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AUTHOR: Louise Tillin, BBC News Online

Conservationists working to save India's endangered blind river dolphins say there are encouraging signs that the population is starting to stabilize in some areas.

AUTHOR: Pamela Conley

I entered the shallow water tentatively and continued slowly to walk out until I was chest deep in the water. Surprise and shock surged through me, as I felt something hit my back propelling me at fast speed ten feet further in the water. I quickly straightened my snorkel and mask and looked up to see a huge grinning face coming straight at me.

AUTHOR: Susan Milius

A nerve-racking effort to attach cameras to marine mammals has shown how four species dive the impossible dive.

AUTHOR: Susan Milius

A nerve-racking effort to attach cameras to marine mammals has shown how four species dive the impossible dive.

AUTHOR: Susan Milius

A nerve-racking effort to attach cameras to marine mammals has shown how four species dive the impossible dive.

Source: Pigs, a Sanctuary

PIGS, a sanctuary, the country's premier sanctuary for miniature and potbellied pigs, has compiled a list of the pros and cons of keeping a pig as a pet.

The popular impotence drug Viagra may be reducing demand for traditional Chinese impotence remedies, many of which contain ground-up animal parts, researchers say. So Viagra may be helping to save world wildlife.

By Punkerslut



From www.punkerslut.com



It is the notion of our time that non-human animals exist for the advancement of the human species. In whatever field -- cookery, fashion, blood-sports -- it is held that we can only be concerned with animals as far as human interests exist. There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change.

Reports of a giant winged creature seen in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks have biolgists and residents puzzled.

AUTHOR: Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post Staff Writer

Scientists for the first time have managed to remotely direct the movements of rats by using implanted electrodes to control their behavior -- in effect transforming living animals into robots.

AUTHOR: Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post Staff Writer

Scientists for the first time have managed to remotely direct the movements of rats by using implanted electrodes to control their behavior -- in effect transforming living animals into robots.

AUTHOR: Alliance for the Wild Rockies (Wild Rockies News Alert)

The Bad News:

The entire Whitehawk Wolf Pack (in South Central Idaho's Boulder White Cloud Mountains) was killed this weekend, thus ending the lives of 9 magnificent endangered species (including the pregnant alpha female) and wasting thousands of hours of volunteer time that was spent keeping the wolves and sheep apart.

Author: Bert Gildart, Special to The Christian Science Monitor

ARCTIC VILLAGE, ALASKA - In this tiny Alaskan town of 120, north of Anchorage and the Arctic Circle, beyond the imaginary line where summer days and winter nights become endless, Sarah James, a Gwich'in Indian leader, is rolling in cash - $130,000 to be exact, a 2001 grant from the Ford Motor Co.

It is, at first glance, an unlikely pairing: Ford products devour oil and gas; the Gwich'in (pronounced guh-WHICH-in) depend on caribou for everything from their meals to the gloves that keep their hands warm.

Author: John Potter, Billings Gazette

Speaking as a friend, wolves need prayers. Columnist, old friend and snappy dresser Roger Clawson once referred to me in one of HIS columns as "artist, columnist, and friend of the gray wolf."

One out of three ain't bad.

Source: Oral History as told by Ken Saunders

All Native North American Peoples attach special significance to the eagle, and its feathers.

Source: Ojibway Oral Teaching

Boosoo (Hello).

My son, wolves were referred to as the guardian of our spirits.

Wolves are free spirits even though their packs are very organized.