Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Amidst all the well-deserved concern for wildlife and species loss, it’s good to be reminded every once and a while that life is stubborn. I was reminded of life’s persistence today, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally began...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Olivia Judson, a blogger on natural history and evolution for the New York Times has a terrific piece up today about wildlife extinction. Wandering though a display of extinct animals in the Natural History Museum of Paris, Judson muses:But to...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Well, so much for a happy Endangered Species Day. Today, the BBC reports that, according to the Zoological Society of London, the world's wildlife populations have declined twenty-five to thirty-percent in the last thirty years. The editor and lead author...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This week brought the sad news of another possible extinction--this time of Franklin's bumblebee, once endemic to southern Oregon and northern California. (Hat tip: John Platt.) Recent surveys have failed to sight any Franklin's bumblebees and only a single worker bee...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Well, it's official. After weeks of searching, scientists have declared the Yangtze River dolphin (or baiji) extinct. Weighing up to 500 pounds, thousands of baiji could once be found in the Yangtze River but hunting, destructive fishing practices, and industrialization...continued→
