Archive for September, 2007
Adopt a Puma to Save the Species
Adopt a Puma to save the species
This World Wild Foundation Puma Programme acts to financially compensate ranchers for cattle and sheep that are killed for food by the Southern Puma. This way the Southern Puma will not be shot or poisoned by the ranchers and the ranchers do not lose financially.
You can help by adopting [...]
Don’t Treat our Soils like Dirt
Climate Change Means Soil Change.
Worms, bacteria and beetles living below ground are part of the largest and least known treasure-trove of life on earth that could have spin-offs from farming to pharmaceuticals, the UN said.
Climate change is provoking changes in the insect population & in the types of insect that populate the various regions of [...]
Yapok- the Only Aquatic Marsupial
The name “yapok” is derived from the Oyapock River in northern South America. Yapoks are found in Central and South America, from southern Mexico and Belize through all of Central America, and into Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, and Northern Argentina. But in fact, the yapok is what you may know as [...]
Atlantic’s Weird Creature
August 22, 2007—With a fearsome grin fit for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world’s most remote locations.
An international team of 31 researchers found this and other strange animals while exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range that runs from Iceland to the Azores islands [...]