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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Another month’s worth of reasons to have a little smile on your face, wildlife-wise: Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay are making a comeback after a successful effort to create artificial reefs where harvesting is prohibited. One hundred and eighty million...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Do you ever get tired of all reading bad news about endangered wildlife? I know I do. So I thought I might start a regular feature (of course, what exactly “regular” means is yet to be determined): “Wildlife Roundup: the...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday’s NOAA Report on the impact of global warming is a humdinger. What especially caught my eye was a graphic in the regional report on the impact a warming world will have on Illinois and Michigan. As you can see,...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 , U.S. Law and Policy
Dr. Mathew Cronin had an opinion piece in yesterday's Seward Phoenix on the Endangered Species Act that's pretty thin gruel (hat tip: PLF on ESA). Mostly, it amounts to a policy argument that the law should not be used...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday, NRDC, the Center for Biological Diversity and our partners settled our lawsuit against the California Fish and Game Commission and the California Department of Fish and Game over the use of lead ammunition by hunters in California condor...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Today’s AP reports that aerial surveys conducted by the Minerals Management Service on August 16 recorded 9 polar bears swimming far from shore or any pack ice. As Arctic sea ice disappears, recording incidents of such long-distance swimming is becoming...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
They never cease to amaze. The Bush Administration apparently decided sometime last fall that it will no longer accept any public comments on proposed Endangered Species Act regulations by e-mail or fax. I stumbled on this change when looking at...continued→
