Maddie’s Blog
Posted by Dr. Jones on Sep 30, 2014 in Member Blog | 0 comments International A-Team Member Maddie Cranston’s Blog Read Maddie’s blog at her site here: http://www.coolclicksplanet.com/cool-clicks-blog ...read more
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Dr. Stuart Pimm
Posted by Dr. Jones on Sep 29, 2014 in Advisory Council | 0 comments Dr. Stuart Pimm -prize-winning species extinction authority, author, world leader in conservation. Dr. Stuart Pimm chairs Saving Species and is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. Stuart received his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. He is the author of many scientific papers about the loss of species and how to prevent extinctions....read more
Climate Change’s Evil Twin: Mass Extinction
Posted by Dr. Jones on Sep 13, 2014 in Ken's Blog | 0 comments Post 3 in the series by Ken Jones photo courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas Climate Change’s Evil Twin: Mass Extinction Currently holding center stage among environmental concerns is Climate Change. Climate Change threatens climate stability in the near future, indeed, even now. Global Warming from increasing CO2, methane, and other greenhouse gasses primarily from the human burning of...read more
World Population Day
Posted by Dr. Jones on Jul 2, 2014 in Ken's Blog | 0 comments Post 2 of the series: Letter to the Editor, World Population Day, observed annually on July 11, was created by the United Nations in recognition of the need to raise awareness about the problems created by growing human populations. Not long ago, on July 11, 1987, the world’s population reached Five Billion people. Today there are more than Seven Billion people and we are adding...read more
Changing of the Guard for Wildlife
Posted by Dr. Jones on Jun 30, 2014 in Ken's Blog | 0 comments Post 1 of the series: The famous environmentalists listed above, among others, are aging or deceased. They have been the public educators and influencers – the conservationists who have taught a generation to care. 70% of today’s conservationists will be gone in 20 years due to retirement and death. Who is going to take their place? Despite their best efforts, they are leaving the natural...read more
Wildlife as Pets
Posted by Dr. Jones on Jun 7, 2014 in Member Blog | 0 comments Olivia Binfield suggested this topic: “Wild creatures need to be wild it is something they are born for. Yet many people cruelly take young of incredibly rare and amazing animals. Chimps born in chains. Komodo dragons and other young monkeys forced to be pets. Chains rub their skin raw. They never know more than to be pets kept in chains and never to see the wild. many die.” Do you...read more
Deforestation
Posted by Dr. Jones on Jun 7, 2014 in Member Blog | 0 comments Olivia Binfield suggested this topic: Forests are too important to destroy! They are homes for many, many species of animals and plants. They sequester (store) carbon, keeping carbon out of the atmosphere where it can add to global warming. They stabilize our hydrology (water ) cycles. They produce oxygen for us to breath. And yet, we need more room to grow our food, raise our beef, and we...read more
Dr. Peter Ward
Posted by Dr. Jones on Feb 24, 2014 in Advisory Council | 0 comments Dr. Peter Ward – Anthropologist, Astro-biologist, Extinction Specialist, author Author of books, Rare Earth, and, The Medea Hypothesis, among others. Currently a professor at University of Washington, and a researcher of the Chambered Nautilus. Peter Ward is currently examining the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event with studies in France and Spain involving...read more
Trophy Hunting – Right or Wrong?
Posted by Dr. Jones on Jan 11, 2014 in Member Blog | 1 comment A lot of people hunt animals. Some hunt for food. Some hunt for “sport”. Some are trophy hunters and seek to kill the biggest, most beautiful specimen they can find. Hunting is used by some conservationists to keep populations in the wild balanced. Is hunting legitimate? Should animals be targets? Or are animals sentient, feeling beings, maybe with souls? Could it be that...read more
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