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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/EFC9C411-A92A-4A5F-B973-DFE1AE71A79B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/countryboylife/">countryboylife</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217832/Into-wild-Photographers-ends-earth-capture-amazing-wildlife-shots.html" title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217832/Into-wild-Photographers-ends-earth-capture-amazing-wildlife-shots.html">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/countryboylife/512/12EFC9A9-7096-4D76-A6E0-04EE9F5775F0.jpg" alt="A brown bear fishes the salmon run" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT>French photographer Eric Lefranc's White Water Fishing shows a young brown bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska trying to catch fish on the salmon run.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/countryboylife/512/FA4901F2-834F-49D0-A068-A44E88C10B82.jpg" alt="extremely rare Amur leopard in the Russian Far East" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT>Britain's Andrew Harrington spent two weeks in a hide to capture his shot of Russia's Amur leopard  - one of just 25 that survive in the wild, making it one of the world's rarest cats.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/countryboylife/512/B142F10D-0E7D-4B48-A3A0-EE1E7707D554.jpg" alt="Puffin in Norway" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT>Dutch photographer Jan Vermeer's shot of a puffin was taken after he travelled to the remote Varanger Fjord in Norway where each year thousands of seabirds, including puffins kittiwakes, auks and fulmars fly back to the cliffs to breed.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/countryboylife/512/4E63379A-6161-41C5-BD80-95FC104223E0.jpg" alt="Tree snake killing gecko" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT> Dutch photographer Miles Kooren was just drying off after taking a dip in a lagoon in Lambir Hills National Park in Malaysia when a paradise tree snake and a gecko fell out of a tree. The scene ended with the snake slowly eating the gecko whole.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/countryboylife/512/98A4E1CA-6D34-47D9-8035-540B3EBA5185.jpg" alt="A female sea leopard shows signs of frustration by blowing bubble" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="imageCaption">Bubble talk: A female sea leopard shows signs of frustration by blowing bubbles</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217832/Into-wild-Photographers-ends-earth-capture-amazing-wildlife-shots.htmlSat, 03 Oct 2009 20:12:44 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/93C87FD7-183B-4ABC-9918-66029EC3D4DA/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/cosmic_kitten1/">cosmic_kitten1</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I loved this show. It's so sad that this are now canceled. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow-we-wont-be-seeing-you-later/" title="http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow-we-wont-be-seeing-you-later/">popwatch.ew.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div>[Video]</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG><EM>Reading Rainbow</EM>,</STRONG> the PBS television series and first thing children of the ’80s think of when they hear “LeVar Burton,”  airs for the last time today after 26 years.  The reason? <A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112312561&ft=1&f=112312561">Contract expiration</A>. My most vivid memories of the ‘bow are the old-school opening credits, which I usually watched with my sister before wandering away to go read a book. As I haven’t watched them since, I’m in a mild state of shock and awe right now because<STRONG> now I know why, whenever we learned about explorers in social studies or history class, I pictured a giant sand castle next to, like, Vasco da Gama</STRONG>. (Totally the best explorer by the way.)</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>I’d like to issue both a tip of my hat and a wag of my finger to singer Tina Fabrique for ensuring that the theme song will soothe/haunt me all weekend. You can watch the first-ever episode, in which Burton reads the ever-applicable Picture Puffins book <EM>Tight Times</EM>, <A href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3203646/reading_rainbow_tight_times/">here</A>. WARNING: The updated opening credits may freak you out.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/reading/" rel="tag">reading</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/child/" rel="tag">child</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/children/" rel="tag">children</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/old/" rel="tag">old</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/old+shows/" rel="tag">old shows</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/kids/" rel="tag">kids</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/kids+tv/" rel="tag">kids tv</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/tvreading+rainbow/" rel="tag">tvreading rainbow</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/levar+burton/" rel="tag">levar burton</a></div>http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow-we-wont-be-seeing-you-later/Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:52:17 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F1F0C94A-284A-4D13-BEDA-D39801FD947D/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tryggvie/">tryggvie</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> one of many great things to do in iceland is whale watching. I have done this twice! it's simply fantastic! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://blog.roomwithaview.is/whale-adventures-in-iceland/" title="http://blog.roomwithaview.is/whale-adventures-in-iceland/">blog.roomwithaview.is</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="topTitle"><A href="http://blog.roomwithaview.is/whale-adventures-in-iceland/">Whale Adventures in Iceland</A></H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>One of the fun things to do in Iceland is to go and see the whales.</STRONG> There are tours you can take from various places in Iceland, f.e. from Reykjavik, Húsavík, Reykjanes and more.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/tryggvie/512/52128D3B-C547-4003-9343-C26D60C1E14A.jpg" alt="Humpback Whale" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>From our hotel, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.roomwithaview.is" title="Room With a View apartment hotel">Room With A View</A>, two tour operators are withing walking distance (1.2km).</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.elding.is"><STRONG>Elding – Whale adventures from Reykjavik harbour</STRONG></A><BR /> Take part in an adventure at sea with an unforgettable trip into the world of whales and sea birds. Conveniently located in Reykjavík’s old harbor, a 20-minute journey with Elding can bring you up close to whales in their natural habitat… visit <A target="_blank" href="http://www.elding.is">Elding website</A> for more.<BR /> [Their website is in 6 languages and you can book tours online]</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.hvalalif.is/"><STRONG>Hvalalíf – Whale watching & Sea Angling</STRONG></A><BR /> Life of Whales invites you to watch whales breach in the wild ocean, see the colorful Puffins and other seabirds and expierience some fatastic Sea Angling.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/things+to+do+in+iceland/" rel="tag">things to do in iceland</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iceland+travel/" rel="tag">iceland travel</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/icelandic+tours/" rel="tag">icelandic tours</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/reykjavik+city+center/" rel="tag">reykjavik city center</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/reykjavik+day+trips/" rel="tag">reykjavik day trips</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/room+with+a+view+apartment+hotel/" rel="tag">room with a view apartment hotel</a></div>http://blog.roomwithaview.is/whale-adventures-in-iceland/Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:16:11 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F861458A-440A-4CA6-A071-E8660DEE42C3/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/David+Hughes/">David Hughes</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/puffin-decline-satellite" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/puffin-decline-satellite">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Hi-tech puffins to monitor decline in seabird populations</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Stubby seabird with comedy beak to help scientists investigate steep decline in seabird populations across Britain<BR /><STRONG><BR /><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2009/jul/01/puffins-farne-islands">Audio slideshow: Studying puffins on the Farne islands</A></STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Short, stubby and gifted with a distinctive comedy beak, the puffin is an iconic bird. But seabird may also be the bellwether for a crisis in the seas around Britain.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The puffin now has a new role, helping scientists investigate the causes of a steep decline in seabird numbers across the British Isles using miniaturised digital tracking devices, including one borrowed from in-car satellite navigation systems.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Data for last year shows <A title="puffin numbers suddenly and sharply crashed" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/04/wildlife.conservation">puffin numbers suddenly and sharply crashed</A>. Scientists found that on the most significant North Sea colonies, puffin populations fell by a third or more. Adult puffins were malnourished, with large numbers washed up dead along the UK's coast.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/puffin-decline-satelliteSun, 05 Jul 2009 22:05:09 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/66011109-7D63-47E2-B77F-908190527C9E/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/">hotdoge3</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10582441" title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10582441">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1> Alarm grows over big melt in Antarctica </H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Antarctica is shrinking more quickly than expected and the pace is increasing, a conference has been told.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Professor Peter Barrett of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre summarised the latest findings at the Annual Antarctic Conference.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Recent satellite pictures showed the frozen continent was calving glaciers from its edges at a rate adding up to about 0.4mm of sea-level rise a year.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>That might not sound like much, he said, but the rate of ice loss was increasing quickly - up 75 per cent since 1996.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The Antarctic ice sheet has been stable for a million years and until recently had seemed too large and too cold to be vulnerable.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But Dr Barrett said scientists now believed it could change significantly in a matter of decades. A new assessment adding up global ice loss from Greenland, Antarctica and other glaciers suggested sea levels would rise between 80cm and 2m by 2100, he said.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI><A href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10581986">Puffins to be tracked with GPS</A></LI></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/alarm-grows-over-big-melt-in-antarctica/" rel="tag">alarm-grows-over-big-melt-in-antarctica</a></div>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10582441Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:44:47 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/083B9AF8-DA91-4FCD-BF32-CE1C7CB795A8/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/chestnut501/">chestnut501</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=bald-eagles-succumb-to-poison-in-ra-2009-07-01" title="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=bald-eagles-succumb-to-poison-in-ra-2009-07-01">www.scientificamerican.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Last month we <A href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=did-the-rat-island-restoration-effo-2009-06-12">reported</A> on bald eagles and other birds found dead after a rat eradication project in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., has confirmed that the birds were casualties of brodifacoum, the poison used in bait scattered around Rat Island by helicopter.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/chestnut501/512/102B159F-D4A8-4B41-AC16-9568672B5BEE.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>For two centuries, invasive rats on the island have ravaged populations of ground-nesting seabirds. In September, Island Conservation, the Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped rat poison from helicopters after an <A href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http:%2F%2Falaskamaritime.fws.gov%2Fpdf%2Frat_assessment_508.pdf&ei=_qMySq3TOISotAP7peHVBg&usg=AFQjCNFjDSCyIjx367KhCl8T5Kz16AI0Gg&sig2=Xj3-DSWPjJiPgPqxJ-BzVQ">environmental assessment </A>concluded birds were unlikely to be harmed because the rodents would perish in their burrows.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>A recent <A href="http://www.fws.gov/news/NewsReleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=D1853646-F27F-23F3-9E027F384A3AF96D">census</A> found puffins and other seabirds were returning to nest on the island in the absence of rats. But wildlife workers also discovered corpses from 43 bald eagles, 213 glaucous-winged gulls, and several other species. The scientists believe gulls may have consumed the poison cakes and were then preyed upon by eagles.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">conservation</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">wildlife</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/preservation/" rel="tag">preservation</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/eagles/" rel="tag">eagles</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/poison/" rel="tag">poison</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/rat-poison/" rel="tag">rat-poison</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/brodifacoum/" rel="tag">brodifacoum</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/aleutian-islands/" rel="tag">aleutian-islands</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environment/" rel="tag">environment</a></div>http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=bald-eagles-succumb-to-poison-in-ra-2009-07-01Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:13:14 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A2B09AC8-7068-4FB9-94E8-407EC7B0CD12/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/drgreenfingers/">drgreenfingers</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3384111.html?menu=news.quirkies" title="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3384111.html?menu=news.quirkies">www.ananova.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><BIG>Puffins to be fitted with GPS</BIG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Puffins are to be fitted with satellite transmitters for the first time in an effort to understand a worrying decline in their numbers in the last five years.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/drgreenfingers/512/FBB350CA-1BC4-4B46-AFAA-3D3B9D31CB09.jpg" alt="Puffins on the Farne Islands /PA Photos 2009" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Scientists are to fit tiny global positioning system (GPS) devices to the sea birds' legs to work out what is happening to them, reports the Daily Telegraph.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Possible reasons include climate change causing sand eels, puffins' main food source, to move north. Pollution can also affect numbers and competition from other species such as gulls.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Puffins on the Farne Islands will be fitted with GPS this summer. When the data is collected from returning puffins the following year it will provide clues to the kind of feeding grounds the birds have been to and the threats they are exposed to.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> David Steel, National Trust Head Warden on the Farne Islands, said puffins were breeding successfully so it was essential to find out what could be causing the death of the birds out at sea.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3384111.html?menu=news.quirkiesThu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:25 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5B875D76-DB31-49E8-A84C-4ABC0B40C859/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/brightlight4/">brightlight4</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/predators-starve-as-we-plunder-oceans-1671066.html" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/predators-starve-as-we-plunder-oceans-1671066.html">www.independent.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Predators starve as we plunder oceans</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Starving sea life – from whales to puffins, tuna to seals – is being found all over the world's oceans, as the food on which it depends is being fished out, startling new evidence shows. And much of the depletion, ironically, is caused by raising captive fish – for the table.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>More than four-fifths of this catch does not go directly to feed people, but is ground up into fish oil and fish meal and increasingly used to raise carnivorous species such as salmon in fish farms. A captive fish needs up to 11b of food to put on a single pound in weight. And, as a result, there is less and less left for its natural predators.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>"We have caught most of the big fish and are now going after their food," says Margot Stiles, a marine scientist for Oceana, the leading international sea protection pressure group. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">A new report by the group, Hungry Oceans, describes how "scrawny predators – dolphins, sea bass and even whales – have turned up on coastlines all over the worl</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/predators-starve-as-we-plunder-oceans-1671066.htmlMon, 20 Apr 2009 23:09:05 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/0DA406A8-E8AA-40CE-B5B1-AA7724A980A5/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JICWyllie/">JICWyllie</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>A third miserable summer in parts of the UK could spell disaster for many species of insects, birdlife and mammals, the National Trust warns today. </P><P>The charity says three wet summers in a row in many regions could mean that creatures - ranging from craneflies (often called daddy-long-legs) to species of butterflies, members of the tit family, puffins and bats - may struggle to survive in some places. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">"<A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climatechange">Climate change</A> is not some future prediction of what might happen. It's happening now and having a serious impact on our countryside every year."</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The warning comes in a yearly audit produced by the National Trust of how the <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/weather">weather</A> in 2008 affected wildlife</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environment/" rel="tag">environment</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/i-climate+change/" rel="tag">i-climate change</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/i-extinction/" rel="tag">i-extinction</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/i-increase/" rel="tag">i-increase</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/i-forecast/" rel="tag">i-forecast</a></div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weatherSat, 27 Dec 2008 18:18:20 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/37E3A22F-5DBC-4F68-9C50-00C9A5C509F3/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/valann+47/">valann 47</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7741008.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7741008.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="first"><B>An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust has said.</B> </P><P>The animal, more commonly found in rivers, has swum from the coast of Northumberland despite rough seas. </P><P>Head warden David Steel said he was stunned to find 60 yards of otter tracks on Brownsman Island, which is famed for its bird colonies. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/valann 47/512/18EB0FB9-A909-4422-A7E3-06D4E1B628E4.jpg" alt="Otter paw print on Brownsman Island" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="cap">It is the first time otter tracks have been found in the Farne Islands</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The mammal has not yet been sighted, but it is thought to be still there. </P><P>Agitated behaviour by the island's gulls and puffins suggest the new predator has settled in. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>While otters in Scotland do live in coastal areas, Mr Steel said it was "a rare event" to see them by the sea in England. </P><P>For one to reach an island three miles offshore was, he said, "incredible". </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The only worry, Mr Steel said, was about the impact the otter might have on nesting birds next summer. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/valann 47/512/2652FED6-E23E-4AA1-AD50-542CF2AB55BA.jpg" alt="Otter" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="cap">Otters numbers suffered a huge decline in the 1950s and 1960s</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/otter/" rel="tag">otter</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/farne/" rel="tag">farne</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mammal/" rel="tag">mammal</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/tracks/" rel="tag">tracks</a></div>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7741008.stmFri, 21 Nov 2008 12:29:06 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A4474C6A-4D1C-4284-8BF2-E87C5CA5A208/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/valann+47/">valann 47</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7728601.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7728601.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="first"><B>Some seabird colonies on the Farne Islands have had their most successful breeding season for more than a decade, reports the National Trust.</B> </P><P>Shags and eider ducks on the islands off Northumberland bucked the trend of falling seabird numbers around the UK. </P><P>Guillemots, razorbills and terns had also bred well, said the Trust. </P><P>The RSPB has warned of a "dire" outlook for several seabird species in the UK, blamed on a lack of sandeels, food for many birds, due to climate change. </P><P>The Trust warned that the kittiwake population on the Farnes had fallen to its lowest level since 1981, after counting just 202 chicks from 600 monitored nests. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">It said puffins managed a "healthy" number of chicks this year, although the population overall had fallen by a third in five years. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Puffins spend the winter at sea, and fewer were returning to the Farnes to breed, the Trust found. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/valann 47/512/E0EE5D0D-D602-4B3A-A54B-E2B053EFCB21.jpg" alt="Seabirds on the Farne Islands" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="cap">Internationally-important seabird colonies are based on the Farnes</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/seabirds/" rel="tag">seabirds</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/breeding/" rel="tag">breeding</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/farne+islands/" rel="tag">farne islands</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/national+trust/" rel="tag">national trust</a></div>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7728601.stmFri, 14 Nov 2008 06:48:30 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6D0D1105-EDED-48F9-8B95-26C8DDF9A92A/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/righthand/">righthand</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; 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The Californian condor - the largest bird in North America - was declared an endangered species in 1967. Ten years later, there were only an estimated 25-30 birds in the wild until scientists began capturing and breeding them in captivity before releasing them into the wild in the mid-1990s</P></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610688" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610688">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/7352FB4A-D9F9-4C6F-B48D-E0FD1BDE46B7.jpg" alt="Washington, US: A squirrel rests in the shade" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Washington, US: A squirrel rests in the shade</div></div><div 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style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610703" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610703">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/705541FC-913A-4608-A2A6-F593D1F82DA4.jpg" alt="Moscow, Russia: A Dagestan ibex plays with its mother" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Moscow, Russia: A Dagestan ibex plays with its mother. </div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610700" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610700">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/C5705913-198F-4B52-8018-A944DFE8B65D.jpg" alt="Wuhan, China: Two giant pandas play at the zoo" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">China: Two giant pandas play</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610724" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610724">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/297EFD42-48D9-4A3D-983E-12992890AD71.jpg" alt="A capricorn beetle thought to have been extinct in the UK since the early 18th Century" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Ashchurch, UK: A capricorn beetle, believed to have been extinct in the UK since the early 18th century, has been found on an industrial estate</P></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610727" 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src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/857E271C-A7C5-49DE-A1B2-901817DA525D.jpg" alt="St Paul Island: Puffins sit above murrs on a cliff" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">t Paul Island, Alaska: Puffins and murrs sheltering on a cliff face</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610730" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610730">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/CB9D1E53-26E5-42F9-9049-5B9C0E53A8DF.jpg" alt="Mediterranean Sea: A bluefin tuna cage being towed by the Vito Manciaracina, an Italian registered trawler" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">bluefin tuna cage</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610736" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610736">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/C36F3107-BB4A-4034-8D68-C8371A68BC06.jpg" alt="Davie, US: An iguana" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">iguana</div></div><div align="center" width="100%" 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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/08/conservation.wildlife?picture=335557664" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/08/conservation.wildlife?picture=335557664">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/righthand/512/BD297083-517C-49C1-827D-A27CB2FAC2C6.jpg" alt="Monarch butterflies" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photos/" rel="tag">photos</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/animals/" rel="tag">animals</a></div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jul/11/conservation.wildlife?picture=335610733Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:36:23 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/803997EF-ED37-4CA9-B6BE-51F1CD151AD3/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tabsey/">tabsey</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> The third paragraph contains a humorous story. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cocaine-galore-a-tidal-wave-of-drugs-842080.html" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cocaine-galore-a-tidal-wave-of-drugs-842080.html">www.independent.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="tagline">It's white, illegal, and washing up in unusual quantities on the beaches of Cornwall and south Wales. Cahal Milmo reports </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The seas around Ramsey Island off Pembrokeshire are justly renowned for dramatic vistas and plethora of wildlife from porpoises to puffins. So it was natural that when Beth Swan and her husband spotted a large floating object on one of their wildlife excursions they would speed towards it in the hope of catching a glimpse of a diving seal or of removing debris endangering animal life.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Last week the trial opened in Cork of three Britons charged with trying to ferry the £350m of cocaine found off the Irish coast last July from a catamaran to shore. The court heard that the gang, who had allegedly spent months planning the operation, mistakenly put diesel in their speedboat's petrol engine and were cast adrift in stormy seas.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/chalk/" rel="tag">chalk</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/and/" rel="tag">and</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/cheese/" rel="tag">cheese</a></div>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cocaine-galore-a-tidal-wave-of-drugs-842080.htmlSat, 07 Jun 2008 16:11:56 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F6B4DB88-E984-4CF8-8258-3B1D61218741/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tabsey/">tabsey</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7434258.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7434258.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/tabsey/512/B541E683-09FC-4E4D-BFC2-2CADBDB28CAC.jpg" alt="Flying pufffins. Image: MP Harris" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>Fewer puffins are going to breed at the UK's largest colony of the species, on the Isle of May, scientists report.</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Numbers are down to about 41,000 breeding pairs this year from almost 70,000 pairs in 2003. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Researchers believe the decline is linked to changes in the North Sea food web, perhaps related to climate change. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Birds are also arriving underweight, which the RSPB describes as "worrying", because puffins are generally able to feed on a range of creatures in winter. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> <B>Losing count</B> </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> The Isle of May, in the Firth of Forth, is home to the UK's largest single puffin colony, although more birds overall nest in the St Kilda archipelago. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/tabsey/512/A3BC4FB9-3165-49B5-8EA7-C63633B7F5D2.gif" alt="Map" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Mike Harris, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, has been monitoring and studying the Isle of May population since the 1970s, labelling individual birds with rings to follow their progress. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> After decades of spectacular growth, he now believes the colony is in decline. </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/nature/" rel="tag">nature</a></div>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7434258.stmWed, 04 Jun 2008 15:57:30 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/64849110-0F1E-4697-84AA-E92087B8C7C6/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JohnWaterman/">JohnWaterman</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=science">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P id="stand-first">Baffled scientists warn of a 'catastrophic' impact as snake pipefish flood into British waters</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/7AB8EF54-8DAA-4615-9CF4-ECC674DE12B6.jpg" alt="A puffin" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Britain's sea birds are facing a deadly new threat from a population explosion of strange, seahorse-like creatures in our coastal waters. The snake pipefish, virtually unknown around the UK in 2002, has undergone a massive, baffling and dangerous expansion since then, scientists have discovered.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Divers report seeing hundreds on single dives, while dozens of pipefish - which can grow to more than 18 inches in length - have been found in the nests of puffins, kittiwakes, terns and other sea birds.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">chicks are choking to death on the rigid, bony bodies of pipefish, while adults are feeding on them despite the fact they have very little nutritional value</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The explosive growth of the snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus) in the past five years has been one of the most mysterious events affecting Britain's coastal waters in recent years</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/17/wildlife.fishing?gusrc=rss&feed=scienceMon, 18 Feb 2008 00:49:35 GMT