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We share this planet with thousands of other animal species, which you can learn more about on this page.

See also Biodiversity and Marine Mammals pages. New Page: Awwwwwwwww (pictures of baby animals).

The Atlas of Global Conservation is being published by UC Press and The Nature Conservancy on this day. Presented here at Google by The Nature Conservancy's Lead Scientist, Dr. M. Sanjayan (a Slug!).

10 Species we'll probably lose and 10 success stories (condor is on both lists, see below).

How Long Do Animals Live? (interesting graphic)

Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...Worth dying for (too many activists killed by poachers and loggers.

News Articles

A Barrier for South Texas Wildlife 10/12.

New species of monkey found 9/12.

Dogs used to find(audio and text).

Wildlife Crime: Vietnam Ranked Worst Country In New WWF Report On Animal Protection. 7.12

California Condors Still On Brink Of Extinction Due To Lead Poisoning 'Epidemic' 6.12 (Cites Slug Finkelstein).

Poachers attack reserve in DRC.

Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, is working on a new project to bring back extinct animals. From the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth, Brand explains why and how the project, "Revive and Restore," plans to bring back some extinct species.audio and text interview. 6.12. Rewilding is a UCSC idea (see Soule).

Good news for Endangered Species Day but WWF shows we've lost 30% since 1970. 5/12

Lone Wolf returns to California looking for love. 4/12. Coyotes in NYC.

Bison repopulate the Midwest?

Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change? 1/12

Chimps use for research outdated 12/11. a win for orangutans

Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs for the Bear (text and audio interview) 1/11

Lady Ditch Tiger Restoration Plan.

"Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity"

Shafqat Hussain, Pakistani economist and conservationist, started Project Snow Leopard, providing innovative solutions for the preservation of the elusive snow leopard.

Santa Cruz Island Fox recovery inspired novelist TC Boyle to write about it, When The Killing's Done.

Grey Wolves delisted from Endangered Species List by politicians, not scientists, being hunted.

Northern Spotted Owl Protection Plan May Harm Rival Birds 3/12

Yangtze River Dolphin Declared Extinct as of 2006

Websites

Edge of Existence

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

A seminal study last fall in Nature put climate in perspective of 10 biophysical systems crucial to human health -- and it found biodiversity loss more troubling than any other Link

Slideshow of endangered animals for World Animal Day.

Interactive

Predator-prey simulation

Science for Citizens is searchable. Environmental projects.

Encyclopedia of Life is an online, collaborative project where you can learn about any species on Earth, as well as contribute information and submit photos. This global initiative seeks to create an "infinitely expandable" resource for all of our planet’s 1.9 million known species.

Wildlife Watch allows you to input data and see results of others

Books

From Island Press, John Terborgh and James Estes (Go Slugs!) explore importance of predators in Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. They explain how top predators play an essential role in maintaining ecosystem well-being, and how this natural regulatory system is often drastically disrupted by human interventions-when wolves and cougars are removed, for example, populations of deer and beaver become destructive. Author and conservation biologist Cristina Eisenberg offers her perspective in The Wolf's Tooth, sharing accounts from her fieldwork to bring to life the relationships among keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity.

Joe Roman, author of the new book, “Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act.” is interviewed here

Douglas Adams. Best known for the amazing Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he also wrote Last Chance to See about endangered animals. Intro Ch. 1 password required. Author reading about Komodo dragon encounter. Warning, some animals were harmed in the production of this book ;) NEW! at UC talk based on Last Chance experiences. The BBC has done a new series in which Stephen Frye retraces the original journey. Here are some of the original radio dispatches.

Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series) by Robert Jonathan Cabin

Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves Farley Mowat

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 12/08 Interview PBS. Short essay on Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). On Bengal Tigers

Diane Ackerman The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

Video

Nature on PBS has great programs and resources. Search by animal.

CBS 60 Minutes frequently covers green issues, including jaguar, also elephants, a great African migration threatened by deforestation, Tasmanian Tiger and sharks.

60 Minutes Presents: Into The Wild 13 min - Sep 19, 2010 Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle. Secret language of elephants.

[http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/your-videos-on-quest-steve-fyffe/ Night vision video from Stanford (e.g. mountain lion).

Photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice. TEDtalk.

Researcher Elizabeth Murchison tells us how she's fighting to save the Tasmanian Devil, and what she's learning about all cancers from this unusual strain. (Contains disturbing images of facial cancer). TEDtalk

Bats in the Bay Area. Bats are in trouble in North America because of a disease.

Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe. Learn more at Goldman Prize.

Dmitry Lisitsyn fought to protect Sakhalin Island's critical endangered ecosystems while also demanding safety measures from one of the world's largest petroleum development projects. Learn more at Link.

Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats. Note some disturbing images.(TEDtalk). Last Lions documentary trailer

Pacific Flyway (California bird migration).

Amazing bird video.

Milking the Rhino examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals. John Kasaona Conservationist TEDtalk. video of rhino airlift to save. Some populations extinct because traditional medicine thinks the horn cures cancer.

How Poachers became Caretakers TEDtalk video.

Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda

Wildlife trade for traditional medicine Hotspots (PBS Conservation Documentary). Three years in the making, this 2-part program follows Conservation International's president and author Dr. Russell A. Mittermeier on his journey to assess key biological hotspots around the world areas at greatest risk of extinction. It takes viewers to multiple locations throughout New Zealand, the United States, Peru, Brazil, Madagascar and Chile's remote Easter Island to capture the precious array of life at stake. The documentary takes a sobering yet hopeful look at conservation biology: the trench warfare, the subtle policy decisions, the slippery slopes, the unknown dimensions and the real creatures whose lives hang in the balance.Website.

Kartick Satyanran works tirelessly to save India’s wild animals from illegal captivity and poaching -- most notably rescuing hundreds of “dancing” bears. TEDtalk

Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog’s documentary on Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 summers with grizzlies in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. He felt a close affinity to the bears, and would approach and even touch them. Treadwell used film he took of the bears to raise awareness of their situation. Herzog uses Treadwell footage from the last 5 years of his life and interviews with people who knew him well to create a snapshot of a man most people can’t understand. Herzog portrays Treadwell as a disturbed individual who may have had a death wish towards the end. As you likely know, Treadwell ends up being killed and eaten by a grizzly, along with his girlfriend. Herzog’s film is moving and beautiful, and deals well with a subject most filmmakers couldn’t begin to touch.

Never Cry Wolf, based on book of same name by Farley Mowat online video segment. Wolves in Yellowstone. Also The Wolf That Changed America

Wolves at our Door. A pack of wolves are raised by the filmmakers. They explore the behaviors and social lives of the wolves. (1997, 50 min.)

Bears PBS Nature doc

Planet Earth McHenry Library DVD5143
A stunning 11-part series that captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures. 550 min.

Winged Migration. Codirected by Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats (Paris: Galatée Films, 2001.) DVD1702 KQED Channel 9 (also available on its digital channels). Radio interview with makers
Schedule. Hummingbirds and Raptor cam (Peregrine falcons, saved by UCSC research)

PBS' Quest looks at efforts to protect the coho in Northern California and explores the important role salmon play in the native ecosystem. 5/09

The Last Survivors website raises awareness of the last surviving Caribbean endemic land mammals and focuses conservation attention on these valuable but highly threatened species. Before humans arrived, around 120 species of land mammal (excluding bats) occurred in the Caribbean region, but many have now gone extinct, some very recently, with possibly only 15 surviving today. For two of the “Last Survivors”, the Hispaniolan solenodon and Hispaniolan hutia, a Darwin-Initiative funded project was launched in the Dominican Republic in October 2009 see also and more footage.

White Gorilla.

Baby skunks

Audio

Wildlife in NYC Science Friday 4/12 including coyotes.

Joe Roman, author of the new book, “Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act.” is interviewed here. Co-author of "Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity".

Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, is working on a new project to bring back extinct animals. From the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth, Brand explains why and how the project, "Revive and Restore," plans to bring back some extinct species.audio and text interview. 6.12.

Animal Language from RadioLab

Blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection. Also from RadioLab

Author Sy Montgomery's latest adventure took her to Mongolia to join a scientific expedition tracking snow leopards. link LOE.org

Richard Ellis, artist and author of "On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear" 12/09

Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa (excerpt) Mark Seal has written a book about wildlife activist and filmmaker Joan Root. Joan Root was murdered in her home in Nairobi Kenya. audio interview with author

Tracking jaguars 6/09 images

Brent Stirton, Chronicling the Virunga Gorilla Murders

Images

Moose Peterson's book Captured: Behind the Lens of a Legendary Wildlife Photographer is more than just a photography book-it's a chronicle of more than 30 years'worth of unbelievable moments that only nature can reveal. (Google talk) video.

UCSC has produced at least three world class nature photographers: Gordon Wiltsie (NPR audio interview), [http://www.lanting.com/worldview.html Frans Lanting (a TEDtalk video), and Kennan Ward.

Jim Balog won the Rowell Award. Here he documents global warming. Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.Link

Specific Species

Primates/Apes

Jane Goodall legendary primatologist and environmental educator (TEDtalk video). She is the subject of a new feature film Jane's Journey. Chimps in trouble 3/12

New species of monkey found 9/12.

Orangutans like iPads

Orangutans Threatened By Forest Fires And Land Clearing.

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda is an insider's account of life in the remote African bush as a Peace Corps volunteer by Thor Hansen. video review.

Bears

Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs for the Bear (text and audio interview) 1/11.

Killer bears, and the humans who track them down 4/12.

Kartick Satyanran works tirelessly to save India’s wild animals from illegal captivity and poaching -- most notably rescuing hundreds of “dancing” bears. TEDtalk

Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog’s documentary on Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 summers with grizzlies in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. He felt a close affinity to the bears, and would approach and even touch them. Treadwell used film he took of the bears to raise awareness of their situation. Herzog uses Treadwell footage from the last 5 years of his life and interviews with people who knew him well to create a snapshot of a man most people can’t understand. Herzog portrays Treadwell as a disturbed individual who may have had a death wish towards the end. As you likely know, Treadwell ends up being killed and eaten by a grizzly, along with his girlfriend. Herzog’s film is moving and beautiful, and deals well with a subject most filmmakers couldn’t begin to touch.

Bears PBS Nature doc.

Richard Ellis, artist and author of "On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear" 12/09.

Big Cats

Indian State OK's Shooting Tiger Poachers 5/12

The president of the California Fish and Game Commission created a controversy by killing a mountain lion out of state. Dan Richards was lambasted by critics over a photo that shows him with a mountain lion he shot during a January visit to Idaho. Hunting mountain lions is legal in Idaho and other states but banned in California. Richards, a Republican commercial real estate developer, has maintained he will not step down from his appointed position, despite efforts to remove him by 40 members of the state Assembly, the lieutenant governor and animal rights activists...Californians who have twice voted down statewide efforts to reinstate mountain lion hunting. More 3/12

Shafqat Hussain, Pakistani economist and conservationist, started Project Snow Leopard, providing innovative solutions for the preservation of the elusive snow leopard.

Lady Ditch Tiger Restoration Plan.

Lioness recuses cub.

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 12/08 Interview PBS. Short essay on Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). On Bengal Tigers.

Jaguars (video).

Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats. Note some disturbing images.(TEDtalk). Last Lions documentary trailer.

Tracking jaguars 6/09 images.

Lioness rescues cub

Elephants, Hippos and Rhinos (see also videos above and Featured Stories)

elephants video. Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle. Secret language of elephants.

Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe. Learn more at Goldman Prize.

Hippo attack video

Milking the Rhino examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals. John Kasaona Conservationist TEDtalk. video of rhino airlift to save. Some populations extinct because traditional medicine thinks the horn cures cancer.

Rhinos hunted in Viet Nam for medicine 4/12

Rhino poaching (some disturbing images). Huffpo has extensive coverage.

Birds/Raptors

College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks, falcons and other predatory birds. History of saving the falcon from DDT extinction video.

California Condors Still On Brink Of Extinction Due To Lead Poisoning 'Epidemic' 6.12

Fledging season for Great Horned owls means clumsy chicks on the ground at UCSC. 6.12

Condors not out of the woods yet 6/12.

Bald Eagles nesting near UCSC and at Big Bear in Southern Ca (found by 3rd graders on a field trip).

Winged Migration. Codirected by Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats (Paris: Galatée Films, 2001.) DVD1702 KQED Channel 9 (also available on its digital channels). Radio interview with makers
Schedule. Hummingbirds and Raptor cam (Peregrine falcons, saved by UCSC research).

Why Feathers Matter by conservation biologist Thor Hanson. Audio interview of author of book. 9/12.

Wolves/Foxes

Lone Wolf returns to California looking for love. 4/12 Oregon grey Wolf returns to California 3/12.

Author and conservation biologist Cristina Eisenberg offers her perspective in The Wolf's Tooth, sharing accounts from her fieldwork to bring to life the relationships among keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity.

Grey Wolves delisted from Endangered Species List by politicians, not scientists, being hunted.

Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves Farley Mowat

Wolves at our Door. A pack of wolves are raised by the filmmakers. They explore the behaviors and social lives of the wolves. (1997, 50 min.)

Never Cry Wolf, based on book of same name by Farley Mowat online video segment. Wolves in Yellowstone. Also The Wolf That Changed America.

UCSC Research and Local Resources

(see Slugs in Action for others) as well as volunteer page

Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science, writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant with A.M. Kilpatrick who has tracked effect of global warming on West Nile virus. Update 5/12

College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks, falcons and other predatory birds. History of saving the falcon from DDT extinction video.

Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.

Nathaniel Dominy helped document that he legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims.

John Mock works to remove landmines and preserve wildlife in Afghanistan.

Erin Vogel studies primate population.

Chris Wilmers and Terrie Williams', a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC, will team up to explore questions of puma behavior, physiology, and ecology using radio collars. Cougar GPS story. Story of Atlas, who crosses Hwy 17.

UCSC Alums

UCSC has produced at least three world class nature photographers: Gordon Wiltsie (NPR audio interview), [http://www.lanting.com/worldview.html Frans Lanting (a TEDtalk video), and Kennan Ward.

Local Organizations

Native Animal Rescue