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Death of a Snow Leopard in Afghanistan
A sad story, as written by Tim McGirk in the weekly Time magazine reports that a hunter caught the magnificent snow leopard in Afghanistan, took him to a town where he could have sold it for at least US$ 50,000,...
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Fifteen Thousand Protest Dam
"Around fifteen thousand citizens of Reykjavik joined television journalist and environmental activist Ómar Ragnarsson last night on a protest walk down Laugavegur to Austurvöllur in the city centre. People were...Shoppers' Thirst for Palm Oil Threatens to Wipe out Orangutan
"An estimated 5,000 orangutans are killed each year in Malaysia and Indonesia by the burning of vast tracts of virgin forest to supply the world's growing demand for palm oil. Building roads to the plantations has...Big Win for Environmentalists: Another Loss for Bush & Oil Barons
Fantastic news! Late last night, after months of intense pressure from millions of pro-environment activists like you, the House leadership dropped its plan to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife...David Brower: The Greatest American Hero
If you've ever wondered what a single person can do against the relentless onslaught of development, wait until you see the charismatic and enigmatic David Brower push the 1964 Wilderness Act through Congress,...IOL: Absence of wolves affects Canadian ecosystem
Montreal - The absence of key predators like wolves has substantially disturbed the ecological balance of Canada's vast forests, leading to a decrease in the numbers of certain trees, birds and even beavers,...Recordings Convince Skeptics That Ivory Bills Are Not Extinct - New York Times
The phoenix had nothing on the ivory-billed woodpecker. It is hard to keep track of how many times this near-mythic bird, the largest American woodpecker and a poignant symbol of extinction and disappearing forests, has been lost and then found. Now it is found again.Where the Human Footprint Is Lightest - New York Times
PRISTINE lands, by the strictest definition, no longer exist. Atmospheric pollution has settled on every earthly surface; human-induced climate change is affecting ecosystems across the planet, scientists say.
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