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Meet the Scalloped Hammerhead

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

This shark's oddly shaped head is thought to be a mechanism to spread out its highly specialised sense organs, which amongst other things help it to detect electrical currents created by its prey. A useful skill to have when you have an entire ocean to scan for food! Where am I fo...

Orangutans in Indonesian Borneo doomed to extinction?

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

A comprehensive new study finds that orangutan populations in Indonesian Borneo are being diminished at unsustainable rates due to conflict with humans. The results suggest orangutans outside protected areas may be headed toward extinction. The study, published Friday in PLoS One, is based on 18 mo...

Hawaiian monk seal sliding towards extinction

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Hawaiian monk seals in a marine protected area are heading towards extinction, while those in a nearby unprotected area are thriving, according to new research. Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, the Hawaiian monk seal was persecuted in the past for its meat, hide and oi...

Hong Kong Runway Plan May Threaten Pink Dolphin

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Bloomberg's Paul Allen reports on Hong Kong airport’s proposed HK$136 billion ($17 billion) third runway. The airport may need to reclaim about 650 hectares of land from the sea to build the runway. Groups including Civic Party lawmakers have opposed the plan on concern about its effect on marine wi...

Why the Valley Should Care About Sharks

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The San Fernando Valley is home to Universal Studios, one of the most famous movie studios in the world. As a resident of Studio City, it is something I mention with pride to people I meet who are not from California. "Yes! I live right next to where all of your favorite movies were made!"...

Planet Without Apes

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Viewers of this summer’s Hollywood blockbuster “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million years ago, apes really did rule the planet. As many as 40 kinds roamed Eurasia and Africa between 10 and 25 million ...

Tiger Poachers caught in Thailand

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Two men suspected of killing endangered tigers in Thailand have been arrested, a U.S. conservation group said Thursday, and the key evidence turned out to be cell phone images of them with their prizes. A phone with the images was seized after a gun battle between Thai park rangers and suspected po...

Antarctic Again to Be Whaling Battleground

Posted by grant on Saturday, 16 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

ST. HELIER, Jersey, UK, July 12, 2011 (ENS) - The seas around Antarctica will be the scene of confrontations over whaling again this year. Japan will send its whaling fleet to the Antarctic again, a senior Japanese official has told BBC News, and the Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling vessels will be ther...

Loss of large predators disrupting multiple plant, animal and human ecosystems

Posted by grant on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The enormous decline of large, apex predators and "consumers" ranging from wolves to lions, sharks and sea otters may represent the most powerful impacts humans have ever had on Earth's ecosystems, a group of 24 researchers concluded today in a new report in the journal Science. The decline of such...

Japan, Sea Shepherd trade blows at whaling meet

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

SAINT HELIER, Jersey (AFP) – Japan and the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday swapped angry words at the world whaling conference here over the hunting of cetaceans around Antarctica. In a plenary session of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japanese delegation chief Kenji Kagawa ...

Sea Shepherd Tuna Battle off the Barbary Coast

Posted by grant on Monday, 27 June 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Saturday, June 11, 2011 Sea Shepherd’s Operation Blue Rage 2011 has certainly enraged Tunisian fishermen operating on Melita Bank, roughly 70 nautical miles off the Libyan coast and 20 miles inside the NATO no fly zone. At 0600 hours, the Sea Shepherd vessels Steve Irwin and Brigitte Bardot approa...

World’s Smallest Whale Population Endangered For Extinction

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

In a study released recently, the world’s smallest group of whale population known as Eubalaena japonica has its population dwindled to almost extinction. The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska once teemed with tens of thousands of North Pacific right whales. But hunting in the 19th century wi...

Gray Wolf Removed From Endangered Species List

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 06 May 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The 1,300 gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain region are considered recovered and are losing federal protection. The U.S. government said Wednesday it is formally removing about 1,300 gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain region from the endangered species list, acting on the orders o...

Italy's Rare Bear in Losing Battle Against Extinction

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

In the forests of Italy's Abruzzo National Park live one of the rarest creatures on Earth: the Marsican brown bear. For the last several decades the species has been on the brink of extinction -- with current estimates putting their population at less than 50 individuals, down from over 100 in the e...

Why Do Sea Turtles Need Solar Panels?

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 10 April 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Five things you may or may not know about sea turtles: They can live 80 years or longer. They're important to ocean and beach ecologies. They're immune to (and happily feed on) deadly box jellyfish. All seven species worldwide are either endangered or critically endangered. And solar panels might be...

10 Animals on the Brink of Extinction

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 03 April 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

1. Iberian lynx The Iberian (Spanish) lynx lives in very small areas of central and southern Spain (Andalucia). It used to live throughout Spain and Portugal but its numbers have been drastically reduced to the point where it is now one of the most endangered wild cats in the world. In the early...

Gray Wolves to Loose Federal Protection

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 19 March 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The species' endangered status will be lifted and wolf hunting will resume in Idaho and Montana under a settlement reached by wildlife advocates and the Interior Department. BILLINGS, Mont.—— Facing mounting pressure from Congress over gray wolves, wildlife advocates reached an agreement ...

Finding a Solution for Amur Tigers

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 25 December 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Critically endangered Amur tigers occasionally wander into remote villages Living within the habitat of a dangerous animal is not easy. But it is particularly challenging when that animal is the critically endangered Amur tiger. If a tiger wanders into a remote Russian villa...

Polar bears 'spotted swimming with cubs on back'

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 02 December 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Polar bears have been spotted carrying their cubs on their backs while they swim through icy waters, according to an article in UK online newspaper the Telegraph. According to the article, the practice is thought to be the result of the bears having to swim longer distances in the sea because of rec...

Wild Tigers Around the World

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

Next week may be make-or-break for the future of wild tigers around the world. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be hosting delegations from tiger-range countries for the first ever International Tiger Summit in Saint Petersburg. Heads of state from 13 tiger-range countries plus a...