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A step forward for polar bears but a cloud on the horizon for, well, everything

October 7, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:: barcelona08, criticalhabitat, extinction, IUCN, polarbears, worldconservationcongress

Today’s wildlife news is a mix of the encouraging and the daunting. One the one hand, polar bear conservation took a modest but important step forward yesterday, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to designate “critical habitat” for...continued→

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Two new shark species discovered

February 29, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:: carpetsharks, endangeredspecies, IUCN, newspecies, overfishing, redlist, shark, wobbegong

Researchers in Australia recently announced the discovery of two new species of wobbegong (or carpet) sharks, which they have named the "floral banded wobbegong" and "dwarf spotted wobbegong." As the name suggests, the dwarf spotted wobbegong is a smaller cousin...continued→