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
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 Green Enterprise , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I saw an interesting article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune about an Endangered Species Act lawsuit challenging the construction of a wind farm in West Virginia. The suit alleges that the project has violated the Act by failing to get a...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Andrew Revkin just posted a nice link to a recent response by one of the world's foremost polar bear experts to an attack on global-warming based predictions of polar bear declines. The original critique was written by J. Scott Armstrong,...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The wolves of the northern Rockies have been kicked off the endangered species list. NRDC is going to court to fight for them. Join Andrew Wetzler, director of NRDC's endangered species project, for a special live chat at 2 p.m....continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Ralph Maughan links to a very important article by the AP's Matthew Brown in today’s Casper-Star Tribune on the connection between increasing human-bear conflicts (guess what, the bear loses) and the decline of high alpine whitebark pine trees. As...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As Josh pointed out, yesterday NRDC filed a lawsuit challenging the critical habitat designation of the tidewater goby, a small fish, unique to its genus, that can only be found in the brackish estuaries, salt marshes, and lagoons along...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Predictably, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent decision to strip wolves of Endangered Species Act protections in Montana and Idaho—but to leave those protections in place in Wyoming—not only angered us, but plenty of folks in Wyoming as well; and...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
As expected, today the Secretary of the Interior officially made available the final rule removing the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves from the list of federally endangered species in Montana and Idaho. The rule will take effect...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
When I was in law school, it was very common for professors to begin a classroom discussion of some theoretical topic or another by saying: “The conventional wisdom is….” This was always a sure sign that, whatever the conventional wisdom,...continued→
