Turtle Trouble
March 3rd, 2011 by Susie Hill in Endangered Species
Trouble is brewing for turtle populations worldwide. A new report from The Turtle Conservation Coalition reveals that over 25 of the world’s known 328 species are currently endangered. The TCC endangered list was expanded to over 25 species for the first time this year, signifying a real crisis for our slow-moving fr...
Tags: Climate Change, endangered, habitat loss, invasive, turtles
February 22nd, 2011 by Maryam Fejvai in Endangered Species
Conservationists are petitioning the federal government to introduce the Florida panther into Southern Georgia, according to NaplesNews.com. The Cen...
February 14th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
National Geographic has published an online display of photos and information about the Ten Most Threatened Forest Hot Spots.
Along with the usual spots such as Madagascar, ...
Tags: condor, forest, giant sequoia, National Geographic, threatened
February 9th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The 1st Symposium on Conservation and Propagation of Endangered Species of Birds is occurring in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Sixty-five noted scientists and bird ex...
Tags: birds, breeding, Conservation, research
November 10th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
If any one animal could be credited with making me a wildlife conservationist, it would be tigers. Thus, the news from TRAFFIC about the plight of tige...
Tags: Conservation, tiger parts, tigers, TRAFFIC
Extinction Crisis
October 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
A study just publicized by the IUCN confirms that there is a current global extinction crisis with one-fifth of our world’s vertebrate (backboned) animal species threatened. The study used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe...
Tags: biodiversity, black footed ferret, Conservation, crisis, E O Wilson, extinction, IUCN, Nagoya, Red List
Biodiversity 100
October 13th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Endangered Species
The Guardian has published Biodiversity 100, a list of places in our world that require immediate preservation. The list calls on G20 countries to preserve and protect their biodiversity, and perform tasks that will show they are serious about protecting their ...
Tags: 100, biodiversity, boreal, bumblebee, caribou, Copenhagen, dolphins, forest, G20, government, Guardian, Nagoya, Our World 2.0
Snow Leopards & Scottish Cats
October 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The International Society for Endangered Cats Canada has several good videos on their website. Scroll down the page a bit and you’ll find them.
If you watch the Cutest Cat in the World video, you then get a choice of 7 more videos. My favorites a...
Tags: captive breeding, cats, endangered, Scottish, Snow Leopard, society, video, wild cat
Bird Conservation
September 30th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Susie Hill in Endangered Species
Comprehensive action plans have been put in place in South America and the United States to save the Cerulean Warbler and the Blue-Throated Macaw, two of our world’s most threatened birds.
Columbian conservation groups Fundacion ProAves and El Grupo ...
Tags: Audubon, bird, coffee, Conservation, habitat, Important Bird Area, macaw, National Geographic, warbler
Georgia Strait
September 29th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
“The last time anybody did a survey in the Puget Sound/Georgia Strait region, there were over 60 species that were considered at risk”, Christianne Wilhelmson, Georgia Strait Alliance’s Executive Director, told me yesterday. “At risk is a legal term base...
Tags: alliance, Georgia Strait, law, marine planning, Oceans Act, orca, species, Species at Risk
Florida Panther
September 28th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Endangered Species
Fifteen years after conservation managers made a desperate move to save the Florida panther from extinction, there’s good news. The Florida panther population has increased, and while the species is still threatened, the panthers have a better ch...
Tags: Conservation, Florida, habitat, panther, population
BC Endangered Species
September 21st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The Wilderness Committee is working with other leading environmental groups to establish some endangered species legislation in BC. Currently, BC and Alberta are the only two Canadian Provinces that lack such legislation.
As the Wilderness Committee suggests ...
Breeding Endangered Animals
September 20th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The Toronto Zoo manages captive breeding programs for most of their large mammals including the big cats, great apes, and giraffes. This can involve pregnancy checks, timed introductions, and hormone treatment, Gabriela Mastromonaco, Curator of Rep...
Tags: breeding, captive, endangered, habitat, Komodo dragon, tiger, Toronto Zoo
Endangered Turtles
September 13th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Caitlin Hill in Endangered Species
Conservation International has announced that over a third of approximately 280 species of freshwater turtles throughout the world are threatened with extinction, reports the BBC. The freshwater turtle populations are being destroyed by a combination o...
Tags: BBC, Conservation International, freshwater, turtle
Tiger Conservation and China
September 1st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
There’s a glimmer of hope coming from Chinese and Indian officials meeting in Beijing to discuss business interests and wildlife conservation, according to MSN News.
The two countries are hoping to approve a protocol that includes shared actions to figh...
Tags: China, Conservation, Global Tiger Forum, India, poaching, Siberian, tiger, Wildlife
