Observers are wondering where the acorns are in parts of Northern Virginia, according to this Washington Post article, Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop:
Whatever the reason for no acorns, foresters and botanists are paying attention.
But they say they’re not worried yet. “What’s there to worry about?” said Alan Whittemire, a botanist at the U.S. [...]
NPR’s Fresh Air program yesterday featured an interview with author, David Wilcove, about his book No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations
He told interesting stories about migrating animals including salmon, whales, and Tiger Salamanders. I especially liked hearing about California Gray Whales, one of conservations great success stories, and how [...]
Please see Golden Gate Audubon is calling for help reporting reporting oil and oiled wildlife at sites around the Bay. Follow the links on their site for ways to help with the oil spill. Here’s an excerpt of the information:
Things we need our volunteer leaders to do:
- Identify the species and location of [...]
Saturday morning update: This article from SFGate had details on volunteer classes happening this weekend. It seems that the coordination of volunteers is gaining momentum now; I recommend that you use this article as your guide for ways to help. It includes many of the links and phone numbers already posted here, as [...]
I’ve created a Flickr group, Cosco Oil Spill – San Francisco Bay, November 2007 , to collect photos documenting what’s happening related to the spill. Please DO post your photos of affected areas and wildlife. Photo documentation is often found to be useful in unexpected ways later.
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An oil spill tragedy in San Francisco Bay will have have effects on local wildlife for years. But what can we do for affected wildlife now? As satisfying as it might be to head out to the beaches and pick up oiled birds, it’s not what you want to do.
The fuel that has [...]
Lots of news articles out there recently about the Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, “planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011. Rapid progress has been made recently and this, the seventh edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,008,965 species. Please note that [...]
Swainson’s Hawks are among the long-distance migrating hawks that spend the breeding season in California. They’re returning to California now, and there’s interesting discussions about sightings and migration habits on the Calbirds list.
The Swainson’s Hawk could be a representative for the need to set ecological policies globally. Researchers tracked two Swainson’s hawk to [...]
EDGE stands for Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered, and the program to save them by the Zoological Society of London. Each animal is given a score for how evolutionarily distinct it is…animals with high scores are out on their own branches of the evolutionary family tree or phylogeny. This is combined with a [...]
I’m never quite sure whether I want to post the latest “hundreds of [insert animal] are being found dead.
But in this case I will…Rare Turtles Found Dead in Bangladesh:
Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh’s coast in the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official [...]
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