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Fences snare wildlife fleeing warming climate
2016-07-03 10:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The world is becoming sadly familiar with the sight of thousands of desperate refugees escaping bombing and violence in countries like Syria being pressed against border fences erected to separate countries in Europe and further afield. Less recognised is the effect these thousands of kilometres of newly-installed border fencing is often having on wildlife. But climate change does not recognise borders, and nor do the birds or animals migrating across their territories. A study by the Norwegian...
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'The more roads you have, the more conflict there will be with wildlife'
2016-06-21 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DW: 'The more roads you have, the more conflict there will be with wildlife' Conservationist Jonathan Slaght tells DW about Russia's fascinating Far East, the world's biggest owl and working with logging companies on conservation issues. US conservationist Jonathan Slaght has been fascinated by Russia's Far East ever since his first visit to the region in the 1990s. The Wildlife Conservation Societys (WCS) Russia and North East Asia program coordinator has since become an expert on fish owls,...
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3.2 Million Animals Killed by Wildlife Services in 2015
2016-06-21 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by the agency. The total number of wolves, coyotes, bears, mountain lions, beavers, foxes, eagles and other animals killed largely at the behest of the livestock industry and other agribusinesses represents a half-million-animal increase more than the 2.7 million animals the agency killed in 2014. Despite increasing...
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US wildlife needs corridors to escape heat
2016-06-19 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: US scientists worried about what global warming and climate change may do to wildlife have come up with the ultimate in creature-friendly versions of road maps or highway patrols. They want to see natural corridors that link safe habitats and ecosystems, so that as conditions change, plants and animals and the continental US is home to 800 species of bird, more than 400 kinds of mammal and more than 600 reptiles and amphibians get a chance to migrate. And, they report, only 2% of the eastern...
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Railways and wildlife: coexisting in an age of expansion
2016-06-16 11:00:00| Railway Technology
The issue of protecting wildlife is not something that your average commuter troubles themselves with during the early morning or late evening rush. However, on the Oxford to London Marylebone route, purpose-built habitats are being created to ensure
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