Defenders of Wildlife Press Release SENATE AND HOUSE ARCTIC REFUGE WILDERNESS BILLS INTRODUCED Members of Congress Push for Wilderness Two Years After Transmittal WASHINGTON (April 4, 2017) – Today, 40 senators led by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) and a bipartisan group of representatives led by Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick […]
via Bipartisan Support To Protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — Natural History Wanderings
A link to this ‘better than expected’ news was sent by a Moseley resident. It opened an article by Bernadette Demientieff, the executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee. According to Wikipedia, the Gwichʼin are an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people of Canada living in the northwestern part of North America, mostly above the Arctic […]
via Goldman Sachs has agreed to stop funding drilling for oil in the Arctic — ANTIDOTE TO GLOOM
Trump Admin Steps Up Pace On First Oil Lease Sale In Alaskan Arctic, Enviros Cry Foul http://bit.ly/312CIy5 From The Daily Caller Chris White | Energy Reporter The Department of the Interior is fast-tracking plans to sell oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Reuters reported Friday. “That lease sale will happen in 2019,” Joe […]
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The New York Times reports on a new study on Caribou migration Caribou, those stately ungulates from North America, have “long been credited with the world’s longest migration,” said Kyle Joly, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service who studies caribou, and is the report’s lead author. But for decades, that claim relied on a […]
via Still the Undisputed Champs of Mammalian Migrations — Natural History Wanderings
U.N. Report: 1 Million Species at Risk of Extinction MAY 06, 2019 An alarming new report by a panel of leading scientists warns that human activity is causing the disappearance and deterioration of wildlife at a rate that could represent an existential threat to humanity within our lifetimes. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on […]
via Over a million species would or could die –and too soon — Eslkevin’s Blog
[John Vidal/HUFFPOST/15 de marzo del 2019] A three-year UN-backed study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has grim implications for the future of humanity. Nature is in freefall and the planet’s support systems are so stretched that we face widespread species extinctions and mass human migration unless urgent action is taken. […]
More than 27,000 Audubon supporters have sent public comments to oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The deadline to comment is next Wednesday, March 13. Will you join them? It’s quick and easy. Did you know that birds travel through all 50 states to raise their chicks in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? No wonder […]
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…until January 2, 2019. Happy Holidays! We wish all was well with the world’ wild animals…unfortunately not.
In spite of the continued decline of Canada’s Caribou population, little action by government, corporations or individuals is apparent…
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