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Protecting the Sage-Grouse in a Sea of Natural Gas

September 15, 2015 by The Outpost 0 comments

While stopping short of full endangered species protections for the Greater Sage-Grouse, the Obama-era Fish and Wildlife Service implemented land use plans to restrict energy development and grazing in the expanse of northwestern U.S. desert called the Sagebrush Sea, depicted in a 2015 documentary. The Trump Interior Department attempted to amend that plan to open up more commercial activities. We feature here an essay on Wyoming’s core plan attempts to salvage the state’s last populations in a landscape dominated by energy development.

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Costa Rica: Conservationists Face Corruption and Drug Trafficking

July 15, 2013 by The Outpost 3 comments

The murder of 26-year-old sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in late May exposed cracks in Costa Rica’s international environmental image, and proved that protecting nature sometimes has a terrible cost. Official corruption, lax regulations, and drug trafficking threaten the environmental bounty of Central America’s most visited country.

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Wolves Forsaken By Wildlife Agencies, Hunters and Ranchers

June 11, 2013 by The Outpost 3 comments

President Obama’s Department of the Interior announced the national delisting of all wolves except the Mexican wolf. Prominent conservationists argue this is wrong-headed because (1) the wolf isn’t really recovered, and (2) Existing state management is so bad that the “recovered” population will soon decline to nothing but a tiny token population.

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Wolf Wars: Anti-Science Haters Propose Ending All US Protections

March 27, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

Western environmental groups oppose the anti-scientific “political” Endangered Species delisting of gray wolves across the U.S. by Fish and Wildlife Service. Reduced wolf numbers will reduce positive ecological effects of these top predators and permit barbaric hunting methods.

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California Condor: Overcoming Extinction, A Symbol of Renewal

March 6, 2013 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

The California Condor Recovery Program has defied the odds to rescue from oblivion the last of the prehistorics and icon of Native Californian cosmology. Threats such as lead ammunition, microtrash, and sprawling land development threaten these impressive gains of an endangered species. The film “The Condor’s Shadow” documents this struggle.

Grizzly Bears rarely pose dangers to humans in the wild

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George Wuerthner: Habitat Conservation, Not Hunting, Saves Grizzly Bears

January 4, 2013 by The Outpost 2 comments

Wildlife Agencies advocate hunting helps grizzly recovery. The best available science, however, suggests predators including bears, wolves, mountain lion and coyotes have intricate social interactions that are disrupted or damaged by indiscriminate killing from hunters and trappers. Habitat protection is the main way to protect the fledgling population of grizzly bears as well as avoid human-bear conflicts.

Bornean elephant passing through palm oil plantation.

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Elephants in Borneo: Need Lowland Forest Range

March 9, 2012 by The Outpost 3 comments

Forest fragmentation and destruction is imperiling the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), according to a new paper published in PLoS ONE. Using satellite collars to track the pachyderms for the first time in the Malaysian state of Sabah, scientists found elephants sensitive to habitat fragmentation from palm oil plantations and logging.

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