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Tell President Obama: Stop Asian Carp Now, Before It’s Too Late

Tell President Obama: Stop Asian Carp Now, Before It’s Too Late

From: Alliance for the Great Lakes Help us reach 5,000 signatures. Add your name to this petition. Dear President Obama: Asian carp threaten the Great Lakes ecosystem, the $7 billion Great Lakes sport and commercial fishing industry, and the recreational activities of countless residents and tourists. Failure to stop Asian carp from invading the Great [...]

July 26th, 2010 | Posted in Action Alert, Biodiversity | Read More »

Alert: Critical Sea Turtle Habitat at Risk – Vote Expected This Week

Alert: Critical Sea Turtle Habitat at Risk – Vote Expected This Week

From: National Wildlife Federation: Sea turtles have been through enough during the BP oil spill. Now to make matters worse, this week Congress will be voting on a bill that could result in the destruction of critical sea turtle habitats in Florida, as well as other sensitive wildlife habitat areas throughout the country. Tell your [...]

July 20th, 2010 | Posted in Action Alert, Oil Drilling | Read More »

Video: NJN – NJ Bat Populations Under Scrutiny

Wildlife experts are keeping a close eye on sharply declining bat populations around the state this summer to evaluate the number of animals killed by mysterious illness.

June 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Video | Read More »

Management Plan Falls Short for California National Monument

Management Plan Falls Short for California National Monument

After nearly a decade of neglect by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, this month California’s Serengeti — the Carrizo Plain National Monument — earned a 10- to 15-year plan to help the feds and their partners manage lands and wildlife. Unfortunately for those lands and wildlife, the plan fails miserably at protections from destructive [...]

May 9th, 2010 | Posted in National | Read More »

Southwest Wildlife Endangered by National Forest Rollbacks

Southwest Wildlife Endangered by National Forest Rollbacks

In a potentially catastrophic move for Arizona and New Mexico’s Sky Island ecosystem, the U.S. Forest Service has proposed a draft land-management plan for the Coronado National Forest that includes sweeping rollbacks for wildlife protection. Not only would the 15-year plan do away with requirements to maintain healthy wildlife populations on the forest — it [...]

May 8th, 2010 | Posted in National | Read More »

Protection on Horizon for Rocky Mountain Fishers

Protection on Horizon for Rocky Mountain Fishers

Due to a scientific petition by groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the northern Rocky Mountains’ rarest predators — if not the rarest predator in the region — has passed the first milestone on the path toward protection. Last Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Rockies population of [...]

May 6th, 2010 | Posted in National | Read More »

Alert: Tell the Feds to Save the Frogs (and 247 Other Species)!

Alert: Tell the Feds to Save the Frogs (and 247 Other Species)!

Frogs and salamanders are disappearing. Two hundred species of amphibians have gone extinct in the past 30 years, and one-third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction — while the federal government stands idly by. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is still refusing to protect 12 U.S. amphibian species declared [...]

May 1st, 2010 | Posted in Endangered Species Act | Read More »

Alert: Movement Protests Military Base to Save Dugong — Take Action With Us

Alert: Movement Protests Military Base to Save Dugong — Take Action With Us

Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., an unprecedented network of more than 500 organizations — with the Center for Biological Diversity among those at the forefront — will send a letter to President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama opposing military development in habitat for the endangered Okinawa dugong. The Network for Okinawa’s letter demands [...]

April 24th, 2010 | Posted in Biodiversity, International | Read More »

Video: NJN – NJDEP to Undercut Endangered Species Protections

State environmental officials are reviewing a program that protects endangered and threatened wildlife around the state. Environmentalists are concerned that changes could undercut protections.

April 16th, 2010 | Posted in Video | Read More »

A ‘Dangerous World’ for Migratory Birds, an Interview with Sarah Lehnen

A ‘Dangerous World’ for Migratory Birds, an Interview with Sarah Lehnen

Sandpiper: Pectoral Sandpiper, originally uploaded by ReinhardG. It may come as a surprise, but American birds are in serious decline. In March of last year, US Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced that one-in-three American birds are endangered. Even once common birds are showing precipitous declines. Birds face a barrage of threats, which are [...]

January 5th, 2010 | Posted in Birding | Read More »

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