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Don't Cut Hedges Yet - Birds Need the Berries
Environment  (tags: environment, hedges, berries, birds, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 11 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Cutting back hedges and bushes too early this year could starve birds of late autumn berries, says the RSPB. The mild weather has meant birds are feasting on insects later this year. They have not had to turn to autumn fruits yet, so many hedgerows are
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Truly Eco- and Bird-Friendly Wind Turbine
Environment  (tags: environment, wind turbines, birds, death, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 18 days ago - all-creatures.org
The death of avian life is perhaps one of the most common arguments against wind farms. The idea that wind turbines kill birds started originally from the large rate of bird deaths, around 4,700 annually, at the wind farm in Altamont, CA
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As Climate Shifts, Birds Follow
Environment  (tags: environment, climate, birds, shifted, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 68 days ago - enn.com
Climate has become warmer and wetter in parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains over the past century, and the vast majority of the birds there have shifted their range accordingly, a new study suggests.
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HELP SAVE THE CERULEAN WARBLER SUPPORT A SENATE BILL TO STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, birds, AnimalWelfare, mining, mountaintop removal, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, destruction, habitatdestruction, nature )

Cher
- 115 days ago - change.org
Using this action page, you can help stop America's most destructive mining practice that turns mountainsides into wastelands, buries streams forever under an avalanche of fill, and decimates critically needed habitat of our fastest declining songbird
32 comments
Birds Fly Higher With Shrinking Forest, Warmer Climate
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, birds, warmer climate, deforestation, flying higher, AnimalWelfare, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 134 days ago - thestar.com.my
More lowland birds are flying off to live in the highlands and this is an indicator of deforestation and climate change.
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ALERT! Protect Burrowing Owls From Climate Change (and Other Birds Too!) ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, burrowing owls, birds, climate change, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, globalwarming )

Cher
- 153 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The recently-released State of the Birds report warns that "birds are at grave risk from habitat changes caused by climate change, especially in arctic tundra, alpine meadows, sea ice and glaciers, coastal wetlands, marine atolls, and ocean ecosystems."
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Climate Change Threatens Endangered Honeycreeper Birds of Hawaii
Environment  (tags: honeycreepers, birds, hawaii, animals, climate, climate-change, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, forests, habitat, nature, protection, research, science, weather, wildlife, world )

PinkMindy
- 180 days ago - sciencedaily.com
As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the disease-free refuges for the honeycreepers - a group of endangered and remarkable birds.
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We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW!
Environment  (tags: industrial, agriculture, animals, fda, factory, farming, birds, environment, ecosystems, habitat, destruction, nature, humans, pollution, oceans, methane, CO2, water, wells, fertilizer, poison, cancer, pesticides )

Tom
- 189 days ago - opednews.com
Taxpayers want government to enforce regulations and create rules to limit excess and greed in banking, insurance, housing, and on Wall Street. Let's not forget to regulate industrial agriculture. It is one of our most polluting and dangerous industries.
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Sign Petition: Birds and Climate Change Ecological Disruption in Progress
Environment  (tags: National, Audubon, Society, birds, animals, wildlife, world, globalwarming, environment, ecosystems, conservation, climatechange, CO2emissions, habitatdestruction, pollution, nature, protection, humans )

Tom
- 193 days ago - audubonaction.org
We need global warming legislation that will help birds and wildlife survive what is coming by protecting their habitats and will reduce global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of a rapidly changing climate.
22 comments
Take Action: Remember The Exxon Valdez!
Environment  (tags: exxon, valdez, oil, obama, politics, whales, environment, nature, ecosystems, habitat, destruction, wildlife, suffering, protection, endangered, pollution, humans, conservation, CO2emissions, climate-change, energy, government, oceans, birds )

Tom
- 231 days ago - tinyurl.com
Urge the Obama administration to heed the lessons of the Exxon Valdez and remove Alaska's sensitive, wildlife-rich waters from an offshore drilling plan. Remove the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and Bristol Bay from the 5-year plan and save the whales!
21 comments
Drilling the Arctic for Energy: Does Tapping Alaskan Oil to Increase Energy Independence Come at Our Peril?
Environment  (tags: energy, drilling, arctic, alaska, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 245 days ago - sciam.com
Plans to greatly expand fossil-fuel exploration and retrieval in the Far North have caused environmentalists to urg lawmakers to reinstate a ban on new offshore drilling for oil and gas in the land that extends off of North America's coasts.
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Valdez Ghost Haunts Exxon With Spill-Prone Ships
Environment  (tags: world, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 245 days ago - bloomberg.com
Exxon, the world's largest oil company, has kept using tankers with the "more accident-prone" one hull design even as 151 countries have decided two are better than one for preventing oil spills and pledged to ban single-hull vessels by 2015.
8 comments
Sign Petition: Save The Sumatran Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra, birds, animals, wildlife, ploantlife, nature, habitatdestruction, environment, humans, conservation, ecosystems, CO2emissions, climate-change, pollution )

Tom
- 275 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In the past few decades, Sumatra's lowland forests have shrunk dramatically, from 16 million hectares in 1900 to just 500,000-600,000 hectares today. With your support we can stop this destruction. Tropical rainforests are phenomenally rich in wildlife.
30 comments
Sign Petition: Help Birds Survive Global Warming
Environment  (tags: birds, global warming, environment, ecosystems, conservation, nature, wildlife, protection, pollution, CO2emissions, climate-change )

Tom
- 278 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Birds are well-known barometers of environmental health. Changes in their condition can warn of threats to habitats and natural systems critical to all life on earth. If we heed their warnings, we can protect ourselves and the future of the world we share
40 comments
Scientists Astounded By Songbirds Flying 311 Miles in One Day
Environment  (tags: songbirds, birds, animals, wildlife, migration, migratory birds, migration routes, Endangered Species )

Jeremy
- 285 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Using extra tiny geo-locator backpacks, researchers have tracked songbirds' seasonal migrations for the first time, according to research published in Science .
4 comments
 
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