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...called a loony, after the loon portrayed on the dollar coin. Coincidence? Or should the economists we send over to advise East European governments be supplanted by some zoologists? What if Belarus replaced the bunny with a silverback gorilla or a cougar? But does Belarus have any silverback-gorilla habitat? Suddenly, I threw down the paper. Since when did I have to start worrying about the stability of the Belarus bunny...
What's clear is that humans have expanded into habitat that was once the relatively exclusive domain of the cougar. "We're having more encounters because we're moving into their territory," says Lynn Sadler, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, a national pro-cougar lobbying group based in Sacramento, Calif. "We are not only reducing the size of their available range but fragmenting it." She recalls a recent incident in Roseville, Calif., where a lion walked right through a brand-new apartment complex. The site straddled a natural pathway that lions used to travel between neighboring ranges. "There...
Ride your bike or take the #74 bus to Belmont center to Habitat for the Environment. It's a 15-minute walk from the bus stop to the site and the first visit is free to students...
Worse still, the heavy nets tear up the sea floor, damaging the habitat that provides food and shelter for the sea life being harvested. Environmentalists are pushing for the creation of zones where bottom trawling would be prohibited. Expect vigorous opposition from the fishing lobby...
Prospects have been bleak for sea turtles lately, but at least two species, Kemp's ridley and the loggerhead, are enjoying something of a population boom. New turtle-safe nets and government efforts to protect the animals and their habitat have helped, but experts also credit volunteers who patrol the beaches where sea turtles lay their eggs, protecting and, when necessary, moving the nests...