Nature Blog Network

Flora

Traditional fruit orchards are vanishing from England’s landscape – with serious consequences for wildlife.

A new species of tree has been identified in Ethiopia; the Acacia fumosa is widespread but had probably been overlooked by botanists because of its remote location and the violence there.

Fauna

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has launched a major effort to save the critically endangered Hawaiian Crow, one of the rarest forest birds in the world.

The catastrophic decline of the Common Seal population in Scottish waters could be blamed partly on Orcas.

Natural Resources and Public Policy

The F.A.A. released to the public its records pertaining to bird strikes and other wildlife-related incidents involving airplanes throughout the United States.

The U.S. Interior Department is proceeding with a final rule revamping changes that the Bush administration made to Endangered Species Act regulations in its final months.

Podcasts

BirdNote –The leader of the dawn chorus, Earth Day 2009, mythical hummingbird migrations, and happy birthday Mr. Shakespeare (don’t forget to take your starlings back home with you).

Ecological Society of America Podcast – The latest edition of The Ecologist Goes to Washington discusses interdisciplinary science.

Green Week in Review – High speed rail corridors, U.S. – Mexico collaboration in fighting global warming, and a host of new developments at the E.P.A.

Nature – A newly discovered fossil of a semi-aquatic carnivore reveals clues to the origin of flippered mammals.

Nature Stories – Poetry in the woods: teacher Julie Berry uses nature as her classroom.

Nature’s Voice – TV Naturalist Mike Dilger has a date with nature to see one of his favourite birds dancing at dawn – the black grouse. Also, an assessment of the progress of the R.S.P.B.’s birds of prey campaign a year after its launch and look forward to keeping up with the some of the U.K.’s most threatened raptors, hen harriers, as they take to the blogosphere.

Sierra Club Radio – Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of the Academy-Award nominated documentary The Garden, Phil Radford, the new Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Annelli Rufus and Kristan Lawson, authors of a new book called The Scavengers’ Manifesto, and Debbie Sease gives tips for green gardening.