Source: New Scientist
On Canada's west coast, the most common year-round resident bird in the forest, the Pacific wren, might owe salmon a thank you for its ecological success. Earlier this year, Marlene Wagner at Simon Fraser University ...
Oct 4 2012, 12:13pm CDT
Full article at: New Scientist
Source: New Scientist
Source: Planet Save
Chorozinho-do-aripuanã is a small bird similar to the the Black-capped Antwren. It is one of 15 bird species new to science. More of them are pictured here. The birds were discovered across a span of twen ...
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Source: Survival International
Tribal peoples like the Soliga have been living with and protecting the wildlife in their forests for countless generations. A village belonging to the Soliga tribe in southern India has won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey ...
Full article at: Survival International
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Source: iStockAnalyst
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 /CNW/ - The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) announced today that it has awarded the National Audubon Society $60,000 under the SFI Conservation and Community Partnership Grant Program. The three-year proje ...
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Source: The Seattle Times
The event of my Saturday morning was the dock sale at Ocean Beauty Seafoods. Really it isn’t on a dock, but at a warehouse on a dirt road over the railroad tracks by the south end of the Ballard Bridge. I was late. The sale went from ...
Full article at: The Seattle Times
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Source: Delta Farm Press
How healthy are our forests? How vulnerable are they to fires, erosion and invasive flora and fauna? Well, consider that it’s early June and Western wildfires are already burning forests to a crisp. Just down the road f ...
Full article at: Delta Farm Press
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Source: The Hindu
The Great Indian Bustard, one of the endangered flying bird species in the world, will soon be tracked by satellite by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to understand the movement of this rare bird an ...
Full article at: The Hindu
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Source: London Free Press
Jody Allair is passionate about his birds. “Birding isn’t just about spring migration! The Long Point area is great after May,” says the biologist and science educator with the Port Rowan office of Bird Studies Canada. I put this claim to the test while ...
Full article at: London Free Press
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Source: Bennington Banner
Aldo Leopold, a famous conservationist, once wrote: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." This whole idea puts nature writers in an odd position. On the one hand, it’s our job to ...
Full article at: Bennington Banner
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Source: OpPapers.com
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on natural resources and energy. Include the following: Choose a specific ecosystem, such as a forest, grassland, or a marine or freshwater aquatic ecosystem. Identify ...
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