— stopping illegal logging will not only save forests in the congo basin, it will protect american jobs and our climate. read article : stopping illegal logging will protect endangered species while saving american jobs
art ecology science & animals
From November, 2015
COMMERCIALIZATION OR CONSUMER EDUCATION?
— the airline is collaborating with international organisations to train and better equip its ground and cargo staff to detect and deal with illegal wildlife products in transit. as the required paperwork for movement of some wildlife products is often forged, emirates also made the decision to ban trophy shipments read article : emirates paints its planes with endangered animals
THE BUNDLE OF BEEF FAT HAD BEEN STRUNG UP 12 FEET HIGH
— keystone species are plants or animals that are so critical to an ecosystem that the landscape would dramatically change without them read article : soul mates; nutcrackers, whitebark pine, and a bond that holds an ecosystem together
IMPROVING THE SITUATION
— we are animals and we fit into a broader world of our local geology, meteorology, topography, plants and other organisms read article : capturing cacti before they disappear: q&a with cacti curator john trager more : huntington desert garden
SANS PHALLUS
— “scientists used pictures of the reptile embryos to recreate their 3d structure. the team discovered that, even though the tuatara has no external phallus, it grows the beginnings of one during development. at some point this “genital swelling” recedes and the reptiles are born sans phallus” read article : the penis only evolved once, suggests study of reptile embryos read more : resurrecting embryos of the tuatara, sphenodon punctatus, to resolve vertebrate phallus evolution
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