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The Northern Rockies of the United States are one of the most important and intact ecosystems found today in the world’s temperate zone. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

In central Idaho are large, important landscapes that still fit the descriptions of Lewis and Clark, who came through the area more than 200 years ago. Rich wildlife populations and vast areas of untouched wilderness still reign here. Unfortunately, these areas are increasingly at risk of becoming isolated islands of disjunct habitat.

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MaNational Geographic Channel cut two unique marketing deals to promote two new original series – Inside the Living Body and Incredible Human Machine.The network is marketing the series through the unusual “Bodies: the Exhibition” exhibition – which features preserved human bodies -- in New York, Las Vegas, San Diego, Pittsburgh and other locations. Deal points include signage and print advertising for National Geographic Channel and local cable advertising in New York and online exposure for “Bodies: the Exhibition.”The network said signage about the NGC programs will appear at all the exhibition venues.National Geographic is also partnering with Men’s Health magazine to tout the series. NGC will get a full page print ad in the October issue, a dedicated email blast, banner advertising on MensHealth.com, promotional exposure in the magazine’s “Inside Out” feature page and other exposure.

Among nature's most unlikely animals, the platypus is known well. They swim gracefully by paddling with their front webbed feet and steering with their hind feet and beaver like tail, platypuses hunt underwater. To prevent water from entering, folds of skin cover their eyes and ears.

The duck bill and webbed feet, beaver tail, and otter body and fur, the animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species. Males are also poisonous.  on the heels of their rear feet they have sharp stinger and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.

In Japan, where people pay as much as U.S.$3,800 to have one as a house pet, the slow loris, a tiny primate native to the forests of southern Asia, is one of the most popular animals in the wildlife trade. Literally thanks to a new ruling by the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the loris will soon be priceless.

In order to stop what advocates described as gruesome abuses in the illegal sale of the animal, the convention, which oversees the sale of 33,000 plant and animal species worldwide, officially banned all international traffic in the slow loris last week.

According to CITES' report, the small, nocturnal creatures are often trapped in the wild and have all of their teeth pulled in order to be sold as tame or as babies. menus, in medicines, and in marketplaces worldwide.

In  southwest China, wildlife officials announced some days before, the first captive-born giant panda ever released into the wild has been found dead.

On snow-covered ground in the bamboo forests of Sichuan Province on February 19, the body of Xiang Xiang, a five-year-old male panda, was discovered.  The news was held until experts could conduct a full examination. After getting into a fight with wild-born males, the panda appears to have died from injuries.

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National Geographic News to be Free Pod-cast announced officials on March 23, 2007. The host Peter Standring in his statement to press said that the top nature and science news from National Geographic could now be listened free pod-cast from now onwards. He added that this week's agenda involves Grand Canyon’s new glass bridge; Tigers; Pets; Air-powered car; Ancestors with scrappy short legs and much more…

Findings into Spider Monkeys Unveiled
A recent study into Spider Monkey Groups reveals that this species of monkeys use hugs and French-style cheek-to-cheek touch mutual armpit sniffing at the start of a large meeting presumably to ease tension and to keep things from getting aggressive. Splitting apart into sub-groups and then later uniting together is very common in Spider Monkeys, the report said. The reunions among other species of monkeys most often turn into big strife between groups, but the spider monkeys, have astonishingly learnt how to avoid aggression and violence at reunions and gatherings through the natural process of hugging and embracing. The leader of the study, primatologist Filippo Aureli of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom said, “ These embraces are used to try to avoid some of the uncertainty.
Note: The study is based on observations of wild black-handed spider monkeys in a forest on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula