TIger conservation can be bad for your health

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 3 days (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

There's good news and bad news. The good news is that villagers in Nepal restored damaged tiger habitats as part of an international buffer zone initiative and that the big cats are recovering. The bad news is that they are eating the Nepalese villagers.

University of Minnesota experts recommend educating the villagers about tiger behavior (read: "Stop gathering firewood right where the tigers live.") and fitting "problem animals" with radio collars.

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Saving the Wildlife of Madagascar

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.time.com)

When you're on the lookout for lemurs — the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar — it helps to have good eyes (lemurs are small), sharp ears (they rustle the trees) and a keen nose (they have an unmistakable smell).

It is hard to say how long the lemurs will be around. Madagascar is what conservationists call a biodiversity hotspot. All hotspots worldwide take up about 2% of Earth's landmass, but they are home to half its species

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How to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease ?

Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (medheadlines.com)

For the first time ever, an international team of researchers has mapped out the areas around the world where infectious diseases, passed from animals to humans, have originated. Using data that dates back to the early 1940s, the study concludes that diseases that originate in animals, called zoonoses, are the biggest threat to humans today.

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Disease monitors "looking in the wrong places"

U.S.-Mexico border fence may trap jaguars as well as immigrants

Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

This is fascinating. I never knew that any jaguars at all lived in the United States, let alone as far northeast as North Carolina!

Now this isn't a message of doom for all jaguars everywhere, just the eleven males who've been spotted in the Southwest over the past few years. Now, while the government's decision to not implement a recovery plan technically violates the Endangered Species Act, I find that I can see their point. For so few animals, any efforts toward the conservation of jaguars would be better spent elsewhere.

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Bird flu kills 350 ducks in northern Vietnam

Sue Wu submitted, created time 1 year 5 days (www.reuters.com)

HANOI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed 350 white-winged ducks in northern Vietnam this week, the first outbreak in poultry detected this year, the government said on Thursday.

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South China tiger cub born in Africa

The new wildlife refuge -- Golf courses?

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (munews.missouri.edu)

Golf courses are known as centers for human recreation, but if managed properly, they also could be important wildlife sanctuaries, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found.

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Group: Border Fence Threatens Wildlife

broadcast submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.examiner.com)

Nancy Brown drives the government truck slowly past mossy ponds, thick shrouds of beard-like Spanish moss and majestic ebony trees, gleefully identifying the song of the kiskadee and the gurgling call of the chachalaca.

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Wildlife Starves On Emptied Wetland

penguin submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.sciencedaily.com)

Tens of thousands of migrating birds are facing starvation because the world’s largest land reclamation project has all but destroyed their most important refueling station.

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Wild horses munch desolate marshland back to life

medal submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.reuters.com)

"Close to the cathedral city of Canterbury, wild horses linked to sinister Nazi experiments are helping to bring wildlife and rare birds back to once desolate marshlands."

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