Cook Inlet Beluga Whales
November 23rd, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Good news came out of Alaska recently when the Center for Biological Diversity announced that the State of Alaska’s challenge to “Endangered” status of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales had been rejected.
On November 21 of this year, a federal judge rejected the state of Alaska’s 2010 lawsuit that tried to strip Endange...
July 14th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Conservation groups are campaigning to get the BC government to introduce a law to protect 1,900 at-risk species. BC and Alberta are the only provinces in...
Tags: BC, Conservation, endangered, species
July 5th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Government officials, national and international NGOs, and academic researchers have banded together in an effort to save the endangered Nigeria-Cameroon Ch...
Tags: biodiversity, chimpanzees, Conservation, endangered
June 21st, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
One of the world’s rarest birds recently passed a key milestone – the Pale-headed Brush-Finch was downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered on...
Tags: American Bird Conservancy, birds, endangered
June 2nd, 2011 by Racquel Foran in General
To read the headlines one would think that oil is the world’s most important resource. Everything revolves around oil production and prices – the co...
Tags: endangered, oil, rivers, water
Lead Poisoning of Wildlife
April 14th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Three new scientific studies by University of California researchers confirm that lead poisoning of endangered California condors and other wildlife is due to scavenging animals ingesting fragments of spent lead hunting ammunition, reports the Center for Biologic...
Tags: California, Center for Biological Diversity, condor, endangered, EPA, lead, research, Wildlife
Turtles Conference
April 7th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Turtles are the oldest reptiles left on Earth, with the earliest species found to be almost 300 million years old. Today, many species need conservation help or they may not live to see the next century, reports a press release from the Singapore Zoo.
A four-day workshop involving international conserva...
Tags: Conservation, endangered, turtles
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 fi...
Tags: Climate Change, endangered, habitat loss, invasive, turtles
Palm Oil News
February 17th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
As forests around the world are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, any good conservation news seems like a ray of sunshine. Singapore-based Golden Agri-Resources has announced that it will work with the Indonesian government and green gr...
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
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
Conservation Leadership Program
September 5th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A conservation activity for Labor Day, the annual holiday that celebrates the economic and social achievements of workers, might be to watch a video about a program such as Birdlife International’s Conservation Leadership Program.
For 25 years, ...
Beluga Whales in Alaska
August 17th, 2010 by Susie Hill in Endangered Species
A half-dozen conservation groups, including the Defenders of Wildlife and Natural Resources Defense Council, recently filed a request in Washington, D.C. federal court to challenge the state of Alaska in its ongoing lawsuit which seeks to overturn the listing...
BC’s Endangered Species
August 5th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Caitlin Hill in Endangered Species
British Columbia is the most biologically diverse province in Canada, with two dozen unique mammal species in an array of habitats, according to the Sierra Club. While this is worthy of celebration, the fact that the province has hundreds of species...
