Go Go GO! E. Fudd From Care2: Shark Fin Sales Could Soon Be Banned in New York New York legislators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would ban the sale, trading, distribution and possession of shark fins in the state by as early as 2013. Similar laws have been passed in California, Hawaii, Oregon and […]
from Care2: Big Cat Week Did you know that there are now more tigers living in captivity than there are in the wild? The big cats of the world are disappearing at alarming rates. National Geographic Society and Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, launched the Big Cats Initiative to help spread the word and hopefully […]
Code Green hits it on the head, per usual. E. Fudd From The New York Times: Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death
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Sign the Avaaz petition noted below, and thanks!: Our oceans are being systematically destroyed and we have 48 hours to raise the alarm. The seafood industry uses long chains of heavy metal disks to drag nets across the sea floor in search of fish, crushing everything in their path. This bottom-trawling is like clear-cutting a […]
From Care2: California Shark Fin Ban One Step Closer To Law A bill that would make it illegal to sell, trade, or posses shark fins in California passed the State’s Senate Appropriations Committee today on a 5-2 vote. The bill, officially known as AB 376, will now move to the Senate floor, where a vote […]
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(reprinted from the Care2 article) Environmentalists from the Wild Equity Institute are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Fransciscan manzanita as an endangered species. There is currently only one specimen of the shrub, which grows close to the ground and has narrow, pointed leaves, near the 1,500-acre national park near the […]
let’s keep it up! link here. E. Fudd