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JIKO RESCUE
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, green, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, protection, wildlife, Sustainabililty, trees )

Gorilly
- 31 days ago - theworldchallenge.co.uk
Stoves for Survival The endangered Mountain Gorilla population is getting a helping hand from a fuel-efficient 'Jiko' stove. GUYS VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!! IT SAVES THE GORILLAS HABITATS... BIG GORILLY HUGS
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Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet
Environment  (tags: environment, cows, pigs, methane, meat, CO2emissions, climatechange, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, conservation, climate, pollution, wildlife, world, oceans, destruction, water, animals, science, research )

Tom
- 19 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
"Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases.
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50,000 Dead Starfish Found on Irish Beach
Environment  (tags: environment, weather, oceans, starfish, dead )

Katie
- 13 days ago - friendsoftheirishenvironment.net
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.
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More Than 11 Tonnes of Lobster Fished in Galapagos
Environment  (tags: red lobster, overfishing, Galapagos Islands )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - fis.com
Almost 11.5 tonnes of lobster was fished between 7 August and 8 October in the Galapagos Marine Reserve (RMG), according to a Fisheries Monitoring Process report by the Galapagos National Park (PNG) Directorate.
21 comments
Last Chance to Save the Vaquita Porpoise From Extinction?
Environment  (tags: Vaquita porpoise, extinction )

Claudia
- 11 days ago - oceansentry.org
This is a crucial time for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise
35 comments
Mud Island Becomes Dumping Ground for Dead Whales...
Environment  (tags: whales, mud island, dumping, toxic water )

Claudia
- 27 days ago - news.com.au
THE state Environment Department is using a well-known Moreton Bay island as a secret dumping ground for increasing numbers of dead whales.
26 comments
Sharks Worth More Alive Than Dead
Environment  (tags: sharks, endangered, protection, research, oceans )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - diverwire.com
New research by the World Wildlife Federation-Australia shows the ocean predators draw a healthy chunk of the tourist dollar.
14 comments
Whale Car Could Bring You Happiness .NOOOO,A CAR WITH SEATS MADE OUT OF WHALE-PENIS LEATHER
Environment  (tags: WHALES, CARS, LEATHER, RUSSIA )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - orange.co.uk
When a state-of-the-art sound system, a tuning upgrade and a massive rear spoiler just aren't enough, one Russian company has come up with the novel idea of offering its latest car with seats made from whale-penis leather.
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Poison Fishing Killing River Ecosystem
Environment  (tags: pollution, ecosystems, destruction, environment )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - oceansentry.org
The growing trend of poison fishing in local streams and rivers across the country is threatening the aquatic life in four major river ecosystems
12 comments
US Gives Shell Green Light for Offshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic
Environment  (tags: antarctic, oil, drilling, us )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - oceansentry.org
Conservation groups based in Alaska have accused the Obama administration of repeating the mistakes of George Bush after it gave the conditional go-ahead for Shell to begin drilling offshore
24 comments
Dolphins - So Like Us
Environment  (tags: dolphins )

Claudia
- 29 days ago - globalshift.org
You don't have to see too many "bucket" lists to know that humans have a unique connection to dolphins.
15 comments
Indigenous Use of Ancestral Lands Threatened
Environment  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Environment, destruction, conservation, habitatdestruction, pollution )

Kat
- 17 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
BOULDER, Colo. - Climate change may be only the latest of many challenges facing Indian country, but it is having devastating effects in parts of the far North where at least one Native village faced with inundation by melting polar ice is suing...
18 comments
The Trees That We Need
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, climate-change, CO2emissions, globalwarming, trees, forests )

Chris
- 16 days ago - borealbirds.org
North America's primary forests have a big role in preventing climate change. They need our protection...
31 comments
Bluefin Tuna on Edge of Extinction...
Environment  (tags: extinction, bluefin tuna )

Claudia
- 11 days ago - oceansentry.org
An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction, environmentalists said Thursday.
23 comments
Measuring the Daily Destruction of the World's Rainforests
Environment  (tags: trees, forests, Habitat Destruction, rainforest destruction )

Chris
- 1 day ago - scientificamerican.com
Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.
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