Articles tagged ‘Wildlife’
Australia’s Tasmanian Devil Listed as Endangered Species
By Linda | May 22nd, 2008 |
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The world’s largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil, was officially declared endangered on Wednesday due to a contagious and ultimately fatal facial cancer.
Spread through biting, the tumour works its way across the animal’s face and mouth which prevents it from eating, often resulting in death within months.
The fast-spreading disease has already reduced numbers by around [...]
New National Park for Sierra Leone
By Linda | December 21st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Troubled Sierra Leone is discovering that tourism beats logging.
Until recently, residents of the Gola Forest, in Sierra Leone, made money by letting their land to loggers resulting in the area becoming endangered.
In a drive to stop logging and increase tourism the government have allocated an area of 75 sq km, which is home to chimpanzees, [...]
Nature is Not Always Nice
By Mary | January 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
If you’ve seen the trailers on TV for the movie, “Primeval,” you might know by now that the “serial killer” they are talking about is a crocodile that goes by the name of Gustave. National Geographic wrote about the croc in March 2005, and tried to sort out the myth from the facts. The crocodile [...]
Good News for the Rain Forest in Brazil
By Mary | December 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Brazil announced yesterday it will protect a huge part of its tropical forest, bigger than England… about 58,000 square miles.
“I cannot remember any single announcement like this,” said José Maria Cardoso da Silva, vice president of science for Conservation International (CI)-Brazil. “This is one of the major conservation announcements of the last decades.” Adalberto Verissimo, [...]
Eco-Destination: Antarctica
By Mary | December 1st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Well, I don’t think you’re going to find any hostels in Antarctica. Just getting there is going to require burning a lot of fossil fuels. So you’ll have to save up some money, and work hard to minimize the eco-impact of your trip. But if it’s your dream to see the world, you’re likely to [...]
Visit Your Fellow Earthlings At California’s Meerkat Farm
By Mary | November 28th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
This meerkat farm has been on my list of places to go for a while now…. I’m hoping to do a road trip around the Mojave Desert region one wintertime soon, and I expect that this will be one of my stops. Anyone who’s seen a meerkat can’t help but be fascinated with them. The [...]
Kenya Resort Wins Responsible Travel Award
By Mary | November 20th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Ol Malo Eco-Lodge, located in Kenya’s rugged Northern Frontier, has been named winner of the First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards, held at the World Travel Market earlier this month. The lodge was honored for its commitment to working with the local community to reduce poverty and provide health care.
The lodge sits on 3,000 acres [...]
Destination: Gabon
By Mary | November 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
In Gabon, on Africa’s western coast, the government a few years ago decided to protect 11 percent of its land for conservation and eco-tourism. The hope is that tourism can provide income for the local people while preserving the forest and wildlife.
The scheme has plenty of skeptics, who worry that building roads for tourists [...]
Africa’s Animals
By Mary | November 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
It’s Day 2 in Geography Awareness Week, and today’s topic is the wildlife of Africa.
When we think of Africa, we think of elephants, zebras, lions, huge roaming herds of wildebeest and elephants. But we also know many of Africa’s people live in poverty, and wildlife are endangered by loss of habitat, logging, and poaching. [...]
Destination: Kenya
By Mary | November 12th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
In honor of Geography Awareness Week, I’ll write about eco-destinations in Africa this week.
Kenya is one of the most familiar places in Africa, thanks to stories by Hemingway, movies like “Out of Africa,” and the famous Serengeti wildlife. EcoTourism Kenya was established about 10 years ago to promote sustainable and ecologically friendly tourism there. Their [...]
