Fremont gets new park with panoramic views

Fremont: New park with panoramic views unveiled

By Denis Cuff, @bayareanewsgroup.com

POSTED:   05/04/2016 12:56:24 PM PDT | UPDATED:   3 DAYS AGO

A view of the city of Fremont from the new Vargas Plateau Regional Park in Fremont, Calif., on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (Anda Chu / Bay Area News Group)

FREMONT — The first new East Bay Regional park in six years opens Thursday in the hills between Fremont and Sunol with sweeping views of San Francisco Bay, six new miles of trails, and places for future trail connections to several parks.

The $8 million Vargas Plateau Regional Park has 1,249 acres of rolling hills and wooded canyons on a 1,000-foot-elevation plateau with scenic places to hike, run, and ride mountain bikes and horses.

Massive icebergs release vast trail of nutrients that act as fertilizers for CO2-guzzling algae

Huge Antarctic icebergs may slow global warming, study suggests

Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 13, 2016 10:31 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 13, 2016 12:32 PM ET

An inflatable boat carries tourists past an iceberg along the Antarctic Peninsula in 2009. Much larger icebergs in the region release a vast trail of iron and other nutrients that act as fertilizers for algae and other tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean. (Andrew Halsall/Aurora Expeditions/Associated Press)

The biggest icebergs breaking off Antarctica unexpectedly help to slow global warming as they melt away into the chill Southern Ocean, scientists say.

Quebec has record growth of peregrine falcon population

Peregrine falcon population sees record growth in Quebec

At least 25 peregrine falcons were born in Montreal region this past summer

CBC News Posted: Oct 05, 2015 7:13 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 05, 2015 9:25 AM ET

The peregrine falcon has seen exponential growth in southern Quebec in the past 35 years. (Faucons de l’UdeM / UdeM Falcons)

As the list of endangered animals grows longer each year, at least one species’ situation is improving: The peregrine falcon.

The bird of prey could be removed from Canada’s list of endangered species — a list it’s been on since 1978.

​You may have noticed some flying around in the greater Montreal area.

Florida: Whopping 570 sea turtle nests along the unspoiled beaches of Cumberland Island

Sea turtles set new nesting records in Georgia, Florida

September 7th, 2015 by Associated Press in Local Regional News Read Time: 3 mins.

In this Aug. 13, 2015, photo made available by the University of Central Florida, a green turtle hatchling makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean at the Archie Carr Wildlife Refuge in Melbourne, Fla.

Photo by Associated Press /Times Free Press.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Wildlife biologist Doug Hoffman and his two interns kept busy this summer finding, cataloging and protecting a whopping 570 nests that giant loggerhead sea turtles had filled with eggs along the unspoiled beaches of Cumberland Island.

Thailand shows zero tolerance for wildlife crime, destroys illegal ivory

Ivory Crush: Thailand Destroys Illegal Ivory, Too

By Samantha Mathewson Aug 27, 2015 12:32 PM EDT
Thailand recently destroyed illegal ivory, mostly from African elephants.
Thailand recently enforced new laws against illegal ivory trade, by destroying over two tons of elephant tusks and trinkets. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons )
Thailand recently destroyed over two tons of elephants tusks, carved ivory and trinkets to send a message of the country’s zero tolerance for wildlife crime and to enforce important laws passed to crack down on the illegal ivory trade. According to the World Wildlife Fund, most of the ivory that was destroyed was from elephants poached in Africa, which pass through Thailand.

June 29 is Global Tiger Day–a recognition of the big cats that began in 2010, after a global summit on the tiger in St. Petersburg, when tiger numbers worldwide were estimated at 3200. With poaching as tigers’ biggest threat, and some countries unaware of their tiger numbers, can we solidify numbers soon, considering that three of tigers’ nine subspecies are now extinct?