Each year, a German conservation organization called NABU lists those animals it considers most in need of protection in the coming year. This year, one of those animals is the yellow-bellied toad:
See the rest of the animals NABU thinks need special protection here.
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Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.0 billion and its unaudited net asset value
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Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $408.8 million and its unaud
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Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $234.6 million and
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Tortoise North American Energy Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $284.6 million and its unaudited
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Tortoise Energy Capital Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $1.2 billion and its unaudited net asset
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Tortoise Energy Independence Fund, Inc. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $453.8 million and its unaudit
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Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. today announced that as of Dec. 31, 2013, the company’s unaudited total assets were approximately $2.3 billion and its unaudited ne
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A reserve that is home to the world’s largest population of the critically endangered blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) has been more than doubled in size, reports the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a group that helped fund the expansion.
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Byline: The Lizard lifeboat has launched just after 1:30 this morning (New Year's Day) to a report of a person having been swept into the sea off the Lizard Peninsular. Page Content: Falmouth Coastguard tasked The Lizard lifeboat crew to search the sea off Loe Bar between Porthleven and Gunwalloe, the Lizard, after they had received a call reporting a person missing after a group of friends had …
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Endless rain. Loneliness. Years of agonizingly slow research. Bouts of malaria. Despite it all, a community of scientists in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are working to chart the smallest animal and the most obscure plant – the building blocks of the universe.
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The Outdoor Technology Turtle Shell 2.0 portable Bluetooth speaker can get quite loud for its size, but it suffers from some distortion woes on bass-heavy genres.
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This notice provides stockholders of Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. with information regarding the distribution paid on Dec. 31, 2013 and cumulativ
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Scientific American has the top ten weird animal stories of 2013, including this amphibious tale:
For Emei moustache toads, a top-quality moustache is an essential, and violent, weapon … During the breeding season, each male grows 10 to 16 spines. “They are as sharp as a pencil lead” says Cameron Hudson of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, adding that the frogs “do try to stab you a bit when you pick them up”.
The males fought underwater, head-butting each other in the belly to drive their spines into the other toad’s flesh. “I’ve never seen any of them kill each other,” says Hudson. “But they get a lot of puncture wounds.”
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Since 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has forged a name for itself as a classically based string quartet that plays jazz.
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Like every year, wildlife conservation had its ups and downs in 2013. Elephant and rhino poaching hit levels unseen since the 1970′s, but there were nascent signs of growing awareness in China on the impacts of wildlife trade, including official bans on the serving of wildlife products at official state affairs. Meanwhile there were major developments in endangered species reintroduction programs, the controversial de-extinction (resurrection biology) movement, and efforts to apply household technologies like model airplanes (e.g. conservation drones), mobile phones, and digital cameras (e.g. camera traps) to conservation.
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There are only 13 Lizard junipers in the Gew Graze Valley on the Lizard Peninsula and they are failing to regenerate.
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Conservationists hope to save an “extremely rare” plant which is only found in the wild in the UK in one valley in Cornwall.
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Parametric Sound Corporation , a leading innovator of audio technology and solutions, announced today that, at a special meeting of stockholders held on December 27, 2013, Parametric stockholders overwhelmingly …
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2013 was full of major developments in efforts to understand and protect the world’s tropical rainforests. The following is a review of some of the major tropical forest-related news stories for the year. As a review, this post will not cover everything that transpired during 2013 in the world of tropical forests. Please feel free to highlight anything this post missed via the comments section at the bottom. Also please note that this review focuses only on tropical forests.
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Somehow, Meghan the turtle made a wrong turn – and meandered about 1,000 miles too far to the north. Normally, her kind prefers warm tropical waters near South America.
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The Loggerhead Marinelife Center says the first-ever occurrence of an olive ridley sea turtle stranding in Palm Beach County occurred on Christmas Day.
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Tortoise Capital Advisors mourns the loss of Dr. John R. Graham, a valued and influential founding member of its closed-end fund board of directors, who died on Dec. 20, 2013 after
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A LIZARD was killed in a house fire in Leigh.
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A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according …
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Miami — A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according to a lawsuit filed by a reptile industry trade
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Reptile industry trade association sues US government to overturn ban on 4 giant snake species
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A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according to a lawsuit filed by a reptile industry trade association.
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Eighteen days and still there is no fence.
Eighteen days doesn’t sound like a long time does it? To me it feels like forever.
When I was younger a horse threw me into a fence. I bounced off the fence and slammed into the ground. I didn’t pass out but I lay there unable to breath for what felt like forever thinking I would never feel air in my lungs or oxygen in my brain ever again and I cursed that fence.
Probably that was the only time I didn’t like a fence because I’ve had pets and animals all my life and a fence means safety and security for them.
Fences have broken my heart. An inadequate fence was cause for a younger Frankie to disappear. That 24 hour period felt like forever.
My best friend died and my mother died so I know a broken heart. Pets have passed and I felt I would never recover. Boyfriends have broken from me and I thought I would never love again.
But when Frankie disappeared I felt bereft, broken hearted, and emotionally lost in such a way I knew I could never bear to go through that again.
So Frankie is microchipped, his yard has two security cameras, every neighbor in my area knows Frankie so they can be his watch dogs, he is the most photographed tortoise in Alabama, and he has blue painter’s tape on his shell that says “Please return me” with my phone number.
I put my foot down and insisted that Frankie and I would not move to Mobile until a fence was installed.
We’re in Mobile. Still there is no permanent fence.
Frankie hasn’t escaped and yet my heart is unsettled. Greg’s done his best by putting up a strong temporary fence in a small area by the house. I’ve done my best to amuse Frankie by taking him on daily walks and providing an enriched living environment.
Frankie has various objects to walk around, things for him to push, his umbrella stand (of course), heated cave and his dogloo. I have a chair to sit in. There is even a big cement mixer (for future fence construction) for him to walk under. I hung a black garden cloth on the temporary fence to block Frankie’s view.
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A LIZARD was killed in a house fire in Leigh.
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Thousands of species were scientifically described for the first time in 2013. Many of these were ‘cryptic species’ that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely-related species, while others were totally novel. Below are some of the most interesting “new species” discoveries that took place or were formally announced in 2013.
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U.S. calls ban necessary to protect wildlife A reptile industry trade group has gone to court to overturn a federal ban on the import of four species of large snake, including the Burmese pythons that have infested the Everglades.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women. During a heart attack, a blocked arte
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Researchers want a permanent station in Queensland to monitor populations of Flatback turtles.
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Greenpeace today released a clever video highlighting the global biodiversity crisis with a little help from a much-beloved Disney film. While it might seem unlikely the Africa’s animals will vanish, this is exactly what’s happening in parts of the continent due to poaching, unsustainable bushmeat trade, habitat loss, massive development projects that are often poorly planned, and a booming human population.
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Researchers are celebrating after an urgent global search turned up a female mate for a fish that is on the brink of extinction.
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