Releases of Adult Wolves and Puppies Being Blocked by State’s Game and Fish ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Defenders of Wildlife, the Center of Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) in[Read More…]
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International Dark Sky Designation Illuminates Need for Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument
Preserving Public Land Around America’s Most Iconic National Park Necessary to Protect Grand Canyon’s Night Skies and Wildlife Image of the night sky shows area of the proposed Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument relative to light pollution from cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas. Map by Curtis Bradley,[Read More…]
Be a Citizen Scientist for a Day
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Even if being a scientist isn’t your day job, there are lots of ways to contribute to scientific research about the natural world. From counting monarch butterflies to studying plant growth and tweeting earthquake locations, citizen science empowers the public to help scientists conduct and inform[Read More…]
Immediate Habitat Protection Sought for Killer Whales Along West Coast
100,000 Sign Petition Seeking Critical Habitat Protections Beyond Puget Sound SEATTLE—(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Conservation groups and more than 100,000 people today called on the Obama administration to immediately expand protected critical habitat for Southern Resident killer whales along the West Coast. The population remains critically endangered with just 83 individuals[Read More…]
More than 450 Environmental, Landowner, Indigenous Rights and Allied Organizations to Congress: Pending Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Oppose Trans Pacific Partnership
WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Today, in the largest display of opposition to the environmental impacts of two pending trade deals, more than 450 groups called on members of Congress to commit to vote against the toxic Trans-Pacific Partnership and to demand changes to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. “We[Read More…]
E.U. Countries Delay Approval of Toxic Chemical in RoundUp
Representatives from E.U. countries postpone vote on authorizing use of glyphosate WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Today in Brussels representatives from the European Union (E.U.) failed to pass a temporary reauthorization of glyphosate – a toxic chemical in the common pesticide RoundUp determined by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be[Read More…]
‘Go Wild for Life,’ UN Says on World Environment Day
Girls dressed in traditional clothes and with their faces and bodies painted in white dance during the official opening of a school for rangers and the environment, at the opening of the World Environment Day activities in Menongue, in the province of Cuando-Cubango, Angola, June 4, 2016. Photo: UNEP NEW[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell, National Park Service Director Jarvis Announce New National Recreation, Water Trails
New Trails Help Promote Obama Administration’s Effort to Increase Outdoor Recreational Opportunities, Connection to Nature WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2016. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of six local and state National Recreation Trails, adding more than 350[Read More…]
The Golden-cheeked Warbler Avoids Sure Path to Extinction, Remains Protected
Efforts to Undermine the Endangered Species Act Fail as US Fish and Wildlife Service Rejects Junk Science Golden-cheeked Warbler. Photo: Christian Moynihan/Audubon Photography Awards AUSTIN, Tex.—(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2016. Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its decision to keep the Golden-cheeked Warbler on the endangered species list, ignoring[Read More…]
IDNR Conducting Survey, Planning Statewide Summit on Coordinating Monarch Butterfly Conservation in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, IL –(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2016. Identifying ways to improve and increase habitat for monarch butterflies in Illinois is the focus of a new online survey this month and a planned conservation summit meeting in Springfield this September. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), along with partners representing agriculture, transportation[Read More…]
