Incredible
shrinking sheep blamed on climate change
Sheep
living on a remote island off the coast of Scotland have been shrinking for 20
years. Now it seems shorter winters caused by climate change are responsible.
Unwanted guests? Public told
to pick up the bat phone
Never chase
a bat around your living room when it’s flying, the National Parks and Wildlife
Service (NPWS) has said as it announced a new freefone helpline on how to live
with bats.
Fisheries officials investigate Tipperary
fish kill
Inspectors for the Southern
Regional Fisheries Board are investigating a major fish kill which occurred in
the Mall river in Templemore, Co Tipperary, in recent days.
A combination of very settled weather in June 2009 and a 3rd
successive "big" basking shark season have combined to produce a record number
of combined cetacean and basking shark sightings reports for June 2009.
Long
after most of the summer migrants have arrived here and settled down to nest,
some quails from the Mediterranean or North Africa have been coming in this week.
Unique partnership plans a better future for Thames' wildlife
An innovative audit of wildlife in
the Thames is being launched at the House of Commons today, heralding a major
advance in the relationship between conservation and commerce.
Diverse projects such as
clearing brambles and weeds to bee keeping, and the restoration of a sea lock
were recognised in the annual awards from the North Devon Conservation Society.
An open letter from the Campaign Against the Levels Motorway
(CALM) Alliance has urged the Welsh Assembly Government to save the Gwent Levels
Site of Special Scientific Interest from the ‘concrete pourers’ forever.
Will 'unnecessary' Annesley plans destroy wildlife?
A group of residents are opposing plans to build a new housing
development in Annesley Woodhouse — saying it is unnecessary and will destroy
wildlife in the area.
2010
species pledge set to fail, warns conservation group
The world's paramount authority on species loss warned on Thursday
that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into
the sand.
Australia on Thursday pledged
52 million dollars (42 million US) to improve water quality on the Great Barrier
Reef, which is coming under increasing threat from toxic chemicals and climate
change.
The Federal
Government will spend $19 million to cull camels in northern and western Australia
as part of a $400 million package of environmental grants.
Palestinians, Israel compromise on Dead
Sea contest
Israel and the Palestinian
Authority compromised in the name of nature this week, teaming up at the last
moment to back the Dead Sea in a contest to chose the world's top seven natural
wonders.
WWF urges action to protect Borneo rhino's habitat
The future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino,
depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives, conservation
group WWF said Wednesday.
Groups seek federal protection for giant,
spitting worm
Conservationists filed
a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday seeking federal
protection for the Palouse earthworm — a worm that spits at its predators
Canada and Japan accused of blocking Copenhagen progress
Sir David King, the UK's former chief scientific adviser, yesterday
accused Canada and Japan of blocking progress towards a meaningful international
deal to tackle climate change.
Merkel sees G8 agreement on 2 degrees climate goal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday she expected leaders
from the Group of Eight industrialised nations to endorse a goal of limiting global
warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
President Barack Obama,
buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on
the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N.
global warming pact this year.
The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain
dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions
as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday.
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil
company, is continuing to fund researchers who cast doubt on global warming, despite
public promises to cut support for climate-change sceptics.
Two hundred children, a horde of farm animals and a bishop being
followed by camera crews and journalists in an ark down the Thames might sound
like a media circus.
The Group of Eight rich nations summit in Italy next week is
likely to call on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by
80 percent by 2050, a report said Wednesday.
