• Trans-Arctic shipping a reality.
• A population of mountain yellow-legged frog re-discovered in southern California during Grinnell resurveys.
• Tiger parts found in taxi in Hanoi.

• Corey’s got a couple of interesting posts, one on a paper about conservation prioritization based on ecosystem services, and another about succesful conservation in Indonesia (via a TED talk by Willie Smits).
• Salazar has released maps of potential BLM lands fast-tracked for solar energy development.
• 9th Circuit strikes down Bush administration rules relaxing wildlife protections.
• Revkin asks, in a well-linked article, can roads and rain forests coexist? Sure. In the same way that prison inmates coexist.
• Ganges River Dolphins not doing so hot.
• A run down of Sen. Jon Tester’s (D- MT) new wilderness bill.
• Nature-based tourism is both increasing and decreasing, says Balmford.
• How a municipal strike in Windsor, OT changed peoples’ minds about “overgrown” grass.

what

8,524 photographs of Europe’s colonization of East Africa