The Urban Pantheist

The website zooplantman.com provides information about landscaping and other plant uses in captive animal facilities. It has a "news" feature which is really quite broad and remarkable. While most of the site is primarily of interest to zookeepers, the news button this month contains several positive environmental news stories (practically a contradiction in terms these days).

Of particular interest to readers of this journal: In Madagascar, where the vast majority of the forests have disappeared, the most stable forests are those near densely settled areas.

There's a whole page of really interesting links; I've only read a handful.

Here are a couple of urban nature related links sent to me by alert lj friends:

African clawed frogs gobbling up other animals in Golden Gate Park

Impending cicada cycle drives Chicago festival indoors

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Wisconsin Man Runs Over, Eats Seven-Legged Transgendered Deer

( unfortunately, there's a news story that goes with this, it isn't just a perfect headline )

This will go well with my sasquatch burgers and my white buffalo steak.