wildlife

Ah, wildlife. Our term for everything that isn't manmade, wildlife is generally found far away from our cities and highways, frolicking (or crawling, or just swaying in the breeze) happily with little need for human interaction.

Many of us find inspiration and renewal in the natural world. That inspiration is reflected on the blogosphere as photos, essays, art, videos, more photos and photo essays (did I mention photos?), all of which attempt to capture and share some of that inspiration.

In recent decades, the environmentalist movement has made strides toward protecting many of the endangered species in our world. But human progress continues, and wildlife suffers from reduced habitat and resources. On this page, along with all the lovely photos, you'll also find conservation news, reports of interactions between wildlife and humans, and discussions of wildlife preservation.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “wildlife”

• in Green
  Trophy hunting - how hunters use jargon to conceal cruelty
  How hunters and conservation officials use jargon and euthemisms to conceal their cruelty.
  by cannedlion / on Jul 16, 2011
• in Green
  Trophy Hunters - The Lies That Hide the Cruelty
  How American hunters use propaganda to pretend to be conservationists
  by cannedlion / on Jul 6, 2011
• in Green
  Thanks Big Oil: Exxon Mobil Pipeline
  Exxon pipeline ruptures spilling 42,000 gallons of oil into Yellowstone River
  by darrenlj / on Jul 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “wildlife”

 

• Cambodian Activists Fight Illegal Logging

  
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  Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country’s illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinking forests. Science News by NewsLook   // Related: Drones Fight Illegal Logging Amazonian Tribe’s Home Being Destroyed by Logging Raising An Environmentally ...
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• WHAT SAY YOU?

  
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  Guy shoots deer from side of road. Claims it’s to feed his family. Note that no one is asking about his legality. Note that no one is wondering why he’s not on Obama Stamps. I call bullshit. Put the SOB in jail. A Collier County man accused of shooting two deer says he needed to feed his family. Jail ...
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• May 19

  
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  . Bo or Clarissa, still hard at work.  Note that there are three (3!) twigs at the time of this photo.  They place a twig, and push it down. Sometimes they lower their bodies on the surface (maybe on a twig, maybe not), and wiggle, as though spreading out twigs to a comfortable distance.  If there were ...
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• Tarantula in the garden

  
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  Look at this: a tarantula in my garden! I’ve never seen one here before, and this hairy fellow had made it all the way up from the lower garden (where I assume he came in from the greenbelt) to the top of the hillside gravel path, near the gate to the front yard. I spotted him yesterday evening while showing my mom ...
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• Open Gardens Weekend: Calthorpe Garden Festival

  
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• Manna Rising From the River

  
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  A miraculous biblical miracle, manna is the name given to a natural phenomenon in France involving some species of mayfly. Mostly known as a source of bait for fishing, mayflies emerge in great numbers and in some areas are harvested by local residents. Before the species involved (mainly the small white Ephoron ...
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• Dog injured in Oregon trap is euthanized

  
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  A dog who became a symbol of the dangers posed by trapping in Oregon has died — euthanized due to the pain she continued to suffer after her spine was damaged in an otter trap. Kieri was on a bird-watching walk with her owner when she stuck her head into a trailside trap intended to instantly kill otters [...]
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• 2012 Jackson Hole Science Media International Awards, USA

  
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  Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival offers Science Media International Awards for Creators and Publishers in Science-based Media program at USA, .. [Read Full Scholarship Detail]
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• Fast-moving wildfire in Michigan consumes 9,500 acres

  
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  Officials say a fast-moving wildfire in Michigans Upper Peninsula has consumed at least 9,500 acres, prompting some evacuations. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says the blaze its calling the Duck Lake Fire was "burning explosively" early Friday in an area north of Newberry that includes Lake Superior ...
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• Monster Bug Wars- Jumping Jack Ants vs. Huntsman Spider

  
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• India Ink: Maharashtra States New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say

  
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  An Indian states new policy of allowing forest guards to shoot tiger poachers is seen as a necessity.
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• The Chelsea Flower Show: water nightmare for wildlife

  
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  When will a Chelsea show garden designer stick their neck out and build a water feature thats wildlife-friendly, asks Kate Bradbury Biodiversity is a key theme at this years Chelsea Flower Show – much less than in the previous two years, but its there nonetheless. Many show gardens feature naturalistic, ...
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• India Ink: Maharashtra State’s New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say

  
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  http://www.nytimes.com/ India Ink: Maharashtra State’s New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say An Indian state’s new policy of allowing forest guards to shoot tiger poachers is seen as a necessity. published date:Fri, 25 May 2012 07:30:31 GMT
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• Careful Mate!

  
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• The paws that refreshes

  
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  My back patio is made up of long concrete rectangles separated by narrow wooden boards to decorate the space that gives the concrete room to expand and contract with the weather. I have my squirrels trained: they are free to graze on their half under the birdfeeder, but they may not step past that lengthwise wooden ...
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• Leuser, the Sumatran orangutan shot 62 times – in pictures

  
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  A moving story of an orangutan who was rescued from being sold as a gift, reintroduced to the wild only to be captured again by villagers who shot him repeatedly for fun
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• Canucks Player Under Fire for Bear Baiting

  
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  Vancouver Canucks player David Booth is getting quite a bit of negative attention after taking to Twitter to post photos and video of himself killing a black bear while he was on vacation in Alberta. Animal advocates, and even some hunters, are taking a major issue with the fact that he was bear baiting, a [...]
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• Op-Ed Contributor: How to Stop Wildlife Poachers

  
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• Doo-dads, Tid-bits and Turkeys

  
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  I thought Id just tie up some loose previous-blog-post-ends today... But first, does anyone remember Doo-dads and Tid-bits? (I ate them as a kid in the 70s.) It was like one minute they were in the grocery store and then the next they were gone (and I somehow had three kids and a mortgage - ...
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• Rangers now allowed to shoot tiger poachers on sight in Indian state

  
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  In the wake of a surge in tiger poaching, the state government of Maharashtra, India will no longer consider the shooting of wildlife poachers by forest rangers a crime, reports the Associated Press .
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