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New issue of Tai-Pan available
Mon 4 Aug 2003 - 09:09

Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe #33 is available now! Tales… is the publication of the Tai-Pan Literary & Arts Project, a not-for-profit founded 15 years ago to produce the best anthropomorphic art and fiction in known space.

Conifur program book needs you!
Mon 4 Aug 2003 - 01:46

Less than two weeks remain before the deadline for the Conifur Northwest 2003 program book! We need your art. We need your stories. We need your poetry. We need your cartoons. (Face it, we're very needy!)

Wild horses re-introduced
Wed 30 Jul 2003 - 13:48

BBC On-line reports that the Munich Zoo has transferred eight Przewalski's horses to the Altyn-Emel forest in Kazakhstan in an attempt to reintroduce the "last truly wild horse" into the wild. The species has existed only in zoos since the 1940s. Munich Zoo successfully reintroduced another equine species, the koulan, into the same area about twenty years ago. Wild koulan number over 500 since that re-introduction, so they hold out hope for similar success here. They are also hoping to reintroduce the species into CHina and Mongolia.

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Conifur Northwest pre-reg deadline approaches!
Mon 28 Jul 2003 - 23:48

There only six weeks left to pre-register for Conifur Northwest at the low price of $40! Pre-reg by September 12 to get the discount!

Conifur Northwest is September 26-28, at the Tacoma Convention Center, in Tacoma, Washington. This year’s guests are “Grrrwolf,” artist extraordinarie, and Chuck Melville, artist, author, and editor.

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Create a comic book in 24 hours
Tue 24 Jun 2003 - 15:03

The Seattle P-I reportst that Cartoonists Northwest is sponsoring "Spawns of Insomnia" -- a challenge to create a comic book, in full view of the public, in just 24 hours. The marathon exercise, which begins this Saturday on Seattle's Capitol Hill, will be preceeded by a cartooning class.

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Wildlife preserves could be privatized
Tue 17 Jun 2003 - 16:18

BBC Online reports that a wealthy Dutch conservationist is proposing that wildlife preserves in the most economically strapped nations in Africa could be administered by a private conservancy.

Blue whales making comeback?
Tue 17 Jun 2003 - 16:15

BBC Online reports that the Antarctic blue whale population may be gradually increasing.

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Fantagraphics faces financial woes
Fri 30 May 2003 - 17:38

The Seattle P-I reports that comics publisher Fantagraphics Books ("Ghost World," "Naughty Bits," "The Bradleys"), is in dire financial straits and is facing the possibility of shutting down entirely.

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Otters increasing in English countryside
Mon 12 May 2003 - 15:43

BBC online reports that England's otters are making a comeback, due in part to stream a wetlands clean up.

Henson family buying back Muppets
Thu 8 May 2003 - 12:36

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the heirs of Jim Henson are completing a deal to buy the Muppets (or more specifically, the Jim Henson Co.) back. And there's a more in-depth article at CBS News.com