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August 26, 2002
Posted pictures from my 1994 trip to Southern Africa. Most of the pictures are from Botswana and were taken by Nancy Butler. Including:
Elephants,
Lions,
Zebra,
Antelope,
Repitles,
Scenery,
Giraffes,
Fish Eagle, other mammals, and
Scenery.
August 25, 2002
Mongabay.com is moving to a new host/service provider so please excuse any disruptions.
August 14, 2002
Pictures from Lake Palisades in the California Sierra Nevadas.
August 8, 2002
An article
in today's WSJ referencing a paper written more than 5 years ago on the economic value of ecosystems. Science columnist Sharon Begley also covers a new paper in Science discussing the relative values of developed and undeveloped land.
August 5, 2002
Photos of icebergs and glaciers
in Argentina from Nancy Butler.
August 3, 2002
An article
in today's WSJ described the "booming" market
for insects used for commercial activities. Author Bill Richards
reports that farmers are turning to predatory insects as an alternative
to chemical pesticides in addressing problems with pests.
August 2, 2002
New web stats for mongabay.com.
July 31, 2002
A couple weeks ago environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill was jailed
in Ecuador for protesting a proposed oil pipeline that will cross the cloud
forest of Mindo-Nambillo Reserve. Hill is well-known in California
for her 2-year stint atop a redwood tree in Northern California protesting
the logging of the Headwaters forest. Ecuadoran President Gustavo
Noboa called Hill (28 years old) "the old cockatoo who climbs trees."
July 30, 2002
A Titan Arum flower is blooming at UW-Madison. The link.
July 22, 2002
Added a key to the abbreviations used in species descriptions for the tropical freshwater aquarium fish section of the site.
July 21, 2002
Added a species index for the tropical freshwater aquarium fish section of the site.
July 14, 2002
New web stats for mongabay. Traffic fell to 757 visitors per day for June -- consistent with the general lull in web use during the summer.
July 12, 2002
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of the collapse of coffee prices on poor farmers in Central America. The article suggests that a key to their financial survival is the high-end market for specialty beans such as "green coffee" -- those harvested in an environmentally manner.
July 11, 2002
As publisher of a conservation/ecology oriented resource I find it amusing when I recieve solicitations (SPAM) to buy hardwoods from the Amazon rainforest. I get such offers on a surprisingly frequent basis, probably about one per week. I'm not sure where they get my email address. Anyway I'm posting a copy of one such email for entertainment purposes.
July 10, 2002
Brazil pictures have been posted.
June 28, 2002
The latest issue of Science features an article suggesting that lush rainforest "emerged surprisingly soon after the asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago." The study claims rich plant life was present 1.4 million years after the impact challanging the conventional assumption that it took 10 million years for Earth plant lfie to recover from the strike [A Tropical Rainforest in Colorado 1.4 Million Years After the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Kirk R. Johnson and Beth Ellis Science 2002 June 28; 296: 2379-2383].
June 26, 2002
Photos from Tina Butler.
June 26, 2002
Added some tropical freshwater fish habitat pictures.
June 20, 2002
Glen Barry, the man behind forests.org has released a new site, Eco-Portal, dedicated to providing resources and information on environmental sustainability.
I'm currently working on adding some pictures from my trip to Brazil.
June 12, 2002
Added a guestbook for users to make comments.
June 11, 2002
Reworked A Place Out of Time pages to make navigation more intuitive.
June 8, 2002
Added two more pictures to the collection of images from Belize. Also found that conclusion from A Place Out of Time was posted on Google groups.
June 6, 2002
Posted some pictures from my 1998 trip to Belize. Also did an analysis of mongabay.com traffic and posted the results. Updated the rainforest home page for A Place Out of Time.
May 21, 2002
Posted some of the pictures from my 1997 trip to Madagascar. You will find photos of lemurs, chameleons, geckos, and other unique Malagasy creatures.
May 19, 2002
Updated the countries appendix, This section of the site includes a brief overview of countries having tropical forest cover and links to pertinent resources from the CIA World Factbook and the FAO Forestry database.
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