News — endangered species

http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/03/running-out-of-bugs/

E.O.wilson writes that we need field biologists and protected reserves for about one half of the earth.

www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Parasites are important in keeping a balance among different life forms and in processing dead creatures into food for other creatures. Parasites comprise 80 % of the food web, and the majority of the biomass. One third of parasites could go extinct due to climate change. For an example, parasites cause crickets to jump into streams where they provide food for endangered trout.

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/11/the_sixth_extinction_climate_change_may

Giant pikeminnows, Florida panthers, piping plovers, and Kirtland's warblers have been nursed back to healthy populations due to protection under the Endangered Species Act and due to people studying them, suing to protect them, and organizing to pressure government to protect them. https://www.abqjournal.com/1043925/endangered-species-need-our-help.html [caption id="attachment_1378" align="alignleft" width="300"] COURTESY ROBIN SILVER A colorado Pikeminnow at the Dexter National Fish Hatchery. dwestphal@abqjournal.com Wed Aug 02 10:51:45 -0600 2017 1501692705 FILENAME: 695126.jpg[/caption]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Find endangred species events near you. Find books and films about wildlife. I like the film "Damnation" about people organizing to save rivers and their wildlife. Link