20 Years On and Whales are Under Threat Again
Starmail - 3. Jan, 11:21
Artenschutz
3
Jan
2006
28
Dez
2005
Property Rights Advocate Embraces Conservation Plan
"Cooperative conservation" is a new approach to conserving wildlife habitat that relies on voluntary financial incentives rather than "command and control" regulation. The approach is showing some success, yet environmentalists are concerned that without regulatory backup, it will fail to preserve endangered species.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/122705EB.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/122705EB.shtml
Starmail - 28. Dez, 10:29
27
Dez
2005
Wolves Thrive but Animosity Keeps Pace
December 27, 2005
latimes.com: National News Single page
THE NATION
Wolves Thrive but Animosity Keeps Pace
Wildlife officials fear that hunters will move in for the kill if federal protection is dropped.
By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer
BOISE, Idaho — Since the first captured Canadian gray wolves bounded out of their cages 10 years ago and disappeared into the trees, the animals that were once hunted to near extinction throughout the West have become a rare success story for the Endangered Species Act. Thanks, in part, to strict federal protection, today nearly 900 wolves roam in scores of packs across their historic range.
The wolf's comeback is all the more remarkable given the hatred that heralded their reintroduction, followed by a campaign of shooting and poisoning that continues today. There is still so much local antagonism that federal wildlife managers are hesitant to remove wolves from the endangered species list, even though the population is many times greater than required to delist.
Of all the recent reintroductions of native animals, none has provoked as much opposition as the wolf. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 66 radio-collared wolves into central Idaho and Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and 1996. Some wolves were immediately killed by hunters opposed to reintroduction, but most flourished, coming together in the wild to form new and surprisingly resilient packs.
The animals are now scattered across parts of Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, a region where earlier this century the much-reviled predator was hunted for bounty and ranchers tacked wolf skins and skulls to their fences.
But now, as the Fish and Wildlife Service ponders a delisting plan that would turn over management of the wolves to the states, federal officials are balking at plans they fear would allow hunters to exterminate whole packs.
In Wyoming, for example, Gov. Dave Freudenthal last April decreed that the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force and that the state "now considers the wolf as a federal dog," unworthy of protection. The governor's declaration reflects the views of hunters and ranchers that the wolves are decimating elk herds and devouring cattle and sheep. Some rural residents say they fear that wolves may prey on children.Idaho, home to the largest population of wolves in the West, has been the least welcoming. Officials say hundreds of wolves have been shot, in violation of federal law. A recent spate of poisonings has not only killed wolves, but dozens of ranch dogs and family pets that ingested pesticide-laced meatballs left along wildlife trails, state wildlife managers say.
Idaho's anti-wolf crusade is expected to intensify in coming weeks with the federal trial of Tim Sundles, an ammunition maker from Carmen, a rural town of 600 in northeast Idaho. He is charged with attempting to poison wolves in the Salmon National Forest last winter, and with placing a pesticide on federal land without permission, both misdemeanors.
Sundles, 47, operates an anti-wolf website that provides detailed instructions on how to "successfully poison a wolf." In a recent interview, however, Sundles said he is innocent of the attempted poisoning charge and decried the law-enforcement search of his home as a "Gestapo-style raid" by "an out-of-control federal agency."
Sundles dismisses the poisoning of pets as "collateral damage" and blasts federal wildlife managers for "dumping" wolves in the state.
"I'm shocked that human blood hasn't been spilled on this issue," Sundles said in an interview. "I'm surprised there hasn't been a gunfight. I'm surprised that the feds who've done this haven't been hunted down and killed," he said of the reintroduction of the wolves.
Sundles is the latest face of Idaho's campaign to eradicate wolves from the state. Ron Gillett, co-chairman of the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition, is another.
"Let me tell you something. We will get rid of these wolves, one way or another," Gillett said, his index finger stabbing the air, during a recent interview in Lakefield, a hamlet east of Boise.
"We are law-abiding citizens. We will try it legally. But I'm not going to live with no elk, no deer, no bighorn sheep and no goats, just because some environmentalist someplace wants to hear a wolf howl. No. You either give up or move over, because we are going to run over you. No compromise. No negotiation. No Canadian wolves in Idaho."
But Steve Nadeau, wolf coordinator for Idaho's Department of Fish and Game, said the state's elk population has been stable for years. This year "has been a banner year for elk and deer. Really good hunting," he said.
Nadeau estimated that wolves are responsible for about 1% of elk deaths in Idaho. According to many wolf biologists, hunters aren't seeing as many elk because wolves are driving them into higher country, which is less accessible to humans.In Idaho, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service indicate that only 35% of sheep deaths are attributable to predators, with wolves accountable for only 0.4% of sheep kills by predators. The data indicate that domestic dogs are responsible for nearly 20 times more sheep kills than wolves.
The same numbers hold true for cattle, where wolves are responsible for 0.6% of predator kills.
As far as the threat to humans, a 2002 study by Alaska wildlife officials found that there have been only a handful of documented wolf attacks on humans in North America since the 1800s. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police suspect wolves in a fatal attack on a man in Saskatchewan last month. If true, it would be the first such recorded death in 100 years, according to the Alaska study.
Fears about wolves aren't borne out by the facts, insists Suzanne Stone, of the group Defenders of Wildlife.
"It's almost impossible to discuss it rationally," Stone said. "It doesn't have anything to do with logic or reason, it's so steeped in myth. And this mythical wolf really doesn't exist."
Stone runs the Defenders' compensation program, which has paid more than a half-million dollars in the region since 1987, she said. In many cases, the compensation has not softened the attitudes of ranchers who have lost livestock.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-wolves27dec27,0,2947202.story
Informant: binstock
latimes.com: National News Single page
THE NATION
Wolves Thrive but Animosity Keeps Pace
Wildlife officials fear that hunters will move in for the kill if federal protection is dropped.
By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer
BOISE, Idaho — Since the first captured Canadian gray wolves bounded out of their cages 10 years ago and disappeared into the trees, the animals that were once hunted to near extinction throughout the West have become a rare success story for the Endangered Species Act. Thanks, in part, to strict federal protection, today nearly 900 wolves roam in scores of packs across their historic range.
The wolf's comeback is all the more remarkable given the hatred that heralded their reintroduction, followed by a campaign of shooting and poisoning that continues today. There is still so much local antagonism that federal wildlife managers are hesitant to remove wolves from the endangered species list, even though the population is many times greater than required to delist.
Of all the recent reintroductions of native animals, none has provoked as much opposition as the wolf. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 66 radio-collared wolves into central Idaho and Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and 1996. Some wolves were immediately killed by hunters opposed to reintroduction, but most flourished, coming together in the wild to form new and surprisingly resilient packs.
The animals are now scattered across parts of Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, a region where earlier this century the much-reviled predator was hunted for bounty and ranchers tacked wolf skins and skulls to their fences.
But now, as the Fish and Wildlife Service ponders a delisting plan that would turn over management of the wolves to the states, federal officials are balking at plans they fear would allow hunters to exterminate whole packs.
In Wyoming, for example, Gov. Dave Freudenthal last April decreed that the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force and that the state "now considers the wolf as a federal dog," unworthy of protection. The governor's declaration reflects the views of hunters and ranchers that the wolves are decimating elk herds and devouring cattle and sheep. Some rural residents say they fear that wolves may prey on children.Idaho, home to the largest population of wolves in the West, has been the least welcoming. Officials say hundreds of wolves have been shot, in violation of federal law. A recent spate of poisonings has not only killed wolves, but dozens of ranch dogs and family pets that ingested pesticide-laced meatballs left along wildlife trails, state wildlife managers say.
Idaho's anti-wolf crusade is expected to intensify in coming weeks with the federal trial of Tim Sundles, an ammunition maker from Carmen, a rural town of 600 in northeast Idaho. He is charged with attempting to poison wolves in the Salmon National Forest last winter, and with placing a pesticide on federal land without permission, both misdemeanors.
Sundles, 47, operates an anti-wolf website that provides detailed instructions on how to "successfully poison a wolf." In a recent interview, however, Sundles said he is innocent of the attempted poisoning charge and decried the law-enforcement search of his home as a "Gestapo-style raid" by "an out-of-control federal agency."
Sundles dismisses the poisoning of pets as "collateral damage" and blasts federal wildlife managers for "dumping" wolves in the state.
"I'm shocked that human blood hasn't been spilled on this issue," Sundles said in an interview. "I'm surprised there hasn't been a gunfight. I'm surprised that the feds who've done this haven't been hunted down and killed," he said of the reintroduction of the wolves.
Sundles is the latest face of Idaho's campaign to eradicate wolves from the state. Ron Gillett, co-chairman of the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition, is another.
"Let me tell you something. We will get rid of these wolves, one way or another," Gillett said, his index finger stabbing the air, during a recent interview in Lakefield, a hamlet east of Boise.
"We are law-abiding citizens. We will try it legally. But I'm not going to live with no elk, no deer, no bighorn sheep and no goats, just because some environmentalist someplace wants to hear a wolf howl. No. You either give up or move over, because we are going to run over you. No compromise. No negotiation. No Canadian wolves in Idaho."
But Steve Nadeau, wolf coordinator for Idaho's Department of Fish and Game, said the state's elk population has been stable for years. This year "has been a banner year for elk and deer. Really good hunting," he said.
Nadeau estimated that wolves are responsible for about 1% of elk deaths in Idaho. According to many wolf biologists, hunters aren't seeing as many elk because wolves are driving them into higher country, which is less accessible to humans.In Idaho, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service indicate that only 35% of sheep deaths are attributable to predators, with wolves accountable for only 0.4% of sheep kills by predators. The data indicate that domestic dogs are responsible for nearly 20 times more sheep kills than wolves.
The same numbers hold true for cattle, where wolves are responsible for 0.6% of predator kills.
As far as the threat to humans, a 2002 study by Alaska wildlife officials found that there have been only a handful of documented wolf attacks on humans in North America since the 1800s. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police suspect wolves in a fatal attack on a man in Saskatchewan last month. If true, it would be the first such recorded death in 100 years, according to the Alaska study.
Fears about wolves aren't borne out by the facts, insists Suzanne Stone, of the group Defenders of Wildlife.
"It's almost impossible to discuss it rationally," Stone said. "It doesn't have anything to do with logic or reason, it's so steeped in myth. And this mythical wolf really doesn't exist."
Stone runs the Defenders' compensation program, which has paid more than a half-million dollars in the region since 1987, she said. In many cases, the compensation has not softened the attitudes of ranchers who have lost livestock.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-wolves27dec27,0,2947202.story
Informant: binstock
Starmail - 27. Dez, 22:41
21
Dez
2005
19
Dez
2005
Grundschleppnetze: Greenpeace prangert "illegale Fischfangflotte" an
Grundschleppnetze: Greenpeace prangert "illegale Fischfangflotte" im Rostocker Hafen an (19.12.05)
Greenpeace-Aktivisten kennzeichneten am Montag im Rostocker Hafen fünf Fischtrawler als "illegal". Die Umweltschützer beschrifteten den Rumpf der rund sechzig Meter langen Schiffe und forderten die Bundesregierung auf, "die Piratenfischer" festzulegen. Der Grund für die Aktion: Im Hafen von Rostock werden nach Darstellung der Umweltschutzorganisation die Trawler derzeit fit für die nächste Saison gemacht, obwohl die Europäische Union und internationale Fischereiorganisationen sie als illegale Fischer gelistet hätten. "Die Trawler halten sich seit Jahren nicht an internationale Fischereiabkommen und zerstören mit ihren Grundschleppnetzen die Fischbestände und die Unterwasserwelt im Atlantik", so Greenpeace.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12542
Greenpeace-Aktivisten kennzeichneten am Montag im Rostocker Hafen fünf Fischtrawler als "illegal". Die Umweltschützer beschrifteten den Rumpf der rund sechzig Meter langen Schiffe und forderten die Bundesregierung auf, "die Piratenfischer" festzulegen. Der Grund für die Aktion: Im Hafen von Rostock werden nach Darstellung der Umweltschutzorganisation die Trawler derzeit fit für die nächste Saison gemacht, obwohl die Europäische Union und internationale Fischereiorganisationen sie als illegale Fischer gelistet hätten. "Die Trawler halten sich seit Jahren nicht an internationale Fischereiabkommen und zerstören mit ihren Grundschleppnetzen die Fischbestände und die Unterwasserwelt im Atlantik", so Greenpeace.
Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12542
Starmail - 19. Dez, 22:07
15
Dez
2005
Marine census shows diversity, declines
Tampa Tribune
12/14/05
A massive census of all the fish and other marine life in the world's oceans has reached the halfway point with new evidence of the rich diversity under the sea along with warnings about the alarming decline of many species. The 10-year international project that began in 2000 has already tracked the migration of tuna from Japan to California and back, along with the movement of endangered British Columbia salmon with implanted computer chips...
http://tinyurl.com/bfcgn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
12/14/05
A massive census of all the fish and other marine life in the world's oceans has reached the halfway point with new evidence of the rich diversity under the sea along with warnings about the alarming decline of many species. The 10-year international project that began in 2000 has already tracked the migration of tuna from Japan to California and back, along with the movement of endangered British Columbia salmon with implanted computer chips...
http://tinyurl.com/bfcgn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 15. Dez, 19:15
Extinction alert for 800 species
Starmail - 15. Dez, 10:04
8
Dez
2005
Feds shrink potential salamander habitat
Sonoma County land considered for protection cut by two-thirds; final decision due Dec. 1
Friday, November 18, 2005
By BLEYS W. ROSE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
In a partial victory for development interests, federal officials said Thursday they are reducing by two-thirds the parts of Sonoma County that could fall under federal protections for the tiger salamander.
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/NEWS/51118001/1033/NEWS01
Related: Searched for 'salamander' Results 1 - 10 of about 10.
http://google.pressdemocrat.com/search?q=salamander&btnG=Go%21&site=press_democrat&client=Press_FrontEnd&proxystylesheet=Press_FrontEnd&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&sort=D%3AS%3Ad1
Feds shrink potential salamander habitat
... Feds shrink potential salamander habitat. Sonoma County land considered for protection cut by two-thirds; final decision due Dec.
1. Friday, November 18, 2005. ... County OKs plan to protect salamander
... County OKs plan to protect salamander. Proposal ... Dec. 1 on how much land in Sonoma County to designate as critical habitat for the salamander. ...
Letters to the Editor
... 26 article, "Price tag to save tiger salamander," the population counts suggest that the California tiger salamander is but a subset of the region's salamander ... Letters to the Editor
... 26 article, "Price tag to save tiger salamander," the population counts suggest that the California tiger salamander is but a subset of the region's salamander ... Residential building starts to rebound
... higher. Then there is the California tiger salamander. ... years. Still, the plan hinges on setting aside areas elsewhere for salamander habitat. ... Letters to the Editor
... I found a copy of The Press Democrat, which I use to keep me warm, and was relieved to know that it would cost $336 million to save the tiger salamander. ... Letters to the Editor
... has only marginally improved with builders citing as primary obstacles less and more costly land and continued delays related to the California tiger salamander ... What a difference a year makes
... development in southwest Santa Rosa -- the biggest in 10 years -- and a compromise possible on protecting the development-stopping tiger salamander, there may ... Interchange work may start in '06
... or three years, Akkawi said. Remaining hurdles include protecting the tiger salamander habitat, he added.
Informant: STRIDER
Friday, November 18, 2005
By BLEYS W. ROSE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
In a partial victory for development interests, federal officials said Thursday they are reducing by two-thirds the parts of Sonoma County that could fall under federal protections for the tiger salamander.
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/NEWS/51118001/1033/NEWS01
Related: Searched for 'salamander' Results 1 - 10 of about 10.
http://google.pressdemocrat.com/search?q=salamander&btnG=Go%21&site=press_democrat&client=Press_FrontEnd&proxystylesheet=Press_FrontEnd&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&sort=D%3AS%3Ad1
Feds shrink potential salamander habitat
... Feds shrink potential salamander habitat. Sonoma County land considered for protection cut by two-thirds; final decision due Dec.
1. Friday, November 18, 2005. ... County OKs plan to protect salamander
... County OKs plan to protect salamander. Proposal ... Dec. 1 on how much land in Sonoma County to designate as critical habitat for the salamander. ...
Letters to the Editor
... 26 article, "Price tag to save tiger salamander," the population counts suggest that the California tiger salamander is but a subset of the region's salamander ... Letters to the Editor
... 26 article, "Price tag to save tiger salamander," the population counts suggest that the California tiger salamander is but a subset of the region's salamander ... Residential building starts to rebound
... higher. Then there is the California tiger salamander. ... years. Still, the plan hinges on setting aside areas elsewhere for salamander habitat. ... Letters to the Editor
... I found a copy of The Press Democrat, which I use to keep me warm, and was relieved to know that it would cost $336 million to save the tiger salamander. ... Letters to the Editor
... has only marginally improved with builders citing as primary obstacles less and more costly land and continued delays related to the California tiger salamander ... What a difference a year makes
... development in southwest Santa Rosa -- the biggest in 10 years -- and a compromise possible on protecting the development-stopping tiger salamander, there may ... Interchange work may start in '06
... or three years, Akkawi said. Remaining hurdles include protecting the tiger salamander habitat, he added.
Informant: STRIDER
Starmail - 8. Dez, 22:34
Help stopping wasteful fishing in Europe’s waters
Published by: Passport administrator, WWF-International,
07/12/2005
Send an e-mail
http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uNC=46339141&uCampaignId=1081&uActionId=1801
A quarter of all animals caught in fishing gear, about 20 million metric tonnes of marine life, are wasted each year, thrown back dead into the sea.
© Press Association
Children from across Europe present a petition to the Chair of the Fisheries Council
The incidental capture, or bycatch, of fish, sea-birds, cetaceans, turtles, sharks and numerous other species is one of the greatest threats to the marine environment. This includes edible fish species that cannot be landed - because they are immature, undersize or have gone rotten in nets.
Urgent action is needed to stop wasteful practices and bad management. This December, the future of Europe’s marine environment is once again in European Union (EU) Fisheries Ministers’ hands.
Take action now to help stop wasteful fishing in Europe’s waters
http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uCampaignId=1081&uActionId=1801
07/12/2005
Send an e-mail
http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uNC=46339141&uCampaignId=1081&uActionId=1801
A quarter of all animals caught in fishing gear, about 20 million metric tonnes of marine life, are wasted each year, thrown back dead into the sea.
© Press Association
Children from across Europe present a petition to the Chair of the Fisheries Council
The incidental capture, or bycatch, of fish, sea-birds, cetaceans, turtles, sharks and numerous other species is one of the greatest threats to the marine environment. This includes edible fish species that cannot be landed - because they are immature, undersize or have gone rotten in nets.
Urgent action is needed to stop wasteful practices and bad management. This December, the future of Europe’s marine environment is once again in European Union (EU) Fisheries Ministers’ hands.
Take action now to help stop wasteful fishing in Europe’s waters
http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uCampaignId=1081&uActionId=1801
Starmail - 8. Dez, 19:19
7
Dez
2005
China Spill Could Threaten Endangered Tiger
Along with other endangered animals and plants, Siberian tigers are part of a unique ecosystem that faces a new threat: a toxic benzene slick headed toward the Amur River after an explosion upriver at a chemical factory in China.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/120605ED.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/120605ED.shtml
Starmail - 7. Dez, 11:12
