•SEND US your nature photos and sightings by posting them on the visitor-post section of our Facebook page or by attaching them to either a Facebook message to The Naturalist's Notebook or an email (info@thenaturalistsnotebook.com). We'll post the best and most interesting of them here or on our Facebook page, which has become a hub for nature and science lovers from across North America and around the world.  

•ON HOLD The Naturalist’s Notebook Maine, a fun-for-all-ages exploratorium/shop in Seal Harbor next to Acadia National Park, is closed for the foreseeable future because of a recent change of ownership of the building. (Whether it will ever open again, there or elsewhere, remains in doubt.) In case you haven’t visited it in the past, the Notebook has been a beloved, Best of New England destination (Yankee Magazine) since launching in July 2009. Here’s a description: “Wonderful for all ages. Interactive, educational exhibits guide you through the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe, with rooms featuring biodiversity hotspots, the forests of Maine, the ocean, the Mesozoic era, and even your BRAIN (to name a few)! Find fun drawing activities and puzzles in each room, as well as books and themed merchandise to facilitate learning for ALL ages.” 

•EARTH NEWS: 4 Headlines to Click On: 1) World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal Down to 30 Individuals; 2) This Prehistoric Human Ancestor Was All Mouth; 3) Officials Seize 3.1 Tons of Pangolin Scales; 4) Gold Mine Boom New Threat to Amazon

•Population meter: 7.9 billion humans on the planet, a billion more than in 2006, two billion more than in 1994, three billion more than in 1982, four billion more than in 1969, five billion more than in 1952 and six billion more than in 1900. 

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