Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Obama administration and the International Whaling Commission want to allow legal hunting again. It's misguided policy. No one was surprised when conservation organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council challenged the anti-environmental policies of President George W. Bush....
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last year, a delegation from the Bristol Bay region traveled to London to attend the Anglo American shareholder meeting and meet with you and your staff. They explained that the proposed project would threaten the way of life for local...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
When Zale Corp., the nation’s second largest retail jeweler, announced this week that it would boycott minerals produced at the proposed Pebble Mine, the reaction of Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively was telling: “Big deal,” he said, meaning, of course,...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
On Earth Day, April 22, 2010, of all days, the British mining giant Anglo American is holding its annual shareholder meeting in London. Anglo American and Northern Dynasty Minerals, its Canadian partner, are scheming to construct one of the world's...
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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I just returned from an extraordinary trip to an even more extraordinary place. Laguna San Ignacio, on the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico is a World Heritage Site, a biosphere reserve, a whale sanctuary, a migratory...
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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Most people have never seen a California condor. Last week, when I arrived at a meeting of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy at a cabin in the heart of the Tejon Ranch north of Los Angeles, a number of these...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today, the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed I co-authored with Bobby Shriver on the fate of a disastrous toll road proposed by the Transportation Corridor Agencies in Southern California. I encourage you to discuss the article: O.C.'s road test Rejection of...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Every once in a while there is a movie so good it's astonishing, and this morning I saw one. It's called The Cove, and it has just been screened at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and standing ovations. ...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Former President Bush may have left DC, but his legacy to degrade national environmental laws and allow the military to circumvent marine mammal protection laws continues. I was disappointed today to see the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issue final...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last week, NRDC settled a significant case with the Navy. In 2005, we challenged mid-frequency active sonar training exercises that were being carried out around the world without the adequate environmental review required by federal law. Despite mounting evidence that...
Posted by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Next Wednesday, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Winter v NRDC, our case challenging the Navy's illegal use of sonar off the southern California coast. As I wrote about previously, NRDC challenged the Navy's refusal...
