George Schaller quote

www.gi.alaska.edu

“You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it’s not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.”

Alan Rabinowitz speaks out

Yesterday’s NY Times carried an opinion piece from the Big Cat himself, Alan Rabinowitz. It’s not going to please a lot

Short follow-up

Here’s a blip from today’s AZ Daily Star. I hope the people involved have good lawyers lined up in case this progresses.

AZGF response to IG’s report

I can’t say that this really has anything of substance but this is what Arizona Game & Fish is saying about all the Macho B fallout.

A sad, sad story

Snaring deliberate, and state lacked permits, US reports

As usual Tony Davis and Tim Stellar of the Az Daily Star have the best coverage of the jaguar’s saga in AZ. And things couldn’t be more dysfunctional and jacked up. Here’s the latest. I’ll have to ruminate on this a bit more.

More on Feds’ ruling

Once again the Az Daily Star has the best reporting on the jaguar lawsuits and the USFWS decision. Here’s the latest

Habitat Reversal

Hello jaguar junkies, Happy 2010. Here’s a blip (with more to come, no doubt) on today’s critical habitat

Interesting Macho B article

The Arizona Daily Star keeps looking into Macho B’s story long after most media outlets have moved on to other tales

2 sad stories

The AZ Star ran these two stories and I’m not sure if the worst part is the dysfunction, mistrust and generally

More legal wrangling over Macho B

Well, it’s been so quiet lately that you just knew some dung was going to hit the fan and that has officially happened.