The Wildlife News

August 18, 2008

  • More details of ID cobalt mine 'deal'

    Brian Ertz

    Earlier we had a conversation about the Idaho Conservation League’s decision to cut a deal green-lighting a cobalt mine near Salmon, Idaho.  Details of that deal were promised today (Monday) : Formation Capital and Idaho Conservation League Reach Agreement on Conservation Program – marketwire Mine, environmentalists hail ID cobalt mine deal – Todd Dvorak –…

  • Germany hears the call of the wild as wolves return after 200 years

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news from Germany! Germany hears the call of the wild as wolves return after 200 years. By David Wroe. News.scotsman.com.

  • Trapping of wolverines continues in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    The trapping season on this rare, probably endangered animal, will continue this winter in Montana, the only state with a season on wolverine. There are only about 500 wolverine in the lower 48 states. The Bush/Kempthorne Interior Department rejected endangered species status based on their highly   questionable legal notion that a species can’t be…

  • As suspected the "bigfoot remains" are a fake

    Ralph Maughan

    “Bigfoot” fails DNA test. Science News Daily. Bits of DNA that were provided to researchers turned out to be a little bit of human DNA and 96% opossum. This story about the bigfoot remains, supposedly discovered in Georgia, was posted to our long-running thread, “Bear or Bigfoot.“

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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