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Tigers Burning Bright

Can a Lama Save the Tiger? Last August, the Environmental Investigation Agency joined with the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) to investigate the trade in animal skins on the Tibetan...

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News of the Wild, 2/26/06

Any number of stories in the news this past week on fish and fisheries. As populations increase and fish stocks continue to decline, conflicts seem inevitable. The warning shots are already being fired...

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Actor, Activist Dennis Weaver Dead at 81

Television actor Dennis Weaver, Chester Goode of Gunsmoke and Sam McCloud of McCloud is dead of complications from cancer. Weaver became an environmental activist in the 80's and famously built his...

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Sharing the Fish: Talk and Action

There has been virtually no mention, anywhere, of the Sharing the Fish 2006 conference held this week in Fremantle, Western Australia. The lack of attention seems all the odder in view of already...

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Wild News: Year of the Turtle

We are familiar with the notion that the world sits on the back of a turtle, who sits on another, and so on. Like the supposed creation myth, today's Wild News is just turtles, all the way down. So...

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Nip It In the Bud

One election cycle ago, who would have believed that we would see a successful attempt to roll back reproductive rights spread like wildfire across the country? Impossible! Ridiculous! Alarmist talk!...

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5,738 Scientists Tell Senate: Keep the ESA Science-Based (Action!)

The story can be found at Environmental News Service:Scientists: Endangered Species Act Rewrite Must Be Science-Based Today every US Senator received a letter signed by 5,738 American biologists urging...

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Doctors Condemn Gitmo Forcefeeding

263 doctors have signed a letter appearing in The Lancet. (Free registration required.) The letter is short and direct.The World Medical Association specifically prohibits forcefeeding in the...

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Have you seen the stars tonight?

Nostalgia has never had much appeal for me. The old posters have frames around them now; they're historical artefacts, at least until prices rise a little on ebay. But music is different somehow. The...

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Wild News 3-12

Ladies and Gentlemen, please accept our apologies. We have now regained control of this diary, which resumes below.

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GOP Science Friday*

In scientific as in foreign policy, the administration continues to break new ground. First the Bush EPA ignored its own advisory panel on soot standards, prompting a rare public rebuke from the...

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Wild News 3-19

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise --William BlakeWangari Maathai, born on the first of April, remained true to her vision through years of harassment, beatings, death threats...

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UN: Bird Flu Threatens Biodiversity

As the virus continues to spread (see below), a press release from the UN Environment Programme highlights the threat H5N1 represents to wildlife worldwide:Experts attending the Convention on...

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GOP Science Friday

One More for the Roads Interior Secretary Gale Norton will be gone in a few days, and good riddance to her. On her way out the door, she has blown the environmental community one last kiss. With no...

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Cookies and Pretty Floors

To see what this has to do with cookies, jump the dots. We'll get to the floor later.

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Wild News 3-26

Scotland the GreenScottish National Heritage is asking the public and any interested groups for advice on what plants and animals in Scotland are most in need and worthiest of preservation. SNH has its...

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Kudos Kiribati!

The tiny island states of the Pacific are stepping up to the plate.The Republic of Kiribati announced on Tuesday the creation of the world's third largest marine protected area. At 73,800 square miles,...

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Sci Fri: Sex Change in the Dead Zone

The gender mutability of many fish in response to changing population density and other environmental factors is well known. It is one in the bag of tricks evolved to succeed in an environment that can...

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Local Heroes

You don't get their names. I won't tell you where they live. But I want to tell you about my three new heroes. Below, a very short diary.

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Wild News 4-7: McForest, McWorld

Eating the Amazon?Greenpeace takes on McDonald's:{T}o McDonald's and a handful of huge soya traders, the Amazon means something completely different. It means cheap land and cheap labour. Cheap land...

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You Go, Oslo!

the answer lies within . . . . -Cat Stevens Oslo has a new power plant up and running as of last week.The heat pump, a system of compressors and condensers, cost 90 million Norwegian crowns (US$13.95...

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Mr. Putin, Save Lake Baikal

State-owned Transneft is plowing ahead with its Siberian Pacific pipeline. The current projected route through the seismically unstable area will cross ten rivers feeding Lake Baikal and come within...

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Witness

Will we never have the sense to learn? That there's no gods    and there's precious few heroes But there's plenty on the dole   in the land o the leal And I'm damned sure    that there's plenty live...

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Mascots

Meet Yingying, one of the five official mascots brand symbols of the 2008 Olympics. If you have plenty of insulin on hand, you can visit the official site and read about all Five Friendlies. Look into...

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Real Family Values: Esera Tuaolo's New Book

I'm just your typical gay Samoan ex-nose guard trying to break into show business. --Esera TuaoloWhile writing a book, he might have added, working with the NFL and others on diversity issues, and...

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We're the Deciders

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with decisions.Canada Coho and Cod: A Decision Not to Protect The above quote is from a recent column by Terry Glavin on the decision by Canada to...

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A Drain Runs Through It

American Rivers has released its annual report: America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2006 (36-page pdf) At the top of the list this year is the Pajaro River, which flows into Monterey Bay. And the...

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Joy in Irkutsk: Putin Moves Pipeline

Kommersant's headline says it: Savior of the Baikal President Putin yesterday bowed to pressure from citizen groups including Greenpeace Russia and ordered pipeline monopoly Transneft to move the...

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Wild News: Mayday Odds and Ends

Below, more updates on the Year of the Turtle and other stray news.

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16,119 Species At Risk

"The 2006 IUCN Red List shows a clear trend: biodiversity loss is increasing, not slowing down," said Achim Steiner, Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). "The implications of this...

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An Appeal to YearlyKos

Please, please, please be careful with the media. YearlyKos will be a target-rich environment for those who wish us ill. They are legion, they understand how this works as well as we do, and not...

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Here's an Idea for YearlyKos

If you're gonna wave that flag, make sure it's made in the USA. At the last minute, I posted my open thread comment as a diary and it got quite a response. Below, my favorite comment.

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Peter Goldmark (WA-05): Who Will Support Vets?

The Peter Goldmark campaign website will shortly be adding its Issues page. If the latest addition to the site is any example of what we can expect, WA-05 is well on its way to returning to its...

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August 6, 1945

Below, a poem by Carah Ong.

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Project Runway Open Thread: Condi Couture

(In response to criticism that clothes and fashion threads were too frivolous for this august forum, we have this week incorporated serious political commentary into our Project Runway diary.  ---...

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Project Runway Open Thread 8/30

I have no idea what tonight's episode will be about. Actually forgot about this til just now, but thought we'd better get a thread up.(Needle and Thread, Claes Oldenburg - click for a different, hi-res...

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War: The Gift That Keeps On Giving.

A friend of mine is dying. He may be gone by the time you read this. We called each other brother, and meant it. He is dying of the war in Viet Nam. After many missions, he had never been hit by any...

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Project Runway Open Thread: Women Looking Good

Not many weeks left for our frivolous little thread. In an attempt to redeem ourselves, a serious question you can answer or not: What makes a woman look good? I'm no expert, but here's my suggestion:...

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"Whatever It Costs"

That is how much we must spend in the attempt to regain climate stability, according to John Ashton, the UK's special envoy for climate change, in the first of three articles on climate falling out of...

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Project Runway Open Thread 9/13

Who will be the special guests? And more importantly, who will be out an hour from now? It will be very surprising to this fan if it isn't either One Trick Uli or - forgive me - Kayne, Queen of  All...

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Project Runway: Green Is the New Black

(I wrote this before realizing there would be no new episode tonight, and decided to put it up anyway. Use the thread to commiserate.) Face it, you've got to wear something. But future generations may...

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No Wall (Action)

Unable and unwilling to unite behind comprehensive immigration reform, Congress is set to fall back on the tried and true: let some juicy contracts with money it doesn't have and scream about Security...

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Project Runway Open Thread: Say It Ain't So, Tim!

Spoilers will be troll-rated. It's all over the news. This season's Runway is hit again with sleaze and accusations of cheating. That, unfortunately, may decide who leaves this evening. (The photo from...

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While you were kvetching

Drought-Hit Australia Battles Climate Change Every four days, a farmer commits suicide under the stress of failing crops, dying livestock and debt as the worst drought in 100 years bites deep into the...

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Urgent Action Alert for Kids Only

Mollie Passacantando, speaking on the occasion of Climate Crisis Action Day in Washington recently: Let's face it people we all know polar bears can swim, but they can't swim forever. She has taken it...

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Breaking: Australia, US Agree to Cap and Trade Scheme

(Originally posted atTruth & Progress)In an amazing breakthrough, the Howard government and American officials have agreed to a deal that will rid both of inventory of a troublesome commodity with...

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Action: While we mourn the baiji

hundreds of sharks are being slaughtered daily for their fins in Ecuadorian waters. This is not a fishery. It is more like the mindless slaughter of the buffalo.In a cynical political ploy, President...

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For Carnacki

I am horrified by the hostile dissection of the American citizens of West Virginia on this site.These are not animals at the zoo for your entertainment on a Monday night when you are bored, and can't...

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pico's diary: possum is the real DE-AL

(pico is unable to post here today, so he emailed it in from his undisclosed location. The content is his; any typos or other defects are undoubtedly mine. --melvin)Please donate to possum securely at...

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possum fundraiser wrap up - taking it home

(Let's take it out with a little roots music. Click on them or don't, as it strikes you. I hope possum approves.)Last Chance! The auction ends soon on the gorgeous photos at the Jerry "Possum"...

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