http://forests.org/ Vast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News and Information -- http://forests.org/ Forests.org a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://forests.org/news/forestsnewsfeed.gif http://forests.org/ Guardian: England was given an uncomfortable reminder last week of the impact of its swelling number of inhabitants. Over the past two millennia, hundreds of its native plants and animals have been rendered extinct because the human population has risen from about one million to more than 51 million. Victims have ranged from the great auk and the lynx to the humble blue stag beetle and Davall's sedge. More to the point, 480 of the 492 species made extinct since Roman times have disappeared in ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/14/threat-english-plants-species-wildlife http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155030 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farming habitat plants wildlife | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Robin McKie) Daily Comet: The conveyances room of the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse used to bustle with abstractors researching potential lease properties for oil-and-gas companies. Today, the room is much quieter, and veteran abstractor David Toups spends less time there. Instead, he`s providing the same service from his office, looking at similar records electronically from north Louisiana parishes like Caddo and Red River. He estimates that 20 to 30 percent of his business is researching natural gas ... http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100314/ARTICLES/100319683/1214?Title=Natural-gas-development-brings-mixed-impacts http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155056 14 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST natural gas development impact | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Comet: Kathrine Schmidt) Monroe News: Lake Erie was shrouded in fog Friday, but its future waters might be a muddier brown or an eerier bright green due to persistent pollution and climate change, experts suggest. The lake, especially its shallowest western basin bordering Monroe County and northwest Ohio, is suffering from farm-related and other runoff that threatens to return its health to that of the 1970s when it was written off as dead. "We don't want to be responsible for writing Lake Erie's obituary again," said ... http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100313/NEWS01/703139975 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155000 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST water lake Erie quality | North America | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Monroe News: Charles Slat) Journal Star: The neighborhood where Tyrone Hayes grew up was developed by draining a swamp. He spent his youth fascinated with frogs, turtles, snakes and lizards that shared his stomping ground. Hayes graduated from Harvard University with a major in evolutionary biology, earned a Ph.D. at 24 and became the youngest tenured professor at the University of California-Berkeley. He became a world expert on frog development. Then he met atrazine, an herbicide used on more than 70 percent of ... http://www.pjstar.com/news/x90198110/Is-herbicide-atrazine-bad-for-you http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155065 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST herbicide atrazine | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Journal Star: Clare Howard) Record-Eagle: A local environmental group is increasingly worried that Traverse City Light & Power is on an unstoppable fast track to building a local wood-burning power plant, but the public utility insists a decision hasn't been made. Light & Power officials are expected to decide next month whether to construct a biomass plant in Traverse City. The facility would be fired on wood, but could accept designated fuel crops or other items. Officials recently released a consulting firm's ... http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_072220517.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155067 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST biomass energy ill-conceived | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Record-Eagle: Art Bukowski) Associated Press: A new report says birds that live in and visit Louisiana's badly damaged and eroding coast are threatened by climate change. On Louisiana's coast, sea level rise and the loss of habitat will threaten migratory songbirds, ocean bird species and waterfowl, according to Melanie Driscoll, director of bird conservation at the Louisiana Audubon Society. The report, "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change," was released Thursday. A 2009 report on bird populations ... http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12134951 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155016 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds coastal | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Herald: Government has called on farmers to adjust to changing weather patterns and become more scientific in their approach to agriculture. In a speech read on his behalf by Mr Collins Mungate, a senior official in the Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity, Minister Webster Shamu said Zimbabwe -- like all other countries in the region -- was affected by the effects of global warming and climate change. "Our rainfall pattern, amount and distribution of rain have changed ... http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=16496&cat=1 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154997 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farmer weather patterns changing | Africa | Zimbabwe info@ecologicalinternet.org (Herald: none given) Daily Comet: The combined forces of climate change and land loss pose a major threat to Louisiana bird species, especially those that depend on the disappearing coast, according to a report released Thursday by a partnership of university bird researchers, federal agencies and environmental groups. The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change," released Thursday by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, was prepared by a partnership of university bird researchers, federal agencies and ... http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100313/ARTICLES/100319729/1026?p=1&tc=pg http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154993 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds endangered | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Daily Comet: Nikki Buskey) New York Times: Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report. The department's annual State of the Birds report shows that nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or suffering from population decline. For the first time, the report adds climate change to other factors threatening bird ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/earth/13brfs-CLIMATECHANG_BRF.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154976 13 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds stress | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: John M. Broder) Reuters: Kenya Friday underlined its strong opposition to any move to lift a ban on trading ivory ahead of a meeting on endangered species. The Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is due to meet on March 13 in Qatar. A nine-year ban on ivory sales was agreed in 2007 under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species. Kenya relies heavily on tourism to earn foreign exchange and many visitors come to the country to visit its numerous game ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B3UV20100312?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154961 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ivory trade resumption oppose | Africa | Kenya info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) New York Times: Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report. The latest version of the department's annual State of the Birds report shows that nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or suffering from population decline. For the first time, the report adds climate change to ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/earth/13birds.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154860 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds migratory threatened | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: John M. Broder) Agence France-Presse: Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released. "For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses," Salazar said. "Now they are facing a new threat -- climate change -- that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towards extinction." Birds that depend upon the ocean for survival "are among ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100312/ts_alt_afp/environmentclimateusbirds http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154856 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds extinction | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: none given) Telegraph: The "kings of the forest" have been spotted on roundabouts, in cemeteries and on golf courses as the population explodes across the UK. The animals not only damage trees and spread disease but are responsible for causing more than 74,000 road accidents every year, including up to 20 fatalities. The problem is so bad that a major conference is being held this weekend in Warwickshire, Deer Management 2010, to work out the best way to deal with "urban deer". Experts from ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7429164/Urban-deer-a-growing-problem-for-UK.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=155023 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wildlife deer trade | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Independent (UK): A type of degradable plastic bag that was supposed to be better for the environment may not be completely biodegradable, a Government-commissioned study has found. The bag is made with metal salts that are supposed to accelerate degradation, but scientists found the material was not fully biodegradable and might contaminate the way plastics are recycled. Hundreds of millions of plastic bags and packaging items have been produced by the process, and they are widely used by some of the ... http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/green-plastics-may-be-worse-for-environment-1920707.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154979 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST plastic green bad environment | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Independent (UK): Steve Connor) BBC: Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died over the last three months at a zoo in north-eastern China. The local authorities believe that a lack of food contributed to their deaths, according to media reports. The news is bound to raise concerns about the treatment of captive tigers in China, which is this year celebrating the year of the tiger. China has only about 50 tigers left in the wild, but it has about 5,000 in captivity. The tigers died at the Shenyang Forest ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8563673.stm http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154953 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tigers Siberian zoo die | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Michael Bristow) New York Times: Facing legal challenges and growing deficits, South Florida water officials on Thursday gave themselves six more months to finance a controversial $536 million purchase of land from United States Sugar for the Everglades. The unanimous vote by the nine-member board of the South Florida Water Management District will keep the deal alive, but officials said they continued to struggle with whether the agency could afford it. "From an economic point of view, these are unpleasant ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12florida.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154933 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST everglades restoration | North America | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Damien Cave) BBC: Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause. A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings. This shrinkage has occurred within just half a century, with the birds thought to be evolving into a smaller size in response to warmer temperatures. However, there is little evidence that the change is harmful to the birds. Details of ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8560000/8560694.stm http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154916 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds shrink | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: Matt Walker) Guardian: It is a familiar story in the climate change debate. The US government is at odds with the rest of the world and, despite criticism, wants other countries to change their minds and fall in line behind Uncle Sam. This time, the tale comes with an unexpected twist. This weekend, the US will warn that the threat from climate change to the survival of the polar bear is so great that the world must grant it the highest possible protection. At the meeting of the international body ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/12/polar-bears-endangered-species-listing http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154909 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate polar bear endangered | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: David Adam) Associated Press: Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country. The deaths of the tigers occurred in the past three months at the zoo based in the cold north-east. Reports said the tigers starved to death, having been fed only chicken bones. A zoo manager said unspecified diseases killed the animals during the harsh winter. Siberian tigers are one of the ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/12/siberian-tigers-die-chinese-zoo http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154907 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tigers zoo starve | East/South-East Asia | China info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Dallas Morning News: Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive Rex Tillerson, it seems, has not joined the T. Boone Pickens army. Pickens has been stumping for the past two years for Americans to shift to natural gas as a vehicle fuel, particularly for heavy duty trucks. He says the move would help wean the U.S. off of foreign oil, support domestic natural gas, cut energy costs and reduce pollution. Tillerson said he doubts natural gas would accomplish all of that. And he isn't just promoting his own ... http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-exxon_12bus.ART.State.Edition1.3ce820e.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154895 12 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST automobile natural gas | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dallas Morning News: Elizabeth Souder) Oregonian: By the end of this year, Seneca Sustainable Energy plans to fire up a power plant that will convert about 700 tons a day of logging leftovers and waste from its nearby sawmill into enough electricity to power 13,000 homes. The plant features West Coast-leading pollution controls endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency. It's projected to release far less pollution than the usual practice of burning slash piles in the woods. But it will also release more carbon dioxide ... http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/03/burning_wood_for_renewable_pow.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154885 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST renewable wood biomass concerns | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Oregonian: Scott Learn and Matthew Preusch) Associated Press: Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined scientists and conservation organizers at an Austin news conference to release the study, "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change." The report says oceanic birds, such as petrels and albatrosses, are at particular risk from ... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-climate-birds,0,6762224.story http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154844 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds migratory | North America | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Jay Root) SciDev.Net: Indian biotechnologists are embroiled in a fierce controversy over their government's decision to postpone planting of genetically modified (GM) brinjal (aubergine) -- and about a proposed law that could see people who criticise GM products without sufficient scientific proof being fined, or even jailed. These seemingly conflicting actions both highlight how scientists are failing to communicate with critics, and how confrontation can rapidly escalate into an unproductive 'war of ... http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/mutual-respect-in-the-gm-crop-debate.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_agricultureandenvironment http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154954 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST genetically food debate | South Asia | India info@ecologicalinternet.org (SciDev.Net: T. V. Padma) EuroNews: The Alps are known as "Europe`s water tower". Their glaciers provide 40 percent of Europe`s fresh water. Pure and abundant, alpine streams fill major rivers, including the Danube, Rhine, Po, and Rhone, making irrigation and transportation possible in large parts of Europe. But these glaciers are facing an uncertain future, as studies show that temperatures in the Alps are increasing at a rate that`s more than twice the global average. Umberto Morra di Cella is a ... http://www.euronews.net/2010/03/11/mapping-out-the-future-of-alpine-glaciers/ http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154898 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST glacier water map Alps | Europe | info@ecologicalinternet.org (EuroNews: none given) New York Times: It has been a long journey for the latest shipment of seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The vault, built into a Norwegian mountain near the North Pole, is the final defense for agriculture in the face of growing populations, a changing climate and rising threats to food security. And the vault now contains the world's most diverse collection of crops as the shipment, which included a wild strawberry species painstakingly collected from a remote Russian archipelago, brought its ... http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/11/11climatewire-searching-for-the-wildest-strawberries-to-sa-98913.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154884 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST crop diversity wild | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Gayathri Vaidyanathan) Canadian Press: Environment Canada says the winter we just experienced was one of the warmest and driest across the country since 1948. The national average temperature was 4 degrees Celsius above normal and precipitation was 22 per cent below normal. This year, parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario had 60 per cent less precipitation than normal. Senior climatologist David Phillips says the weather was "quite spectacular,' adding, "we've never seen a winter like this.' He ... http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=332061&sc=98 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154878 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate warm winters | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (Canadian Press: none given) USA Today: Nearly one-third of U.S. bird species "are endangered, threatened or in significant decline," due to climate change, Department of the Interior chief Ken Salazar said Thursday. Salazar issued a report, "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change", created by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in collaboration with conservation groups. In it, researchers looked at five factors affecting bird species and weighed them against climate change effects. The factors were ... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/feds-us-birds-declining-due-to-changing-climate/1 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154845 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds declining | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: Dan Vergano) Associated Press: Opponents of uranium mining in Southside Virginia and the people who want to end a state moratorium on mining the fuel for nuclear power plants have one more difference of opinion: the size of the deposit. A speaker at a forum Thursday organized by environmentalists said the deposit totals 5.5 million pounds, not the 119 million pounds estimated by Virginia Uranium Inc. Environmental analyst Paul Robinson said much of the uranium deposit is "too diluted to be reasonably mined" ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_bi_ge/va_uranium_forum http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154842 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST uranium mining | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: Steve Szkotak) Mongabay: Birds may see pleasanter skies in the US soon, if Congressman Mike Quigley has his way. Quigley, a democrat from Illinois, has introduced legislation that would require all federal buildings to become bird-friendly, potentially saving the lives of millions of birds every year. "Building collisions are arguably the single greatest man-made killer of birds. From three hundred million to one billion birds or more die each year from collisions with glass on buildings--from skyscrapers to ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0311-hance_usbirds.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154837 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST bird building collisions | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) ScienceDaily: In the March issue of BioScience, researchers present a sophisticated new analysis of the effects of boosting use of maize-derived ethanol on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, conducted by Thomas W. Hertel of Purdue University and five co-authors, focuses on how mandated increases in production of the biofuel in the United States will trigger land-use changes domestically and elsewhere. In response to the increased demand for maize, farmers convert additional land to crops, and ... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311074121.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154750 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST ethanol emissions greenhouse gas boost | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (ScienceDaily: none given) Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2010/mar/11/england-lost-threatened-species http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154725 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST species lost threatened | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) Guardian: More than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals. Natural England, the government's agency responsible for the countryside, said the biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, all but a dozen in the last two centuries. The losses recorded compare with a natural rate of about one extinction every 20 years before humans ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/11/extinct-species-england http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154684 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST extinction countryside | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Juliette Jowit) Times (UK): Nearly 500 species of plants and animals have disappeared in England in the past 200 years, according to the first comprehensive audit of native wildlife. The disappearances, which have been largely attributed to human activities, include four species that did not exist anywhere else. The great auk, a flightless seabird similar to a penguin, Ivell's sea anemone, Mitten's beardless-moss and York groundsel, a weed, have all become extinct since 1800. "These species were lost on ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7057399.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154677 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST extinction human caused plants animals | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Times (UK): Hannah Devlin) Inter Press Service: Battling the pain from a boil on his left thigh, 45-year-old Inggit Tukino pulled his two-wheeled cart through the overcrowded alleys of a slum in Rawabebek, Penjaringan hamlet in here North Jakarta. "Garbage, garbage!" he shouted, announcing his arrival at every house. Upon hearing his voice, the residents, mostly women and children, rushed out and placed solid household waste into Tukino's wooden cart. He also collected garbage bags hanging outside a number of other ... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50627 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154659 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST compost garbage | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: Kanis Dursin) National Geographic: Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice--also called mountaintop mining--can wipe out whole swaths of forests. Taken between 1984 and 2009 by NASA's Landsat 5 satellite, the true-color pictures document the evolution of the Hobet mine in the Appalachian Mountains. Mountaintop miners use heavy construction equipment--up to 40 stories tall--to get at the "layer cake" of coal seams ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100311-mountaintop-mining-west-virginia/ http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154939 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST coal mining mountaintop | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: Christine Dell'Amore) San Jose Mercury News: Birds that rely on oceans and live on coastlines are more vulnerable to climate change than birds found in any other habitats in America, according to a new report released Thursday by federal biologists and other researchers. Terns that live on California's beaches -- along with murres, auklets, puffins and other species found in offshore areas like the Farallon Islands off San Francisco -- face loss of habitat from rising seas, disruption of ocean food supplies and other problems in ... http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14658937?nclick_check=1 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154859 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST birds climate coastal | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (San Jose Mercury News: Paul Rogers) Associated Press: The U.S. Forest Service must re-examine how livestock grazing affects sage grouse habitat in southwestern Montana after an appeals court ruled its original assessment was not reliable. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Forest Service Tuesday to prepare a new environmental assessment for its livestock allotments in the 48,000-acre Antelope Basin. Tens of thousands of acres have been identified as sage grouse habitat, but few of the chicken-sized birds can be ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_re_us/us_sage_grouse_livestock_grazing http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154848 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST wildlife livestock grazing | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) Guardian: For those who made the conscious decision to spend more on free range or organic eggs, it was worth paying a premium to know the hens that laid them had been kept in ethical conditions. But those people who ended up paying over the odds for Keith Owen's eggs may feel a little less warm inside after it emerged the 44-year-old egg wholesaler had scammed all the major supermarkets and numerous small shops by passing off about 100m battery farmed eggs as free range or ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/11/egg-fraudster-supermarkets-free-range http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154841 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST organic food fraud | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Helen Pidd) Associated Press: AUSTIN, Texas -- An Interior Department report says global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined scientists and conservation organizers at an Austin news conference Thursday to release a study entitled "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change." The report says oceanic birds, such as petrels and albatrosses, are at ... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6908657.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154836 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate birds threatened | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Associated Press: none given) CNews: An admission by Premier Ed Stelmach that he had not seen recent photos of dying ducks at a Syncrude tailings pond has ruffled the feathers of Greenpeace. The environmental group on Wednesday presented Stelmach's spokesman, Jerry Bellikka, with two enlarged photos of tar-covered ducks, hoping the premier would take a look at the images. They were entered as evidence at the ongoing trial against Syncrude, which faces environmental charges related to the April 2008 incident in ... http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/03/11/13190126-qmi.html?cid=rssnewscanada http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154775 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST tar sands ducks | North America | Canada info@ecologicalinternet.org (CNews: Frank Landry) Guardian: A Midlands businessman was jailed for three years today after admitting making a fortune by fraudulently passing off battery farm eggs as free range or organic. Around 100m mislabelled eggs sold by Keith Owen ended up on the shelves of supermarkets including Sainsbury's and Tesco. That the fraud was able to carry on for two years while he made a £3m profit raises questions for the food industry about the provenance of goods. Owen, 44, from Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, ran ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/11/free-range-eggs-fraud http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154738 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST food fraud | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Helen Pidd) Telegraph: Northern right whale - mid 1880s Red-backed shrike - 1988 Gamekeepers boost rare birds Hundreds of wildlife species lost Large tortoiseshell butterfly - 1953 Lynx - First century Irish lady's tresses flower - 1990s Burbot fish - 1960 Black backed meadow ant - 1988 Spotted sulphur moth - 1960 Beaver - Late 1700s Wildcat - Late 1800s Tawny earwig - 1930 Apple bumblebee - 1864 Blue stag beetle - ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7414384/20-species-lost-to-England-forever.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154703 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST exinction countryside | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Press Association: Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell out of the sky and on to the driveway of a house. RSPCA staff were called by police to a house in Coxley, Somerset, on Sunday following reports of "whooshing" sounds and birds dropping to the ground in a 12ft area. A welfare officer discovered that most of the birds had suffered broken beaks, broken legs and wings and abdominal injuries, but were otherwise in good bodily condition. All but five of the birds were ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/intrigue-soars-as-75-starlings-fall-out-of-sky-1919461.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154681 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST birds unexplained death | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Press Association: Lesley Richardson) Physorg: A joint report from the law schools at UC Berkeley and UCLA recommends ways that farmers and ranchers can mitigate the impact of climate change. "Room to Grow" identifies barriers to lowering emissions and proposes concrete steps to overcome them. California's agriculture sector plays a huge role in the state economy. But the farming industry is currently threatened by altered growing seasons, limits on water supplies, and record temperature changes. Room to Grow states that finding ... http://www.physorg.com/news187450080.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154790 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farm emissions lower | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Physorg: none given) Inter Press Service: Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven by agriculture, the largely poor, rural population has become even more vulnerable. According to the national Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), agriculture accounts for up to 60 percent of the country's ... http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=50618 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154761 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST climate farming gamble | Africa | Tanzania info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: none given) Telegraph: Natural England carried out the six month study to show how the global extinction crisis is affecting Britain. Four species lost to England are lost to the world forever: the great auk, a large flightless bird similar to the penguin; Mitten's beardless moss, York groundsel and Ivell's sea anemone. Overall 492 species have been lost in England since records began around 2,000 years ago. The "big, hairy, scary" creatures like bears and wolves were driven out by humans but most, ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7414074/Hundreds-of-species-lost-as-British-countryside-dumbed-down.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154704 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST species countryside lost | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gray) Guardian: The UN called in the world's top scientists today to review a report by its climate body, four months after public confidence in the science of global warming was shaken by the discovery of a mistake about the melting rates of Himalayan glaciers. In an announcement at the UN in New York Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, and Rajendra Pachauri, the much-criticised head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the InterAcademy Council, which represents 15 national ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/10/ipcc-himalayan-glaciers-un-review http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154696 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST IPCC glaciers Himalayan | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Suzanne Goldenberg) Times (UK): The RSPCA is investigating the sudden death of more than 100 starlings that witnesses claim simply fell from the sky and landed in a front garden. Julie Knight, a nurse, returned home from a shift at Glastonbury hospital in Somerset to find her small lawn in Coxley littered with scores of dead and dying birds. The RSPCA has so far failed to find a reason for the birds' deaths. Disease, toxic chemicals, poison gas clouds and flying into a building or power lines are all ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7057494.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178 http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154678 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST birds sudden death | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (Times (UK): none given) Mongabay: Heavily polluted and shrinking, Lake Naivasha is in dire trouble. Environmentalists say the cause is clear: flower farms. Some 60 flower farms line the entire lakeside, growing cut flowers for export largely to the EU. While the flowers industry is Kenya's largest horticultural export (405.5 million last year) it may have also produced an environmental nightmare. Environmentalists say that flower farms have taken water from the lake for irrigation and then dumped pesticide-waste back ... http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0310-hance_naivasha.html http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154648 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST farm water flowers Lake Naivasha | Africa | Kenya info@ecologicalinternet.org (Mongabay: Jeremy Hance) BBC: The deaths of 75 starlings which appeared to fall from the sky and crash land on to a driveway in Somerset has mystified the RSPCA animal charity. The birds were spotted falling onto the entrance of a house in Coxley in Somerset on Sunday 7 March. Animal welfare officer Alison Sparkes, who was called by police, said: "It was a remarkable sight, I've never seen anything like it." There is no evidence the birds were ill or poisoned before they hit the ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8560398.stm http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=154642 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 PST birds falyl sk | Europe | United Kingdom info@ecologicalinternet.org (BBC: none given)