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Animals

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

South Africa Community Plants Forest To Save World’s Rarest Parrot

To save the only parrot endemic to South Africa, local communities are planting trees critical to the iconic bird’s survival. National Geographic featured the plight of the South Africa’s Cape…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 1, 2013

Book Review of Mad Sheep

A Fine Line Between Safety and Panic: A Sheep Story My grandmother’s first husband died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease, years before my grandmother married my…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
June 30, 2013

Forest Elephants In Danger With New Roads In Africa

The African Forest elephant is a species under threat these days. Scientists in 1989 estimated there were 170,000 elephants left in the wild from approximately 700,000 a few decades ago.…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 17, 2012

Madagascar Lemurs Increasingly Endangered

Of the 103 species of lemurs, over 90% should be on the Red List of Threatened Species. This is according to an assessment made by the Primate Specialist Group of…

Animals

Posted byby John Tarantino
June 7, 2012

Kung Fu Panda’s small but terrible martial arts master Shifu would be glad. BBC News reports that a male red panda has been transferred from the Paignton Zoo in Devon to Galloway Wildlife Conservation…