Jennifer Marohasy

Scientists in China say they have discovered the world’s largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong.  Read more here.

For the first time ever, the Queensland Government has erected crocodile warning signs on the tourist mecca of Fraser Island.  Read more here.

 
IT is just two more sleeps until Christmas. 
Down under, that is here in Australia, it is summer.  Right along the east coast the weather is usually warm, often sunny, and it’s a time when extended families enjoy picnics and barbeques together outside. 
A native Australian bird, the Australian White Ibis, Threskiornis spinicollis, has learnt to take advantage [...]

One solution to “carbon pollution” is biochar, but according to the Australian government’s policy on emissions trading, the science of biochar is not fully developed – so it can’t be included in any emissions trading scheme. 
According to Environmental Scientist, Professor Syd Shea:
Biochar is a fine-grained, highly porous charcoal that helps soils retain nutrients and water. The carbon in biochar [...]

A note from the African Wildlife Foundation:
“We need to help develop understanding everywhere, seek the courage and energy to make change, and have the confidence to envision bold, new programs to effect permanent solutions to guarantee the perpetuation and growth of Africa’s unparalleled wildlife.
“Help save mountain gorillas, elephants, lions, rhinos, giraffes  (and more) – and their [...]

SO many things are blamed on global warming.  A quick internet search of reported repercussions just beginning with ‘p’, includes psychiatric illness, puffin decline, plankton blooms, polar bears drowning, polar bears cannibalistic and polar bears deaf.   
Last week another was added when Professor Steven Williams from James Cook University, said a rare white possum might have [...]

ON Monday, the first day of summer here in Australia, residents of the little town of Barmah in northwestern Victoria, drove cattle into their forest in defiance of a government ban.  The Department of Sustainability and Environment has threatened legal action, but so far the cattle are still there.
The forest has historically been grazed and the Barmah locals believe [...]

On Saturday I reported that 200 whales are trapped in ice in the Canadian Arctic. 
Today I received photographs of one of the groups of Narwhal trapped in one of the 11 open holes.  
The photographs were taken by Brian Koonoo.

LAST Sunday Inuit from Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic, discovered about 200 whales trapped in ice near Pond Inlet.  In the Arctic open water is starting to freeze-over with the onset of winter. 
Yesterday the Inuit started culling the whales, known as Narwhal, apparently on the advice of their elders and in the belief that otherwise the [...]

An undercover investigation of the illegal wildlife trade in five African nations led to the seizure of about a ton of ivory along with hippo teeth and cheetah, leopard and python skins. Read more here.