A great listing of Marine Animal Petitions can be found at this thread:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=90&pst=349628

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/885814782

The island of Bimini, portrayed in Hemingway’s Island in the Streams, is a tropical paradise that supports an abundance of life, but the island and its culture are at risk from developers.

The developers of the Bimini Bay Resort are cutting down, filling-in and destroying  the rich mangrove ecosystem of the island. They are destroying the very habitats on which Bimini's biological richness and true economy depend.

Bimini possesses the only mangrove ecosystem on the entire Northwest Bahama Bank, and is responsible for replenishing fish populations not only in Bimini but over thousands of square miles of coral reefs and seabed. Today countless species of fish, rays, sponges, lobsters, and birds fill their unique niche in this ecosystem. But Bimini Bay Resort and Hilton are in the process of destroying all this pristine beauty and irreplaceable habitat by building a sprawling golf course, condos, a casino and a marina.

This is an ecological disaster in the making.

Mangroves are essential as buffers against storms (hurricanes & tsunamis), in addition to serving as nurseries where the eggs of fish, conch, shrimp, lobsters and many other living things find a safe place to grow up into adulthood without being disturbed. The mangrove ecosystem provides fish to feed people in coastal communities and throughout the world by stocking the ocean's natural fisheries and serve as important habitat for many other living things as well as to protect the health of sea grass beds and coral reefs.

The future is in anything but paradise.

As the developer, Gerardo Carpo, is allowed to bulldoze the mangroves and build a golf course on the northern tip of the island (whose associated fertilizer and pesticide pollution will damage or destroy the local inshore ecosystems) and dredge and destroy the lagoon (a world-famous nursery for lemon sharks) – the very future of the islands ecosystem, inhabitants and future are threatened.

A few can make a difference.

A big difference.

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Signed!

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This petition needs support.  Plastic bags are destroying our oceans and hurting the marine animals that live there.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Ban-Plastic-Bags-4-LA-County

Thank you!

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