Rescuers free entangled whale near Point Pinos (California, USA)

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Line believed to be from a Waverider buoy is tangled in a humpback whale’s fluke off the coast the Monterey. The whale was freed from the line this week. (Marine Life Studies/Whale Entanglement Team)

November 1^st, 2014. Entanglement Team (WET) were able to free a humpback whale that was found Thursday in Monterey Bay struggling in line that was believed to have come from a Waverider buoy approximately 25 nautical miles from Point Pinos.

Peggy West-Stap, executive director of Marine Life Studies and a founding member of WET, said the entangled whale was discovered Oct. 24 by the crew of the Santa Cruz-based Shana Rae, which had been dispatched to check the Waverider buoy.

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Demand an Immediate Status Review of Wolves in the Northern Rockies

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WHAT THE DUCK?

Sloths Squeak!

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This video will definitely cheer you up after a long day! Sloth squeaks never fail to turn my heart into a puddle of goo.

All credits to the amazing Miss Lucy Cooke!

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Giant Tortoise Rebounds From Near Extinction

The famed giant tortoise of the Galapagos Islands has been brought back from the verge of extinction after its population dropped to only 15 by the 1960s.

Captive breeding and conservation efforts have allowed that number to rebound to more than 1,000.

“The population is secure. It’s a rare example of how biologists and managers can collaborate to recover a species from the brink of extinction,” said James P. Gibbs, a biologist at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

He was lead author of a study that charted the growing success of the islands tortoises, published in the journal PLOS ONE.

But Gibbs cautions that the giant tortoise population is not likely to increase further on the island of Española until the landscape recovers from the damage inflicted by now-eradicated goats.

After the imported goats devoured all the…

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The Bat Cave, Protected

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The Bracken Bat Cave outside San Antonio, Texas, is home to millions of bats. Here, a few of them emerge from the colony in 2011. Eric Gay/AP

Thanks to National Public Radio (USA) for this story on bat habitat conservation:

Down a narrow gravel drive and a short walk past cactus and scrub cedars outside of San Antonio, Texas, is a gaping, dark cave mouth, 60 feet wide, nestled at the bottom of a steep hill.

This is the Bracken Bat Cave. Each night at 7:30, millions of bats spiral out of the deep cave and streak off toward the darkening southern sky.

Thanks to a $20 million deal signed Friday by San Antonio, conservation groups and a local developer, the night sky around the cave will stay dark, and the mother and baby bats inside will have a buffer between them and the hazards of city sprawl.

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Rewilding With Horses

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The poster for “TARPAN: Repainting An Ancient Picture” . Horsefly Films

Related to a recent post, on an interesting “what if” question that has no answers, here is a kind of answer. Thanks to Rewilding Europe for this press release:

It is the worthy result of over a year of work by Jen Miller and Sophie Dia Pegrum, two American filmmakers at Horsefly Films. It is also the second in their ongoing series of informative and beautiful films documenting and celebrating rare horse breeds and the unique, and often vanishing, cultures that surround them.

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Kenya based conservation group calls for total ban on Lion Hunting -AWF

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– The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), a Kenya-based conservation NGO, has on Wednesday called on the world to totally ban sport hunting of Africa’s lions until the decline in lion populations is reversed.

AWF Senior Director of Conservation Science, Philip Muruthi, said lions are extinct in North Africa, severely depleted across West and Central Africa, and now losing ground in their strongholds of East and Southern Africa.

“For those sport hunters and hunting outfitters in the United States and in Africa’s lion range states that have always adhered to the letter of the law, we fully recognize the sacrifice we are asking them to make,” Muruthi said in a statement issued in Nairobi. “Still, we cannot afford to sacrifice the future of Africa’s lions for the sake of a few trophies,” he said, warning that the absence of lions has profound and long-lasting repercussions on Africa’s ecosystems.

“Lions…

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Dallas Nurse Who Beat Ebola Gets Her Dog Back

Kirschner’s Korner Donating 100% of Proceeds to The Pig Preserve