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Feb 3, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 20 • By MICHAEL WARREN
Extremely difficult? Ten elections? Toppling Graham ought to be a slam dunk for South Carolina conservatives. After his close friend and ally John McCain, he may be the most reviled Republican among the base. It's not just that he's been a high-profile supporter of comprehensive immigration reform and willing to give Obama a pass on liberal judges. On national security issues the famously hawkish Graham is a resolute opponent of the libertarian wing, which seeks less engagement. Last year when emerging Senate leaders like Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz joined Rand Paul's talking filibuster in protest of the president's drone program—the first galvanizing moment for conservatives since Obama's reelection—-Graham took to the Senate floor to argue against his Republican colleagues' position.
It wasn't the first time he had spoiled the GOP's party. During the George W. Bush administration, Graham joined the bipartisan Gang of 14 that agreed to break a Democratic filibuster over Bush's judicial nominees while staving off a Republican majority's effort to change the Senate rules to weaken the minority. That cemented Graham's image as someone more eager to compromise with Democrats than fight them. In short, he's what right-wingers call a squish, and in deep-red South Carolina, no less. So why is it so hard for true conservatives to get the senator they deserve?
Graham protests that, for all his unorthodoxies, he is in line with the mainstream of South Carolina voters. What about the charge that he's a Republican in name only, not a true believer? "If you look at my voting record and my approach to fiscal and social conservative issues, I'm, by any reasonable definition, conservative," he says. "What I'm not is a person that rejects the idea of trying to solve the problem. And for some, it's not enough to agree with them on the issue. You have to hate the other side. I'm not going to live my life hating. I don't have to. To some, the only way to prove you're conservative is just to tear the other people limb from limb. I can throw a punch, but I also can get something done."
Graham's lifetime rating by the American Conservative Union is 89 out of 100. He is one of the pro-life movement's strongest allies in Congress, most recently as the author of a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks' gestation with certain exceptions. In the Obama era, Graham has voted against all of the major legislative efforts of the Democratic agenda, including the stimulus, the Dodd-Frank financial reform package, and Obamacare. When Graham was in the House of Representatives, he made a name for himself on C-SPAN as an incisive interrogator during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. More than a decade later, Graham has pushed forward the investigation into the Benghazi scandal. In October, he said he would use his privilege as a senator to hold up all of Obama's nominations until the administration allowed witnesses to the fatal attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi in 2012 to testify before Congress.
On national security, Graham agrees there's a lot of energy behind libertarianism in the GOP, but he sees that as all the more reason to stand firm on the idea that America ought to engage—sometimes militarily—in the Middle East and the broader world. "I still think the vast majority of us are in the Ronald Reagan camp of peace through strength," he says. "But there's this debate going on in the party, and I want to be part of that debate. It's not bad to have an alternative view. I just want to make sure my side wins." It helps that he's one of the Senate's authorities on national security issues, regularly briefing the Republican conference alongside John McCain.
That's another part of the story. Graham is also seen as a go-to guy around Congress. While known for his willingness to work with Democrats, he's one of the most popular senators among Republicans. "He's always stood out, and I think a lot of people appreciate that," says McCain. Besides McCain, some of Graham's closest friends in the Senate are Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Richard Burr of North Carolina, and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.
Members of South Carolina's House Republican delegation, all considerably more conservative than Graham, are fond of their senior senator, too. One of them is Trey Gowdy, who was first elected to the House in the Tea Party wave of 2010 after defeating a Republican incumbent whom Graham had supported. Gowdy is effusive with praise for Graham.
"He and his staff went beyond the call of duty to help the four freshmen of 2010," Gowdy says. "He offers to help with no conditions. He doesn't carry grudges."
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China's monthly trade surplus rose 88 percent to reach a record 370 billion yuan (US$59 billion) in January, data showed Sunday, as imports dropped sharply on lower commodity prices and sluggish domestic demand.
China's railway equipment exports accounted for 10 percent of global market share in 2014, said Wang Xiaotao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, on Friday.
The towers of Disney's planned Magic Kingdom in Shanghai are wreathed in scaffolding and mystery after the U.S. entertainment giant pushed back the opening of its first mainland China theme park to 2016.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
China's central bank said Wednesday it would make an across-the-board cut in the percentage of funds banks must hold in reserve, the first such cut in nearly three years as the world's second-largest economy falters.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
A Chinese solar energy tycoon has replaced e-commerce giant Alibaba's founder Jack Ma as the country's richest man with a fortune of US$26 billion, a wealth survey showed Tuesday.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
A father and daughter who belonged to a fringe Chinese religious group were executed Monday for beating a woman to death at a McDonald's restaurant, reportedly after she rebuffed their attempts to recruit her.
Chinese factory activity contracted in January for a second straight month, a closely watched private survey showed Monday, a day after the government announced the first official decline in the sector in more than two years.
The game has changed in Macau.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Famed for his sharp business acumen and knack for perfectly timed investments, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is shifting away from a slowing Chinese economy and bargain hunting in Europe.
A pilot program for cross-border foreign exchange payments will be expanded to support the development of cross-border e-commerce and limit the risks associated with online payments involving foreign currencies, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange announced on Thursday.


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Reliquary Guardian Figure (Eyema-o-Byeri)
These five artworks from throughout the African continent display the range of approaches artists have taken to figural representation. They prove that the Western tradition of naturalism— depicting the body precisely as observed in life—is not even remotely the only possibility open to an artist.
The Mossi mask celebrates the female form. While it is not an exact replica of the body, the proportions are relatively balanced. The Yoruba tapper, used with a board to draw images during divinations, was carved with more exaggerated proportions, partly in order to contain it within the functional form of a tapper and the shape of the ivory from which it was carved.
The Fang figure, a masterpiece by a known artist or workshop, has primarily been reduced to a series of basic shapes—cylinders and circles. The legs and hips are conceived as the intersection of two perpendicular cylinders, echoing the cylindrical reliquary box on which the figure sat. The small Nsapo-Nsapo work and the Chamba figure take the abstraction of the human form even further by greatly exaggerating the proportions. The Nsapo-Nsapo example's stretched arms and the Chamba sculpture's outsized hands suggest different emotional states for these two protective figures—a tense anxiety, perhaps, in one and a lumbering aggression in the other.
This text refers to these objects: ' 51.3; 80.100; 2005.13; 2011.4.1; 2011.31.1
- Artist: Master of Ntem
- Culture: Fang (Mvai subgroup)
- Medium: Wood, iron
- Place Made: Gabon
- Dates: mid-18th to mid-19th century
- Dimensions: 23 x 5 7/8 x 5 in. (58.4 x 14.9 x 12.7 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of Africa
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Double Take Installation, East Gallery, 1st Floor
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- Accession Number: 51.3
- Credit Line: Frank L. Babbott Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Master of Ntem. Reliquary Guardian Figure (Eyema-o-Byeri), mid-18th to mid-19th century. Wood, iron, 23 x 5 7/8 x 5 in. (58.4 x 14.9 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund, 51.3. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: The object is a male ancestor figure carved from a single piece of wood wearing a thick copper alloy necklace. The figure was probably attached to a skull basket that was used in connection with ancestor worship. The object is in fair condition. It has several deep splits. One particular split runs from the left side of the buttock, up the spine, over the head, and into the forehead. There in another deep split on the back side of the head. The front half of the proper right foot is missing. From an unknown cause, dry-rot settled on the bottom of the figure under the seat. The original surface is gone leaving a concave depression. The object was fumigated with carbon tetrachloride; the hole was filled with gesso, retouched, and waxed.
- Record Completeness: Best (91%)


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TURNERSVILLE, TEXAS (Travis County). Turnersville, near Interstate Highway 35 twelve miles south of Austin in southern Travis County, was named for J. L. Turner, an early settler who gave land for a school in 1880. The community had fifty residents in the mid-1930s; in the late 1940s a few businesses and scattered houses marked it on county highway maps. The Turnersville common school district was consolidated with the Buda Independent School District in Hays County in 1950. The population of Turnersville was reported as ninety from the late 1940s through 2000.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "TURNERSVILLE, TX (TRAVIS COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnt36), accessed July 03, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Connecticut missed shots, made turnovers and struggled at the free-throw line.
None of the mistakes caught coach Geno Auriemma off-guard.
"I think the game played out probably the way I thought it would play out," he said. "I can't say that I'm really, really that surprised."
North Carolina (No. 12 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) closed with a 16-5 run to upset the Huskies 71-65 on Sunday in the Jimmy V Women's Classic, the three-time defending national champions' earliest loss since 1995.
Ivory Latta pulled up for a go-ahead 3-pointer with less than two minutes left for North Carolina (2-0).
"This is a big win, but it's so early in the season," Tar Heels coach Sylvia Hatchell said. "Things change between now and March, but this is certainly a big one for us."
No. 4 UConn (1-1) was without freshman point guard Ketia Swanier for most of the second half -- she left with a concussion after getting elbowed by a teammate -- and finished with 28 turnovers.
"I think it was our fault," Huskies guard Ann Strother said. "We just gave the ball away."
The Huskies hadn't dropped a game this early since losing their opener nine years ago.
Latta finished with 16 points and Erlana Larkins had 14 points for UNC, and Camille Little added 13. Strother led UConn with 17 points and Barb Turner had 14.
The Huskies perennially restock their roster, and this offseason they lost superstar Diana Taurasi and point guard Maria Conlon to graduation. That made it tougher to overcome when Swanier left in the first half. She ran past teammate Jessica Moore, who inadvertently swung an elbow that hit Swanier in the forehead.
Swanier spent the rest of the game on the sideline, with an ice pack covering the bruise, and the Huskies clearly missed her down the stretch.
"I really thought their quickness and athletic ability, and some of their aggressiveness inside, I thought we were going to have a little trouble," Auriemma said. "It's not an easy place to put young players in."
UConn led 59-55 after a jumper by Nicole Wolff with about 4½ minutes left, taking advantage of two quick turnovers by the Tar Heels. Latta, a speedy 5-6 point guard, got inside for a basket, then La'Tangela Atkinson made two free throws to bring North Carolina within one.
After Moore traveled, Latta pushed the ball up and made a 3 over Wolff with 1:53 remaining, giving the Tar Heels the lead for good.
"I saw her stumbling back, and I knew it was a good time to pull up," Latta said. "I knew I'd made it when it left my hand."
The Huskies missed two straight shots and had another turnover, while North Carolina went 9-of-10 from the free-throw line to close it out.
UConn had four turnovers and missed three free-throw tries in the final four minutes. The Tar Heels finished 17-for-19 from the line.
"If we had come down here and won by 25 points, I would have been shocked," Auriemma said. "The right team deserved to win."
The Tar Heels were picked to win the Atlantic Coast Conference this season, the first time since 1999 a team other than Duke was predicted to win the league. Now they beat powerful Connecticut for the first time since the 1994 NCAA Tournament, with the help of a pair of sophomores and a freshman.
"We played the freshmen last year and let them get a lot of experience under their belts, and they learned a lot," Hatchell said. "I just think we have a good team with great balance and great chemistry."


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Some people may see this as just a park ski, to jib rails and throw off jumps, but don't believe the hype this ski can really do it all. I ski predominantly East Coast, cut trails, bumps, trees. The Chronic tackles all these and is one of the more fun all mountain skis I've ever tried. Super light weight, and easy to throw on edge. Can get a touch flappy if you're trying to rip super - g turns down hard steeps, so make sure you check your speed. Otherwise, it has plenty of edge hold at 92 under foot. In the past two years my chronics have taken on every type of condition I've thrown at them with ease and are a ton of fun. *note i have the 2013-2014 model although it remains unchanged for this season.
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man all i know is slay beat saitiev, something moon and leipold couldnt even dream about
I am pretty sure he has the gold medal which would make him the Olympic Champion. Something Big only dreams about. Maybe you should make the Mexican Olympic team so you can tkae your shor Big. Plenty of Russians wrestling for other countries.
I hate saying this ....but I agree with Big......Slay wins on a technicality
I wish I could kick Matt Dragon in the balls. In his Dragonballz.
The point Big is making is that with Leipold testing positive for steroids it wipes him from the records, making so that he didn't even exist for that competition. Thus Moon never actually wrestled Leipold and was given a Silver medal by virtue of being in the other bracket even though he had never even wrestled Slay. Both wrestlers had lost to Leipold who was technically never there albeit at different times in the tourney. So why does Slay have Gold and Moon Silver? BTW Saitiev has nothing to do with this argument.
So this goes back to the whole thing about Slay advising the gymnast Hamm what do to about his Gold medal by virtue of scoring discrepancy. If Slay truly thought Hamm should have given his medal to the Korean, then Slay should have had a wrestle off with his Korean opponent to determine who the rightful Gold medalist was. Remember, if Leipold didn't exist like the records state then Moon would have been in the finals against Slay and the real Gold medalist would have been determined in Sydney.
But obviously that would never happen because Slay is a complete hypocrite and an embarrassment to himself and his religion.
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If Slay didn't tout his Gold as if he earned it the same way Gable did, I wouldn't say anything. But the man claims Jesus was his Savior at Olympics. Well, in that case Jesus has a funny way of awarding people Gold medals.
Saitiev has nothing to do with it. You have to beat them all at Olympics.
And yes, I think Slay should have extended an invitation to the Korean at any place to wrestle for the Gold. That would be godly!
I agree with some of your points, but the final answer is that Slay played by the rules, and was awarded the medal. He defeated every legal wrestler put in front of him. If we are going to harp on technicalities, lets go back and review every match thrown by Eastern Europeans in all of the Olympics and World Championships down through the ages. This was a common occurrence under the old vertical pairing and black mark system. I don't see you calling for all of those medals to be re-wrestled. If you want to point things out lets do it for everybody, not just Americans. I agree that the Soviet Union produced great wreetlers, the best of their time, but a lot of their medals were also won by some shady back room bribery. Anybody who does not believe this is either naive or fooling themselves. I would have no problem with Slay wrestling the Korean for the medal but that was not the system in place. Their is an awful lot of hypocrisy on this forum. I have no problem with anyone being proud of their heritage but use it to promote your wrestlers, don't try to tear down others. I believe that you do live in this country after all, and with that being said, forgive me if my assumption of residence is wrong.
Did Slay really say Hamm should give back his gold medal? That's ridiculous and hypocritical.
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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded $108,300 for Operations and Safety by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program.
"Firefighters and first responders keep our communities safe in times of crisis," Brown said. "These new federal resources will help ensure that Plymouth's skilled responders have the updated resources they need to safely do their jobs."
Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department was awarded this funding as part of the round 16 competitive Fiscal Year 2013 AFG Program announcements.
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Current Music: Lordi.... aaaagghhhhh
I spent my evening hopping between the computer and the telli.
Songfestival and may, may, may
wasn't it again a waste of taste and time
The ultimate mockery of a songcontest won
As usual I picked a looser, this year it was Denmark that got my vote, just because it was the kind of music that was popular at the time I was as old as the girl was now.
Cutest competitor was the Russian milksob, I even don't remember his name, but when he was deleivered at my door tied in easy knots I would not complain.
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Mongabay.com news articles on east africa in blog format. Updated regularly.
Featured video: local communities successfully conserve forests in Ethiopia
(04/17/2013) A participatory forest management (PFM) program in Ethiopia has made good on forest preservation and expansion, according a recent article and video interview (below) from the Guardian. After 15 years, the program has aided one community in expanding its forest by 9.2 percent in the last decade, while still allowing community access to forest for smallscale logging in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains.
Poachers enlisting impoverished wildlife rangers as accomplices in elephant, rhino killing
(04/01/2013) Corruption among wildlife rangers is becoming a serious impediment in the fight against poaching, fuelled by soaring levels of cash offered by criminal poacher syndicates, senior conservation chiefs have admitted. Rangers in countries as diverse as Tanzania and Cambodia are being bribed by increasingly organised poaching gangs keen to supply ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts to meet huge consumer demand in Asia.
Forgotten lions: shedding light on the fate of lions in unprotected areas
(03/18/2013) African lions (Panthera leo) living outside of protected areas like national parks or reserves also happen to be studied much less than those residing within protected areas, to the detriment of lion conservation initiatives. In response to this trend, a group of researchers surveyed an understudied, unprotected region in northwestern Mozambique called the Tete Province, whose geography and proximity to two national parks suggests a presence of lions.
Elephant woes: conservationists mixed on elephant actions at CITES
(03/14/2013) Conservationists couldn't agree if the glass was half-full or half-empty on action to protect elephants at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. Elephants, especially in Africa, have faced a massive rise in poaching over the last decade with tens-of-thousands shot dead every year. Forests elephants in central Africa have been especially targeted: new research estimates that an astounding 60 percent of the world's forest elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks in the last ten years alone. While conservationists had hopes that CITES would move aggressively against elephant poaching, the results were a decidedly mixed-bag.
Violence in Kenya's Tana River Delta stems from natural resource conflict
(03/02/2013) Since August 2012, Kenya's Tana River Delta has been besieged by civil conflict continuing into the New Year. The New York Times reported in January at least 200 people are dead and 36,000 displaced in increasingly violent skirmishes between the herders and farmers who share the delta of Kenya's largest river. Although the conflict began as an isolated dispute over water, both groups engaged in retaliatory attacks that have earned comparisons by major global media to the violence preceding Kenya's notoriously violent presidential election.
Sri Lanka to give poached ivory to Buddhist temple, flouting international agreements
(02/05/2013) The Sri Lankan government is planning to give 359 elephant tusks to a Buddhist temple, a move that critics say is flouting the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The illegal tusks were seized in Sri Lanka last May en route to Dubai from Kenya; they are believed to stem from hundreds of butchered elephants, including juveniles, inside Africa, possibly Uganda. The decision comes after a high-profile National Geographic article, Ivory Worship, outlined how demand for ivory religious handicrafts, particularly by Catholics and Buddhists, is worsening the current poaching crisis. In 2011, it was estimated that 25,000 elephants were illegally slaughtered for their tusks.
Geneticists discover distinct lion group in squalid conditions
(02/04/2013) They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. Like other cases of individuals waiting for rescue from a life of deprivation behind bars, the fate of those held captive might be dramatically altered with the application of genetic science to answer questions of debated identity. Now recent DNA analysis has made it official: this group is special and because of their scientifically confirmed distinctiveness they will soon enjoy greater freedom.
Forests in Kenya worth much more intact says government report
(01/24/2013) Kenya's forests provide greater services and wealth to the nation when they are left standing. A landmark report by The Kenyan Government and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) addresses the importance of forests to the well-being of the nation, putting Kenya among a pioneering group of countries that aim to center development plans around nature-based assets.
Birds of the Masai Mara - book review
(01/23/2013) Birds of the Masai Mara by Adam Scott Kennedy, is the first dedicated bird book to the Masai Mara region. This handy guidebook, covering over 200 species of birds, on purpose avoids any unnecessary ornithological techno-jargon while presenting the region's birds using high-quality photographs followed by short text. Building upon the recently published Animals of the Masai Mara, the format of this guidebook is user-friendly and filled with entertaining stories.
How a text message could save an elephant or a rhino from a poacher
(01/15/2013) Soon a text message may save an elephant's or rhino's life. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is implementing a new alarm system in some protected areas that will alert rangers of intruders via a text message, reports the Guardian. Elephants and rhinos have been killed in record numbers across Africa as demand for illegal rhino horns and ivory in Asia has skyrocketed.
Kenya suffers it worst elephant poaching incident yet
(01/08/2013) Over the weekend Kenya suffered its single worst elephant poaching incident when poachers killed an entire family of elephants. In all, eleven elephants were gunned down and had their tusks removed. Among the dead was a two-month-old calf. The elephants were killed in Tsavo East National Park.
Animals of the Masai Mara - book review
(01/06/2013) Animals of the Masai Mara is the first illustrated guidebook to the Masai Mara region along the Kenya and Tanzania border. This is the world famous region of wildebeest migrations, large felines, towering African elephants, fascinating cultures, and great flora and fauna diversity. This is the guidebook for every child, and child inside of us, between the ages of 5 and 105 that has ever dreamt of learning about the fascinating animals seen on a safari in Africa.
Why it's time to ban the ivory trade for good [Graphic images: viewer discretion advised]
(12/12/2012) This week the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) announced a 14% decline in elephants in the Samburu/Laikipia ecosystem over the last 4 years. The decline has occurred in a population whose natural growth rate was measured at 5.3% between 2002 and 2008 according to the previous survey, suggesting that over 300 elephants are dying annually in the Samburu and Laikipia's landscape, denting the poster child image of one of Kenya's most important wildlife landscapes. Poaching and drought are the main causes of mortality in this population. The impact of poaching on tourism cannot be ignored, heavily armed bandits threaten more than elephants, if we can't protect elephants how can we protect international tourists? But it's the long term consequence that are of greater concern.
Poaching in Serengeti seems worth the risk
(12/10/2012) Illegal hunting in Tanzania's Greater Serengeti Ecosystem (GSE) remains a prevalent activity for local people, despite government regulation and grassroots movements to prevent it. A new paper from mongabay.com's open-access Tropical Conversation Science examines the factors that drive poachers to continue their activities, despite the high costs involved. By interviewing citizens involved with illegal hunting in the Western part of the Serengeti, they were able to identify key risks that are faced by the hunters as well as the perceived gains of a successful hunt.
New inroads made into bushmeat consumption in Tanzania
(12/10/2012) Bushmeat consumption, or "wildlife hunted for human consumption," poses a significant threat to wildlife conservation all across the globe. But in Eastern Africa—where savannah grasslands flourish and big game roam free within 'protected' reserves—one may be forgiven to think that poaching does not occur here: but it does.
Vanishing corridors: trying to keep big animals on the move across Tanzania
(12/10/2012) One of the biggest challenges for big African wildlife like lions, elephants, and buffalo is movement across native habitat that is increasingly being encroached on by humans. Animals find their movement restricted by roads, fences, and property boundaries which fragment the landscape. Without safe, smart, and well-maintained corridors between designated wildlife areas, animals can get cut off from resources needed for survival and from potential mates (putting genetic health at risk), even while conflicts with humans become more frequent.
Lion population falls 68 percent in 50 years
(12/04/2012) African lions, one of the most iconic species on the planet, are in rapid decline. According to a new study in Biodiversity Conservation, the African lion (Panthera leo leo) population has dropped from around 100,000 animals just fifty years ago to as few as 32,000 today. The study, which used high resolution satellite imagery to study savannah ecosystems across Africa, also found that lion habitat had plunged by 75 percent.
Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia's highlands
(11/20/2012) There is a place in the world where wolves live almost entirely off mountain rodents, lions dwell in forests, and freshwater rolls downstream to 12 million people, but the place—Ethiopia's Bale Mountains National Park—remains imperiled by a lack of legal boundaries and encroachment by a growing human population. "Much of the land in Africa above 3,000 meters has been altered or degraded to the point where it isn't able to perform most of the ecosystem functions that it is designed to do. Bale, although under threat and already impacted to a degree by anthropogenic activities, is still able to perform its most important ecosystem functions, and as such ranks among only a handful of representative alpine ecosystems in Africa."
Cell phones help decipher malaria transmission in Kenya
(11/19/2012) Malaria parasites can stow away silently in a person's bloodstream. Without any symptoms to betray them, their human host can unwittingly transport the parasites hundreds or thousands of miles. Tracking them has been nearly impossible, especially in poor countries. Now, researchers have harnessed a new tool: the burgeoning number of cell phone users in Africa, which help trace how malaria spreads.
Mountain gorilla population up by over 20 percent in five years
(11/13/2012) A mountain gorilla census in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has a population that continues to rise, hitting 400 animals. The new census in Bwindi means the total population of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) has reached 880—up from 720 in 2007—and marking a growth of about 4 percent per year.
Photos: Mozambique creates Africa's biggest marine protected area
(11/13/2012) Last week, the East African nation of Mozambique announced it was protecting 10,411 square kilometers (4,020 square miles) of coastal marine waters, making the new Marine Protected Area (MPA) the biggest on the continent. The protected area, dubbed the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago ("First" and "Second" islands), includes ten islands as well as mangrove forests, rich coral reefs, and seagrass ecosystems.
Cute animal picture of the day: baby giraffe
(11/12/2012) Reticulated giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata), one of nine subspecies, are found in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The world's tallest land animal, giraffes can stand as high as 5–6 meters (16–20 feet).
Artificial 'misting system' allows vanished toad to be released back into the wild
(11/01/2012) In 1996 scientists discovered a new species of dwarf toad: the Kihansi spray toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis). Although surviving on only two hectares near the Kihansi Gorge in Tanzania, the toads proved populous: around 17,000 individuals crowded the smallest known habitat of any vertebrate, living happily off the moist micro-habitat created by spray from adjacent waterfalls. Eight years later and the Kihansi spray toad was gone. Disease combined with the construction of a hydroelectric dam ended the toads' limited, but fecund, reign.
Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanishing oriental bald ibis
(10/31/2012) In a remote corner of the Ethiopian highlands in January 2011, the bright tropical light combined with the fresh and thin air at 3,600 metres. The Ethiopian bird-watching guide and conservationist, Yilma Dellelegn, from the Ethiopian Wildlife Society, was startled when he spotted two un-ringed young bald ibises, together with two ringed and well known adult females (Zenobia and Salam) at their wintering site. Considering the dwindling numbers, two unaccounted for young birds, literally popping out of the blue, were a great surprise—and precious! The sighting had the potential to raise intriguing geographic and behavioral questions: in fact, the riddle of the migration and wintering strategy of the oriental northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) was still half way from being solved.
Illegal hunting threatens iconic animals across Africa's great savannas, especially predators
(10/25/2012) Bushmeat hunting has become a grave concern for species in West and Central Africa, but a new report notes that lesser-known illegal hunting in Africa's iconic savannas is also decimating some animals. Surprisingly, illegal hunting across eastern and southern Africa is hitting big predators particularly hard, such as cheetah, lion, leopard, and wild dog. Although rarely targets of hunters, these predators are running out of food due to overhunting and, in addition, often becoming victims of snares set out for other species.
Authorities confiscate 600 dead elephants' worth of ivory in Hong Kong
(10/22/2012) Hong Kong authorities have confiscated two massive shipments of elephant tusks, totaling 1,209 tusks, stemming from Kenya and Tanzania. Representing over 600 poached elephants, the shipments are estimated to be worth $3.4 million on the black market. African elephants are being decimated for their tusks in recent years with heavily-armed and well-connected poachers—backed by criminal syndicates—killing off whole herds in some cases.
In midst of rhino poaching epidemic, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has happy problem: too many black rhinos
(10/02/2012) So far this year, South Africa has lost 430 rhinos to poachers, more than one animal a day. The epidemic of rhino poaching, fueled by demand for black-market powdered rhino horn in Vietnam and China, is decimating rhino species worldwide. In fact, last year saw the official extinction of two rhino subspecies: the Vietnamese rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), a subspecies of the Javan, and the western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes), a subspecies of the black. However there is one place where rhinos still thrive. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya has found itself with a unique, but happy, problem: they have so many black rhinos, which are considered Critically Endangered by the IUNC Red List, that they need to move some to stop rhino-fights. In other words, their rhino population has hit its limit for the 25,000 hectare (62,000 acre) nonprofit protected area.
World Bank agrees to fund project related to controversial Gibe III dam
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Bushmeat consumption differs between communities in Tanzania
(09/17/2012) Bushmeat consumption depends on the make-up of individual communities, according to a new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. By interviewing indigenous groups and refugees living near two protected areas in western Tanzania, researchers found that consumption rates differed significantly, likely based on costliness and access.
Picture of the day: baby Grevy's zebra
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Picture of the day: Yao Ming with baby elephant orphaned by ivory trade
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Elephant ancestors and Africa's Bigfoot: new initiative works to preserve a continent's wildest tales
(08/20/2012) Paula Kahumbu, the Executive Director of WildlifeDirect and a 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, is on a mission to reconnect young Africans with the natural world through storytelling. In a new initiative dubbed Africa's Wildest Stories, Kahumbu and others are recording the wit and wisdom of African elders in Kenya as they share their love of nature and the way in which Africans, for millennia, have co-existed with their environment and its astounding wildlife.
King of the jungle: lions discovered in rainforests
(08/13/2012) Calling the African lion (Panthera leo) the 'king of the jungle' is usually a misnomer, as the species is almost always found in savannah or dry forests, but recent photos by the Germany-based Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) document lions in Ethiopian rainforests. Taken in the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, the photos show a female lion hiding out in thick montane jungle.
Forest cover falls 9% in East Africa in 9 years
(07/31/2012) Forest cover in East Africa has dropped by 9.3 percent from 2001-2009, according to a new paper published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Looking at 12 countries in the region, the scientists found that, worryingly, forests were particularly hard hit near protected areas. Usually thought of as a region of vast savannas, such as the Serengeti, East Africa is also home to incredibly biodiverse tropical forests, including coastal forests, rich montane forests, and the eastern portion of the Congo Rainforest.
Climate change increased the probability of Texas drought, African famine, and other extreme weather
(07/11/2012) Climate change is here and its increasing the chances for crazy weather, according to scientists. A prestigious group of climatologists have released a landmark report that makes the dramatic point that climate change is impacting our weather systems—and in turn our food crops, our economies, and even our lives—here-and-now. The new report in the American Meteorological Society is first of what is intended to be an annual offering that will attempt to tease out the connections between climate change and individual extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts and floods.
Poaching in the Serengeti linked to poverty, high legal hunting prices
(07/09/2012) In the effort to protect the Serengeti—arguably Africa's most famous ecosystem—one of the major problems is the bushmeat trade. Population growth, little available protein, poverty, and a long-standing history of hunting has led many communities to poach wildlife within Serengeti National Park. Interviewing over a thousand community members in the western Serengeti, scientists found that community members are largely aware that wildlife hunting is illegal and that conservation of wild species is important, but hunt animals anyway partly out of necessity.
Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account
(06/11/2012) Last month ten African nations, led by Botswana, pledged to incorporate "natural capital" into their economies. Natural capital, which seeks to measure the economic worth of the services provided by ecosystems and biodiversity—for example pollination, clean water, and carbon—is a nascent, but growing, method to curtail environmental damage and ensure more sustainable development. Dubbed the Gaborone Declaration, the pledge was signed by Botswana, Liberia, Namibia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania following a two day summit.
Blue tarantula, walking cactus, and a worm from Hell: the top 10 new species of 2011
(05/23/2012) A sneezing monkey, a blue tarantula, and an extinct walking cactus are just three of the remarkable new species listed in the annual Top Ten New Species put together by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. This year's list includes a wide-variety of life forms from fungi to flower and invertebrate to primate.
Charting a new environmental course in China
(05/21/2012) Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than 30 countries and has projects in all 50 of the United States. The Conservancy has over one million members, and has protected more than 119 million acres of wild-lands and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide. TNC has taken an active interest in China, the world's most populated nation, and in many important ways, a critical center of global development. The following is an interview with multiple directors of The Nature Conservancy's China Program.
'The real Hunger Games': a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought
(05/09/2012) The UN warns that a million children in Africa's Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010. In some countries the situation is worsened by conflict.
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(04/16/2012) A controversial dam, a massive mine, poisonous pesticides, a devastating road, and criminal polluters: many of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize winners point to the dangers of poorly-planned, and ultimately destructive, development initiatives. The annual prize, which has been dubbed the Green Nobel Prize is awarded to six grassroots environmental heroes from around the world and includes a financial award of $150,000 for each winner.
Featured video: Honoring Wangari Maathai, who would have been 72 yesterday
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(03/29/2012) A baby Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) was recently born at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo. The subspecies was classified as Endangered in 2010 with a wild population of less than 700 individuals in Kenya and Uganda.
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(03/28/2012) As North America recovers from what noted meteorologist Jeff Masters has called "the most incredible spring heatwave in U.S. and Canadian recorded history," a new paper argues that climate change is playing an important role in a world that appears increasingly pummeled by extreme weather. Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds "strong evidence" of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves—such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S.
Photos: the aye-aye of frogs rediscovered after 62 years
(03/27/2012) A pair of researchers have rediscovered a long-lost frog in the tiny African country of Burundi. Known as the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila), the species hadn't been seen for over 60 years—since the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949—but was rediscovered in Bururi Forest Reserve.
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Chimp conservation requires protecting fragmented river forests in Uganda
(03/19/2012) Forest fragments along riversides in Uganda may make good habitats for chimpanzees but remain unprotected, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS). Researchers surveyed a riverine forest known as Bulindi in Uganda, in-between Budongo and Bugoma Forest Reserves, to determine if it was suitable for the long-term survival of eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) populations.
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The New England Patriots after starting slowly like they always do are now heating up in the free agent market and have inked former Buffalo Bills WR Donald Jones to a contract. Jones was a restricted free agent but Buffalo failed to tender him so New England will not lose a draft pick for him. Jones is 25 years old, 6' and 208 lbs and was undrafted out of Youngstown State in 2010. In three seasons in Buffalo he caught 82 balls for 887 yards and 6 TD's. Last season many thought Jones was Buffalo's 2nd best receiver when he had 41 catches for 443 yards and 4 TD's. He also started 10 of the Bills 16 games in 2012 and even though he missed 4 games with an injury he played 66% of the Bills offensive snaps. Jones was extremely disappointed when the Bills didn't tender him and I am sure that will be a huge motivational factor for him and a reason for signing with the Patriots. If you don't remember Jones you damn well should, last season he killed New England with 8 cat...
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PHOENIX — Arizona defensive tackle Darnell Dockett has received a "six-figure" fine from the Cardinals for his behavior in the waning seconds in a 7-6 loss to the New York Jets on Sunday, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the punishment had not been made public. The exact size of the fine was not known, and it was uncertain whether the punishment would affect Dockett's participation Sunday in Seattle. Dockett refused to go along with a coach's directive to allow the Jets to score late in the game so the Cardinals could get the ball back and go for the tying touchdown. He indicated in a tweet Friday night that he was appealing through the players' union. "Thank God for the @nflpa," Dockett wrote. "That's all I got to say… I ain't got no worries." The fine was first reported by XTRA-AM 910 sports talk show host and Cardinals reporter Mike Jurecki. The punishment stems from a directive from the coaching staff to allow the Jets to score when they had the ball deep in Arizona territory in the final minutes. Dockett refused and got into a heated on-field argument with safety Kerry Rhodes about it. The issue became moot when the Jets' Shonn Greene purposely downed the ball at the Arizona 1 and ran out the clock. Defensive coordinator Ray Horton told reporters Friday that he was the one who suggested to coach Ken Whisenhunt that the Jets be allowed to score. Whisenhunt has declined to discuss the situation, calling it an internal matter. The emotional confrontation between Dockett and Rhodes came as the team headed toward its eighth consecutive loss. The prospects that the team would score in the final seconds with no timeouts were obviously dim, because it was one of the Cardinals' worst offensive performances in franchise history. With Ryan Lindley making his second start, the Cardinals tied a franchise low with five first downs and were 0-for-15 on third-down conversions. Whisenhunt refused to replace Lindley with John Skelton, who was benched three games earlier. But Skelton will return as starter against the Seahawks. Dockett said earlier this week he had apologized to Rhodes and the two had agreed to move on. But Dockett emphatically said he had never quit in a game and never would. "It's something that I don't believe in, something that I didn't understand," Dockett said then. "It was frustrating at the time. At the end of the day, I am never, never going to lay down and quit. I've been playing football for over 20 years. I've given this organization, I've given Florida State, I've given my high school everything I've got. I love the game. I play with passion and I'll never quit." The emotional, 6-foot-4, 290-pound, 31-year-old lineman is in his ninth NFL season, all with Arizona. He made the Pro Bowl in 2007 and 2009. He earns $3.4 million this year on a contract that runs through 2015. Photo via Facebook/Arizona Cardinals
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