10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. In the European Union there are only 10,000 mature bears (source: IUCN). Not much further, on the new tarmac that ends 6 km before the Gramos village, we find muddy bear footprints crossing the road.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2012
This post was first published in February 2009, but we can’t bear hiding something this good in the archives. Instead, it is likely that these squirrels are leucistic. Whatever they are, white squirrels are just as eager to assault my bird feeders as their gray kin. And Mike still sees white squirrels nearly every day!)
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 27, 2009
Video “800 Pound Best Friend” – What if your best friend was a 800-pound grizzly bear? The show airs on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 9 PM ET/PT. Fun fact: Brutus, the bear, was best man at Casey’s wedding!! Be sure to watch, it’s very interesting!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
The beauty of this area is breathtaking, though the burned trunks are reminders that it is still recovering from the disastrous Station Fire of 2009, which scorched over 250 square miles and killed two firefighters. Probably much more of a serious threat than the bear scat we occasionally spied or the threat of poodle-bush rash.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
I travel more than the average bear and I can say that unless I’m in Central America…TSA agents are a mixed bag of race. One of the biggest and more recent face palm incidents with law enforcement and the outdoors happened in Colorado in 2009 when a large marijuana farm was found growing in Pike National Forest.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent. I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans. And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations.
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