Photo via National Geographic We’ve got a new regular slideshow here on TreeHugger: The Week in Animal Photos. Catch a glimpse of what the animal kingdom has been up to this week, from a tiger cub disguised as a stuffed tiger rescued from an international smuggling deal to a newly discovered pea-sized frog perched on a pencil tip.
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The Week in Animal Photos: Tiger Cubs in Luggage and More (Slideshow)
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Image credit: M. D. Vaden of Oregon Deep in the forests of northern California is a grove of trees unlike any other in the world. Within only a few acres lies an incredible density of old-growth redwood trees—including many of the world’s largest trees. It’s called the Grove of Titans and its location is a secret.
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Exclusive Look at California’s Secret Titan Redwood Trees (Slideshow)
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Image credit: AP Photo/Bullit Marquez More than two tons of illegal ivory were seized when conservation officers in Kenya found it in boxes labeled “avocados” destined for Malaysia. The seizure, made at Nairobi’s international airport, included 317 individual elephant pieces and five rhino horns. It was the largest find of its type in several years and a clear sign, officials said, that poaching in Kenya is on the rise…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Two Tons of Illegal Ivory Seized in Kenya
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Mary Taffe took these pictures at the same spot in Big Stone Lake last summer (left) and this summer (right). Photos by Taffe via pollutionsolutionanybody . Last year at this time, the part of Big Stone Lake near Mary Taffe’s house was a murky, smelly mess, just as increased factory farming activity in the Minnesota /South D… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Pretty Pollution’ Minnesota Lake Now Pretty For Real
Image credit: LollyKnit Pablo has already talked about the environmental pros and cons of wine corks , and Kara has also looked at the real versus synthetic cork debate . (On the other hand, when Kristin talked about the recyclable benefits of screw-caps , one commenter pointed out that the increasing global demand for wine means the cork forests will never be able t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cork vs Plastic: How Real Cork is Harvested and Why It Matters
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Image: Conservation International (CI) Pea-Sized Frog is Old World’s Smallest The smallest frog known on the Asian, European or African continents – and one of the world’s tiniest frogs – was found by a group of scientists searching for “lost amphibians.” This pea-sized micro frog belongs to the species of microhylid , which, as the name suggests, is composed of miniature frogs under 15 millimeters. So why was it “lost”? And, excepting the “awww, cute!” factor, why is it important that this tiny frog has been found?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Micro Frog Found in Search for World’s Lost Amphibians
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Image credit: Tim Herman/ IUCN The Kinhansi spray toad was first discovered in 1996 when it’s tiny five-acre habitat in Tanzania was surveyed for inclusion in massive hydro-electric dam project. Though the dam was built upstream, it reduced Kinhansi falls to 10 percent of its original flow, drying the mist zone that made up the toads’ home. By 2009, the IUCN declared the toad extinct in the wild. Now, a population of captive-bred spray toads are… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Extinct Toads to Return Home
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Images: London Fieldworks Rapid urbanization and widespread habitat destruction stemming from human activities are negatively impacting wildlife populations as never before. City-dwelling birds, which are an integral part of urban ecologies, are no exception. As this thought-provoking ‘mass bird-housing’ installation by eco-artist collective London Fieldworks shows (more photos after the j… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Spontaneous City’ of Birdhouses Springs Up in London
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Image credit: Mister-E /Flickr As the value of endangered animal parts on the black market has increased, poachers have been able to upgrade and expand their operations. Now, gangs, armed with helicopters and weapons—and financed by foreign cartels —perform stealth raids that
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The Problem With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Conservation
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Image credit: Tomi Tapio /Flickr With their habitats shrinking, and new competitors moving in , polar bears across the Arctic are desperate to find a place to feed, rest, and raise their cubs. In Canada, this has led to an increase in polar bear-human interactions . On the island of Svalbard, north of Europe, it has placed another species—barnacle geese—in danger… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Stranded Polar Bears Threaten Migratory Birds
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