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Stubborn life

April 22, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
biogems, criticalhabitat, earthday2009, extinction, graywhale, hinesemeralddragonfly, marktwainnationalforest, peregrinefalcon, riverdolphin

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

Trouble to the left of me, trouble to the right...

January 13, 2008

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

Tags:
endangeredspecies, graywhale, offshoreoil, sakhalin, whales

John Platt, over at the Extinction Blog has an interesting item up about what the Korea Times calls "ghost whales" -- the elusive, mysterious, and highly endangered western pacific gray whale.  A close cousin of the more populous eastern pacific...continued

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Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
I grew up in New York City but spent my summers canoeing and hiking in...
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