Archive for September, 2008
Got Spew?
Last week, we announced our intention to help out financially struggling schools across the country by running our “Got Spew?” ad in school bathroom stalls.
Well, we’re now retracting our intention to run the ad. Not everywhere—oh, not by a long shot!—but in Tempe, Arizona, where a spew-y disaster has just taken place.
Earlier this week, some [...]
Animal Hero of the Year
In 1989, Amanda Lollar found an injured bat and saved it from a painful death. Soon after she founded what is now the world’s largest bat rescue group, Bat World Sanctuary (BWS).
Bat World Sanctuary saves thousands of bats around the world each year and provides refuge for bats retired from zoos, permanently injured, used in [...]
Palin’s Pro-Death Platform On Animals
Next Thursday, October 2, Washington University in St. Louis hosts the vice presidential debate featuring Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. Why should animal lovers care?
Let voters know about Governor Sarah Palin’s relentless assault on wildlife and environment. Whatever your political affiliation, Palin is clearly NOT the candidate for animals….and animals are the focus of this list.
Ant From Mars
A newly discovered species of a blind, subterranean predator — dubbed the “Ant from Mars” — is likely a descendant of one of the very first ants to evolve on Earth, a new study finds.
Christian Rabeling, an evolutionary biology graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, found the only known specimen of the [...]
Gray Wolves Back in Yellowstone
The reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone has become a rare success story in the battle to save endangered species in the United States.
In the early 20th century, the gray wolf was often hunted by settlers in the western United States who said the predators were killing off their livestock. By the 1970s there were [...]
Your Lands, Your Wildlife, Your Story
America’s unique wildlife and public lands create memorable moments for visitors every day. Have you had an amazing, moving or surprising wildlife moment in one of our National Forests or on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands?
Whether you’re a hunter or angler, a birder, hiker or photographer, tell us what motivates you to explore our [...]
Heaven or Hell at Iguazu Falls
I’ve heard so many times about sustainable investment and believed with all my heart in the common sense and human willingness to preserve nature only to further see the sustainable turning to unsustainable, that I am currently at the stage I believe pretty much nothing I read on sustainability projects. Not before I see results [...]