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Conservation

Hard Rocker Joins Fight for His Homeland’s Forests

March 10, 2010

armenia bike tour teghut forest photo
Cyclists assemble in Yerevan, Armenia, for a bike tour to Teghut Forest. Photo by Ruzanna Hovasapyan via ride-earth on Flickr.

Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, surely the world’s most famous Armenian-American rock star, sent a me…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild

March 10, 2010

palos verdes blue butterfly photo
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis. Unchecked development, however, eroded this small habitat and nearly caused the extinction of the fickle butterfly.

After years of work rebuilding the degraded ecosystem, conservationists released 80 Palos Verdes blue b…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen

March 9, 2010

cycads primitive plant photo This photo, via The Telegraph, shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads.

Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old, in fact, that their broad …Read the full story on TreeHugger