Tigers Burning Bright
Can a Lama Save the Tiger? Last August, the Environmental Investigation Agency joined with the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) to investigate the trade in animal skins on the Tibetan...
View ArticleNews of the Wild, 2/26/06
Any number of stories in the news this past week on fish and fisheries. As populations increase and fish stocks continue to decline, conflicts seem inevitable. The warning shots are already being fired...
View ArticleActor, Activist Dennis Weaver Dead at 81
Television actor Dennis Weaver, Chester Goode of Gunsmoke and Sam McCloud of McCloud is dead of complications from cancer. Weaver became an environmental activist in the 80's and famously built his...
View ArticleSharing the Fish: Talk and Action
There has been virtually no mention, anywhere, of the Sharing the Fish 2006 conference held this week in Fremantle, Western Australia. The lack of attention seems all the odder in view of already...
View ArticleWild News: Year of the Turtle
We are familiar with the notion that the world sits on the back of a turtle, who sits on another, and so on. Like the supposed creation myth, today's Wild News is just turtles, all the way down. So...
View ArticleNip It In the Bud
One election cycle ago, who would have believed that we would see a successful attempt to roll back reproductive rights spread like wildfire across the country? Impossible! Ridiculous! Alarmist talk!...
View Article5,738 Scientists Tell Senate: Keep the ESA Science-Based (Action!)
The story can be found at Environmental News Service:Scientists: Endangered Species Act Rewrite Must Be Science-Based Today every US Senator received a letter signed by 5,738 American biologists urging...
View ArticleDoctors Condemn Gitmo Forcefeeding
263 doctors have signed a letter appearing in The Lancet. (Free registration required.) The letter is short and direct.The World Medical Association specifically prohibits forcefeeding in the...
View ArticleHave you seen the stars tonight?
Nostalgia has never had much appeal for me. The old posters have frames around them now; they're historical artefacts, at least until prices rise a little on ebay. But music is different somehow. The...
View ArticleWild News 3-12
Ladies and Gentlemen, please accept our apologies. We have now regained control of this diary, which resumes below.
View ArticleGOP Science Friday*
In scientific as in foreign policy, the administration continues to break new ground. First the Bush EPA ignored its own advisory panel on soot standards, prompting a rare public rebuke from the...
View ArticleWild News 3-19
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise --William BlakeWangari Maathai, born on the first of April, remained true to her vision through years of harassment, beatings, death threats...
View ArticleUN: Bird Flu Threatens Biodiversity
As the virus continues to spread (see below), a press release from the UN Environment Programme highlights the threat H5N1 represents to wildlife worldwide:Experts attending the Convention on...
View ArticleGOP Science Friday
One More for the Roads Interior Secretary Gale Norton will be gone in a few days, and good riddance to her. On her way out the door, she has blown the environmental community one last kiss. With no...
View ArticleCookies and Pretty Floors
To see what this has to do with cookies, jump the dots. We'll get to the floor later.
View ArticleWild News 3-26
Scotland the GreenScottish National Heritage is asking the public and any interested groups for advice on what plants and animals in Scotland are most in need and worthiest of preservation. SNH has its...
View ArticleKudos Kiribati!
The tiny island states of the Pacific are stepping up to the plate.The Republic of Kiribati announced on Tuesday the creation of the world's third largest marine protected area. At 73,800 square miles,...
View ArticleSci Fri: Sex Change in the Dead Zone
The gender mutability of many fish in response to changing population density and other environmental factors is well known. It is one in the bag of tricks evolved to succeed in an environment that can...
View ArticleLocal Heroes
You don't get their names. I won't tell you where they live. But I want to tell you about my three new heroes. Below, a very short diary.
View ArticleWild News 4-7: McForest, McWorld
Eating the Amazon?Greenpeace takes on McDonald's:{T}o McDonald's and a handful of huge soya traders, the Amazon means something completely different. It means cheap land and cheap labour. Cheap land...
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