Also Recent Recipient Of American Birding Association's Top AwardJames M. Barry, President of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History awarded William Fenimore, author, educator, naturalist, field birder and Wild Bird Center franchisee, the Roger Tory Peterson Nature Education Achievement Award. This prestigious award was announced on July 1, 2008 in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Roger Tory. Read »

New online social network for pets and pet owners. Connect with other pet lovers around the world and share stories, photos, comments, and videos. Find other pets and pet owners in your area. Read »

Education program centered on animal welfare begins spring 2009. The George Washington University partners with Humane Society University to offer Graduate Certificate in Community Advocacy. Application Deadline November 1, 2008 for spring 2009 semester. Read »

In an effort to save the dwindling primate population in and around the village of Mae On, the Flight of the Gibbon Conservation Project and local villagers have teamed up to form the Primate Habitat Restoration Project. Volunteers and employees of Flight of the Gibbon will plant 1500 fruit trees in a designated, protected habitat area and will act as a refuge and a food source for the primates. The inaugural planting will be on Sunday, July 11, 2008. Read »

Maine-based Gift Manufacturer Provides New Fundraising Source for Rescue Organizations Nationally to Help Find Forever Homes for Pets in Need. KimsCrafts (www.KimsCrafts.com), a manufacturer of Maine-made high quality hand-stenciled slates and gifts, with an exclusive pet product line, is donating 20% of the proceeds of all sales conducted through a special link that is added to a qualifying shelter or rescue organization's website. Read »

A new Apple iPhone charger has hit the market providing portable power when you need it most. Read »

PolyMVAHealthClub.com announces the immediate availability of Poly-MVA for Pets, a dietary supplement that has been shown to be very effective in human clinical cancer studies (studies conducted by a renowned board-certified oncologist, Dr. James Forsythe). Read »

Evolving Scientific Research Project, a 501 (c) (3) corporation, expands to three divisions with conservation projects in process: In Africa: baboons, vervets, coastal leopard, Knysna elephants; In USA: fisher, Sandhill Crane, northern leopard frog, Flammulated owl, Taylor's checkerspot butterfly, and others. The biomedical division monitors animal welfare in USA. Read »

We Walkem, a pet care service company, is celebrating 5 years of servicing in the South Loop Chicago Land area. To celebrate we have launched a new site for people to learn about our company and services. Read »

Privately-held development company Ferrumar has discovered that George Putnam, the future husband of aviator Amelia Earhart (who vanished in the Pacific Ocean 71 years ago today), directed the killing of a polar bear and capture of her cubs on behalf of the Manhattan-based American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Read »