Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Lizards. My first love. I know, but it’s true. And not just any lizards, but Sceloporus lizards. I mean look at this guy. Think his camouflaged ways make him too drab? Flip him over and take a look at...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) announced that it has determined whitebark pine – a high elevation pine found throughout much of the western US and Canada – is endangered throughout its Canadian range...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There are many reasons that Pebble Mine, the proposed copper and gold mine in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay area, would threaten one of the most productive salmon fisheries in the world. As we have been highlighting here, operation of the...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
We have written before about Wildlife Services – the agency within the US Department of Agriculture that is responsible for, among other things, severely depleting ecologically important predator populations largely in an effort to aid private livestock interests. They accomplish...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
When discussing the value of preserving grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, Aldo Leopold once remarked, “Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.” Many of us who live in the...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Two weeks ago I reported that white-nose syndrome had been documented in Hellhole Cave – West Virginia’s largest and most important cave – home to half of the world’s remaining population of endangered Virginia big-eared bats. I also pointed out...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Although wolf hunting season is not yet closed in certain areas of the west, both Idaho and Montana are setting their sights on new ways to reduce their wolf populations. Last week, Matt pointed to a resolution by Idaho’s legislature...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Over a year ago, we submitted a petition to list whitebark pine as endangered on the Endangered Species List. By law, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is supposed to issue an initial determination on whether the petition may be...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This type of news is bound to keep coming as bats begin to emerge from hibernation and scientists continue to discover more and more caves that now harbor the deadly whitenose syndrome. The white fungus that has already killed over...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Some pieces of the mysterious puzzle known as white-nose syndrome - the disease that is devastating bat population in the northeastern US - are beginning to fall into place, though as of yet, the picture is still unclear. Several reports are...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
By now most of you have heard of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) – the mysterious condition that is causing the precipitous decline of honey bees. In the US, these honey bees are not native and were brought here from Europe...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Not too long ago we introduced you to the false killer whale and the unique population that resides only around the Hawaiian Islands. We also pointed out the decline that this population has experienced over the last two decades and...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Recently, I wrote about the ecological importance of predators to their ecosystems and why NRDC is concerned with the practices of the predator control program administered by Wildlife Services. As this agency is part of the US Department of Agriculture,...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earlier this week we ran a post about Wildlife Services and the number of predators that they eliminate each year through various means. At NRDC we have a number of concerns about Wildlife Services’ predator control practices from their use...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This weekend as my little goblin and I make our way out into the night in search of treats, there may be more witches and ghosts than bats for us to keep an eye out for. That's because in three...
