Spotting Inca Dove in arid habitats

12 Şubat 2008

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Inca Dove (Columbina inca) is a tiny long tailed dove with a scaly gray body and has rofous-colored wings easily seen when they fly. It has a distinctive fish like pattern on their breast, head and black feathers. It’s a small dove measuring a petite 7-9 inches and weighs 1-2.5 ounces. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Sand Mountain, partly off-limits to protect vanishing butterfly

12 Şubat 2008

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Sand Mountain consists of a 600-foot high mound of sand that stretches for two miles. Located about 25 miles east of Fallon it is a tempting destination for off road vehicle enthusiasts and dune buggies.

Though this region might appear desolate and bleak, it has over 70 species of plants and wildlife. It is home to the Sand Mountain Blue Butterfly. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Did you miss the Songbirds in your gardens this winter?

12 Şubat 2008

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Most people did and the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2007 results, have confirmed their sightings. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Making the right choice for Eco-tourism

12 Şubat 2008

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The word eco has been used so cheaply by tourism marketing strategies that probably you and I are unlikely to believe it anymore. In many projects ecotourism today is akin to green washing. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Islay Birding gets top accolades

12 Şubat 2008

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Do you want to go bird watching in Scotland? Then it would be a good idea to go with Islay Birding, which has been named as Britain’s first ever five-star wildlife attraction. Not only that it functions in sustainable harmony with nature and birds. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Bird groups win chance to save endangered birds habitats in Indonesia

12 Şubat 2008

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Rufous-collared Kingfisher (Actenoides concretus)

In the first project of its kind, the RSPB(Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), BirdLife International and Burung Indonesia have won the right to maintain and develop 400 square miles of lowland forest in Sumatra.

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Alaska’s most recommended whale watching tour fined for aggravating humpback whales

12 Şubat 2008

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When eco tours become eco hazards, the very purpose of ecotourism is defeated. As tour boats cut rules to get better views of wildlife they endanger not only the endangered species but also the passengers they carry. Such a tour boat operator has been brought to book. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Satellite tags to understand the whereabouts of walruses

12 Şubat 2008

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Greenland institute of Natural Resources and Danish Polar Centre are running the project to understand the migration of the walruses. To determine the effect of hunting, oil exploration and climate change on the animals, they will be tracked for two months off west Greenland. Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Where are all the British Garden Birds?

12 Şubat 2008

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Seems that bird life has also been hit by global warming. Early results of the annual Big Garden Bird watch promoted by the Royal Society for Protection of Birds is
projecting a definite shortage in the bird populations.
Andre Farrar, an RSPB officer who completed his survey in his garden near Ashford in Kent yesterday, said: Yazının tamamını okuyun »

Do your Traveling plans induce Global Warming?

12 Şubat 2008

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In your pursuit for ecotourism, you travel across the world. However, does traveling itself contribute to the increasing temperatures? Are you carbon Positive? Are you adding onto the greenhouse gas emissions? Well if you are then there are numerous ways to book yourself for carbon-neutral travel. Yazının tamamını okuyun »