| Major setback for Rarotonga Monarch |
| Five cyclones passed through the southern Cook Islands
in five weeks in summer 2005, causing widespread damage to property
and infrastructure. |
| Birdlife
International |
| Red-cockaded woodpecker on the rebound |
| Working by flashlight in a Georgia pine forest, wildlife
biologists carefully position nets over tree cavities 30 to 40 feet
above ground. |
| CNN.com
|
| Canada planes to monitor Arctic for ship pollution |
| Canadian spotter planes will for the first time start
monitoring Arctic waters for illegal discharges of waste by ships
which could damage the region's delicate environment, officials said
Tuesday. |
| Environmental
News Network |
| Elephants have emotions 'just like humans' |
| Elephant conservation should be considered in much
the same way humans consider plans for their own health and well-being,
an elephant management workshop heard on Tuesday. |
| IOL |
| Nobel winner: Africa sacrifices wildlife for farms |
| Africa must stop pushing out wildlife to make way for
farming or it will lose out on crucial tourism revenue, Kenya's Deputy
Environment Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai
said on Wednesday. |
| Reuters |
| Chile urged to create sanctuary for endangered blue
whales |
| Forty conservation groups today asked President Ricardo
Lagos of Chile to create a protected area for blue whales in Chile's
Patagonia region. |
| Natural
Resources Defense Council |
| Toxic algae poisons more than 150 people on Italian
coast |
| More than 150 beach-goers required treatment in the
northwestern town of Genoa for high fever and breathing problems after
inhaling a toxin produced by a tropical algae, officials said Tuesday.
|
| Environmental
News Network |
| Strong impact of wintering waterbirds on zebra mussel
populations at Lake Constance, Germany |
| The numbers of overwintering waterbirds at Lake Constance,
a large lake on the borders of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, have
increased fourfold since the early 1960s, with a daily average of
162 500 waterbirds from September to April as shown by a study published
in the august issue of Freshwater Biology. |
| EurekAlert
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