Kinship Circle - 2008-12-19 - Exit Strategy 02

The following is excerpted from the Kinship Circle email alert: Kinship Circle: Exit Strategy - The Rush To Ruin Everything.

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2. Bush To Penguins: Get A Life, But Not On Our Dime

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Emperor Penguins, by Michael Van Woert, NOAA

DATE: 12/17/08
SOURCE: Bush Administration Denies Endangered Species Act Protection for
Emperor Penguin; Ice-Dependent Species Imperiled by Global Warming
READ FULL STORY HERE: www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/peng...

The Bush administration today denied protection for the emperor penguin under the Endangered Species Act. The emperor penguin, the most ice-dependant of all penguin species, is threatened by global warming and the consequent loss of its sea-ice habitat, as well as declining food availability wrought by the warming ocean off Antarctica. Today’s decision, made by the Department of the Interior...concluded that global warming impacts were too “uncertain” to warrant protecting the species...

“The denial of protection for the emperor penguin ignores the science on global warming and ignores the law. We are confident it will be overturned by either the courts or the new administration,” said Brendan Cummings, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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