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This page is changing soon! - The new-look News Watch page better divides the articles into their sections; you can comment on any news item (at the bottom), and grab a(n RSS) feed of the whole kaboodle - see the RSS link on the new News Watch page.
Please bear with me - as I transfer all the old news watch items (below) into the new areas. The new page will start empty, then slowly fill as I do that over the next day or two.
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Articles that have caught my attention, and fall under at least one of the aims of Where Light Meets Dark, are linked here.
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Local action for conservation
- 2007/02/15 News8: Cave-dwelling Jollyville Plateau salamander may make endangered list in Texas, USA
- 2007/02/15 m&c: Nepalese freshwater dolphins (susu) practically extinct - less than 30 remain
- 2007/02/15 Mongabay: Mysterious disease is killing millions of bees in the US
- 2007/02/13 ABC: From 300 to 7, from 30 to 2 - the plight of Australia's pygmy possum populations in the face of global warming
- 2007/02/13 Chron.com/AP: Bald eagle set to come off the Endangered Species List - following implementation of a successful recovery plan
- 2007/02/12 Canberra Times: An even more comprehensive report on the plight of Australia's pygmy possum - how much longer can it hang on?
- 2007/02/12 Bendigo News: Australia's pygmy possum populations decimated following early snow melts, drought and bushfires which have destroyed seasonal food sources - predictions of extinction within a decade.
- 2007/02/12 ABC: The fish that came back from the brink of extinction - the Australian trout cod was found in only 3 places in the 1970s: a creek, an ornamental lake in a park and a single fish was caught in the middle of Canberra.
- 2007/02/12 SMH: 18 panda bear cubs are presented to the public after their names are chosen via an internet poll
- 2007/02/09 Yahoo/AAP: Extreme weather conditions - the likely culprit in the death of 4,000 birds in Western Australia
- 2007/02/07 Mongabay: Wildlife Conservation Society's Julie Larsen Maher shares her experiences - and some photos of the tiny dinosaur-like Brookesia chameleon whilst trekking through the rainforests of Madagascar
- 2007/02/07 Mongabay: Asia's only breeding colony of critically endangered slender-billed vultures has just been discovered. Short term measures are in place to prevent poaching whilst long term plans are arranged
- 2007/02/06 Mongabay: There were only 360 whooping cranes left in the world (up from 20 in 1941) when recent storms decimated a captive population in Florida
- 2007/02/05 Nat Geo: Climate change is having severe effects on hibernating and migrating animals - all things going to plan, this is exactly the area in which I will be conducting research this year, although I will be working specifically in the Australian environment
- 2007/01/31 Mongabay: How much effort will we humans expend on saving a species? Well that depends on how cute it is.
- 2006/12/22 SMH: Online activism - read this 6 page article on the way Australians are using their clicks to communicate, "quicker than boiling the kettle"
- 2006/12/21 Nat Geo: Whooping cranes follow light aircraft in order to re-learn migration patterns
- 2006/12/21 Nat Geo: The US Bush Administration is being sued for failing to protect sea otters
- 2006/12/20 Nat Geo: Following yesterday's news of the likely extinction of the Chinese river dolphin, Nat Geo announces today that the world's smallest porpoise - the Vaquita - is facing extinction with only 250 - 400 individuals left; fishing net entanglements the prime culprit.
- 2006/12/19 Nat Geo: The Ivory-billed woodpecker (not seen in 50 years) may be making a last stand near Florida River
- 2006/12/19 Mongabay: China will continue to search for the now presumed extinct Baiji Dolphin - not seen since 2004
- 2006/12/18 SMH: "Bindi Irwin's speech at her father Steve's funeral was the television moment of the year"
- 2006/12/14 SMH: Farmers shooting stock which no-one will buy - a sign of the times ahead during Australia's drought?
- 2006/12/13 SMH: And the earlier logging data makes the Sydney Morning Herald headlines
- 2006/12/06 SMH: 100th Anniversary of Australia's alpine Kosciuszko National Park - home to both the endangered Mountain Pygmy Possum and Corroboree Frog
- 2006/12/06 Mongabay: World's largest rainforest reserve created in Brazil
- 2006/12/05 Tarkine.net: Further mapping analysis of the distribution of Forestry Tasmania's activities in the Tarkine region of Tasmania
- 2006/12/04 Tasmanian Times: Combine Google Earth with data from Forestry Tasmania's website, and you get satellite imagery of the forest destruction occuring in Tasmania
- 2006/12/04 SMH: Bellbirds "guilty by association" in south-east Australian forest destruction
- 2006/12/01 SMH: The first shipment of Noah's Ark's Tasmanian devils leaves Tasmania destined for mainland breeding programs
- 2006/11/21 BBC: Rare lion cubs culled by zoo as the resources to care for them are lacking
- 2006/11/21 Mongabay: Extremophiles off the New Zealand coast show new diversity and species, but also reveal deep-sea trawling damage
- 2006/11/21 7.30 Report: Devil Facial Tumour Disease breaches safe haven at Trowunna Wildlife Park amidst plans to export devils to the mainland
- 2006/11/13 BBC: The Natural History Museum in London is set to return the remains of 18 Aboriginal people to the Australian government
- 2006/11/13 ABC: Can Tasmania be fox free? Nick Mooney, known for investigating thylacine sightings, and part of the Fox Free Task Force comments
- 2006/11/08 SMH: Once in a thousand years drought, together with poor environmental management is destroying the Murray Darling river system. Where to next?
- 2006/11/07 Mongabay: One thousand orang-utans burnt to death in Indonesian forest fires
- 2006/11/01 Mongabay: Global warming may lead to insect population explosions
- 2006/10/31 Nat Geo: Bats move into man-made structures as natural roosting sites decline
- 2006/10/31 BBC: Climate change fight "can't wait": Blair
- 2006/10/30 GetUp!: Walk against global warming
- 2006/10/30 Mongabay: Energy development threatens nature sanctuary in Chile's Patagonia
- 2006/10/30 BBC: Blue iguana breeding success
- 2007/02/15 Nat Geo: Metalmark moths don't back down from jumping spiders - instead, they mimic them and frighten the spider away
- 2007/02/15 Nat Geo: Giant glowing squid which targets prey with bolts of light, filmed for the first time
- 2007/02/13 SMH: Woman killed by cheetah after hiding in its zoo cage
- 2007/02/12 SMH: A man snorkling in a river to observe fish species gets shot in the head when he is mistaken for a rodent species called a nutria - what the?
- 2007/02/10 Nat Geo: Hot on the heels of Japan catching the frill shark, now a deep sea goblin shark has been caught in Japan
- 2007/02/09 SMH: A 5 meter long Anaconda eats an 8 year old boy in Brazil when the boy's grandfather successfully rescue him, killing the reptile in the process
- 2007/02/09 Jaunted: Film footage of Japan's rare prehistoric eel, or frill shark is now available online
- 2007/02/01 Nat Geo: Sexy jumping spiders share some light, all their own
- 2007/02/01 Nat Geo: Two new species of large lizard discovered in Brazil - with photo
- 2007/02/01 Nat Geo: Flora, the Komodo Dragon reproduces asexually - with her eggs hatching this week. (I find it interesting that both instances of parthenogenesis in this species have occurred in the UK - a much colder climate than their natural distribution. Are we witnessing a strategy for long-term survival during radical climate change which might be detrimental to the survival of males of the species? Food for thought.)
- 2007/01/27 ABC: Scientists discoverAfrican cichlid fish are more intelligent than thought (no surprise to those who've kept them as pets, I'm sure!)
- 2006/12/22 News.com.au: (This spider story is too good) We have a culprit: Fisherman Robbie Hamouda suffers four bites from the deadly redback spider. He's lucky to be alive.
- 2006/12/21 SMH: Stranded fisherman swims to shore, gets bitten on the hand by a spider or snake, calls emergency, rescuers arrive, sink in the mud and call in the helicopter all in the middle of the night. Hey it's a great spider story, and I live on the Georges River.
- 2006/12/21 Nat Geo: Komodo dragon virgin birth expected for Christmas
- 2006/12/15 BBC: Tonguefish "skip across pools of molten sulphur" on undersea volcanoes. - I've said it before, and I'll say it again: fish never cease to amaze me
- 2006/12/04 Nat Geo: No longer is an "alpine butterfly" just the name of a knot: Beautiful hybrid alpine butterfly discovered in North America
- 2006/11/16 Nat Geo: Up close and personal with fruit flies that disply extraordinary acrobatics
- 2006/11/16 SMH: Celebrity feral pig whom council ordered shot on sight, finally dies in the bush of natural causes after two fugitive years on the run and being smuggled and hidden by a ring of sympathetic human players. (seriously)
- 2006/11/12 Nat Geo: Sea Urchin genome mapped (with an interesting observation on what happens when the "apex predator" - to use Steve Irwin's term - in this case, the sea otter, is removed from an ecosystem
- 2006/11/08 Cryptomundo: New species of fig parrot discovered in Queensland, Australia
- 2006/11/06 Snopes: Abigail Alfano hand feeding humming birds produces spectacular photos
- 2006/10/31 Nat Geo: Bats move into man-made structures as natural roosting sites decline
- 2006/10/30 Nat Geo: New glowing mushrooms found in Brazil
- 2006/10/30 BBC: Blue iguana breeding success
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