By Rex Springston NEWPORT NEWS – The light of a cold dawn revealed an endangered species on the James River — waterman Rodgers Green of Gloucester. Green catches oysters the old-fashioned way, with 16-foot tongs that resemble two rakes attached like scissors. Disease, pollution and long-ago overharvesting have sunk Virginia’s oyster population to about 1 […]
…The fierce appetite for live reef fish across Southeast Asia — and increasingly in mainland China — is devastating populations in the Coral Triangle, a protected marine region home to the world’s richest ocean diversity, according to a recent report in the scientific journal Conservation Biology. Spawning of reef fish in this area, which supports […]
Leakey’s ‘angel’ says world’s frenzy to ‘go green’ pushing orangutans to brink of extinction By ROBIN MCDOWELL Associated Press Writer TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia January 18, 2009 (AP) Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was […]
Study estimates a million birds were lost on two key islands Lovelace, the rockhopper penguin that answers life’s questions in the animated film Happy Feet, probably would be just as stumped as the researchers who reported Friday that the population of his northern relatives has declined by 90 percent over the last 50 years. […]
Exodus of the resilient black crow follows flight of other wildlife from Iranian capital Robert Tait, guardian.co.uk Tehran’s notoriously bad air pollution has long been a health hazard for its 12 million people, but now the toxic mix of fumes has sent a different set of residents fleeing – the city’s black crows. Environmentalists say […]
Zimbabwean soldiers are being given elephant meat for their rations, a wildlife campaigner has told the BBC. Jonny Rodrigues from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said that several soldiers had complained to him that was the only meat they were given. … Mr Rodrigues said that the use of elephant meat began last June but […]
By Gordon Tokumatsu, NBCBayArea.com SAN PEDRO, Calif. — They’re turning up on roads, in backyards, beaches and marinas, say wildlife experts, starved and too exhausted to fly. They’re California brown pelicans, a species that once neared extinction a couple of decades ago. No one knows why so many of them have been found emaciated and […]
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross, has suffered its worst breeding season ever. The number of chicks making it through to fledging has decreased rapidly and it is now five times lower than it should be because introduced predatory mice are eating the chicks alive on Gough island – the bird’s only home and a South […]
Scientists eye climate change as the primary reason the beloved animals are disappearing By Tim Jones | Tribune reporter 9:30 PM EST, December 27, 2008 It wasn’t long ago that thousands of moose roamed the gentle terrain of northwestern Minnesota, affirming the iconic status of the antlered, bony-kneed beast from the North Woods. In just […]
Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savanna elephants of Central Africa’s Sahel region, now hover at about 1,000 animals, down from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Ivory poachers using automatic weapons have decimated elephant populations — particularly when herds venture seasonally outside of the park. … "The situation in Zakouma is […]
