tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765Sat, 26 May 2012 18:06:17 +0000conservation education curriculumendangered speciesextinctendangered animalseducation curriculumextinctionendangeredconservation educationExploring The Plight of Endangered Animalshttp://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/noreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)Blogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-7839041996653164330Tue, 22 May 2012 00:37:00 +00002012-05-21T23:13:52.166-07:00conservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Assistant Director for Endangered Species Gary Frazer (and friend) EEJ INTERVIEW WITH GARY FRAZER Gary Frazer is the Assistant Director for Endangered Species at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He assumed that position in July 2009, and he is responsible for carrying out policy development and management of all aspects of the Endangered Species program. Frazer started his http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/NMjpGnup_zg/gary-frazer-on-endangered-species.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/NMjpGnup_zg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/05/gary-frazer-on-endangered-species.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-362910687209902391Thu, 17 May 2012 03:29:00 +00002012-05-16T20:31:00.762-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Conservation biologist Tom Lovejoy surrounded by the rainforest of Brazil EEJ INTERVIEW WITH TOM LOVEJOY: Tom Lovejoy has spent most of his life working on conservation issues and trying to save the rainforests. He was Assistant Secretary and Counselor to the Secretary at the Smithsonian Institution, Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, and Executive Vice President of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/0B9O4KrzWGs/tom-lovejoy-on-endangered-species.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/0B9O4KrzWGs" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/05/tom-lovejoy-on-endangered-species.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-5163867037988135981Wed, 16 May 2012 03:50:00 +00002012-05-15T21:01:17.197-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered  It’s been almost two months since I decided to embark on a new direction for both the ‘Endangered Earth Journal’ and ‘a Tiger Journal.’ My idea was to shift my journal entries from sharing information I was finding on the web (while bringing myself up to speed on endangered species issues) to interviewing those individuals more knowledgeable on the issue of endangered species and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/oEPNL1cxH48/interview-series-starts-endangered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/oEPNL1cxH48" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/05/interview-series-starts-endangered.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-7916756245514298312Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:28:00 +00002012-05-24T10:13:03.449-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered On and off the road since the beginning of the year for client work. The Endangered Earth Journal starts again next week. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information about endangered species go to www.Bagheera.com For more information about endangered tigers go to www.TigersInCrisis.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/POnRMhbdDas/finally-off-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/POnRMhbdDas" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/02/finally-off-road.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-6949123436912130567Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:02:00 +00002012-01-09T19:16:00.880-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered I left off in my last journal exploring the question ‘How Many Species Are Endangered.’ And of course to find that out, you need to know how many species there are on Earth, and what percentage of these are in fact endangered species. In my December 7, 2011 post I wrote about a recent article published in PLoS Biology which tries to address this question. The authors of the article estimate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/3t1eWBFgpxs/scope-of-endangered-species-crisis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/3t1eWBFgpxs" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/01/scope-of-endangered-species-crisis.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-4007132940339686517Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:06:00 +00002012-01-04T19:21:47.573-08:00 To those following this journal, I hope you had an amazing Holiday season. I will begin posting journal entries to the Endangered Earth Jounal on Monday, January 9th, 2012. I hope you will check back then. And I hope you have a great year planned for yourself. Sincerely, Craig Kasnoffhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/bLrCaWUtKxw/journal-posts-will-start-again-jan-9.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/bLrCaWUtKxw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2012/01/journal-posts-will-start-again-jan-9.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-1166317015454599883Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:07:00 +00002011-12-12T22:18:51.115-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered I’m in San Diego on client work. And any time I am in San Diego I always go to the San Diego Zoo. I have spent a great deal of time at the San Diego Zoo over the years. It is one of my favorite places to be. And it is really wonderful at Christmas. Not because the weather is good (it’s raining) but because they really celebrate Christmas well at the zoo; zoo lights; Christmas music; http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/z0-ANyr5xa0/san-diego-christmas-zoo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/z0-ANyr5xa0" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/12/san-diego-christmas-zoo.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-2150193014884131158Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:59:00 +00002011-12-07T19:41:51.350-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered So, 61,900 species down (review by the IUCN) and 8,638,100 to go? According to a recent study published, that would be just about right. In continuing to look for information about the number of endangered species, more and more fascinating material keeps showing up. The latest is a new study published in the journal PLoS Biology which goes directly to the question of 'How Many Species Are onhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/nDFZbK2lX1w/how-many-species-are-endangered-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/nDFZbK2lX1w" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/12/how-many-species-are-endangered-3.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-2157178112219419229Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:31:00 +00002011-11-30T23:02:49.149-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered While continuing to look for authoritative information about How Many Species Are Endangered, I came across the website for the Center for Biological Diversity. At first glance, I thought it was a website created by a group of biologists focusing on the issue of ‘conservation biology’ or ‘biological diversity’. Wrong. Way wrong. It turns out the website represents a group of seemingly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/gNnsMfC-fXU/how-many-species-are-endangered-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/gNnsMfC-fXU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/11/how-many-species-are-endangered-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-2961495406017086744Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:42:00 +00002011-11-29T15:43:19.640-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered species And which species are they? And where are they located? And why are they endangered? All are good questions. Unfortunately it is a question to which there is no 'definitive' answer. Because having an answer to this question requires knowing how many species there are on Earth. We don't. So how does one go about trying to understand, or get a sense, how many species on Earth are endangeredhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/J-ayOIMnMsc/how-many-species-are-endangered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/J-ayOIMnMsc" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/11/how-many-species-are-endangered.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-1399609378727328849Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:22:00 +00002011-11-21T19:38:38.903-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered species The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) just released its’ update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It comes with more bad news for threatened and endangered species, and some good. But the reality is, the news is mostly bad. The IUCN is considered to be the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network with more than 1,000 government and NGO member http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/v0KjPMIwlWM/iucn-red-list-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/v0KjPMIwlWM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/11/iucn-red-list-update.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-6386849759262064574Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:20:00 +00002011-11-07T19:25:50.310-08:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered I'm a huge fan of the BBC. Their reporting and programming is just about as good as it gets in journalism. Last year, the BBC held an hour long discussion regarding Biodiversity in Crisis. Featured were Richard Black, the BBC's Environment Correspondent, who chaired the discussion with Jonathan Baillie, Conservation Programmes Director at the Zoological Society of London, and Jon Williams, ahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/fta-HtZTv58/bbc-biodiversity-in-crisis-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/fta-HtZTv58" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/11/bbc-biodiversity-in-crisis-video.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-737234382193465829Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:27:00 +00002011-10-24T20:31:52.341-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Searching for Endangered Species Resources by Individuals (1): Here are endangered species websites by individuals who have decided to make a difference in the world of endangered species. Descriptions of the websites are from the sites: 1) ESA blawg: Keith W. Rizzardi, a Florida lawyer, is board certified in State & Federal Administrative Practice. He has chaired The Florida Bar http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/y4RJSvg88V0/endangered-species-resources-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/y4RJSvg88V0" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/10/endangered-species-resources-by.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-3760521385168841003Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:46:00 +00002011-10-17T20:52:19.931-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Searching for conservation organizations (1) There are many conservation organizations around the world working to protect both endangered species and their habitat. Here are a list of 10 organizations doing just that. As with the government organization, the descriptions below are from the websites of the organizations. 1) Australian Wildlife Conservancy: AWC acquires land, and works http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/67mp6hY9Vh4/conservation-organization-resources-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/67mp6hY9Vh4" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/10/conservation-organization-resources-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-4040528043169109998Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:54:00 +00002011-10-13T19:54:07.928-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Searching for Endangered Species Resources (2) After spending a while searching for individual county endangered species laws around the world two things became abundantly clear: 1) this information is not easy to find.2) someone could make a good living re-designing some of the government websites around the world. Having said that, here are 10 more government resources pointing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/NV4yVpDB40g/endangered-species-resources-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/NV4yVpDB40g" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/10/endangered-species-resources-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-6280476994936503526Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:58:00 +00002011-10-10T19:47:42.380-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Searching for Endangered Species Resources: It's both fascinating and overwhelming the number of endangered species resources which can be found on the Internet. It's also interesting to see how difficult it is to find 'specific' endangered species resources....in paticular resources relating to specific countries. Having said that, this week I am focusing on 'government' resouces (for both http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/tPrO9ZiF0Ys/endangered-species-resources-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/tPrO9ZiF0Ys" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/10/endangered-species-resources-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-2045592789616130000Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:23:00 +00002011-10-03T21:27:07.509-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered So now the task of gathering information on endangered species begins. And the first task in gathering information is to look for the ‘best’ sources of information on endangered species around the world. And that is how I plan to spend this next month; looking for credible sources of information about endangered species. This would include international bodies like CITES or the IUCN and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/cqNj7pm1Img/gathering-endangered-species.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/cqNj7pm1Img" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/10/gathering-endangered-species.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-4919763326876107576Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:38:00 +00002011-09-29T20:38:42.125-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered The remaining two websites to be introduced which are part of the Endangered Earth project are Endangered TV and Imagine Animals. Both have been part of the project for many years. IMAGINE ANIMALS: Imagine Animals came about from the simple thought "can you Imagine a world without these animals in it". I couldn't...I can't. However the reality is, all the animals on the Imagine Animals http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/6ocKf26byDo/endangered-tv-and-imagine-animals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/6ocKf26byDo" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/endangered-tv-and-imagine-animals.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-1037137586838183286Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:49:00 +00002011-09-27T20:50:51.523-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Having been a journalist for many years, I am fascinated by news. News is one of the most important ways we connect to the world around us. News is key in helping us making sense of things that, on the surface, don’t make sense. And I am a huge fan of journalists. Journalists are those people, who like firefighters, the police and soldiers, are usually running towards danger while http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/ilQFSobBjnY/endangered-earth-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/ilQFSobBjnY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/endangered-earth-news.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-3807976618643095623Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:10:00 +00002011-09-26T20:10:47.436-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered species The best laid plans of mice and men (or orangutans). I had planned to do a quick overview of the Endangered Earth websites earlier this month, and then start posting on the research I was doing on endangered species topics. However two issues thwarted that idea.  The first were some technical issues I had with all my sites which took a week to fix. The second was a 'list of endangered http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/0_oE9maIPYs/best-laid-plans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/0_oE9maIPYs" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/best-laid-plans.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-67415669908536064Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:43:00 +00002011-09-08T20:45:52.923-07:00conservation educationeducation curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered As I have said in earlier posts, my goal for this next year is to bring the most current endangered species information to my endangered species websites including Bagheera, Endangered Earth (websites) and Tigers in Crisis (websites). Much of the information gathered over the course of the year will never make it into any of these websites. But some of the information garnered along this http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/NNB7dLASKEI/endangered-earth-journal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/NNB7dLASKEI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/endangered-earth-journal.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-3913528592508739375Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:55:00 +00002011-09-08T20:35:14.327-07:00conservation educationextinctionextinctendangered animalsendangered speciesendangered Like the Tigers in Crisis website, Endangered Earth is more a series of connected websites rather than just a stand-alone website. The parts of Endangered Earth are: Endangered Earth Endangered Earth News Endangered Earth Journal Endangered TV Imagine Animals Each of these websites has a specific purpose, but all relate back to the same goal; promoting the plight of endangered species. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/45eG7l3dBXg/endangered-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/45eG7l3dBXg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/endangered-earth.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-3978353994954942704Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:38:00 +00002011-09-06T20:45:52.136-07:00education curriculumconservation education curriculumextinctionendangered animalsendangered species Bagheera is one of the endangered species websites which I will be updating over the course of this next year. Bagheera started as part of the Microsoft Global Schoolhouse project (1997) as an educational curriculum on endangered species. At its’ core, that’s what it still is. Over the years Bagheera has been visited by millions of people who have requested many millions of pages of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/rSmnm64BQ-I/bagheera-endangered-species-curriculum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/rSmnm64BQ-I" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/bagheera-endangered-species-curriculum.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303728561525234765.post-6916443713628090044Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:48:00 +00002011-09-05T21:04:50.807-07:00 A One Year Journey... Bagheera was launched in 1997, and over the last 14 years millions of people have requested many million pages of information about endangered species from the website. Endangered Earth is a series of sites that launched a few years later. And though the Endangered Earth websites (Endangered Earth; Endangered TV; Imagine Animals) don’t have the level of visitors as http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~3/-ZAnGHStUfk/one-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (craig kasnoff)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/endangeredearthjournal/~4/-ZAnGHStUfk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.endangeredearthjournal.com/2011/09/one-year.html