The ex-punk rocker and presenter of the popular children's show The Really Wild Show is not known for his restrained opinions; he berated leading conservation charities in the press two months ago for "fence-sitting, ineffectual risk-avoidance" in the fights against fox hunting, the badger cull and to protect England's rarest bird of prey, the hen harrier.
It's awful; it's a calamity," Joca Thome, the national coordinator of the marine conservation organisation Tamar, told the press after flying over the area.
In a paper in press in Biological Conservation, the same team that studied Yellowstone recommends that a large-scale experiment be carried out, perhaps on an island, to see if the highlands could support a population of Canis lupus.
The committee chairman, Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, presented his five-year bill as a compromise that balances the interests of the big grain and cotton farmers who receive most of $20 billion in annual farm subsidies with those of smaller farmers who have pressed for higher conservation payments.
Passing it would give the United States the credibility to press globally for shark conservation.
And he is right to press for greater efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels.
The lyrics mock the president for everything from his "showy palace with a thousand rooms, built without a permit in a conservation area" to his crackdown on press freedom, and for "jailing journalists for writing things he doesn't like".
"Our big concern with people feeding bears is that once a bear becomes habituated to people and he starts associating people with food, then they become a danger to the public," conservation officer Sam Harris told the Canadian Press on Wednesday.
1040 pp. ISBN: 0-19-514090-7, $198.50 CorrEssays Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation Curt Meine Washington, DC:Island Press, 2004.
Conservation is a conservative value.
