Special Saturday edition.

• 39 rangers are missing in Virunga.
• Putin creates new protected area for Amur leopard.
• Just in time for Halloween Dia de los Muertos, the Pemba flying fox of Tanzania has returned from the brink of extinction.
• They found a new species. Behold: VAMPIRE MOTH!
• Swoon: “I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they’re contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That’s just one sector of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board.”

• Remember how Indonesia just promised to save the remaining forests of Sumatra? It’s not going so well. A consortium of NGOs under the name “Eyes on the Forest” have revealed that Asia Pulp & Paper has built a 45 km “legally questionable” paved logging highway right through the middle of tiger habitat. Whoops! How on earth do you miss something like this? More on the importance of the Sumatran peat forests over here.
• “The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, or TIGER, near Miami, claims to have overcome the problem by encouraging both tigers and humans to swim together in a specially adapted pool.” Oh yeah, this will definitely end well.
• The 40 remaining Amur leopards are going to get a little more habitat, thanks to WWF and logging company concessions.
• An open letter to the next president, from Michael Pollan. [via Kelly Lab]