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World Wildlife Fund
http://aftercancernowwhat.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 11/ 21/ world-wildlife-fund/Here’s one that’s fantastic for the environmentalist in your family, young or old. You can donate to the World Wildlife Fund and get a little premium gift; a hat a travel mug or you can sponsor an animal.
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The lighter side
http://thebeernut.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 11/ lighter-side.htmlIn yesterday's post on CAMRA NI's festival in Belfast, I mentioned the collective decision by my cohort that a particular beer smelled of urine. It did -- Bateman's Valiant exuded a powerful odour of railway station toilets, as Adeptus has also already said.
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CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES: Unique axolotl salamanders face extinction
http://conservationreport.com/ 2008/ 11/ 18/ critically-endangered-species-uniqu…The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), a type of salamander, is a critically endangered amphibian endemic to central Mexico. This species is a “paedomorphic species, living permanently in water, and does not undergo complete metamorphosis,” so the gills are retained into its adult life.
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Writer to writer - Sarah Lotz puts the questions to Richard Kunzmann
http://crimebeat.book.co.za/ blog/ 2008/ 11/ 10/ writer-to-writer-sarah-lotz-put…Writer to writer - Sarah Lotz puts the questions to Richard Kunzmann November 10th, 2008 by Mike Richard Kunzmann’s impeccably researched and detailed writing has been compared to the likes of Cormac McCarthy. His first book, Bloody Harvests, was nominated for a Crime Writers Association’s J.C.W.
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Water Monster, Axoloti, of Mexico City Nears Extinction
http://www.greenpacks.org/ 2008/ 11/ 05/ water-monster-axoloti-of-mexico-city-ne…Mexico City’s water monster, an Axoloti salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum), is about one foot long (30cm). According to scientists at the Chapultepec Zoo, the monster is about to go extinct because its lake habitat is draining, the water quality is deteriorating and non-native fish species started eating its eggs and larva, and competing for its food.
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Extinction looming for legendary Mexican salamander
http://zoniereport.com/ 2008/ 11/ extinction-looming-for-legendary-mexican-salam…A few weeks ago, I wrote a quick post on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s “Red List” of endangered species, which predicted that about half of the world’s species could go extinct in the next century.
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Axolotl Aztecs 'water monster' nears extinction
http://www.nowpublic.com/ world/ axolotl-aztecs-water-monster-nears-extinction" Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster — and a Muppet — with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an... read more
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Miradi and Conservation
http://benetech.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ miradi-and-conservation.htmlI was just able to attend an exciting conference in Vancouver, ConEx, the Conservation Learning Exchange. It was organized by The Nature Conservancy, but had folks from many of the other leading groups. For me, it was a chance to meet practitioners using our Miradi conservation project management software.
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To eliminate some confusion: The Coastal Giant Salamander isn't really giant.
http://rockpaperlizard.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ coastal-giant-salamander-it-isnt-…Here is a terrestrial form of the Coastal Giant Salamander, Dicamptodon tenebrosus, an animal that can achieve a snout-vent length (nose-to-naughty bits) of 190 mm, which is about 7.5 inches. Giant? Hardly. But compared to the usual, dainty plethodontid species one finds beneath logs, it is relatively enormous.
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Salamander!
http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ salamander.htmlOur buddies in the Autum Film stayed with us a for a few days last week, and A and I took them out to Multnomah Falls. On the way out, at Latourelle Falls we saw a salamander, which was completely unexpected and yes, rad. That's right. Rad.
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