(Source: City of La Verne, CA) Are you wondering how you might be able to conserve water? Orchard Supply Hardware in La Verne will be hosting a Water Conservation Fair in…
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Deadly Driftnets Will Not Be Expanded Into Sea Turtle, Whale Habitat Off California Coast (Center for Biological Diversity)
(Source: Center for Biological Diversity) For Immediate Release, March 13, 2014 Contacts: Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration Network, tshore@tirn.net, cell (707) 934-7081 Catherine Kilduff, Center for Biological Diversity, ckilduff@biologicaldiversity.org, (415) 644-8580 Deadly Driftnets Will Not Be Expanded Into Sea Turtle, Whale Habitat Off California Coast SACRAMENTO, Calif.- In an important victory for wildlife, federal fishery […]
Kentucky Afield Outdoors- Hunter Education teaches safe hunting (State of Kentucky)
(Source: State of Kentucky) Department of Fish and Wildlife Kentucky Afield Outdoors- Hunter Education teaches safe hunting Press Release Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 Contact Information: Kevin Kelly 1-800-858-1549, ext. 4414 FRANKFORT, Ky. – It is a few minutes before 6 p.m. on Friday and vehicles continue pulling into the parking lot at the Scott […]
Forest activists ordered to rip down tree house
Endangered: Hannah Patchett and others have been living in the Toolangi tree house to raise awareness about the threat of logging to the Leadbeater’s possum. Photo: Simon Schluter Conservationists have been ordered to rip down a tree house in a state forest north-east of Melbourne that was built to highlight the plight of Victoria’s faunal […]
WVU grad student recognized for conservation efforts, dedication to Peace Corps (West Virginia University)
(Source: West Virginia University) In and around the town of Junin, Peru, West Virginia University student Shannon Behmke is known as the “frog girl.” Stationed in the South American country as an Environmental Peace Corps Volunteer, Behmke has devoted much of her time to creating a conservation plan for the endangered giant Lake Junín frog […]
States Should Be Reimbursed for Re-Opening National Parks During Shutdown (NPCA – National Parks Conservation Association)
(Source: NPCA – National Parks Conservation Association) Background: Several legislative proposals have been introduced in Congress to reimburse those states that donated funds in order to re-open several national parks during the October government shutdown. Without congressional action, the federal government has no legal authority to provide reimbursements…
Strange bird, sea turtle hatchlings released on protected Indonesian beach
Working on a remote and protected beach in Indonesia, conservationists recently celebrated the release of rare animal hatchlings into the wild, part of a plan to save the olive ridley sea turtle and an extraordinary bird called the maleo. “The joint release of maleos and olive ridleys on the same day is a boost to […]
Antarctic ecosystem due to change radically with climate change
According to researchers the Ross Sea will “be extensively modified by future climate change” in the coming decades creating longer periods of ice-free open water and affecting life cycles of all components of the ecosystem in a paper published and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The researchers have drawn their information from the […]
Warmer years linked to more malaria in tropical highlands
[BOGOTA] People in densely populated highlands of Africa and South America — who have so far been protected from malaria by cooler temperatures — may be seeing more of the disease as the climate changes, according to a study in Science (6 March).
Ancient Whale Skull Reveals Evolutionary Origins of Echolocation in Marine Mammals
Evidence of the most ancient whale known to have used echolocation was announced Wednesday in the journal Nature.
