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Posted byby John Tarantino
September 12, 2013

Looking Forward to International Coastal Cleanup Day 2013

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International Coastal Cleanup Day is just around the corner, and I’m excited to walk the shores of our local beaches at sunrise once again. Together with thousands of other volunteers,…

Animals

Posted byby Estel Masangkay
September 11, 2013

ENN Shines Spotlight on Crowdfunding Campaign “6 Oceans”

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Bubble Anemone in Indonesia. Photo Credit: Some rights reserved by prilfish via Flickr. “ENN is not in the business of assisting crowdfunding efforts. Now and then, however, an idea is…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
September 7, 2013

Six UK Coastal ‘Canaries in the Mine’ Species Highlight Risk from Climate Change

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United Kingdom’s increasingly dynamic coastline is putting wildlife and habitats at risk. This is the key finding of a recently released study from the National Trust, reports The Guardian. UK’s coastline is…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

Global Bird Populations Increasingly Threatened

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West Coast Sea Bird Endangered? The coastal waters and offshore islands of sunny California is home to the ashy storm-petrel – a small gray seabird who specifically hangs out in…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

South Africa Community Plants Forest To Save World’s Rarest Parrot

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To save the only parrot endemic to South Africa, local communities are planting trees critical to the iconic bird’s survival. National Geographic featured the plight of the South Africa’s Cape…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
July 1, 2013

Book Review of Mad Sheep

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A Fine Line Between Safety and Panic: A Sheep Story My grandmother’s first husband died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease, years before my grandmother married my…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
June 30, 2013

Forest Elephants In Danger With New Roads In Africa

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The African Forest elephant is a species under threat these days. Scientists in 1989 estimated there were 170,000 elephants left in the wild from approximately 700,000 a few decades ago.…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
July 17, 2012

Madagascar Lemurs Increasingly Endangered

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Of the 103 species of lemurs, over 90% should be on the Red List of Threatened Species. This is according to an assessment made by the Primate Specialist Group of…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
June 7, 2012

Red Pandas

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Kung Fu Panda’s small but terrible martial arts master Shifu would be glad. BBC News reports that a male red panda has been transferred from the Paignton Zoo in Devon to Galloway Wildlife Conservation…

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Posted byby John Tarantino
June 9, 2008

Endangered Giant Pandas

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One of the most adored and rare animals of the whole world is the Giant Panda. Their population is pretty alarming at a low 3,000. It is one of the…