Posted by Joel Reynolds in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Pebble Limited Partnership CEO John Shively was on the stump last week asking people to withhold judgment, to wait and see whether the consortium of foreign mining corporations behind the massive Pebble Mine project proposed for the watershed above Bristol...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) today released a report by the Chair of a small subcommittee charged with negotiating a compromise on a “way forward” for the IWC. There is much discussion in the report about conservation, science, monitoring, governance,...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment
Many people know about NRDC's on-going battle to save whales and dolphins from ear-splitting military sonar. After watching an extraordinary and award-winning new movie, The Cove, hopefully many more will learn about the current battle to save thousands of dolphins...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In yesterday's New York Times Magazine ("Watching Whales Watch Us"), author Charles Siebert lays out a compelling case for what many people have long suspected: that great whales are conscious, social, interactive animals with complex social structures and cultures. The...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Reviving the World's Oceans
If the Supreme Court decides to review the case of high intensity Navy sonar, as the Wall Street Journal yesterday urged, it will do well to ignore the Journal’s error-riddled editorial (“Judge Ahab and the Whales,” June 19). There is...
