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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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 A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland, officials said last week.
A fisheries conservation officer stumbled across one of the frogs and has since identified a colony of around 100 yellow-spotted bell frogs.
The discovery is 'as significant in the amphibian world as it would be to discover the Tasmanian tiger, said Frank Sartor, minister for environment and climate change.
(READ More of the AP story at the Wash. Post)
Photo by David Hunter, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service
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Posted by Jim Kelly
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Since their comeback from the brink of extinction in the 1960's, bald eagles have been flocking to this park every winter, attracting bird-watchers by the bus load.
300 to 1,000 eagles from California, Oregon and as far as the Northwest Territories of Canada arrive at Trinity Lake to rest and feed among old-growth ponderosa pines and Douglas firs.
The number of tourists to the Klamath Basin area swells during Presidents Day weekend and the annual Winter Wings Festival in January and February. They come to watch the national symbol, one of the most successful environmental comebacks of all time.
(READ the story in the Contra Costa Times)
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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 Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks.
In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest nations still recovering from a 1991-2002 civil war, lawmakers are preparing a bill to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove forests.
Environmental groups are trying to encourage salt producers to use other methods of extracting the salt, including solar drying, to reduce the strain on mangroves.
(READ More at Reuters)
Photo: Planting mangroves
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of the main drivers of global climate change. The deal, signed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Brasilia on Wednesday, marks the first time the two countries have formally agreed to work together on deforestation.
In the past, Brazilian leaders have been wary of foreign interference in the Amazon, Earth's largest tropical forest.
(READ More in the LA Times)
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 Here is a monthly summary from the Director of the Endangered Species Project featuring all the reasons to have a little hope about wildlife conservation.
"If it pans out, February’s best news of all has got to be the return of wolves to Colorado," begins Andrew Wetzler... (There are even pups!)
(Read the list at NRDC.org)
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