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The Truth About Sharks

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 27 July 2009 in Animals

With Shark Week beginning on August 2 right around the corner and the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 on the legislative table, shark conservation has been at the center of many ocean advocacy groups. Including Oceana, the largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, who...

Watching Whales Watching Us in California

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

Joel ReynoldsDirector of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CAPosted July 13, 2009 in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild PlacesIn yesterday's New York Times Magazine ("Watching Whales Watch Us"), author Charles...

To Save Animals, Put a Price on Them

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

By Brandon KeimFebruary 24, 2009Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed. By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create a market in the future of threatened animals, ma...

Want a Chimp? Endangered Animals for Sale Online

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Animals

By Alexis MadrigaMaybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report. Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welf...

Emergency Funds Sought in US to Save Bats (and people from bugs)

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 in Animals

This is serious stuff, bats are dying from a fungus called white nose syndrome. Congressional members from 13 states in the US as asking the Obama administration for emergency funding to keep bats alive. A half million have already died. The bats are a vital link in the ecosystem as they feed on bu...

CWC invites you to Walk on the Wild Side

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 in Animals

Please join hundreds of wildlife advocates who are walking to support our native animals on Sunday, May 3 at Zuma Beach, Malibu. The money raised from CWC Walk on the Wild Side® will go directly to funding the free services and programs CWC provides, including paramedic rescue and rehabilitation fo...

The State of American Birds

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 in Animals

20-03-2009 A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...

The Season of Killing Baby Seals has Begun

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 March 2009 in Animals

Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...

Monkeys teach their young to floss

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 13 March 2009 in Animals

KYOTO (Japan) - THAI monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss - proof that primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher says. 'I was surprised because teaching techniques on using tools properly to a third party are said to be an activity carried out only by human...

Stingrays: Protect and Respect - Steve Irwin and Giants!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 05 March 2009 in Animals

By Laura Tull Stingrays are fascinating animals, brought to the attention of the media by a true accident with the death of Steve Irwin, and by recent discoveries of Giant Stingray's in Thailand. Though related to the sharks they are not as aggressive and are not prone to attack humans. They are ne...

Songbirds, Mighty Migrators

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 in Animals

Tiny songbirds such as martins and thrushes migrate as much as 311 miles a day according to the first study by biologists tracking such birds in their annual winter migration and back. One industrious martin flew 4,660!!!!!!!!!! miles from the Amazon basin to Pennsylvania. Bridget Stutchbury York U...

New Sea Creatures Found and Barrier Reef in Deep Trouble

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 18 January 2009 in Animals

Scientists find new creatures of Australian deep reported, Sydney (AFP) Jan 18, 2009 A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast of the southern island of Tasmania to "search for life deeper than any previous voyage in Australian waters," lead researcher Ron Thresher said....

A Whale of a Violation

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 in Animals

The Canadian government is being sued by environmentalists demanding they use the countries' Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of 8 environmental groups recently filed the suit to force officials to use the legislation to safequard the habitat o...

FISH BIG and small in Big Trouble

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 in Animals

About 4 out of 10 freshwater fish species in North America are in peril according to major study by Canadian, US and Mexican scientists. See The Associated Press, Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 9 11 08 for more. When will we get it, waterways are not toilets. Pollution kills and hurts the econom...

A Cause for Celebration-125,000 Gorillas Found

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 04 August 2008 in Animals

Wildlife-Conservation Society and Republic of Congo said new census counted 125,000 newly discovered gorillas. Western lowland gorillas were believed to have been reduced by 50% due to hunting and disease. Primatologists in Edinburgh, Scotland warn that nearly half of the world's 634 types of prima...

Bees

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 21 July 2008 in Animals

19,200 distinct species of bees have been mapped by the American Museum of Natural History! That is good news for farmers and all of us whose food and landscaping depend upon bees to make it happen. There has been a worry about collapse of honeybee colonies necessary to pollinate. Bees have more sp...