Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This month’s news about wildlife and wildlife habitat that you can feel good about: Scotland just announced an ambitious plan to create the Great Trossachs Forest by systematically restoring over 24,000 acres of forest, grassland, and wetland habitat in western Scotland....continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment
As I’ve noted, the last couple of weeks have been good ones for the polar bear, with the Obama Administration proposing both the designation of over 200,000 square miles of critical habitat the bear and increased international restrictions on polar...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Investor’s Business Daily just published a foolish editorial about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent proposal to designate over 200,000 square miles of Alaskan coast and sea ice as “critical habitat” for the State’s beleaguered polar bear population. The...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears. First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Big, big news out of Washington, D.C. today on the topic of polar bear conservation. The United States, responding to NRDC, our allies, and more than 50,000 NRDC members, announced that it would propose placing the polar bear on Appendix...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. The review will take about a year...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There’s an interesting article in Scientific American’s 60-Second Science blog about the influx of wolf-coyote hybrids (known as coywolves) into the Northeast. The new arrivals seem poised to fill a niche left open by the eradication of their wolf cousins...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In a world where marketing is everything, the false killer whale (or pseudorca) might want to consider a name change. “Real” killer whales had a hard enough time with it, until Shamu and Willy came along, and at least...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Olivia Judson has a very nice post up at the New York Times today about the role of predators in ecosystems. She points out all the ways that predators effect the behavior of a host of different animals--from elk...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Another installment in our monthly series: good news stories about wildlife conservation. Scientists in Hawaii have, for the first time, collected a specimen of a never before classified species of butterfly fish while exploring the new Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. ...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Like Matt, I was disappointed to find out yesterday that Federal District Judge Donald Molloy will let wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana continue. But I think there’s more good news in the decision than bad. Don’t get me...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Arguably, one the most successful international environmental agreements, at least when it comes to wildlife, is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or “CITES” (pronounced “cy-tees”). CITES is designed to control international commercial trade in endangered species,...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Another month’s worth of reasons to have a little smile on your face, wildlife-wise: Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay are making a comeback after a successful effort to create artificial reefs where harvesting is prohibited. One hundred and eighty million...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Years ago, when I first moved to the Midwest (Columbus, Ohio, to be more precise) from California one of the first things I noticed was the corn. Not corn fields, mind you, although there were plenty of those, but corn...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Those of you following NRDC’s battle to prevent the termination of federal protections for the Northern Rocky Mountains population of gray wolves may have recently read about the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, which just set a quota for wolf...continued→
