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Image: TreeHugger Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways. We also have a project dedicated to knitting sweaters for penguins threatened by the New Zealand oil spill, Siberian tigers and Arctic seals suffering from disease, camels killed to cut carbon, an adorable baby gorilla saved from poachers, and more in the Week in Animal News Children with their bluefish drawings at the Lüfer Festival. Photo: Slow Food Istanbul . Photo: courtesy Cartier Women’s Initiative Award After a second round of the Women’s Initiative Award competition, Cartier names the 2011 Laureates at the Annual Global Meeting of the Women’s Forum in Deauville, France. In July, I was excited to see eco-fashion entrepreneurs among the 18 finalists to stand out amidst more than 1,000 applicants, a.. Image credit: A Bullseye View With the debt crisis and energy constraints putting a serious question mark over the very notion of economic growth , it will be interesting to see how well big box retailers and globalized supply chains weather the coming decades. But if Wal-Mart’s major investment in solar and It’s been a good week for sharks — a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world’s largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on. We also have the shocking news of raccoon dogs skinned alive to make fake Uggs, an invasion of crazy hairy ants, sea creatures shrinking because of global warming, and more in the Week in Animal News. A couple months ago it was revealed that the blackspot tuskfish exhibits basic tool use to help it eat –picking up a clam and using a rock the help open it–and there were photographs to prove it. Now we have video of another species of wrasse, the orange-dotted tuskfish doing something similar…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Image: TreeHugger It’s not exactly easy to free a drunk elk from a tree, we learned this week. We also have disturbing news from the tracking device monitoring the penguin Happy Feat’s journey home, amazing close up photos of whales, a report that says humans are hardwired to respond to animals, and more in the Week in Animal News A shrimp pond in South Korea. Image: Wikimedia It’s true that shrimp farming has become so devastating to the environment that almost any standards created for the industry will be an improvement. But that doesn’t mean they will be sustainable or that environmental groups should support them…. click to enlarge image. Images credit Andrew Leinonen. There is the basic bike rule that the lighter the bike, the heavier the lock |
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