by LouiseGund | Dec 10, 2020 | Animals, Environment, Uncategorized
In 2020, Singapore observed World Elephant Day, which takes place every year on August 12, by destroying a large cache of illegal ivory its government had seized. The crushing of the 9 tonnes of ivory is estimated to be the biggest such wildlife contraband destruction...
by LouiseGund | Oct 6, 2020 | Animals, Environment, Nature, Wildlife
A number of recent studies have shown that domestic cats play a major role in the deaths of birds and other small, wild creatures in communities across the world. A group of scientists from North Carolina State University, working alongside colleagues at the North...
by LouiseGund | Oct 2, 2020 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Wildlife
At first glance, animals like elephants, beavers, squirrels, ants, and worms could not seem more different. Yet all these species have one important factor in common: They are what scientists call “ecosystem engineers.” As they go about their normal, daily business of...
by LouiseGund | Oct 1, 2020 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Organizations, Wildlife
Early in July 2020, environmentally minded Americans celebrated when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone regions of Wyoming and Idaho. Now, grizzly populations in the area will continue to be safeguarded under the...
by LouiseGund | Aug 11, 2020 | Conservation, Environment, History, Programs, Wildlife
Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau once called the Sea of Cortez “the world’s aquarium.” Ray Cannon, author of the 1966 book The Sea of Cortez, echoed Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when he described it as a “painted ocean.” The gulf embraced by Baja California...
by LouiseGund | Aug 6, 2020 | Environment, Nature, Programs, Wildlife
Researchers in Japan have discovered a new way to address the effects of a global decline in the populations of bees and other wild pollinators: blowing bubbles. In 2019 American beekeepers lost about 40 percent of all their honeybee colonies. The honeybee species...
