CITES Faces Political Storm over Tuna Ban

Inter Press Service
by Matthew Berger

WASHINGTON, Mar 6, 2010 (IPS) - The vast majority of the species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, live on land, but as marine species come under increasing pressure from unsustainable fishing and a range of climate change-related threats that focus is beginning to shift...

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A LONGER LIFE

Conservation International
January 12, 2010
By Molly Bergen

In the Galápagos Islands, a new technology is protecting species, promoting the tourism economy and saving lives – all in a day’s work...

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Clean water, a healthy planet and a clean energy future for America.

Clean Water Action
November 5, 2009

Climate and energy legislation are vitally important to the success of our economy and the health our environment. America's energy policy should be driven by clean energy incentives and firm limits on carbon pollution, which will help drive America's economic recovery. We must invest in energy efficient technologies which would create hundreds of thousands of new construction, energy service, and building maintenance and operations jobs by 2020, and ultimately reduce consumers' energy bills.

Your Senators needs to hear from you today - negotiations are getting fiercer and we need to pass a bill which is strong enough to solve our economic and climate crises. We know we need to make the reductions that science tells us are needed while rejecting handouts to polluters and subsidies for dirty, expensive, and unsafe technologies, like coal and nuclear.

We, the people, have the tools to act and the ability to create clean energy jobs - as a country, we've overcome tremendous hurdles in the past, and this time will be no different.

Please don't delay - send the message below to your Senators right now. They are waiting to hear from you...

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Help protect endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica

Natural Resources Defense Council
August 31, 2009

We need your immediate help to save one of the few remaining populations of leatherback turtles found in Costa Rica.

The Costa Rican government is considering a proposal to downgrade Las Baulas National Marine Park -- home to the critically endangered leatherback turtle -- in a move that could be devastating for the turtles.

Please urge the Costa Rican government to maintain national park status for Las Baulas.
If the park is downgraded, it would allow for development in sensitive areas near the turtles' nesting sites. Leatherback turtles return year after year to Las Baulas to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched, and any development has the potential to disrupt this delicate cycle.

The leatherback population in the Pacific Ocean has already plummeted 90% in the last 20 years. Today, fewer than 1,000 of these magnificent creatures survive in the entire eastern Pacific.

With leatherback turtles so perilously close to extinction, it is unconscionable to allow more development that could endanger their few remaining nesting sites.

Tell the Costa Rican government to reject the proposal to downgrade Las Baulas National Marine Park.

Thank you for taking action to protect Costa Rica's wildlife.

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Save Bristol Bay

EarthWorks
August 2009

ACT NOW to Urge the Obama Administration to Protect the World's Richest Salmon Fishery...

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Watching Whales Watching Us

By CHARLES SIEBERT
Published: July 8, 2009
New York Times Magazine

In a Baja lagoon, something is going on between whales and marine biologists. Is it interspecies communication?

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Help Make Overfishing a Thing of the Past!

Ocean Conservancy

Be one of the first to play our brand-new "Go, Fish!" game and help put an end to overfishing. Each time a new player completes the game, a generous supporter will donate $1 to help us end overfishing!