Forest Quest

About 150 students from 24 Northern California schools gathered Saturday at Sacramento State for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

The environment-focused competition included a “Jeopardy”-style nature quiz, relay races and individual presentations.

“The kids are becoming stewards of our environment,” said Bruce Forman, a naturalist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the event sponsor. “This shows the kids that they, too, can make a difference in conservation.”

Dylan Ek, a third-grader from Lake Forest Elementary School in El Dorado Hills, was munching on a burrito after a long morning of competitions.

“It’s hard to hold onto your knowledge when you’re under pressure,” the 10-year-old said, relieved that he was done for the day.

The Nature Bowl is broken down into two divisions – one with third- and fourth-graders and the other with fifth- and sixth-graders. Students work in teams of three to seven children.

Even at the elementary level, the questions are challenging. At one “Jeopardy” session, Forman asked, “What is the origin of energy that drives the water cycle?”

The contestants huddled together discussing the answer before one shouted, “The sun.”

Parent Dale Cox said the competition got his daughter Madeline, 9, to “think on her feet.”

During the infomercial, where the kids are asked to make a 60-second pitch about an environmental issue, Madeline discussed the choice between paper and plastic bags at grocery stores.

“The answer is: None of them, bring your own bag,” she said.

Madeline has applied what she learned by making a special tag to put in the Cox family car reminding them to bring bags to the store.

Saturday’s contest was the culmination of three months of work, Forman said. The students had to conduct original research and study vocabulary terms extensively.

Workshops at the first of the year outlined the program, and eight regional semifinals occurred before the California State University, Sacramento, event.

According to Fish and Wildlife, the competitive aspect of the bowl is downplayed so that all students enjoy the activities, which are aligned with the state’s science standards.

In the 29 years Forman has organized the Nature Bowl, he said, the focus has shifted from international issues to local environmental problems, such as water, pollution and recycling.

“This is about getting involved and being good stewards of the environment,” Forman said.

For information on the Nature Bowl, go to www.dfg.ca .gov/regions/2/naturebowl.

Call The Bee’s Richard Chang, (916) 321-1018. Follow him on Twitter @RichardYChang.

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About 150 students from 24 Northern California schools gathered Saturday at Sacramento State for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

The environment-focused competition included a “Jeopardy”-style nature quiz, relay races and individual presentations.

“The kids are becoming stewards of our environment,” said Bruce Forman, a naturalist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the event sponsor. “This shows the kids that they, too, can make a difference in conservation.”

Dylan Ek, a third-grader from Lake Forest Elementary School in El Dorado Hills, was munching on a burrito after a long morning of competitions.

“It’s hard to hold onto your knowledge when you’re under pressure,” the 10-year-old said, relieved that he was done for the day.

The Nature Bowl is broken down into two divisions – one with third- and fourth-graders and the other with fifth- and sixth-graders. Students work in teams of three to seven children.

Even at the elementary level, the questions are challenging. At one “Jeopardy” session, Forman asked, “What is the origin of energy that drives the water cycle?”

The contestants huddled together discussing the answer before one shouted, “The sun.”

Parent Dale Cox said the competition got his daughter Madeline, 9, to “think on her feet.”

During the infomercial, where the kids are asked to make a 60-second pitch about an environmental issue, Madeline discussed the choice between paper and plastic bags at grocery stores.

“The answer is: None of them, bring your own bag,” she said.

Madeline has applied what she learned by making a special tag to put in the Cox family car reminding them to bring bags to the store.

Saturday’s contest was the culmination of three months of work, Forman said. The students had to conduct original research and study vocabulary terms extensively.

Workshops at the first of the year outlined the program, and eight regional semifinals occurred before the California State University, Sacramento, event.

According to Fish and Wildlife, the competitive aspect of the bowl is downplayed so that all students enjoy the activities, which are aligned with the state’s science standards.

In the 29 years Forman has organized the Nature Bowl, he said, the focus has shifted from international issues to local environmental problems, such as water, pollution and recycling.

“This is about getting involved and being good stewards of the environment,” Forman said.

For information on the Nature Bowl, go to www.dfg.ca .gov/regions/2/naturebowl.

Call The Bee’s Richard Chang, (916) 321-1018. Follow him on Twitter @RichardYChang.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — In what could be coined a natural fit, Draftfcb San Francisco has been awarded the creative account for the California arm of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s leading conservation organization working to protect the environment.

Three other undisclosed agencies participated in the pitch, which marks the first time the California branch of The Nature Conservancy has enlisted a marketing communications agency partner.

According to Jordan Peavey, director of marketing at The Nature Conservancy, California, “The team at Draftfcb lives and breathes our mission and understands our vision to make our work in California a model for innovative conservation worldwide.”

The agency will develop messages that articulate why the work of The Nature Conservancy is critical in California, and then create a compelling and highly differentiating external marketing campaign designed to motivate the Conservancy’s target audience to help the organization achieve its mission.

The Conservancy, in partnership with industry, governments and communities, works to create economically and environmentally sustainable solutions for people and nature. Throughout California, The Nature Conservancy is involved in finding solutions for the state’s most pressing environmental challenges, which include how we respond to the impacts of climate change; how we ensure safe, reliable water for cities and farms; and how we meet the energy demands of a growing population with renewable sources.

“We are thrilled to have been chosen for this important job. It’s a big deal for us as Californians because the stakes are so high for our state,” said Dominic Whittles, president of Draftfcb San Francisco.  “The Conservancy exists to ensure that people prosper while protecting the lands and waters that sustain all life. Helping them achieve their mission is a huge responsibility, one we take very seriously.”

About Draftfcb

With an equal focus on creativity and accountability, Draftfcb is committed to producing brilliant ideas that change consumer behavior. As a global, fully integrated marketing communications agency operating against a single PL, Draftfcb provides clients with highly collaborative, channel-neutral thinking that delivers engagement and, most importantly, action. With nearly 140 years of combined expertise, Draftfcb has roots in both consumer advertising and behavioral, data-driven direct marketing. The Draftfcb network spans 150 offices in 90 countries and employs nearly 9,000 people. The agency is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). For more information, visit www.draftfcb.com.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nature-conservancy-california-awards-marketing-175200263.html

Most people’s wild beasts live in the TV.

What I mean is that, in my experience, most people are highly unlikely to come eyeball-to-eyeball with a large wild animal in their everyday lives, and much of their knowledge of wildlife comes from a screen.

If you’re North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you’ve probably learned a lot about wildlife from outlets like the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History. You might trust these channels because you’ve seen educational, factually accurate shows on them, unlike the ‘trashy’ material that dominates free-to-air network TV.

But not everything on on these ‘factual’ channels might be as ethical or even as accurate as you might think, and the implications for conservation could be profound.

I recently spent a few entertaining hours watching episodes of Discovery’s Yukon Men, a hit ‘reality’ series about the residents of the small town of Tanana in central Alaska. Launched in August last year, it’s consistently gained over two million US viewers in its Friday night slot, been syndicated overseas, and helped the channel win some of its biggest audiences ever.

The first episode brings us to midwinter Tanana, which a theatrical, husky male voiceover tells us is “one of America’s most remote outposts” where “every day is a struggle to survive”. A dramatic, orchestral score pounds as we see a lynx struggling in a leghold trap, guns firing, a man attacking a squealing wolverine with a tree trunk, a wolf which a voice tells us “might eat one of those kids”, a hand lifting up the head of a bloodied, dead wolf to show us its teeth, and then a gloved hand dripping blood while the voiceover rumbles that in Alaska, it’s “hunt or starve, kill or be killed”.

That’s all in the first minute.

In the second minute the voiceover tells us that “the town is under siege by hungry predators”. We see wolves eating a bloody carcass, a growling bear, men with guns shouting bleeped-out words, then a coffin. Another voice says that “there’s always somebody that’s not going to make it home”.

We’re soon told that Tanana’s water pipes are freezing up “but that’s not the only crisis. Wolves have been spotted on the edge of town.” Charlie, a hunter, shows us the tracks of “a lone wolf”. “Wolves are mean, ferocious animals and they can tear a man apart real easy” he says, so “we have to get this wolf, it’s not an if, its a must, because he’ll go to any measure to eat. They’re the worst kind.”

We then meet Courtney, a local mother, who’s scared that the wolf could eat her young daughter. Charlie agrees, “if we turned our backs for a couple of minutes, that baby would be gone.”

“There have been twenty fatal wolf attacks in the last ten years”, the voiceover intones.

Charlie kills the wolf in the next episode, pursuing it on a snowmobile and shooting it outside town with an AR-15, the same semi-automatic assault rifle used by the Sandy Hook school shooter. “The only good thing about a wolf is the quality of their nice fur”, says Charlie, holding up the blood-smeared pelt. Courtney agrees: “Dirty little rotten bastard.”

Another scene shows Stan, a fur trapper, dealing with a wolverine. Wolverines, about as big as a medium-sized dog, are the largest members of the weasel family. One has been caught by its front paw in one of Stan’s steel leghold traps and is trying to get away, squealing and snarling as he approaches. “He’s really dangerous”, says Stan, “I don’t think any human being could keep an attacking wolverine from killing them.”

Stan chops down a small tree, which he bashes the struggling wolverine with — to “stun” it, he says. Once the wolverine’s strength is somewhat depleted, he approaches it with a small handgun. The animal’s head turns, tracking the gun, and he shoots it. The camera zooms in to show steam rising from the carcass.

Charlie, too, sets a leghold trap for a wolverine, and catches it. As it squeals in the trap, trying to run away, the voiceover tells us dramatically that “wolverines are capable of tearing human beings apart.”

“He could gut me”, says Charlie, before raising his AR-15 and opening fire on the hapless animal. Many of his shots miss, but he eventually kills it.

All through Yukon Men we see predatory animals being killed: a leghold-trapped lynx is strangled to death with a wire noose by Stan’s son, a grizzly bear is shot in the head, etcetera, and every time the producers use the techniques of the reality TV genre to convince us that the animals are man-woman-and-child killers which are best turned into fur coats.

Joey Zuray kills a lynx – Yukon Men promo video

(Click here to view this video on YouTube.)

Frenetic edits and manic music are used to build drama, authoritative-sounding voiceovers combine with the tightly edited words of the on-screen characters tell how dangerous, vicious or deadly the creatures we’re seeing on screen are. I spot occasions where animal noises seem to have been overdubbed to make them sound scarier. It makes for gripping viewing, but I wondered if Discovery wasn’t betraying its viewers who trust it to deliver reliable, factual TV. As a trained zoologist and filmmaker, much of what I was seeing didn’t make sense to me.

Take wolverines for example: I lived in Alaska for almost a year and never saw one. They’re extremely shy and avoid humans. Although they’re capable predators of small animals and found in many cold, high-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, I’d never heard of a wolverine killing a person.

I searched the web and could not find a single documented case of a wolverine even attacking a person anywhere in the world, ever.

To double-check, I emailed Jeff Copeland of the Wolverine Foundation, who told me that “we are not aware of any instance in which a wolverine has killed a human, or even attempted to do so”, which perhaps explains why the wolverines in Yukon Men are doing their desperate best to get away from their human assailants.

Wolves are a lot larger than wolverines, of course. But even though the US and Canada hold over 60,000 wolves, I found only two records of fatal attacks by wild wolves in these countries in last ten years; one controversial case in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2005, which some experts think was actually a bear attack, and another in Alaska in 2010.

Why did the producers of Yukon Men tell their viewers that there had been twenty fatal wolf attacks in the last ten years, implying that these had taken place around Tanana? Why does a ‘factual’ show portray Alaskan wolves as man-eating monsters straight out of Victorian fairytales, a serious threat to life and limb, when the data show that wolf attacks are extremely rare in North America?

Idaho-based wolf expert Suzanne Stone told me that she’d once been surrounded by a howling pack of gray wolves while sitting by a campfire in the twilight, armed only with a marshmallow on a stick. The animals were only twenty or thirty yards away. Was she scared, I asked? “No, not at all. It was an incredible experience. I howled back and forth with them”, adding that people and domestic livestock were the most dangerous creatures she’d encountered in many years of walking in wolf-inhabited backcountry.

Yukon Men isn’t the only ‘factual’ show about people who kill wild animals that seems to hysterically hype up the danger the animals pose to humans while minimising (or completely failing to address) their important ecological roles.

The Louisiana alligator hunter stars of the History Channel’s blockbuster show Swamp People use huge baited hooks to snare alligators and various guns to blow their brains out, all the while telling us how desperately dangerous they are. Despite Louisiana having almost two million alligators, I could not find a single record of a fatal alligator attack there in the last century, although Florida ‘gators do occasionally eat people. (Swamp People gets record ratings for the channel, despite the contemporary alligator hunt’s tenuous connection to history.)

“It’s a Texas thing” – Rattlesnake Republic promo video

(click here to watch this video on YouTube.)

Animal Planet’s Rattlesnake Republic shows Texan snake wranglers capturing dozens of rattlesnakes at a time while repeatedly playing up their lethality. In the episodes I watched I never saw anything about how snake hunters have helped make the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake so rare that it’s now a candidate endangered species. Rattlesnake Republic sends a clear meta-message that the only good rattlesnakes are dead ones, sewn into boots.

Discovery and the BBC Natural History Unit have arguably similar status in the wildlife filmmaking industries on their respective sides of the Atlantic, and have co-produced high-profile series like Planet Earth and Africa. The BBC displays its editorial guidelines for natural history shows on a public website which, on the face of it, Discovery’s Yukon Men seems to fall afoul of. The BBC guidelines say that “audiences should never be deceived or misled by what they see or hear”, that “we [the BBC] should never be involved in any activity with animals which could reasonably be considered cruel”, for example.

This begs the question: What are Discovery’s editorial guidelines?

After numerous calls and emails to the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, I’ve yet to find out. I’ve not received any indication that either of these channels (which are owned by the same company) even have editorial guidelines or an ethics policy. The Discovery Channel gave me only one line in response to my questions: “We are committed to the highest standards of natural history filmmaking.”

Despite partnering with them on multimillion-dollar shows, the BBC’s Natural History Unit also seems to have no idea what Discovery’s policies are; when I asked, the BBC would only say that they expected any versions of their programs aired by co-producers to adhere to BBC standards.

The History Channel told me that their standards and practices department ensures that all their shows meet “the standards of good taste and community acceptability while also allowing our creative departments the freedom to explore new and innovative ideas.” Each programme is individually evaluated, but “given the subjective judgments that are required, it is difficult to come up with a detailed list of guidelines.” History’s statement said nothing about factual accuracy or animal cruelty.

I contacted National Geographic TV, assuming that this flagship brand would have a policy something like that of the BBC’s. Christopher Alberts, the Senior Vice President of Communications for the National Geographic Channels, told me that they have “one of the best policies there is”, but refused to send it to me or tell me anything about it.

Why are these factual networks, whose survival depends on building trust with their audiences, so reluctant to clarify their ethics policies with respect to wildlife?

What does it mean for conservation if high-rating shows on leading channels are portraying wildlife in a negative, seemingly misleading way to millions of viewers worldwide? And why are so few people saying anything about it?

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/nature-up/2013/may/17/bloodthirtsty-wildlife-documentaries-reality-ethics

VAJONT, Italy (Reuters) – Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas claimed a solo victory on the summit finish of stage 11 at the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday while Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall lead. The Garmin-Sharp rider shook off his closest pursuer, Italian Daniel Oss, to go clear five km from the finish line at Vajont. Oss finished in second place, just over a minute back, with Italian Stefano Pirazzi third. …

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/tools-nature-155200005.html

The annual BioBlitz hosted by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society is underwritten in part by the Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation, a private grant-making philanthropy based in Chicago. Every year for five years the Morrison Family Foundation helps make the event possible. And every year the foundation’s executive director, Lois Morrison, participates in the BioBlitz with her husband Justin Daab and their daughters Josephine and Addie Daab.

News Watch interviewed Lois Morrison about her passion for both nature and education, and why she sees the BioBlitz as a special opportunity to reinforce our connection with the natural world.

This is the fifth year the Morrison Family Foundation is sponsoring the BioBlitz in a national park. How does this event give expression to the goals and aspirations of the foundation?

The mission of our foundation is to promote environmental education opportunities for children and families in underserved communities. The BioBlitz, by choosing to highlight national parks close to urban areas, dovetails nicely with everything we are working towards as a foundation.

Tell us a little about the family behind the establishment of the foundation, and the family’s connection to the environment.

The Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation was formed almost 20 years ago. We have always supported environmental organizations though our grant-making, but it wasn’t until we went through a year-long strategic planning process about five years ago that we decided to focus and work to make a difference through investing in and partnering with organizations that connect kids to nature. Although our board represents a diversity of professions, every member of the board has personal stories and experiences that passionately commits them to our mission.

What is your personal connection to the natural environment, and the national parks in particular?

A love for nature and the outdoors has always been central to who I am. My college essay was about meeting John Muir, and my master’s thesis from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was on the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Needless to say, I have always been in love with, and in awe of, our national parks. Before taking on the executive director role at the foundation, I worked for a number of conservation-related agencies and organizations including the President’s Council on Sustainable Development and The Nature Conservancy. Both my education and my career path have given me the luxury of being connected to our country’s iconic national parks.

What I love about the National Geographic and National Park Service partnership is that each BioBlitz is about our national parks, but they are also about fostering awareness and excitement about the natural treasures right in our own back yards.

The BioBlitz and your foundation are all about connecting kids to nature. You have brought your family to participate in the bioblitzes. How have you seen younger people, including your children, relating to nature? What does the natural world mean to them?

I have observed hundreds of school kids at each BioBlitz, and see the same excitement in them that I see in my daughters, nieces and nephews. My daughters love coming to the BioBlitz. They can’t wait to explore the science exhibits and earn their diplomas from the Biodiversity University. They enjoy learning about species in their native habitat, and they even remember the names of many of the scientists they have met. The BioBlitz scientists have provided an introduction to whole new professional disciplines they never knew existed.

My favorite example of this is Ian, my high school soccer star nephew, who, when taken out of his element, started balking at his every step into a wetlands habitat at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. “What could we possibly be collecting samples of,” he complained as he timidly worked his way waist-deep into what he declared was just “muck.” The scientist persevered with just the right touch, and soon a whole new reality of the world opened to Ian. When Ian looked at his samples through a microscope, he discovered thousands of living organisms! His whole demeanor changed. Later that day he declared he was going to become an aquatic ecologist!!

What other projects does your foundation support to advance environmental education?

Our foundation supports a number of national and international efforts to inspire conservation action, but the bulk of our work is focused in northeastern Illinois, and specifically the Lake County area. We support education programs in cities like North Chicago and Waukegan that focus on connecting kids with the nature that is right outside their windows. Some of these programs teach kids how to farm. Others teach them about the complex ecosystems that are found within their community. And others are simply about getting out to enjoy unstructured playtime in nature.

What are the threats and opportunities for coming generations in the evolving relationship between humans and nature?

The threats we face are many, including increased time spent indoors and behind some sort of electronic screen, and decreased freedom for kids to roam and experience unstructured time in nature. The concern is that this leads to a society disconnected from where our food comes from, from where our water comes from, and from being able to name the plants, animals and insects in our backyards.

The underlying belief in all our work is that by getting kids out into nature, they will learn to love and appreciate it, and over time they will become stewards and advocates in protecting it. The BioBlitz plays an important role in addressing these threats by building the foundation of the next generation of stewards of the natural environment, including our national parks.

You have supported environmental education to foster the bonds between people and planet. In this regard, what do you hope your legacy will be for future generations?

We hope our legacy will be, in part, one of consciousness — inspiring a sense of pride in our natural communities. We also hope our legacy will be the actions taken by those we’ve helped connect with the environment to secure, protect, and expand our National Park treasures, but also our local watersheds, our county forest preserves, and our public and private nature preserves.

We are an urban family, and we have seen the hands-on BioBlitz experience really strengthen our family’s connection with the natural world in a way no classroom or museum ever could. The sense of wonder kids experience at the BioBlitz carries over – they are no longer afraid of insects, or getting dirty, or exploring what’s under a rock or up in a tree. They really see the natural environment as something exciting to explore, important to study and understand, and critical to protect. We are hopeful that this is the experience of every participant in the BioBlitz. And we hope this will be part of our legacy.

Article source: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/15/bioblitz-raises-future-stewards-of-the-environment/

Public release date: 13-May-2013

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Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Self-assured entrepreneurs are more likely to act against their own pro-environmental values

This news release is available in German.

They promise to do their bit for the environment and stick eco labels on their products. But sooner or later someone will point out that they sell products that are pesticide-ridden or that contain palm oil sourced from endangered rainforests. Did the entrepreneurs reach their decision after a rational cost/benefit analysis? Or does unconscious behavior play a bigger role in entrepreneurial decision-making than is often assumed? What are the triggers that cause entrepreneurs to act against their own values? To find the answers to these questions, economic researchers from Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM), Indiana University, and Oklahoma State University presented a range of scenarios to around 100 German business founders.

For the task, the entrepreneurs were asked to assess a variety of business opportunities against a number of attributes. They were asked first of all to assess the attractiveness of a particular business opportunity. They were also asked to make a set of judgments in the context of environmental impact, respect for nature, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived business climate. Using the interconnected variables of this conjoint experiment, the researchers were able to draw conclusions on how various cognitive processes influence decision-making.

The research team found that even entrepreneurs with a strong respect for nature made decisions with a harmful effect on the environment. These decisions were not reached on the basis of any conscious process, however. “We found that the research subjects unconsciously adjusted the relationship between their values and their actions – with the effect that their actions seemed to coincide once more with their values,” explains Prof. Holger Patzelt of the Chair of Entrepreneurship at TUM.

The researchers noted, however, that not all of the entrepreneurs displayed this disengagement of pro-environmental values. What these entrepreneurs had in common was a high level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and a challenging business climate. According to the received theory up to now, entrepreneurs with low self-efficacy were thought more likely to experience a conflict with their own values.

Holger Patzelt comments further on the findings of the “I care about nature, but …” study: “Entrepreneurs with very high entrepreneurial self-efficacy want to exert influence. This makes them more likely to disengage from values that limit their options. The same principle applies to an unfavorable industry environment, for example if the company is facing sharp competition. In such situations, too, company bosses believe that everything hinges on their decisions.”

Meanwhile, the researchers’ findings could be used to good effect in environmental legislation. “Law-makers could pass stronger regulations in industries prone to challenging economic climates with a view to protecting the environment,” suggests Patzelt. For the entrepreneurs themselves, the findings on unconscious decision-making mechanisms could help them gain more insight into their own business strategies. Last but not least, the researchers hope that their work will help to improve the structure of training. “Up to now, economics courses have placed an emphasis on turning out budding entrepreneurs with a high degree of entrepreneurial self-efficacy,” remarks Patzelt.

“Now we know that this strategy can also have undesired consequences.”

Publication:

Shepherd, D. A., Patzelt, H., Baron, R. A. Early Online Publication. “I care about nature, but …”: Disengaging values in assessing opportunities that cause harm. Academy of Management Journal.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Patzelt

Technische Universitt Mnchen

Chair of Entrepreneurship

T: +49 89 289 26749

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