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Recent Links Tagged "wildlife"

Stricter study of Baca refuge drilling urged - The Denver Post

tags:
wildlife, baca_nwr, publiclands, energy

Cool: U.S. agencies actually call for TOUGHER environmental review of plans to drill in a national wildlife refuge. Especially cool: BioGems activists helped make it happen!

Reuters: Court blocks Navy sonar use to protect whales

tags:
sonar, whales, marinemammals, oceans, wildlife

A federal judge sides with NRDC -- and whales -- and bans the use of harmful high intensity sonar during upcoming naval exercises off southern California. (Background: http://urltea.com/15o5)

Be fruitful, and replenish the earth | | Guardian Unlimited Arts

tags:
photography, Salgado, Genesis, Galapagos, nature, wildlife

Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado devotes the last of his great documentary projects to recording "the unblemished faces of nature and humanity." His first stop in the eight-year photographic journey is the Galapagos Islands -- see the photos from

NY Times: Millions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight

tags:
endangeredspecies, wildlife, conservation, extinction, birds, audubon

Verlyn Klinkenborg: "We look around us, expecting the rest of the world’s occupants to adapt to the changes that we have caused, when, in fact, we have the right to expect adaptation only from ourselves."

YouWild.org

tags:
environment, kids, fun, children, wildlife, endangeredspecies, ESA

Wanna see what you'd look like as a chimp? "YouWild" -- somewhere between a wildlife campaign and a classic Internet timesuck -- will blend a critter's face with a photo of yours. giving you an image you can send to friends or save to your MySpace, etc.

ENN: World Owl Hall of Fame

tags:
owls, wildlife, recovery

This year's inductee into the World Owl Hall of Fame is going to be difficult to top -- Owly, a visually impaired short-eared owl, inspired an autistic child to speak.

Female Troubles for Wildlife Raise Human Worries

tags:
endocrine, disruptors, wildlife, environment, female, women

Synthetic chemicals in the environment are making animals' hormones go haywire. What might this mean for female humans?

Gombe Chimpanzee Blog

tags:
chimpanzees, Jane, Goodall, wildlife, blog, tanzania, googleearth

daily chimp drama brought to you by researchers from the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe, Tanzania. You need Google Earth to read the full blog posts.

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Aquarium Exhibits - Jellies: Living Art

tags:
aquarium, oceans, jellies, art, nature, wildlife

photos and videos of pretty, pretty jellyfish. i wasn't expecting to spend more than a minute on this site, but it was entrancing.

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