Homocide in america from last weekends Los Angeles Times festival of books. We wrap up at 11 00 with a Panel Discussion on cspans latest book, first ladies. That happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Pulitzer prizes were awarded this last weekend and other Elizabeth Kolbert won. Her book, the sixth extinction. The and this one will be the most devastating. Sheer he is here she is now on booktv. [applause] thank you very much. I, tomorrow, am very impressed that such a large number of people are here on a friday night, and i really appreciate it. So thanks very much for being here. I want to start by introducing you to this fellow on the screen who is a hawaiian crow, otherwise known as an alala. Know he looks loot like an ordinary crow but there are actually significant differences of his beak is thicker and his legs are thicker and the Hawaiian Islands used to have six species of crows and they probably diverge from the crows that we find on the mainland u. S. At least several hundred th
Skinks Found Only in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Threatened by
Introduced Predators, Habitat Destruction
In response to a 2014 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service todayannounced that seven species of Caribbean skinks may qualify for Endangered Species Act protection. These rare lizards from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are on the knife’s edge of extinction due to introduced predators and habitat destruction.
“The Endangered Species Act can save these skinks,” said Collette Adkins, a Center biologist and lawyer who works to protect reptiles and amphibians. “We can best deal with the habitat loss and invasive predators that threaten to wipe out these skinks by getting them protected under the Act. This announcement means they’re one step closer to getting the protections they need.”