The Samoa Butterflies are evolving quickly to avoid extinction. Researchers state that these butterflies are responding to the pressure of extinction by developing genetic defenses against a type of bacteria, which was affecting male butterflies. It is now evident that male butterfly numbers are rising and approaching female numbers.

A $10 million fund will help protect forests, wetlands and ecosystems in Ontario.

“The money will be used to establish conservation agreements on private lands or buy land outright to keep it from being paved over, protect species at risk like the Loggerhead Shrike, a predatory songbird, and expand provincial parks.”

Many Toronto conservation areas are becoming increasingly threatened by urban sprawl. Some areas need to be protected and not used for recreation.

Rapid degradation to New York’s saltwater marshes, a valuable resource for birds and fishes, can disappear within five years.

Environmentalists warn that India’s ecological balance may be put at risk because of the country’s push for investments in mining resource-rich forests.

Lake Forest Park Water District is battling King County over “how to protect an aquifer from tunneling for the huge Brightwater sewage treatment project.”

“In one week, Southern California’s wildfires spewed the same amount of carbon dioxide — the primary global-warming gas — as the state’s power plants and vehicles did, scientists figure.”

25 million acres of land in the Canadian Northwest Territories will be set aside for conservation and administered by native groups. The area will be used for a national park, national wilderness area and conservation area.

Oxfam released a report stating that weather-related disasters have increased four times over the last ten years, with global warming being a large factor for that increase.

“Just three weeks into the job, Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield has angered environmentalists over whether to curb, or even ban, logging in Algonquin Provincial Park.” Logging practices threaten birds, animals and old-growth trees in Ontario’s oldest Provincial Park.