We’ve Got One Week Left to Stop One of Bush’s Worst Environmental Attacks
September 8, 2008 by George Lakoff, Chris Shutes, AlterNet
Filed under Environment, Wildlife Conservation
(Alternet.org) - The Endangered Species Act is our primary legal tool for environmental protection.
We have until September 15-about a week-to save the Endangered Species Act.
Not just some species, but the Act itself! Bush administration officials are proposing redefinitions of terms that would allow conservative appointees in federal agencies to virtually the destroy the Act.
Their goal is to allow proposed projects to proceed even if such projects would kill off endangered species or place them or their habitats in jeopardy.
If the changes are not effectively challenged by September 15, they will go into effect, and, Goodbye Species!
Act now: Go to the end of this article for instructions. We need the public to flood the agencies involved with comments opposing the redefinitions and rule changes.
READ MORE HERE [ Source: Alternet.org, George Lakoff and Chris Shutes, September 8, 2008 ]
Conservationists blame ‘global Mafia’ for decline in Bengal tigers
July 2, 2008 by Stop the Propaganda
Filed under Environment, Tigers, Wildlife Conservation
A dramatic decline in the population of Bengal tigers in a Nepalese wildlife reserve has the World Wildlife Fund blaming the “powerful global Mafia that controls illegal wildlife trade.”
The Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal once boasted among the highest densities of the endangered species in the Eastern Himalayas.
But a camera trap study, conducted in large part by WWF, shows a population of between six and 14 tigers as of April, down from 20 to 50 tigers in 2005. The cameras are attached to infrared sensors and take a picture when they detect movement.
READ MORE HERE [ Source: CBC.ca ]