If camera traps don't prove existence of Bigfoot or Yeti nothing will

avery51 · 7 months

One commenter suggested that the yeti's electromagnetic field could disrupt the camera trap.

rhett-butler · 10 months

The closest competition is probably the male Electric Blue Gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi) from Tanzania.

rhett-butler · 10 months

That is awesome

gecko1974 · 10 months

Gibson was raided by the Feds in 2009 for allegedly trafficking in ebony from Madagascar. At the time Madagascar's rainforest parks were being plundered by criminal gangs.

spoop · 11 months

It has been used to identify non-native plants in Hawaii: http://carnegieinstitution.org/news_releases/news_050307.html

Roat35 · 1 year

In a 2005 study, Scott Pitnick, professor of biology at Syracuse University, found that testis size is inversely related to brain size. In other words, the bigger the balls of a bat species, the smaller its brain.

twolf1 · 1 year

The push to change the forest code comes from the agribusiness lobby. Basically the recent crackdown down on municipalities with high deforestation rates was so successful, farming and ranching interests want to get the laws changes.

Not direct carbon market impact, although perversely, if the forest requirement is reduced, it may create new opportunities for farmers to earn money for forest protection above and beyond whatever is required under the new law. Previously the requirement was 80% making it difficult for farmers and ranchers to qualify for carbon payments. If the new code pushes the bar to 50%, then anything above that might qualify for carbon payments.

twolf1 · 1 year

An area of Amazon rainforest 10 times the size of Manhattan was cleared in the past 2 months.

rhett-butler · 1 year

Sarawak's Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud says 70 percent of Sarawak's forest cover is intact. Google Earth shows otherwise.

Designthing · 1 year

I wonder if this stance will come back to hurt Republicans if there is another major event that the public associates (fairly or unfairly) with climate change, like a heatwave or hurricane? Or will voters have forgotten by then?

rhett-butler · 1 year

I don't think my girlfriend would be too into this

dielemma · 1 year

The Penan have been totally screwed by the Sarawak state government. They have won land rights' case after land rights' case only to see the decisions ignored by the government and forestry companies.

dielemma · 1 year

Better than killing rhinos for their horn

insiderscoop · 1 year

Or throwing lizards off a cliff to make it look like they are jumping to catch insects as one photographer did.

troufs · 1 year

bacteria that can survive on arsenic ... weird

peter00700 · 1 year

Linking this with the programs on Earth Engine would make this really interest. Greg Asner out of Carnegie is modeling hundreds or even thousands of species of rainforest trees

jabouree · 1 year

All the big stuff has already been discovered. Except for Bigfoot of course.

This guy probably packs a punch though -- the small ones usually make up for their lack of size with anger.

rhett-butler · 1 year

Live in New Guinea I do. Deserving of a name am I.

spoop · 1 year

Rhinos are critically endangered and rangers protecting them are being killed by poachers.

spoop · 2 years

The major NGOs which are using the logging crisis as a fund-raising opportunity need to do more to actually address the situation, including consumption (mentioned in the prior comment), acquiring and analyzing satellite data, works with law enforcement agencies on illegally logged timber (i.e. the Lacey Act and FLEGT), and working to form partnerships with technology providers. Google Earth has a strong interest in forests lately -- why not approach the Outreach program?

So far the only major NGOs who seem to be doing anything effective on any of these fronts are the Missouri Botanical Garden and EIA/Global Witness. They should be applauded.

spoop · 2 years

The government of Madagascar is essentially hapless at this point, so efforts need to also focus on the international drivers of this mess (beyond the political meddling by other countries, of course): the involvement of French shipping companies in the trafficking and rosewood consumption in Europe and the United States.

solenodon · 2 years

At least the satellites are documenting this

rhett-butler · 2 years

Soy is not the dominant driver of deforestation in the Amazon these days. It was a big driver in the southern Amazon (Mato Grosso) until a soy moratorium was signed by the largest soy crushers in 2006. The cattle industry is now looking to the soy moratorium as a model for reducing its role in deforestation.

rhett-butler · 2 years

Concerns over deforestation are now leading the Brazilian cattle industry to look at new approaches to ranching, including market-based incentives for environmental stewardship: http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0909-amazon-cattle-ranching.html

rhett-butler · 2 years

Talk about "moral hazard"

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