Articles tagged “Endangered Species”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Save Russia's Strange, Beautiful, Endangered Saiga Antelope (Photos) By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors May 13 2011 Saiga antelope: Critically endangered, with horns used for medicine. Can Ecotourism be a cure? + READ MORE

2 Girl Scouts Compel Kellogg's to Take a Stance on Palm Oil By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Mar 19 2011 According to Grist, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen to motivate Girl Scouts USA to switch to cookies made with healthier alternatives like olive or canola oil. + READ MORE

Top 7 Sustainable Travel Destinations By Rebecca Lange IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 2 2011 Many of us love to travel, but don't love the negative impact our traveling has on the environment. All the cars, trains and planes we use require energy and are ever-increasing our carbon footprint. And while going on vacation may still require hopping on a plane or getting in the car, there are plenty of destinations to visit that can contribute to saving the environment. + READ MORE

Eco-Tourism 2.0: Vacation Alongside Your Favorite Wild Animals By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 1 2011 Here's a new mode of travel that will please animal-lovers, kids, conservationists and armchair conservationists (like myself) alike: it's appropriately called conservation travel. And it's carving its deserved place in the tourism landscape, providing a refreshing alternative to beach-y, all-inclusive packages and other Plain Jane, been-there, done-that trips. + READ MORE

Peru's Lake Titicaca Frogs Are Still Made Into Soup, But They're Making a Comeback By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 14 2011 These frogs come from (giggle worthy) Lake Titicaca in Peru. But they're made into soup by locals who believe they have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties. + READ MORE

Eagles Believed Extinct Found in Belize By Care2.com IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 4 2011 Several Harpy eagles have been discovered in Belize’s Maya Mountains for the first time in 60 years. The eagles were believed extinct in the country, due to habitat loss and overhunting. + READ MORE

Polar Bear Swims 426 Miles and Other Staggering Animal Treks By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 2 2011 Animals that have turned up shockingly far from home -- and in most cases, we have no idea how or why. + READ MORE

Arizona Restaurant Takes Lion Meat Off the Menu By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Jan 28 2011 “Due to concern for safety of our families, customers, vendors, and friends we will not be selling African Lion Tacos.” + READ MORE

Snake River Salmon Make 'Great Migration' of 900 Miles, But Are Going Belly Up (Video) By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 27 2011 Snake River salmon are in peril, from obstacles along a 900-mile journey to their high-altitude spawning grounds. It's a dam shame. + READ MORE

4 Plants Saved from Extinction by the Endangered Species Act By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jan 26 2011 Read about four plants saved from the brink of extinction by the Endangered Species Act. + READ MORE

Endangered Whooping Cranes Make Multi-State Journey Before They're Shot and Killed By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 25 2011 Whooping cranes have bounced back from the brink of extinction, but a few were recently gunned down in Georgia. + READ MORE

The World's 6 Most Endangered and Dangerous Animal Habitats By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 5 2011 The reasons that animals get to be on the endangered list are many and complex, but habitat and lack of safe refuge have a lot to do with it. + READ MORE

Get Your Endangered Species On - With Free Condoms By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Dec 30 2010 Endangered Species Condoms "highlight how unsustainable human population growth is driving species extinct at a cataclysmic rate." + READ MORE

Elephants Need Your (and Washington's) Help By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 22 2010 Ivory may be mostly illegal to buy and sell, but the thriving illicit trade, and legal loopholes, make protecting endangered elephants a difficult, and sometimes failing, task. + READ MORE

Meet Chris Zimmerman, Conservation Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Dec 9 2010 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) certainly doesn’t lack in the talented conservationist department. First we highlighted Change Maker Ann Snook, a TNC Program Manager fighting for indigenous protected land in the Maya Forest. Now, we present Chris Zimmerman who’s championing conservation efforts local to New York like the healthy, long life of Karner Blue Butterflies whose populations were on the decline and deemed federally endangered. + READ MORE

5 Reasons You Should Not Release Your Pet Into the Wild By NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 8 2010 People release their pets into the wild for a variety of reasons, but there are some very good reasons not to. Introducing new animals into an environment throws off the balance of the ecosystem, and many pets aren't equipped for survival in the wild. + READ MORE

What One Project in India is Doing to Save Gibbons, the World's Most Endangered Primates By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 25 2010 Gibbons are some of the most under-loved, and in at least some cases the most endangered, primates in the world. They live in rainforests stretching from northeast India to Indonesia and parts of China, and while some people might mistake them for monkeys, they're not. + READ MORE

3 Things We Know About Colony Collapse Disorder, and 2 Things We Don't By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 14 2010 If nothing is done to eradicate CCD, honeybees are not going to survive in North America. What does a recent study into the cause of CCD really prove, and how much exactly do we know about the crisis facing bees? + READ MORE

5 Animals Used and Abused in the Most Shocking Ways By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 11 2010 When you see "no animal testing" on a product label, you might think about experiments on rats or mice. But all kinds of animals are used for all kinds of purposes, some a little more shocking than others. From dogs to chimps, animals are used in ways the public almost never sees. + READ MORE

Help Save Tigers with One Text (and $10) By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 9 2010 The World Wildlife Fund's Year of the Tiger Campaign aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, and they're calling on everyone to donate $10 to the cause with a simple text message. + READ MORE