Annimal Ann's Eco News–Independent Thinker

The top ten Homes for Wildlife activities are:
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/wildlife-tree.html

Provide seed mixes, particularly sunflower hearts and millet-seeds for house sparrows and starlings

Provide plants/shrubs of different sizes, shapes and ages

Grow a range of plants

Provide flowering plants as a source of nectar for butterflies and moths

Grow plants attractive to insects in tubs and planters

Retain dead flower stems and heads [...]

” Not just bread prices. You’re going to have prices of beef, pork, poultry and also dairy products affected, all those different commodities consume grain.”
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The Farmers’ Association says more Brazilian rainforests will be cleared because of the decision to force the state’s petrol retailers to sell 10 per cent ethanol fuel.
The Association’s Richard Clark says [...]

”WASHINGTON — Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.
    
As it is, humanity each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half Earths to meet its needs, said the report by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank.
   
“We are demanding [...]

” MORE LANDSCAPE. LESS LANDFILL”- Timberlake

From Wildlife Extra:
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/new-nestbox.html
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Spring might seem a long way off but some birds will soon be prospecting for nest sites.
November 2009. The British Trust for Ornithology is urging people to put up a new nest box now and, by doing so, increase the chances of it being used come the spring. The Garden Ecology Team has [...]

” A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.
”Parts of the deep sea that we assumed were homogenous are actually quite complex,” said Robert S. Carney, an oceanographer at Louisiana State University and a [...]

Posted this piece for an Australian Environmental and Politics blog.
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Wildlife Accidents Part 2 – A Note From Ann Novek
 
 
1) In Sweden there’s an old pagan custom with big bonfires on April 30, called the Walpurgis Night.
Unfortunately, many hedgehogs have been hiding out in the stacks /piles of old trees and branches that will be lit [...]

From Wildlife Extra:
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bird-counting.html
”Multiple microphones
Dawson said: ”We devised a way to estimate population density of birds or other animals that vocalise by combining sound information from several microphones. A sound spreading through a forest or other habitat leaves a ‘footprint’. The size of the footprint depends on how quickly the sound attenuates. Mathematically, there is a [...]