Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last month, the U.S. government made a courageous decision to stop imports of wild-caught shrimp from Mexico due to lack of compliance with US and Mexican turtle protection laws. U.S. inspections confirmed that many of the Mexican trawlers were not...
Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The World Series is heating up, but for me, the real home run from the past week is Mexico's decision to severely limit shrimp trawling in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico -- the only home of the world's last...
Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
It seems that every time we've secured a step forward for saving the highly endangered vaquita marina porpoise, we are then asked to take two steps back. A proposal from local fishermen this month to use large, industrial size...
Posted by Ani Youatt in Environmental Justice , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
One of the key issues in Copenhagen climate change negotiations in December will be the creation of an international superstructure to provide incentives, and ultimately payments, to combat deforestation in tropical countries. As delegates from around the world gathered in...
Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I have been working for three years to save a species that almost no one has ever seen. Only a handful of fishermen and scientists have caught a glimpse of the rare and elusive vaquita porpoise that lives uniquely in...
