This alert from Defenders of Wildlife deserves your immediate attention! The wolves of central Idaho are preparing to give birth to this year’s litters of baby pups. But these pups — and their families — may not live to see winter. Idaho’s Department of Fish and Game has announced that they will target the Buffalo [...]
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Defenders of Wildlife asks us to send a letter to President Obama and urge him to maintain Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone and Northern Rockies wolves. There’s a one-click letter you can edit and send on the Defenders’ Web site. Wolves are important predators in many ecosystems and we must reverse this Bush/Cheney ruling [...]
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I just got news from Defenders of Wildlife that is shocking and demands action. Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that he would follow the discredited path of the Bush Administration and delist wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone region. This is a stunning development, just six weeks into the Obama Administration. This [...]
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Karen Dawn puts it all together and ties it with a nice bow. Read, enjoy, get active. It is Christmas, which means before I go have a beautiful veggie meal with my loved ones and then retire for a week, I get to send out my round up of the major animal stories in the [...]
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Recently, the Washington Post reported that the Bush/Cheney Administration will issue a whole bunch of last-minute regulatory changes affecting everything you can imagine. The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private [...]
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Defenders of Wildlife announces Wolf Awareness Week in time for the start of Alaska’s aerial wolf hunting season. Check out the ways you can help preserve our majestic wolves: Another season of brutal aerial killing is about to begin in Alaska. Lobos in the Southwest and red wolves in North Carolina — some of the [...]
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Holy smackdown! I just got this note from the Center for Biological Diversity and it’s good news! In Response to Center Suit, Feds Put Wolf Back on Endangered Species List, Abandon Plan to Kill Hundreds of Wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Breaking news! The Bush administration today announced it will abandon its defense of [...]
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There just isn’t any good news of late; at least that’s how it seems. In my previous post about the ABC News special report about orangutans and deforestation, I found some great comments left by visitors. The first comment by Richard Zimmerman, director of Orangutan Outreach, invites us to visit the Web site and learn [...]
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