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Posted December 29, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- antarctica, australia, belugawhale, biogems, bluewhale, bowheadwhale, chineseriverdolphin, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, esa, finwhale, graywhale, guadalupefurseal, gulfofcaliforniaharborporpoise, hawaiianmonkseal, humpbackwhale, indusriverdolphin, japan, killerwhale, manatee, marinemammals, mediterraneanmonkseal, northatlanticrightwhale, northpacificrightwhale, nrdc, polarbears, russia, saimaaseal, seals, seaotter, seiwhale, southernocean, southernrightwhale, spermwhale, spottedseal, stellersealion, taiji, thecove, wales, whales, whaling
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). Happy Birthday Endangered Species Act!!! Thirty-eight years ago, President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act and it’s been under attack ever since. NRDC has been fighting anti-environmental...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, arctic, atlantic, belugawhale, beringsea, biogems, BP, canada, china, chukchisea, dolphins, endangeredspecies, europeanunion, gulfcoastdisaster, gulfofmexico, harborseal, harpseal, iucn, marinemammals, narwhal, nunavut, russia, seals, unusualmortalityevent, wales, walrus, whales, worldtradeorganization
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). More than 100 beluga whales are trapped in ice floes in Russia’s far north-east. The whales face exhaustion and death if a channel doesn’t open up that will...continued→
Posted December 21, 2011 by Karen Garrison in Reviving the World's Oceans
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- MarineLifeProtectionAct, marineprotectedareas, marinereserves, MLPA, nationalparks, oceans
(Credit: Octavio Aburto-Oropeza/Marine Photobank) World peace remains elusive, yet as 2011 draws to a close, I’m heartened by the terrific progress California has made toward restoring the bounty of our seas and the marine habitats that keep visitors coming to...continued→
Posted December 15, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- antarctica, arctic, beakedwhale, biogems, bluewhale, climatechange, dolphins, japan, pacific, polarbears, solomonislands, sonar, southerncalifornia, spermwhale, taiji, thecove, wales, walrus, washington, whales
News in the world of whales. Here's a last-minute gift idea: holiday gifts that save wildlife. NRDC has a green gifts initiative where you can dispense with trying to find the perfect gift for the caring people on your holiday list. No...continued→
Posted December 15, 2011 by David Newman in Living Sustainably, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
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- fish, fisheries, MAFMC, summerflounder, sustainablefisheries
There’s good news to report: a recent scientific assessment has confirmed that summer flounder, or fluke as it’s more commonly known, has been restored to a healthy population level after decades of overfishing. The reasons for this success: disciplined...continued→
Posted December 14, 2011 by Taryn Kiekow in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- beluga, biogems, commercialwhaling, cookinletbelugawhale, gifts, giving, greengifts, holidays, internationalwhalingcommission, iwc, pebblemine, rightwhales, sonar, stoppebblemine
If you’re like me, you wait to the very last second to buy gifts. Luckily, NRDC has made it easy this year to buy environmentally friendly (and tax deductible) gifts with its Green Gifts. The holiday season is already in...continued→
Posted December 13, 2011 by Zak Smith in Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- boem, BP, bureauofoceanenergy, deepwater, deepwaterhorizon, endangeredspecies, fisheries, gulfcoast, gulfcoastdisaster, gulfofmexico, gulfspill, nrdc, oilspill
NRDC initiated legal action today against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for violating our most basic of environmental laws when it decided to move forward with an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico without...continued→
Posted December 6, 2011 by Seth Atkinson in Reviving the World's Oceans, U.S. Law and Policy
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- fisheries, fisheriesmanagement, natureconservancy, newyorktimes, NMFS, partnership
Last week, the New York Times published an article profiling a successful partnership between fishermen and The Nature Conservancy in Morro Bay, California. In this partnership, The Nature Conservancy bought up multiple fishing boats and permits, and has worked with...continued→
Posted December 1, 2011 by Zak Smith in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alabama, alaska, antarctica, belugawhale, biogems, BP, brazil, canada, cardiff, chile, cookinlet, dolphins, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, europeanunion, extinct, gulfcoast, gulfofmexico, killerwhale, mississippi, nationaloceanicatmosphericadministration, noaa, northatlanticrightwhale, nrdc, rightwhale, seals, spinnerdolphin
News in the world of whales this week and from last week (or close to it). The endangered North Atlantic right whale (there are likely less than 400 left in the world) is heading south for the winter....continued→
Posted November 26, 2011 by Brad Sewell in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- atlanticmenhaden, fish, fisheries, menhaden, oceans, overfishing, riverherring
After the Mayflower landed on Cape Cod, Tisquantum—a Native American better known as Squanto, who lived among the nearby Wompanoag tribe—taught the Pilgrims how to properly fish in Massachusetts’s estuaries. Seafood, in fact, likely played a much larger role in...continued→
