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Environment News tagged with animals

Tell the Coast Guard to Protect Our Waters- Please Take Action !!
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, animals, Invasive Species )

Tierney
- 1 day ago - online.nwf.org
We've got a big problem: invasive species from overseas. The zebra mussel is a prime example. It might be less than an inch long, but countless numbers of them clog up water pipes, smell up lakeside beaches, and cover up recreational boats and marina
11 comments
Madagascar's Lemurs in Danger From Political Turmoil and 'Timber Mafia'
Environment  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, timber, trees, nature, habitat, environment, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 2 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The lemur, a furry primate that symbolises Madagascar's unique biodiversity, is under renewed threat from a "timber mafia" pillaging the island's forests for profit.
5 comments
Protect the Arctic Refuge: America's Polar Bear Nursery-Please Take Action!!
Environment  (tags: protection, nature, environment, destruction, endangered, animals, habitatdestruction )

Tierney
- 4 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of vital habitat and melting the sea ice they use for hunting and raising their cubs. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habita
6 comments
Jane Goodall on 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'
Environment  (tags: animals, conservation, nature, humans, Jane Goodall, habitat, politics, pollution, science, globalwarming )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - mnn.com
Jane Goodall weighs in on animal rights extremists and discusses her new community program, Roots and Shoots.
6 comments
Restore Coastal Louisiana - The Petition Site
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, water, trees, protection, pollution, humans, nature, habitat, government, environment, destruction, conservation, animals )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Mississippi Delta is the world's seventh largest river delta. But we are losing these wetlands at an alarming rate. 80 years of national actions to channelize and control the Mississippi River for economic development and navigation have diverted se
9 comments
Tell the EPA to Ban the Poison Rozol- Take Action
Environment  (tags: petition, wildlife, suffering, protection, humans, nature, habitat, environment, conservation, animals )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - secure3.convio.net
I am writing to request that the EPA immediately ban the use of Rozol (chlorophacinone) grain bait to exterminate black-tailed prairie dogs. This poison is inhumane. Rozol causes internal bleeding to animals who ingest it, and their suffering can be prol
12 comments
Mobula Ray Bursts From the Waves
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, wildlife, world, oceans, habitat, humans, nature )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Off the coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula, a Mobula Ray bursts from the swell with breathtaking beauty, catching air as its whip-like tail trails behind. The expression 'like a fish out of water' is used to convey the sense of feeling uncomfortable in a si
10 comments
Curbs on Southern California Fishing: Environmentalists Applaud, Commercial Fishermen Fume
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, fishing restrictions, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 8 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
In a move greeted with scattered applause and boos, a state blue-ribbon panel late today voted unanimously to approve landmark fishing restrictions for the Southern California coastline, creating a patchwork of havens for marine life needed to replenish
4 comments
Pepper for Pachyderms: Africa's Elephant Pepper Development Trust Helps Farmers and Animals
Environment  (tags: environment, pepper, animals, humans, protection, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 9 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
For many residents of Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, elephants don't seem majestic so much as menacing. Elephants are largely protected from poachers in these nations, but many people whose crops and homes the animals have destroyed wish they weren't.
2 comments
40% of Lowland Forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo Cleared in 15 Years
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, animals, habitat, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, destruction, world, protection, humans )

Cal
- 10 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Seventy percent of deforestation was concentrated in Sumatra and Borneo, the only islands that still house native orangutan populations.
4 comments
Hunting Across Southeast Asia Weakens Forests' Survival
Environment  (tags: animals, ecosystems, environment, nature, humans, world, protection, conservation, forests )

Cal
- 11 days ago - news.mongabay.com
In the Southeast Asian tropics an astounding 80 percent of seeds are spread not by wind, but by animals: birds, bats, rodents, even elephants. But in a region where animals of all shapes and sizes are being wiped out by uncontrolled hunting and poaching--w
2 comments
New Wildlife and Roads for Addo Elephant National Park
Environment  (tags: environment, National Park, habitat, protection, wildlife, nature, animals )

Cher
- 12 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Addo Elephant National Park has introduced several large wildlife species and opened up new tourist road loops in the Colchester area of the Park, south of the main game area.
4 comments
Degraded Habitats Push More Species to Extinction
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, habitat, animals, ecosystems, environment, humans, protection, world, green )

Cal
- 14 days ago - enn.com
The latest global assessment of biodiversity ruled yesterday that an additional 11 species are either fully extinct or extinct outside of captivity.
5 comments
Give the Polar Bear a Fighting Chance ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, polar bears, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 14 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In May 2008, the Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. In October 2009, as required by the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its proposal to designate
10 comments
Expeditions to Search for New Species in Mozambique & Madagascar
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, expeditions, Madagascar, biodiversity, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 16 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The expeditions will span ten years and conduct a massive inventory of biodiversity in geographical areas which, up until now, have been little explored. The objective is to accelerate the scientific discovery of new species, by focusing our efforts on
1 comment
 
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