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US has failed to protect marine life, say conservationists
2013-07-09 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmentalists on Monday filed a petition with the U.S. government requesting regulatory safeguards for 81 particularly vulnerable marine wildlife species, from corals to sharks. According to WildEarth Guardians, a conservation watchdog, U.S. officials have failed to protect ocean-dwelling species at anywhere near the rate received by animals that live on land, despite legislative and executive mandates to do so. More importantly, the group suggests, the relevant science does not support such...
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Conservationists fear Victoria's cuts to logging green tape
2013-06-27 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Victorian government has amended the state's logging laws in a move conservationists fear will transfer control to the timber industry and could doom endangered species such as the Leadbeater's Possum. The Sustainable Forests (Timber) Amendment Bill, which passed the lower house on Thursday, reduces the regulations binding VicForests, the state-backed forestry business. The bill removes the second part of the two-stage process that VicForests has to go through in order to secure and log...
Many birds under threat as conservationists hunt for answers
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Age: Australia has lost 27 bird species since European settlement, and another 20 are considered at ''imminent risk of extinction'', according to a global report on the health of the world's birdlife. Compiled by BirdLife International, the report lists habitat loss, agricultural expansion, climate change and pollution as among the main threats. Released on Thursday in Canada, the State of the World's Birds report estimates that 1313 of the globe's 10,000-plus bird species are threatened. BirdLife International...
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State needs to resume planning for climate change, say scientists, conservationists
2013-04-06 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangor Daily News: Nearly a dozen of the states top environmental groups turned out at a legislative hearing Thursday to urge the state to revive its plan to help Maine adapt to a changing climate. Testifying before the Legislatures Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, representatives of groups ranging from the Nature Conservancy to the University of Maines Climate Change Institute asked that the state resume work on the report designed to help guide Maine through its looming climate change challenges....
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Canada Inuit, conservationists oppose polar bear trade crackdown
2013-03-05 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Proposals to ban trade in polar bear furs will do little to ensure the animals' long-term future, Canada's Arctic Inuit and two major conservationist groups both say. The United States wants the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to list the bears as endangered at its meeting in Bangkok this week, a move that would prohibit international trade in their body parts and fur. But the Inuit say that would slash one of the few sources of income...