GREEN LIVING, GREEN TRAVELING
Posted in Birds, Endangered species, Fish, Fish, Food, Livestock, Organic, Wildlife on Sep 2nd, 2010
Readers – I just received an email from Cindy Cullen at the Culinary Arts College, asking if I would post a link to their article How Food Affects Your Brain: 10 Facts We Now Know.” Some interesting information in the post, so I’m passing it along. I need to add a couple of things, though, [...]
Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Asia, Birds, Borneo, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Endangered species, Indonesia, Rain forest, Sumatra, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Aug 16th, 2010
This post now live on Google News and on the syndicated site BasilandSpice. On my Asian quest to see wild and semi-wild orangutans, I wasn’t sure I’d find a single one of the red apes roaming free in a forest. Orangutans used to be widespread in Southeast Asia, but now survive only on the islands [...]
Posted in Birds, Ecosystems, Endangered species, Environmental pollution, Human behavior, Wildlife, Wildlife survival on May 3rd, 2010
This post is now on Google News. Also on Basilandspice.com which is partnered with Newstex, TOPIX, EIN McClatchy-Tribune News Service and other media outlets. On Thursday April 29, the slick from the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico covered about 1,150 miles. By the end of the next day, the size of the oil [...]
Posted in Birds, Caribbean, Coqui frogs, Deforestation, Eco-travel, Ecosystems, Food, Lizards, Puerto Rico, Rain forest, Snails, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat on Apr 17th, 2010
Text and photos by Sally Kneidel, PhD We visited our son Alan in Puerto Rico in March. He’s working there temporarily, collecting data on the island’s bird populations for a project based at NC State. I wrote on April 5 more about Alan’s job. I also wrote about the day we spent in historic Old [...]
