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An Endangered Act
Environment  (tags: endangered, habitat destruction, nature, pollution, trees, water, wildlife, forests, oceans, bad politics )

Karen
- 8 days ago - nytimes.com
The Bush administration has never masked its distaste for most environmental laws or its ambitions to thwart Congress's will. Now in its waning months, it is trying to undermine the Endangered Species Act.
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Take Action:Protect the Refuge, Reject Big Oil
Environment  (tags: arctic national refuge, wildife, drilling, habitat destruction, threatened wild animals, environment, humans, endangered )

Simone
- 98 days ago - secure.defenders.org
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been called America's Serengeti -- one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's struggling polar bears and home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. But that's not
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Rainforest Protection Issues: Papua New Guinea Admits Illegal Logging
Environment  (tags: illegal logging, habitat destruction, trees, environment, ecosystems )

Maryann
- 115 days ago - rainforestportal.org
As it is prone to do when the donors come a-calling, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government "has admitted its forestry sector is riddled with corruption" . This occurred during aid talks with the Australian government, and reflects political posturin
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Logging Road Threatens Rare Peat Dome, Tigers
Environment  (tags: logging road, habitat destruction, destruction, threatened, tigers, forests, conservation )

Simone
- 147 days ago - huliq.com
In an investigative report published today by Eyes on the Forest, evidence shows that a new logging road in Riau Province -- strongly indicated as illegally built by companies connected to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) -- is cutting into the heart of Sumatra's
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Take Action:Protect Yellowstone and the Greater Rockies
Environment  (tags: bush administration, oil, gas project, habitat destruction, environment, yellowsstone national parks, greater rockies, endangered wildlife )

Simone
- 176 days ago - nrdconline.org
Tell the Bush administration to halt the oil and gas project in the Baca National Wildlife Refuge until a thorough study of its potentially devastating environmental impacts is carried out.
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TAKE ACTION: Ask ConocoPhillips Not to Drill in Polar Bear Habitat !
Environment  (tags: ConocoPhillips, habitat destruction, oil drilling, animalwelfare, polar bear habitat, destruction, wildlife )

Cindy
- 181 days ago - environmental-action.org
Conoco-Phillips, one of the largest oil companies in the world, really wants to drill in Alaska. In fact, they were the high bidder for drilling rights to tens of thousands of acres of pristine polar bear habitat. Yet they have the moxie to proclaim on th
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ON THIS DAY -| 2001: Oil Tanker Endangers Eco-Paradise
Environment  (tags: 2001, galapagos, animals, destruction, oil, habitat destruction, pollution )

Chrissy
- 218 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A fuel supply tanker to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific has run aground off the island of San Cristobal. Marine experts are warning of an ecological disaster to the Archipelago, which is home to thousands of unique animal and plant species.
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Feds Ignoring Impacts of Coal Mining Policy on Wildlife, Conservationists Say
Environment  (tags: coal mining, destruction, habitat destruction, conservation, threatened, wildllife )

Simone
- 218 days ago - tennessean.com
Coal mining that includes removing the top of mountains has an impact on threatened and endangered wildlife, and federal agencies need to change a long-standing policy that denies it, according to conservation groups and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources
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Human Thirst for Palm Oil Wipes Out Rare Forest Birds
Environment  (tags: palm oil, habitat destruction, forests, wildlife, endangered, conservation )

Simone
- 220 days ago - earthhopenetwork.net
Many more bird species are threatened with extinction than previously feared, according to analyses of satellite images that reveal for the first time the extent of deforestation occurring on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The island is a
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Paper Giant Illegally Clearing Indonesian Forests: Environmentalists
Environment  (tags: endangered speciea, illegal habitat clearing, habitat destruction, logging, paper company, wildlife )

Simone
- 220 days ago - afp.google.com
Elephants, tigers, orangutans are under threat from illegal land clearing on Indonesia's Sumatra island by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper companies, Asia Pulp and Paper and its affiliates. Satellite images in November 2007 showed 20,000 hectares
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Bees Are Trying to Tell Us Something, and We Had Better Listen!
Environment  (tags: Bees, animals, people, ecosystems, endangered, environment, Habitat Destruction, cell phones, wireless, human-animals, pesticides, Earth )

Victoria
- 221 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Bees are dying across the world at a terrifying rate. The apian epidemic started in the United States, where entire populations of honey bees have simply vanished in the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
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Critics Say Oil Interests Delaying Polar Bear Endangered Species Ruling
Environment  (tags: oil contract, polar bears, endangered listing, bush administration, oil companies, habitat destruction, outrage )

Simone
- 222 days ago - digitaljournal.com
The Bush administration has announced it will miss a legal deadline put in place to determine if polar bears should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, and critics are roaring in anger. Some say an oil contract is the real reason for the delay.
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Bush Administration Abandons Effort to Undercut National Forest Protections
Environment  (tags: national forest protection, bush administration, conservation, timber industry, habitat destruction, laws, no appeals )

Simone
- 224 days ago - ens-newswire.com
Conservation groups are declaring a "victory for public participation" as the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry Monday abandoned their appeals of a federal court decision that invalidated a Bush administration rule removing environmental
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Take Action:Oil Companies Can Wait. Polar Bears Can't!-Stop Arctic Drilling.
Environment  (tags: oill drilling, arctic, habitat destruction, ocean mammals, threatened, oil companies, polar bears, destruction )

Simone
- 224 days ago - secure.defenders.org
It's no secret that polar bears are in trouble. Global warming and habitat loss are driving these majestic animals to the brink of extinction. Yet even as the government's own scientists acknowledge these threats, the Bush/Cheney Administration has
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Activists Angry About Oil Auction Off Alaska
Environment  (tags: federal government, oil auction, habitat destruction, pollution, wildlife endangered, humans )

Simone
- 227 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by environmental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals. The
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