The Grizzly bear in Alberta

Sometimes I get surprised, and very positively surprised also. Reading an a small news paper article made me really surprised. In most countries, many of the provonces, states or fylker ( as we call them in Norway ) wants to hunt more animals than the national authorities. The reason may be many several, Elks or deer can be eating the crop for farmers or ruining peoples gardens. Some predators can be seen upon as competition for hunters and fishers , that wanna keep the game or fish for themselves. And predators also get accused of chasing, killing and eating livestock. I'm sure there are more reasons also, but as I'm tired now I can't think of any more.

Anyway, In Alberta, one of the canadian provinces, the province authorities has taken the step and declared that they wanna put the grizzly bear in the state as endangered. For me this is a very huge reason to applaud the provincial authorities in Alberta.

Hope they can be a good example for other authorities.

Change of focus and change of name of blog

After starting this blog with the aim to focus on endangered and extinct birds, I had to broaden my topic here. I found a story today that really intrigued me. So I had to bring you some news from it. The change is that I will focus more on birds and animals that still are alive, and not so much on animals that are extinct.
As a part of this I may also write about the efforts made to protect species or habitats for any kind of species, and the work that is been done to protect animals and birds. Today I'll present an exciting project that I stumbled upon earlier today, The EDGE of excistence programme.  Therefore I have also changed the name of the blog. From now ON it is; "Birds and other animals in danger".

But no matter what, welcome to my blog