Notes from a rare planet: When it comes to lobster tails and sustainability, size does matter

Check out the Size Matter t-shirt for our campaign to protect the spiny lobster.
Friend’s of the Environment’s Rare Pride campaign will protect local lobster populations off the coast of Abaco Island by motivating local fishers to support and observe regulations of size limits and closed seasons in order to reduce illegal juvenile lobster fishing.

“Gas can be a bridge to low-carbon future if we put a price on CO2.”
“Ernest J. Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), noted that the analysis determined that natural gas could serve as a bridge between coal and renewable energy: Much has been said about natural gas as a bridge to a low-carton future, with little underlying analysis to back up this contention. The analysis in this study provides the confirmation — natural gas truly is a bridge to a low-carbon future. The study notes that the best way to spur this path forward is with a cap on carbon pollution. It recommends that, “a CO2 price for all fuels without long-term subsidies or other preferential policy treatment is the most effective way to achieve this result.”

“During Goodall’s six-month sojourn in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, now Gombe National Park, Goodall saw a chimp strip leaves off twigs to fashion tools for fishing termites from a nest. Until then, scientists thought that humans were the only creatures that created and used tools. This was just the first of many Goodall discoveries that have redefined the relationship between humans and other animals.”

“Pity the scaly anteater, or pangolin. It is hardly what anyone would call charismatic megafauna, so it doesn’t spark big campaigns by wildlife conservation groups. The reclusive, nocturnal animals could surely vanish from southern Asia with hardly anyone noticing (there are other species in Africa). Two of the four Asian pangolin species are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (The Malayan pangolin pictured above is safe, living in one of Singapore’s national parks.)”
“The total population of the Malayan pangolin is estimated to have been cut 50 percent in 15 years, mainly through poaching for its scales, which fetch a high price in Chinese markets in exotic meat and animal products with supposed medicinal properties. So should you or I care that there are still tons of these odd mammals being pulled from their nests by poachers to end up scaled and then served” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> in stews to China’s fast-growing upper class?”