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 May 2011 (Fisheries)When it comes to the NOAA law enforcement scandal, "We're sorry" doesn't cut it "Much has been made of the coordinated apologies and associated media machinations of Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco for specific enforcement abuses targeting mid-Atlantic and New England fishermen and associated businesses," writes Nils Stolpe for FishNet USA. "Ditto for the return of some fines wrongfully levied as a result of these abuses." |
 April 2011 (Deer)The introduction, increase and crash of reindeer on St. Matthew Island "Reindeer, introduced to St. Matthew Island in 1944, increased from 29 animals at that time to 6,000 in the summer of 1963 and underwent a crash die-off the following winter to less than 50 animals," wrote David Klein of the University of Alaska in a 1968 report. "... Lichens had been completely eliminated as a significant component of the winter diet. Sedges and grasses were expanding into sites previously occupied by lichens. In the late winter of 1963-64, in association with extreme snow accumulation, virtually the entire population of 6,000 reindeer died of starvation." |
 March 2011 (Bovines / Cattle)"Big Meat" and Big Government. Subsidies and regs are the culprits "Ranchers are a fairly independent bunch. We don't like overweening authority and prefer to fend for ourselves. We also find few things more objectionable than sitting endlessly indoors," writes Arizona cattle rancher Paul Schwennesen. "Nevertheless, 2,000 of us did just that a few months ago in the ballroom of Colorado State University. If the setting wasn't exactly invigorating, the topic was even less so: understanding why the family-scale cattle industry is going broke and why either Big Meat or Big Government is helping it down the drain." |
 February 2011 (Management / Conservation)Debt for Nature: Financing American endangered species on foreign soil "Let me see if I have gotten this straight," asks lawyer and rancher Karen Budd Falen of Wyoming. "1. President Obama has stated that America is going to be more restrained in foreign internal affairs. 2. Yet the U.S. federal government has listed 568 foreign species on the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These are species who never set one paw or foot or leg on American soil, ever. 3. And once listed, the ESA authorizes the U.S. Treasury to spend American taxpayer money acquiring foreign land, water and other property interests to 'protect' these species." |
 January 2011 (Farming)The Great Plains: Tragedy or triumph? "At the end of the 19th century, historians declared that the American frontier had closed," write P.J. Hill and Shawn Regan of the Property and Environment Research Center. "The Homestead Act had caused population density in the West to exceed two people per square mile - the metric the census used to gauge frontier status. ... Now, more than a hundred years later, the Great Plains are experiencing Manifest Destiny in reverse - people are leaving in droves." |
 November 2010 (Felines)Save the Tiger: Environmental dividend from economic development "Asia's economic potential was first demonstrated by the four tiger economies. In recent decade, the focus has shifted to China, India and others. While economies are growing, the real tigers in the wild are living a precarious existence. It is time to reap the environmental dividend from growing prosperity, and save the tiger from extinction," writes Barun Mitra, director of the Liberty Institute in New Delhi. |
 October 2010 (Animal fibres / Trapping)Wild Fur "Wild fur bearing animals have been hunted or trapped in most countries of the world for thousands of years. Today, wild fur bearers are hunted or trapped for a variety of reasons, including population management, pest control and the protection of natural habitats as well as for food and fur. All wild fur used by the trade comes from populations that are abundant and healthy." Download the latest publication from the International Fur Trade Federation (PDF). |
 September 2010 (Felines)Man-eating tiger of Pilibhit "'There is no more terrible thing than to live and have one's being under the shadow of a man-eater' - Jim Corbett, Man-eaters of Kumaon. I was in the middle of a shimmering green paddy field, which was swaying to music I couldn't hear, on the fringes of the Sal forest of Seohara," recalls Praveen Donthi for the Hindustan Times. "I had seen movement from the corner of my eye and in a fraction of a second I knew those were the stripes of a tiger. ..."" |
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