Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with wildlife www.salem-news.com 2010 They pitch the battle as environment vs. jobs, it is a phony argument using economic recovery through ecological laxity as the key to our nation’s fiscal woes. This type of “Zero Sum Game,” is a winner-take-all scenario that will create more jobs---More jobs in the remediation and restoration career sectors after we’ve destroyed our country’s ecologies. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:10:00 PST A five-year cooperative effort involving several organizations has succeeded in returning the Western Bluebird to Washington’s San Juan Islands. The bird had historically inhabited the islands, but changing land use practices and a paucity of nesting sites meant the species had not nested there for over 40 years. http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/western-bluebird.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august112011/western-bluebird.php Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:19:00 PDT The pronghorn antelope is the lone member of the family Antilocapridae. They are true American natives that do not occur anywhere else in the world and are the second-fastest land animal in the world – second only to the cheetah. http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/fawns-queens.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/fawns-queens.php Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:24:00 PDT As of Saturday, the Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona, which began 9 May, has burned about 400,000 acres, making it the second-worst wildfire in the state's history thus far. The fire is five percent contained as of this writing. The state is extremely dry and is at high risk of other wildfires until summer monsoon rains arrive. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/arizona-fire.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122011/arizona-fire.php Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:57:00 PDT Last year's devastating Deepwater Horizon disaster was a serious blow for sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. But the catastrophe for the sea turtles hasn’t ended yet. Already this year, more than 340 dead sea turtles have washed ashore on the Gulf Coast -- more than three times the annual average -- and the death toll is likely to be much higher. http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/sea-turtles.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june102011/sea-turtles.php Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:21:00 PDT The U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a memorandum directing the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Robert Abbey to not designate any lands as "Wild Lands." This memorandum reverses Secretarial Order 3310. This new policy, if remained in place, would have restricted responsible off-highway vehicle (OHV) riding in the affected areas. http://salem-news.com/articles/june022011/wildlands-policy.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june022011/wildlands-policy.php Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:46:00 PDT A sailboat was struck by a breaching whale near the coast of Astoria, Thursday. The vessel and its crew were taking part in a race to Victoria, B.C., when the whale surfaced. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received a report from the 38-foot sailing vessel L'Orca at 9:30 a.m. after the whale breached the surface of the water and crushed the rigging and mast of the boat when it fell back into the water. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/whale-strike.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/whale-strike.php Thu, 12 May 2011 21:05:00 PDT Bert was a mapache... a raccoon. A couple from a nearby town rescued Bert and his brother after their mother was hit by a car. Their eyes were still closed and they were no bigger than newborn kittens. Bert was killed two weeks ago. A man who had never seen him before and who could not have known that he was tame and a pet killed him with a rock to the head. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/berts-life-death-vp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/berts-life-death-vp.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:01:00 PDT Scientific research suggests the Earth's changing magnetic field may cause otherwise peaceful animals to become enraged killers banding together in voracious indiscriminate attacks and killing both terrified humans and each other. Imagine for a moment a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie "The Birds": townspeople are inexplicably attacked by the creatures. Darting and screeching, once docile birds swoop and soar, purposefully striking from the skies to maim and kill. http://salem-news.com/articles/march202011/magnetic-poles-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march202011/magnetic-poles-ta.php Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:17:00 PDT An enduring symbol of indigenous cultures in the Americas, the jaguar continues to hang on despite illegal hunting, habitat pressures and delays in implementing conservation plans. A new study that reveals the existence of more than 100 jaguars in the Mexican state of Jalisco is the latest report to document the ongoing presence of the wild cat. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232011/jaguars-mexico.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232011/jaguars-mexico.php Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:59:00 PST Of all the countries I've traveled, and all the people I've met, few experiences have been as intriguing, thought-provoking, and frankly, as disturbing, as my chance encounter in West Africa with a man I only knew as the "snake man." While in West Africa during 1999 I spent three weeks in the country of Ghana. Ghana is what remains of what was once a great African empire known as the Ashanti. http://salem-news.com/articles/january162011/cobra-man-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162011/cobra-man-ta.php Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:44:00 PST For the first time ever, the endangered Short-tailed Albatross has nested in the United States. Once thought extinct, the Short-tailed Albatross (STAL) has been restricted to only two breeding sites in the world —Torishima and the Senkaku Islands in Japan. http://salem-news.com/articles/december082010/albatross-usa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december082010/albatross-usa.php Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:35:00 PST After months of preparation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has officially set sail for their 2010-11 Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign, Operation No Compromise. This year’s fleet is the strongest to date including veteran vessels the Steve Irwin and Bob Barker, with the addition of the newly-acquired trimaran Gojira, Japanese for Godzilla, with the necessary speed and power to outrun the whalers and put an end to their shameful activities. http://salem-news.com/articles/december022010/sea-sheperds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december022010/sea-sheperds.php Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:37:00 PST A new, peer-reviewed report titled, Feral Cats and Their Management from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, has put the annual economic loss from feral cat predation on birds in the United States at $17 billion. The report analyzes existing research on management of the burgeoning feral cat population – over 60 million and counting -- in the United States, including the controversial practice of Trap, Neuter, Release. http://salem-news.com/articles/december012010/feral-cats.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december012010/feral-cats.php Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:52:00 PST Recently, a group of American birdwatchers were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime sighting when they observed the rare Peruvian Long-whiskered Owlet, a species previously seen only by a handful of people. This owlet is so rare that it wasn’t even discovered until 1976, and since then, the bird seems to generally prefer to be out of sight and out of mind, including a 26-year period without any confirmed sightings at all. http://salem-news.com/articles/november302010/owlet-photos.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november302010/owlet-photos.php Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:25:00 PST Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish & Wildlife Division (OSP) troopers from the Astoria Area Command office are asking for the public's help to identify the suspect(s) responsible for illegally shooting three elk and leaving them to waste near borders of Clatsop and Columbia counties. A reward of up to $500 for information leading to an arrest in this case is being offered by the Oregon Hunters Association Turn in a Poacher (T.I.P.) Program. http://salem-news.com/articles/november292010/elk-poach-reward.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november292010/elk-poach-reward.php Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:53:00 PST Millions who have lost fingers, toes, hands, feet—even entire arms or legs—will have new hope in the not-too distant future. They may be able to regrow their own missing parts. If they do, they can thank the salamander. http://salem-news.com/articles/november102010/salamander-limbs-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november102010/salamander-limbs-ta.php Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:35:00 PST Marc Polier and Augustin Blanchard, both originally from France, arrived in Florence, Oregon, after a 5-month trip on horseback across the US. This is not the pair's first long ride. They've trekked on horseback all across Mongolia and the south of France. http://salem-news.com/articles/november042010/cross-usa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042010/cross-usa.php Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:57:00 PDT A recent article in the UK's Daily Telegraph bemoaned the possible extinction of up to one-third of the lifeforms on Earth. But articles like these overlook the emerging bio-technologies of the 21st Century. As Mankind's knowledge grows exponentially, so do the technological applications of that knowledge. http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/extinction-extinct-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/extinction-extinct-ta.php Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:17:00 PDT Environmental groups are welcoming the decision by the EPA and Bayer CropScience to cease production of the pesticide aldicarb in 2014, begin phasing out its more dangerous uses immediately, and end all uses by 2018. Aldicarb, marketed under the trade name Temik® and produced by Bayer CropScience, is one of the most toxic insecticides on the market. http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/bird-pesticides.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august232010/bird-pesticides.php Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:25:00 PDT The world is filled with secrets. Many of them it does not give up easily. Empires have risen and empires have fallen in the midst of mysteries-riddles that remained unsolved through the centuries. One such mystery has haunted the darker, steamier regions of the fabled land of the Amazon. The Amazon, that dark, forbidding river sluggishly twisting its way through Brazil and eight other South American countries. It is a river second in size only to the mighty Nile and it's so wide that no bridge passes over it. http://salem-news.com/articles/august162010/monster-amazon-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august162010/monster-amazon-ta.php Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:00:00 PDT The Ropen or ‘demon flyer‘ is a monstrous creature that’s terrified the natives of Papua New Guinea for thousands of years. Another smaller creature, the Duah, is possibly related to the Ropen; this creature haunts some of the far flung outlying islands. Now sensational eyewitness reports—collected by determined exploration teams seeking strong evidence of the creatures—have led serious researchers to the conclusion that two distinct animals exist. http://salem-news.com/articles/august122010/live-dinosaur-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august122010/live-dinosaur-ta.php Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:25:00 PDT The chimango caracara is actually a falcon. Despite its great numbers, little is known of this raptor which is a common in southern South America. It seems to take a similar niche to the Oregon crow, opportunistically eating carrion alongside roads, gleaning scraps near garbage dumps and following plows. It also consumes worms, insects and their larvae, small birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. http://salem-news.com/articles/july282010/chimango-caracara-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july282010/chimango-caracara-gp.php Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:00 PDT A new report shows how some of BP’s oil spill cleanup efforts are actually causing harm to birds and their habitats rather than helping them, that cleanup vessels are inadequate and operating in the wrong locations, and that deployed boom has failed to protect some important bird colonies from oil. http://salem-news.com/articles/july192010/oily-birds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july192010/oily-birds.php Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:30:00 PDT Watching World Cup Football with some neighbors here in NW Patagonia, I thought halftime would be a great opportunity to ask what their opinions were on the Falklands Islands controversy that seems to be heating up again. Our hostess had trouble saying the word “Falklands” as the word got stuck in her mouth and just couldn’t come out. http://salem-news.com/articles/july122010/malvinas-history-ez.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july122010/malvinas-history-ez.php Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:43:00 PDT For me, the bird that symbolizes Patagonia is not my old nemesis the tero - who tried to spoil my pea crop last spring - but the goose-sized bandurria, or black faced ibis. Morning and evening the plastic horn honk of the bandurrias tells me when it is time for their ritual gathering. A band of 26 roosts across the road in the bosque and they announce their intentions loudly. http://salem-news.com/articles/july092010/black_-faced_ibis-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july092010/black_-faced_ibis-gp.php Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:20:00 PDT “The important thing to remember about the Deepwater Horizon disaster is that it is environmental, not economic.” Joe Mysak, Bloomberg News. Today, we have sad news of the first proof of oil migrating into the food chain. Harriet Perry of the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory’s Center for Fisheries Research and Development reports evidence of oil in post-larval blue crabs contaminated from oil drifting into the coastal marshes. http://salem-news.com/articles/june302010/gothic-birds-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june302010/gothic-birds-gp.php Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:24:00 PDT The Ardeola ibis is actually a type of heron, but unlike most herons, it can be found away from water. Commonly called the cattle egret, it is familiar from wildlife documentaries hitching a ride, and a lunch, on the back of a rhinoceros. Since a mere 150 years ago, it has expanded widely from its original range, and is now familiar to most of us. http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/egrets-argentina-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/egrets-argentina-gp.php Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:13:00 PDT This humongous oil spill spurting forth in the Gulf may well prove to be the No. 1 unnatural disaster of this 21st Century. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/oil-spill-oped_blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/oil-spill-oped_blc.php Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:48:00 PDT Two of the world’s premier institutions promoting biodiversity conservation are entering into a partnership through a new cooperative agreement to prevent species extinctions and maintain ecosystems and habitats at key sites for endangered species. The Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal instrument adopted in 1992 to sustain the diversity of life on Earth. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/diversity-forces.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/diversity-forces.php Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:18:00 PDT