 Dog people are the only people out on the street and worry about dogs separated from their family. Birders are routing for petrels and other exotics get blown off course to pad out their life lists.
Keep reading Birders v Dog People in Hurricane Sandy
 Kabukiri Wetlands, where farmers flood their fields to serve migrating ducks and swans, hopes birders will return to the area about 100 miles from the nuclear disaster.
Keep reading Japan’s Kabukiri Wetlands, a Ramsar site, hopes birders return
 Parts of Ohio, the Wall Street of the U.S. exotic animal trade, were locked down to catch the predators released by a private zoo owner before he killed himself.
Keep reading Ohio, the Wall Street of the U.S. exotic animal trade, suffers more released predators Zanesville exotic animals
 Puffins just won’t breed this year in parts of Iceland. Biologists say the population is always tied to temperatures, but this warming period is the worst.
Keep reading Puffin breeding falls as temperature rises
 If you have the chance, help turtles cross roads. Otherwise, avoid certain shrimp caught overseas (or maybe in LA) til shrimpers start really using turtle exclusion devices
Keep reading How to Celebrate World Turtle Day: Avoid Shrimp Caught Overseas (or maybe in LA)
 The post-rapture service industry is booming thanks to a dire prediction that Saturday, May 21, is Judgment Day. The leading post-Armageddon pet care company, Eternal Earthbound Pets, has been deluged.
Keep reading Saturday’s Apocalypse boosts post-rapture pet care industry
 In the budget compromise, Republicans defunded the BLM Wild Lands program. Ostensibly, its to promote oil drilling, but the “wilderness plan” also happens to be the latest right-wing conspiracy. “Wilderness policy” is the 2010’s black helicopters and FEMA.
Keep reading Also sold out in the budget: “Wilderness Policy,” the right’s current “black helicopters”
 Wild boars are thriving near Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, but test with really high levels of radiation. What will happen to the birds and fish that migrate through?
Keep reading Wildlife near Fukushima: thriving but radioactive
 Japan isn’t releasing enough information on radioactive compounds and levels to know if sea life is safe. Past nuclear dumps have lead to mass die-offs.
Keep reading Yale report: not enough data to believe Japan’s radioactive water dump is safe
 About 80% of Laysan albatross live on the Midway atoll, which was hit by the tsunami. Rare Japanese wildlife live on southern islands. Orphaned pets wandering.
Keep reading Tsunami hit biggest colony of endangered albatross, but wildlife largely spared
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