 20 January 2015 13. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry

  

  By MICHAEL MOSS (JAN. 19, 2015) “Cattle dot the pastures at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in southern Nebraska, along with bunkers that once stored... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Should We Put a Price on Nature?

  

  The following interesting essay is by Ben Goldfarb, High Country News, Jan. 19, 2015 Starfish near a dock at low tide, Vancouver Island, Canada (Jurgen... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Pipeline Breach Spills Oil into Yellowstone River

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) 1/18/15 — “Montana officials said Sunday that an oil pipeline breach spilled up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• India: Animal Rights Campaigners Seek PM Intervention to Control Captive...

  

  Animal Rights/Welfare “THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Animal rights campaigners have urged prime minister Narendra Modi to immediately intervene to stop the widespread... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Citizen Scientists Sought for Wildlife Monitoring in Montana

  

  Great Falls Tribune: “The Montana Wilderness Association is looking for backcountry citizen scientists to help collect data on wolverines and other wildlife on... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Arizona Projects Picked for Major Conservation Effort

  

  AgriPulse: “WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2015 – More than 100 conservation projects for protecting water quality, restoring critical wildlife habitat, and addressing... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The End of the Partisan Divide Over Climate Change

  

  GR: This argument relates to last week’s Stanford study that found the economic cost of CO2 emissions much higher than government estimates. But, think about it... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Latest Climate Change Battle May Center on Food Pyramid

  

  GR: Too bad rational thinking has to be a battle. By Evan Halper, LA Times: “Hoping to nudge governments, advocacy groups have been busily designing mock-ups... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Why Humans Need Animal Rights

  

  GarryRogers: Kaufmann writes about both cruelty to farmed animals and the danger to human consumers. He cites the common resistance to inconvenient facts as an... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• New Journal Announcement, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

  GarryRogers:This journal is intended to be by scientists for scientists. Still, there might be an occasional practical insight or useful tidbit. Probably worth ... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wildlife and Fire in Australia and Shrinking Polar Sea Ice

  

  GarryRogers:Humans helping other species always seems like good behavior. In the second part of this post dealing with polar bears, it seems that humans are... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Saving the Andean Cat

  

  Andean Cat (Oreailurus jacobitat) The Andean Cat Alliance has two priorities. The first is to learn the cat’s range, numbers, and ecology. The team hikes the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Citizen Naturalist Field Work Opportunities

  

  Citizen Naturalists A reader recently said they liked the opportunities appearing in this blog. There are opportunities to sign petitions, state opinions, give... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Scientists: Human Activity Exceeding Earth’s Limits

  

  By Joel Achenbach January 15 at 10:14 PM Photo: “Climate change: A severe drought plagued a third of Queensland, Australia in 2013. Destabilizing the global... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Planetary Boundaries: Gauging the Limits

  

  The chart shows how close we are to the limits of Earth’s ability to support our civilization. “Human civilization has arisen during a period of relatively... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human Population Most Destructive Force on Earth

  

  Population Growth Devastates Ecosystems One of Issac Asimov’s best known stories includes Trantor, a planet totally encased in steel and concrete. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Long-eared Bat: Fish and Wildlife Service Bows to Pressure From Industry,...

  

  Press Release from the Center for Biological Diversity Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Weakened Protections for Vanishing Bat: Feds Bow to Pressure From... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT