By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “‘Why fight?’ Some ask, when we have probably passed the tipping point in climate change…. One might as well ask: Why live the best lives we can, although we will all die?…. But on accepting the human condition, we also discover that there is pleasure in cherishing what we cannot possess.”
Continue reading →PRESS RELEASE — The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on June 29, 2012 against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the agency’s failure to protect Coleman’s coralroot under the Endangered Species Act.
Continue reading →By Emma Marris, Yale Environment 360. Recent studies shed light on whether species such as amphibians can move swiftly enough to new territories as their old habitats warm.
Continue reading →By Lester Haines, The Register. Five days before an earthquake the number of male common toads in a breeding colony fell by 96 perent, and two days later the number of breeding pairs suddenly dropped to zero.
Continue reading →By Marcelo Bolshaw Gomes, Entheogene. Rare frogs are drawing a lot of scientific interest these days, partly because the slimes of some frogs contain important medicinal substances.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. More frog species live in Haiti than anywhere else in the Caribbean, and many different species of the small lizard anole also make Haiti their home. These animals have attracted the attention of well-meaning conservationists as well as soulless seekers of fame.
Continue reading →By Staff, National Geographic. While looking through Haiti’s forests, scientists rediscovered the critically endangered La Hotte glanded frog and half a dozen Haitian frog species that had not been seen for almost 20 years and occur nowhere else.
Continue reading →By Saikat, About My Planet. Brazil has begun to levy fines on companies that do not compensate the country for exploiting its genetic materials and traditional knowledge.
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