Archive for February, 2007
Land programme
We Need To Buy Land Such As this To Protect Pumas, Eagles, Condors,Armadillos, Guanaco, Small Deer [Pudu], Wild Boar, Red Deer, Skunk, Wolves & Wildcat.
Steppe is the typical environment of most of Patagonia, & covers a huge area of land. It is one of the biggest single habitats in the entire world & is around [...]
Heritage sites in flashlight
Lot1(a)”The Caves of the Painted Hands” are World renowned & generate continuous global publicity from TV, newspapers, academia, artistic comment & [currently] from postage stamps portraying the World famous paintings. The name of the surrounding host conservation range-park will be forevermore associated with “The Caves of the Painted Hands”.
Lot 1(b). Los Pinos. Here are 108 [...]
Asian Elephants
Cultural Importance: Humans use elephants in Asia to log forests, transport heavy loads and carry tourists. Elephants can walk in areas where machines are unable to navigate. About 15,000 Asian elephants are held in captivity as work animals. Elephants are important in Asian folklore and religion. They are believed to be cousins of the clouds [...]
Wild horses and environment
The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act recognizes the wild horse as an “integral component of the natural system.” It stipulates that horses can only be removed from public lands if it is proven that they are [...]
Origins of bats
Evolution is a word saturated with meanings. To some it connotes a progressive diversification of life culminating with Homo sapiens, to some the development of a system or an idea. Charles [...]
Cheetah’s plight
The cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, is the sole member of its genus. Twenty thousand years ago, cheetahs roamed throughout the savannahs and plains of four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
About 10,000 years ago - because of climate changes - all but one species of the cheetah, jubatus, became extinct. With the drastic [...]
Snow leopard
The endangered snow leopard survives among the highest mountain peaks in the world. Perfectly adapted to its harsh mountain environment the snow leopard’s only threat is from humans. With as few as 3,500 of these mystical cats left in the wild they need our help. See www.snowleopard.org to learn more about how you [...]