By Herp News For thousands of years the jaguar was a God, then it was vermin to be destroyed, and today it is the inspiration for arguably the most ambitious conservation effort on the planet. A new book by renowned big cat conservationist, Alan Rabinowitz, tells this remarkable story from the jaguar’s evolutionary origins in […]
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Oct 02
Oct 02
Climate change brings unusual turtle to Golden Gate
Fishermen outside Golden Gate caught and released the first green sea turtle seen in the area. From the SF Gate: Green sea turtles normally live in the Pacific’s warmer latitudes. Their numbers are dwindling because of development along the beaches they use to nest, and because they sometimes become snared in industrial fishing nets and […]
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