A bluefin tuna marked for auction.

NGO lambasts Japan’s role in bluefin tuna delay “Japan silenced the data to prevent the Commission from being pressured to protect the tuna,” Tudela added. Between 6 and 16 November in Brazil, ICCAT...

Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil

Urgent Need for Shark Conservation - ICCAT, Brazil 9 - 15 November 2009 The United Nations has passed eight resolutions calling on Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) to improve the management of...

Surviving one day at a time

This is more of a story in pictures, of day to day survival, of some small amazing little creatures, the quails as they march together, the roadrunner traveling alone, the lizard making sure he's on safe ground,...

A Zoo Story

A trip to the Stoneham Zoo located in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a perfect way to balance out emotions with nature. Our zoo's offer the remedy for getting in touch with our uptight, fast-paced lives. It's...

World's Biggest Online Zoo Opens

BBC is opening the world's largest online zoo, the Wildlife Finder, which features pictures and videos of hundreds of animals. The BBC Wildlife Finder zoo promises never to disappoint, as the animals will always...

Autumn

Nice and crisp, typical of those my favorite autumn days. But there is something missing about the autumn in Switzerland. I couldn't find a trace of the beauty of those I had back in Boston, the autumn here is so...

Squirrel Kills Bat

""The squirrel had the bat in its mouth, or it was at least biting it, and then the bat went quiet for a while and then starting flapping its wings again."" This is very unusual behavior for a squirrel. Maybe it...

Scientist Aims to Turn Chickens into Dinosaurs

After the extinction of dinosaurs from hundred million years ago, a Canadian paleontologist aims to create live dinosaurs by manipulating chicken embryos. Hans Larsson, a researcher in macro evolution at McGill University in Montreal, has spent years hunting for the buried...

Life's Lessons on the Trail to Ramsay Cascade

I'm not the fearless adventurer, so often and well-represented in the movies with the character of Indiana Jones. I'm just a middle-aged, roaming photographer and wanna-be writer. But Indiana Jones and I have one...

Baboons and People

This is a long story with always the same ending.  People move onto land used by animals, animals are driven out or become dependent on people for survival, their natural habitat nd ways of life...

Siquijor Island, Philippines

Siquijor is the southernmost island in the Central Visayas Region and a province of the Philippines. Its capital is the same as municipality named Siquijor. The island can be found northwest of Cebu and Negros, northeast is Bohol and to the south, across the Bohol Sea is...

The Evolution of Plant Minds

     I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...

The Taff River is flowing nicely Today!

  The Taff River in Cardiff City UK, as it can be noted on the attached photo it has run extremely smooth today.

Rubbish Left on Montain Top! WAG on the case.

  This is unusual for rubbish to be left on a tourism location in South Wales, UK. The Welsh Assembly Government, is currently consulting people in order to pass legislation regarding this sort of behaviour and...

A view of South Wales UK, temperatures reached 30 celsius today!

  A very unusual heat wave has hit South Wales, although covered with clouds, it has very been humid. This photo gives a better view how the day was.

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