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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Emu - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Emu feathers are light in colour except for the dark tips: solar radiation is absorbed by the feather tips, while the loose-packed inner plumage insulates the skin: in combination, the dark and light areas of the plumage deflect or absorb all but 2% of the sun's radiant heat.
Emus, particularly those in semi-open captivity, who have little fear of humans, are also prone to pecking at hairy human heads and woolly clothing, which can be distressing for small children and tourists.
Emus have a high bodyfat content, and emu oil is used for many purposes, particularly treatment of muscle aches and sprains.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Emu   (2301 words)

  
 Kiwi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiwi are shy nocturnal creatures with a highly developed sense of smell and, most unusual in a bird, nostrils at the end of their long bill.
However recent DNA studies indicate that the Ostrich is more closely related to the moa and the kiwi's closest relatives are the Emu and the cassowaries.
Researchers of Oxford University have found DNA evidence connected to Australia's Emu and the Ostrich of Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiwi   (1098 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Emu
The Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae which, in Latin, means "fast-footed New Hollander", referring to Australia, whose old name was New Holland) is the largest bird native to Australia and, after the Ostrich, the second-largest bird that survives today.
Emus, particularly those in semi-open captivity, who have little fear of humans, are also prone to pecking at hairy human heads and wooly clothing, which can be distressing for small children and tourists.
Europeans wiped out two species and a sub-species of emu on the smaller islands early in the 19th Century, and considerable effort was put into exterminating the last remaining species as well, but the creature's ability to disappear into the vast semi-arid mainland plains meant that it was never seriously threatened.
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Emu   (2217 words)

  
 Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 4 - Forest resources of the world - News of the world
Foresters must, therefore, limit themselves to the artificial reforestation of the remaining two fifths, and they will not be able to continue their ambitious reforestation program started before the war.
Forest regrowth requires a clear felling and prohibition of pasturing of flocks in the area until such time as the terminal buds are high enough to be beyond the reach of grazing livestock.
Although forest problems are studied with special reference to the United States, those of other countries are not overlooked, and the silvicultural trends and methods for the utilization of wood, both from a general standpoint and with respect to their various branches, are analyzed briefly but concretely and clearly.
www.fao.org /docrep/x5345e/x5345e07.htm   (16071 words)

  
 Karrak-watch: A summary of information about the Forest red-tailed black cockatoo of south-west Western Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
FRTBC are sometimes presumed to be threatened by the harvesting of marri in the southern jarrah forest and in karri woodchipping operations.
varying rotation lengths to ensure a diversity of forest structures such that a minimum proportion of the area of karri forest dominated by mature and senescent stages of development is retained at approximately 40%.
Feral cats are uncommon in jarrah forest, evidenced by their lack of success in preventing recovery of a suite of previously threatened mammal species such as the quenda, woylie and tammar.
science.calm.wa.gov.au /articles/2001-10-04   (5927 words)

  
 GENEVA TIMBER AND FOREST DISCUSSION PAPERS ETTS V WORKING PAPER THE POLICY CONTEXT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREST ...
The smaller forest industries, especially sawmills, may be vulnerable to recessions because they are heavily reliant on construction for their markets and because their financial structure makes it difficult for them to survive during such periods.
Forest services are responsible for the management of State forests in all countries and in a number of cases, they or a government agency such as the Office National des Forêts in France also manage other public and even some private forests.
For example, publicly owned forests are normally obliged to provide the range of goods and services demanded by the public, and this should not change greatly if their management is carried out by a corporation, provided it is built into the management contract.
www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/AA035E/AA035E04.htm   (15251 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Science - Abundance, Habitat Use, and Movements of Blue-Winged Macaws (Primolius Maracana) and Other Parrots ...
Natural forests were classified as primary forest if there was little evidence of disturbance and the canopy was closed (these areas were usually fenced off), or as secondary forest if there was evidence of much heavier disturbance (logging, fire, and grazing by cattle) and/or the canopy was discontinuous.
Percentage of forested land between the plot and the reserve (FOREST) was calculated as the percentage of the DIST vector that transected natural forest (primary, secondary, or riverine forests).
Our population estimate for the reserve was 88 birds; however, for two reasons we believe that there are additional populations that spend much or all of their time outside the reserve.
www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=169022&source=r_science   (4232 words)

  
 Elephant Miscellany
Though Aepyornis occurred relatively late in the geologic record, it was a primitive member of the ratites, an evolutionary lineage that includes the ostrich, rhea, and emu.
In recent years they have sought refuge in the dense sand forests of Tembe to escape the depradations of border conflicts and landmines, and their continuous harassment by ivory poachers.
For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground." "At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow.
www.elephantcountryweb.com /ellies8.html   (6433 words)

  
 The Long & Winding Road, Emu's Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The last ten miles to Baker were done on reserve and a lot of sweating.
The plant life grows low to the ground and there was more of it than I had expected to see.
Emu is a member of the Intruder Alert Cafe
www.intruderalert.ca /emu4.htm   (3833 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
UN-led talks on the status of Cyprus resumed in December 1999 to prepare the ground for meaningful negotiations leading to a comprehensive settlement.
The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977.
The country was a founding member of NATO and the EC, and participated in the introduction of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999.
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15451 words)

  
 china losing ground against the environment | ecology news
“Because their trees are old and slow-growing, the Amazon forests, which contain about a third of all carbon found in land vegetation, have less capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon than previous studies have predicted.
After this time, forest cover was removed from one watershed but left intact on the other as a control.
The deforestation of the watershed resulted in an increase in run-off that was sustained throughout the year, thereby negating the twin prediction of an increase in floodwaters, and a decrease in dry season streamflow.
www.abelard.org /news/ecology2005_2.php   (5289 words)

  
 The house in Dormer Forest by Mary Webb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Successive Darkes had threatened to fell the forest; but there was always plenty of wood from the reaping of the storms and from trees that fell from the rottenness of great age; so they had let it alone.
She thought the man with a box­like chin would marry the hectic lady; Solomon was sure he loved the lady with the excessively developed figure; whereas the perfidious young man really burned for her of the diamonds.
But no! The reserve that chained them all at Dormer and that often binds members of large families (so that the legends of chains rattling and fetters clanking in their haunted houses seem to have an allegorical significance) held her now a prisoner.
www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /etexts/E000280.htm   (20666 words)

  
 The Long & Winding Road, Emu's Version
The forest canopy and late afternoon sun were not casting dark shadows across the road, but rather that shimmering effect created when shards of sunlight sneak past the trees to dance on the asphalt.
Emu felt that his dad thought he was pulling his leg about riding through the buffalo, so I took the phone and confirmed that yes his son had indeed been on his motorcycle as he rode through a herd of buffalo...
From the lush forests of Kentucky to the flat grasslands of the Great Plains, to the arid terrain of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, the deserts of California, the magnificence of the Rockies and the splendor of riding up the Pacific Coast, how do you convey such wonders with mere words?
www.intruderalert.ca /emu8.htm   (6537 words)

  
 Old Man Emu
While walking in this forested area is memorable and invigorating, the evening’s spontaneous social events around the log fire also provided many happy moments for all visitors too.
The return continues via a string of green areas and reserves to avoid as much street walking as possible to regain the Mullum Mullum a short distance away from the cars.
These are well renowned flora reserves in what we describe 'as in our back yard' and we would like to share their beautiful spring displays with you.
trekker.customer.netspace.net.au /nl-aug02.htm   (5278 words)

  
 Birds to Watch 2 - References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bhatia, Z. (1993) A preliminary assessment of coastal forest birds in south-east Tanzania.
Cordeiro, N. (1994) Final report to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: an investigation of the forest avifauna in the North Pare Mountains and Kahe II Forest Reserve, Tanzania.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R. (1990b) Zoogeography and taxonomic relationships of the forest birds of the Albertine Rift Afromontane region.
www.unep-wcmc.org /species/data/birdlife/btwrefs.htm   (10830 words)

  
 WORLDTWITCH - Asia Bird News - Rare Bird Reports and Birding Information
An abstract of "Ecology of the Forest Owlet" by Farah Ishtiag and Asad R. Rahmani is included on the Owls 2000 Conference abstract page, along with abstracts of other interesting papers on Asian and Australasian owls.
Habitat is being destroyed faster in the Woolong Nature Reserve than in adjacent unprotected areas, and the human population of the reserve increased from 2,560 in 1975 when it was created to 4,260 in 1995.
For a snapshot illustration of why conservation efforts are hopeless in the face of massive human population growth, see this series of maps of Negros forest cover in 1949 (most of the island), 1970 (skeleton remaining), and 1996 (just a few patches of degraded forest).
www.worldtwitch.com /asia_pacific.htm   (4432 words)

  
 Old Man Emu
Elsewhere in Old Man Emu are details of a Special General Meeting planned for next February to consider proposed changes to the dispute resolution clauses.
They were the first generation of white Australians to be born here, and like their parents before them, they would have looked forward to Christmas with eager excitement, knowing that, on that special night, Santa would come down the chimney with their presents.
The chimneys are almost all that remain of the mainly timber and canvas dwellings of that bygone era, the frequent summer bushfires and the ravages of time having devoured all but some stonework.
trekker.customer.netspace.net.au /nl-dec03.htm   (5618 words)

  
 References A-L
Aleixo, A. and Galetti, M. (1997) The conservation of the avifauna in a lowland Atlantic forest in south-east Brazil.
Begazo, A. and Valqui, T. (1998) Birds of Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve with a new population of Myrmotherula longicauda and new record for Peru of Hylophilus semicinereus.
Cordeiro, N. and Kiure, J. (1995) An investigation of the forest avifauna in the North Pare mountains, Tanzania.
www.birdlife.org /datazone/species/references.html   (13902 words)

  
 Ornithological Jobs On-Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Location: 1,000 acre nature preserve of protected forests, wetlands, prairies, valleys carved by glacial melt waters, cascades, and a natural spring for which the neighboring village is named.
The Llanos de Moxos is a mosaic of native grasslands, forest islands and cerrado habitats comparable to the Pantanal in the rich wildlife it possesses.
The primary need is the development of methods to produce maps of forest structure, forest composition, and forest health (dead/dying trees) with GIS and remote sensing imagery/data at multiple scales and resolutions for regional, landscape, and local applications.
www.osnabirds.org /on/ornjobs.htm   (17026 words)

  
 Recently Extinct Animals - Extinct Birds
The species was only discovered in 1973, in Maui's Ko`olau Forest Reserve.
In 2002, one of the remaining individuals was caught and released within the territory of another, in an attempt to get the two to breed.
One bird was finally captured on September 9 2004, but sadly this individual – possibly the last of its kind – died on 28 November 2004.
www.petermaas.nl /extinct/birds.htm   (566 words)

  
 RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE, No
Periodic migration and lowland forest refugia in a "sedentary" Neotropical bird, Wetmore’s Bush-Tanager.
EM: jacob@porthos.bio.ub.es)---Divorce is less likely in pairs that arrive on the breeding grounds at the same time---A.K.T. {B312} Hunter, F. Timing of pair and extra-pair copulations in the Northern Fulmar.
Reserve, Univ. California, Berkeley, 38601 E. Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel Valley, CA 93924, USA; EM: wicker@uclink.berkeley.edu)---Both factors important in determining reproductive roles in Melanerpes formicivorus, with apparent incest in only 5% of cases.---J.R.F. {B706} Koenig, W. Stanback, and J. Haydock.
www.nmnh.si.edu /BIRDNET/ROL/ROL81.htm   (12022 words)

  
 WORLDTWITCH Links - Birds, Birding, Environment, Travel
Lop Nur Arjin Shan Nature Reserve, Xinjiang Province - new reserve set up for the wild Bactrian Camel, believed to be a new species.
Survey of the Birds of the Bilsa Ecological Reserve, Ecuador, by Jon Hornbuckle and Andrew Mudd
Fundación Jocotoco - They now have 5 reserves: Tapichalaca - type locality of Grallaria ridgelyi; Buenaventura - type locality of the El Oro Parakeet; and Yunguilla - patch containing the only known Pale-headed Brush-finches, Río Canande - superb Chocó habitat, and Yanachocha - Black-breasted Puffleg.
www.worldtwitch.com /links.htm   (3901 words)

  
 What's New at the Internet Mall [11 Jan, 97]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Morgan Stanley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Global: The United States of Europe Is Dead, Long Live EMU!
  Prices charged increased for paper and forest products and specialty chemicals, but declined for the commodity chemicals and steel companies.
  It began in 1998 when the US Federal Reserve lowered interest rates and the BoJ increased money supply in response to the Asian Financial Crisis (see Who Wants Asia’s Surplus Savings and Goods, 4 June, 1998).
www.morganstanley.com /GEFdata/digests/20050610-fri.html   (10144 words)

  
 Updates
A new Zimmerius tyrannulet (Aves: Tyrannidae) from white sand forests of northern Amazonian Peru.
A new population of the Udzungwa Forest Partridge.
The news release from Fiji Birdlife was somewhat confusing since it states that the bird “was believed to have been extinct for more than a century.” The subspecies T.
www.ibispub.com /updates.html   (8442 words)

  
 NHPA.CO.UK - photo captions
male with young nestling in mane, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
PARROTS AND MACAWS on mineral lick Tambopata Reserve, Peru.
YAKUT HERDER combs ice from a horse in winter.
www.nhpa.co.uk /photocaptions9.html   (712 words)

  
 mindenpictures.com - photo captions
EMU (Dromaius novaehollandiae), PORTRAIT, ALICE SPRINGS, NORTHERN TERRITORY.
EMU (Dromaius novaehollandiae), IN WOODLAND, ALICE SPRINGS, NORTHERN TERRITORY.
GROUND SQUIRREL (Xerus inauris), EATING, USING TAIL AS A SUNSHADE, ETOSHA NATIONLA PARK.
www.mindenpictures.com /photocaptions3.html   (7872 words)

  
 metadata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Anoglypta launcestoniensis (northeast forest snail) - Rob Taylor data.
Combined wet forests data from a variety of sources
RAP Survey - Lower Marsh Creek FR rlp
www.gisparks.tas.gov.au /explorer/html/metadata.html   (132 words)

  
 Tony's Travels: Country Index
Parks: Okavango Delta, Moremi Wildlife Reserve (Okavango Delta), Chobe National Park, Chobe Forest Reserve, Sua Pan, Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Parks: Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula National Park, Waenhuis Nature Reserve, The Natal Drakensberg Park, Sodwana Bay National Park, Umfolozi, Hluhluwe, Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, Kruger National Park
Beers: Lion Lager, Mitchell's Bosun's Bitter, Mitchell's Forester's Draught, Windhoek Lager, Fransen Str Brewery India Pale Ale, Fransen Str Brewery Ginger Beer, Hofbraü, Carling Black Label, Castle Lager
www.onhiatus.com /journal/journal.cgi/CINDEX.html   (983 words)

  
 Sharston Books - A vast selection of out-of-print and current titles...
When You See the Emu in the Sky
Witchcraft, The Story of Man`s Quest for Supernatural Power
With One Sky Above Us - Life On An Indian Reservation
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