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Wildlife
Bees
Vanish and Scientists Race for Reasons
Alexie Barrionuevo, The New
York Times, feature — April 2007
There are so many of our crops that require
pollinators. We need an urgent call to arms to try
to ascertain what is really going on here with the bees, and
bring as much science as we possibly can to bear on the problem...
Life
is Hanging By a Thread
Jane Goodall, The Miami Herald,
commentary — April 2007
As a primatologist, I am particularly concerned
by the prediction that 20 percent to 30 percent of species
will face increased risk of extinction...
Drought
Will Halt Wildebeest Trek
Robin McKie, The Guardian
Online, feature — January 2007
One of the planet's greatest wildlife shows —
the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest across
east Africa's plains — is facing obliteration...
"That
sort of Self-Delusion is What it Takes to Be a Real
Aussie Larrikin"
Germaine Greer, Guardian
Unlimited, editorial — September 2006
What Steve Irwin never seemed to understand was
that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist
must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal
cause of species loss...
Amid
Extinctions, Parrots, Panthers Get Costly Aid
Alister Doyle & David Fogarty, Reuters, article — May 2006
Rare species are getting costly protection
even as the world faces what may be the worst wave
of extinctions since the dinosaurs...
Oh,
Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam
Coral Rose, essay — April 2006
This year 947 Bison have been killed, the
highest number in the last 8 years. That represents
almost 30% of the herd. Since 1985 State and
Federal agencies have slaughtered over 4,000 Yellowstone
Buffalo. Why?...
Ethical
Considerations Regarding Aerial Gunning
AGRO: A Coalition to End
Aerial Gunning of Wildlife, essay — February
2006
Not only arbitrary, aerial gunning can
result in the harassment of animals not targeted
for killing. Aircraft noise and disturbance disrupts
feeding behavior and reproductive success. In short,
slow flying, noisy aircraft keep animals from foraging
and disrupts breeding and parenting...
Save
the Tiger
Shanghai Daily, feature‚ January 2006
Though
footprints and other evidence of the Amur Tiger's continued
existence have been found, no single wild individual of
the sub-species has been seen in recent years. And
the captive South China Tigers in zoos face severe inbreeding
and genetic problems...
Overfishing
is Emptying the World's Rivers, Lakes, 'A Neglected
Crisis'
James Owen, National Geographic, feature ‚ November 2005
"Overfishing
of inland waters is a neglected crisis.... Most
of the focus is on oceans, with inland waters rarely mentioned," he
added. "Yet fish from inland waters are more threatened
than those in oceans"...
Federal
Government Kills More than 2.7 Million Wildlife in
2005
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, feature — September
2005
Even as some federal agencies spend millions
to protect wildlife, another federal agency spends
millions to kill wildlife in record numbers...Record “take” of
wildlife comes mainly rfom chemical agents...
Agency
Targets Animal Damage
Brodie Farquhar, Star-Tribune, feature — Sepember
2005
"Wildlife Services killed more than
five animals per minute in 2004,"said Wendy Keefover-Ring
of Sinapu, a wolf advocacy group. "The toll on
ecosystems wrought by this one agency is jaw-dropping"...
The
Shark Killers: 'Organized Shark-Killing Melees' Must
End
John Grandy, The Boston Globe, commentary — August 2005
Global shark populations are in steep decline.
Like many other fish species, they are overfished and
undermanaged. The shark may be a fierce and magnificent
predator, but it is no match for humans' high-tech
fishing gear...
Endangered
Species Goods Selling on Net
The Age, feature — August 2005
A three month investigation by the International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) revealed that more than
9,000 live species or animal products, including a
live gorilla, were available for sale on the internet
in one week alone...
Animal
Disguises
Maggie Manning, Dallas Morning News, feature — August
2005
The eyespot can also misdirect predators
into attacking the wings instead of the butterfly's
delicate body... A
zebra's stripes are as individual as a human's fingerprints.
No two are alike...
Just
What is a 'Nuisance' Animal?
Share Bond, Protect R Wildlife, feature — August 2005
All of these animals would prefer to live
as far away from humans as possible. Even though
people are encroaching on the homes of these animals,
many learn to adapt...
University
of Florida Bat House — Largest Manmade Roost
in the Country
Jennifer Peltz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, feature — July
2005
They
have a lake-view high-rise with a brand-new elevator. They
keep a celebrated schedule of nighttime excursions. They've
been coaxed, catered to and checked on. No,
they're not the students at the University of Florida.
They're the bats...
The
State of Wildlife
Greg Lawson, Animal Rights 2005 Conference, presentation — July
2005
How many meat eating environmentalists know
about the government agency known as Wildlife Services?
Forty-million tax dollars a year fund this federal
program to kill wild animals that compete with livestock
on public lands...
Toad
Tunnels
Earth Talk, The Ithaca Journal, feature — July
2005
When the students discovered that hundreds
of toads, salamanders, newts and turtles were dying
on one particular road through the area each spring
evening, they hatched a plan...
Wildlife
Crime: On the Trail of a Killer
Ruth Padel, The Independent, feature — July 2005
Wildlife crime is the world's third largest
criminal activity after arms and drugs. Trade in
wild animals and plants is worth $160 billion (£88bn)
a year. A lot of that is illegal. This April, the
UN Crime Congress put wildlife crime on their agenda
for the first time...
Saving
Species, Saving Ourselves
Kelpie Wilson, Truthout, interview— June
2005
Brock Evans is the executive director
of the Endangered
Species Coalition, an alliance of
more than 400 groups that stand behind the Endangered
Species Act. Evans is a veteran of many environmental
battles — from inside the DC beltway to the
ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest...
The
Wolf Had a Hundred Eyes
Ozgun Ozturk, Action for Turkish
Animal Rights and Welfare — 2005
Tonight, I have seen torture with my very eyes.
With these "human" eyes, I saw the torture the humans
and their children did on a god's creature, known to be a "wild" wolf.
I saw a living being's eyes filled with fear...
Sacrificial
Ram
Daniel Duane, Mother Jones, investigation — March/April
2005
Conservation
groups think they’ve found a way to save endangered
animals — by selling off the right to kill
a few... “A
lot of antihunting types make the mistake of looking
at the individual animal as most important”...
Tussle
Over Mustangs and Desert Habitat
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science
Monitor, feature — March
2005
"To
suggest that an acceptable solution to a federal
agency's management shortcomings is commercial slaughter
is an irresponsible approach to our public lands
and the wildlife that roam them," says Rep.
Nick Rahall...
Lost
Apes of the Congo
Stephan Fairs, Time Magazine, feature — January
2005
If
there's one thing all the scientists can agree
on, it's that if this part of Congo goes the way
of other African wild lands, the great apes could
soon disappear...
Fishing
Gear A Death Trap for Sea Turtles
Dr.
Robert Ovetz, Sea Turtle Restoration Project, feature — January
2005
Not
only has the fishery exceeded its legal take limit
but it killed every turtle it caught. This is further
evidence that this incredibly destructive fishery is
a continuing threat to endangered ocean wildlife...
Return
of Wolves Changes Ecosystem
Jeff Barnard, Associated Press, feature — December
2004
Scientists
studying the broader effects of wolf reintroduction
said a growing body of evidence suggests that killing
off predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in
the last century started a cascade of effects that
threw ecosystems out of balance...
Deep-sea
Trawling's "Great Harm"
Richard Black, BBC News, investigation — October
2004
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition says
the technique of dragging heavy nets across the seafloor
is doing immense harm to fragile ecosystems.... It has been
likened to fishing with a bulldozer...
Sea
Turtle Project Update
Visakha SPCA, investigaton — September
2004
Our aims: To
bring awareness and education to the coast of Andhra
Pradesh up to Orissa of the Olive Ridley sea turtle's
plight. To bring an end to the inability of the females
being able to nest properly. To guard beach areas so
that the eggs are able to hatch undisturbed...
Call
of the Not-So-Wild
Tom Masland, Newsweek International,
feature — September 2004
Though
well into her golden years at 26, she remains an adored
local celebrity — so mild-tempered that tourists
can walk up and pet her. To her owners, an American
executive and a South African wildlife dealer, she’s
worth more dead than alive. Early this year a professional
guide offered $60,000 to buy the rhino for a “hunt”...
An
Interview with NRDC Grizzly Expert Louisa Willcox
Natural Resource Defense Council, feature — Fall
2004
They're
so smart that they never forget where they got a
taste of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. Often,
when they return to the same spot again and again
in search of food, they're eventually killed...
Immunocontraception
Priscilla Cohn, Humane USA, investigation 2004
Immunocontraceptives
in general, and PZP in particular, seems to be desirable
if it is used as an alternative to culling or hunting
to control wildlife populations, or if it is used to
limit the reproduction of zoo animals so that so-called "surplus" animal
are not born...
Wild
Neighbors:
Humans, Animals in Increasingly Close Encounters in
Suburbs, Even Urban Areas
Dean Schabner, ABC News, report — January
2004
And
while the suburban coyote population may not match
the hundreds of thousands of whitetail deer that
now live in suburban and urban areas, their comeback
has been dramatic...
Cutting
the Longline to Extinction:
New Sea Turtle Campaign Takes Aim at Industrial Longline Fishing and Mercury
Poisoned Seafood
Dr. Robert Ovetz, Sea Turtle Restoration Project, investigation — 2003
Longline
fishing in the Pacific kills tens of thousands of sea
turtles annually to serve up swordfish, shark and tuna
poisoned with high levels of methyl mercury for lucrative
seafood markets in Japan, the US and Europe...
Animal
Trafficking:
A Cruel Billion Dollar Business
Francesca Colombo, Common Dreams, investigation — November
2003
Although
legal trade in wildlife is regulated by the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an estimated one-third
of the global sales of 25 billion dollars a year is illegal — an illicit
business surpassed only by arms and drugs trafficking...
Scapegoating
the Aliens
Andrew Tyler, Animal Aid, feature — February
2001
A whole range of indigenous species are under threat as a result of
the burdens placed upon them by human population growth and by modern manufacturing
and waste disposal regimes. Yet certain 'experts' insist on displacing the responsibility
and pretending that ecological harmony can be restored through the barrel of
a gun or through the use of body-crushing traps, snares and poisons...
Reptiles
as Pets:
An Examination of the Trade in Live Reptiles in the United States
Joseph Franke, Teresa Telecky, HSUS, investigaton
Most
reptiles that are kept as pets were captured in the
wild or were born from wild-caught parents held in
so-called ranches or farms. More than 18.3 million
live reptiles were imported to the United States from
89-97, in 97 alone more than 1.7 million reptiles were
imported to the United States...
The
Texas Massacre:
Horse Slaughter in America
Laura Moretti, Animals Voice, feature
There
has been no rest for the incredibly, terribly weary. They arrive utterly exhausted,
frantically falling over themselves as they dangerously slip on the feces- and
urine-slicked floors of the two-tier cattle truck that has brought them here...
Tender
Moments
Charlotte Edwards, essay
My
friend was on her feet now, with one unbelieving hand against her mouth. As the
swans surrounded the frozen goose, she feared what life he still had might be
pecked out by those great swan bills...
Mestengo.
Mustang. Misfit.
America's Disappearing Wild Horses
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
It is believed that
the horse is the only domesticated animal capable of
reverting to a wild state after escaping human bondage...
Senator McClure, believing the horse to be a useless
free-loader on public lands, set out to help get rid
of them...
Killer
in the Night
Maya Khankhoje, poem
i
tried to align /
the tip of my gun /
with the tip of your nose /
as it is done in the movies /
and pull the damn trigger /
which refused to budge / i
had to kill you
but could not...
The
Kangaroo Crisis
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
Each year, Australian "roo shooters" are given the government's blessing
to kill several million kangaroos — the very
mammals pictured as the country's national emblem and
emblazoned on the tail of every Qantas jet...
The
Visitor
Laura Moretti, essay
The
new house I bought several years ago came complete
with a barren dirt floor for a backyard. Nothing lived
there. Nothing could. The ground was hard as rock.
So I decided to do something about its forlornness,
by opting to give back to the Earth what the house’s
construction had taken...
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