NewsRack: 'Species Loss' news in 'Biodiversity' topic for user irge304

Oregon family’s sawmill fails as logs, way of life dwindle	19.5.2013	Seattle Times: Local
Change in Oregon’s timber country came through protests and restrictions to protect endangered species. The Forest Service cut logging by 90 percent, and logging jobs dropped from 11,000 in 1990 to about 5,000 now. Mill jobs went from 46,000 to 20,000.
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Alice Roberts: on the horns of a mammoth dilemma	19.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Can the ancient tusks of the extinct species retrieved from Arctic ice tell us exactly why it died out? The first time I met palaeontologist Dan Fisher was in a hotel in the Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a crew from the BBC. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal peninsula, where we'd heard that new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of Siberian hunters, we landed at a reindeer herders' camp, consisting of a few tepee-like "chums" on an island surrounded by ice-choked rivers. This was to be our base while the team tried to track down the mammoth remains said to be in the vicinity. But fate was against us. One trail dried up as we got close. We knew a worker on the Gazprom railway had reported finding a mammoth, but it seemed that he had either forgotten the location or been offered a better price. We hoped to investigate other ...
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New to nature No 104: Meenoplus roddenberryi	19.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
The presence of isolated bug Meenoplus Roddenberryi on Gran Canaria suggests important things about the evolution of cave-dwelling species Things are looking up for bugs underground. Among the 132 cave-dwelling invertebrate species of the Canary Islands are about 15 species of Hemiptera or true bugs. Most of these troglobites are from younger, more recently volcanically active, islands where lava tubes are abundant. La Palma and El Hierro, for example, are less than two and one million years old, respectively, and until recently home to most of the documented cave fauna. Most volcanic activity on Gran Canaria ceased 1.6m years ago. As a result, this 14m-year-old island has few lava tubes, leading biospelunkers to assume that the cavernicolous fauna would be sparse. Localised activity to the north and east has produced some volcanic landscapes, but the south-western half of the island has few lava tubes or cinder cones and virtually no troglobites. Before the year 2000, Gran Canaria cave ...
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Scientists respond to planet hunter's plight with pointers – and poetry	19.5.2013	MSNBC
Scientists respond to planet hunter's plight with pointers – and poetry
Surveying the Region’s Battered Beaches	18.5.2013	NYT: Home Page
Surveying the Region’s Battered Beaches
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs	18.5.2013	AP National
O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out....
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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids	17.5.2013	New Scientist: Being Human
Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids
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World Briefing \| Asia: Indonesia: A Logging Ban Is Extended	17.5.2013	NY Times: World
Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rain forests and peatlands, an official said Thursday.
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African clawed frog threatening other species with extinction	16.5.2013	Seattle Times: Health
A species of frog that was used from the 1930s to the 1950s in human pregnancy tests is a carrier of a deadly amphibian disease that is now threatening hundreds of other species of frogs and salamanders.
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Most distinct species mapped	16.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
For the first time scientists have developed a map that shows the world's most unique and endangered species.
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Observatory: Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus	16.5.2013	NY Times: Science
Observatory: Frog Once Used in Pregnancy Tests Spread Deadly Fungus
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Tigers 'lacking variety' in mates	15.5.2013	BBC: Science
India's tigers face extinction due to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners, say Cardiff University researchers.
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New species of marine reptile from Jurassic period found in Iraq (Cached)	15.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 15 : An international team of scientists has identified a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine reptiles.
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12 Animals We Wish We Could De-Extinct	15.5.2013	Mother Jones
Do you miss the mammoth? Dream of dodos? Long for Lycaena dispar dispar ? After centuries of driving species after species to extinction, we're now tantalizingly close to bringing some of them back. Using advances in genetic sequencing and molecular biology, s cientists across the world are mining extinct animal specimens for ancient DNA to try to resurrect disappeared species. The science is complicated— National Geographic has a great rundown—and so are the ethics involved. But who can resist dreaming up a de-extinction "wish list"? With more species nearing the extinction danger zone every dayâ, there's no shortage of candidates, but some are more scientifically suited for resurrection than others. And even if we could bring a species back, should we? We looked to scientists to explain who they'd like to bring back, and which are best left in the past. T. rex , extinct for 65 million years Designed for "maximum bone-crushing action," Tyrannosaurus ...
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Resistance to EU green farming plan	14.5.2013	BBC News - Science & Environment
EU's green subsidy plan runs into deeper trouble
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Cat wars break out in New Zealand	14.5.2013	Washington Post: World
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Call it the Kiwi cat wars. In this island nation said to harbor more cat owners per capita than any other country, a furor has broken out over a crusade to eradicate man’s second-best friend. The charge is being led by Gareth Morgan, a nationally renowned economist-turned-environmental-activist, who has dubbed cats “natural born killers” that are menacing the native bird population and bringing some to the verge of extinction. ...
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First grey whale spotted south of the Equator	14.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Namibia sighting suggests much-hunted whales are regaining ancient migratory routes, or may be down to climate disruption Astonishing news from Walvis Bay, Namibia, where scientists from the Namibian Dolphin Project on Tuesday confirmed the sighting of a grey whale . Not only has this North Pacific species been extinct in the Atlantic since the 18th century, it has never been seen south of the Equator. The signficance of this sighting is creating excitement among marine biologists. It may suggest good news – that the great whales are recovering from the disastrous hunts of the 20th century. Or it may indicate that the changing climate is disrupting their feeding habits – with unknown consequences. A unique sighting of a grey whale in the Mediterranean in May 2010 – the animal got as far as Israel – has overturned many preconceptions, with some scientists speculating that this much-hunted great whale – reduced to near extinction in the 20th century – is regaining ancient migratory ...
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Genome sequencing may shed light on parrots' longevity and intelligence (Cached)	14.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 14 : Researchers at Texas A and M University have successfully sequenced the complete genome of a Scarlet macaw for the first time.
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AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths	14.5.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
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