Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
During the past couple of weeks, the future of Costa Rica’s Las Baulas National Marine Park - and the leatherback turtles that nest on its beaches - was hanging in the balance. Several members of the Legislative National Assembly...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
For more than two decades, NRDC has been one of organizations that submits nominations each year for the Goldman Environmental Prize. The Goldman Prize honors “grassroot environmental heroes” for “sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment,...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last night I spoke with Randall Arauz, the winner of a 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, about the challenges of conservation work. Randall is from Costa Rica, a country which in many ways has done a lot to preserve its natural...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Protecting and restoring the world's rainforests is critical to preserve biodiversity. Tropical forests are teeming with life - covering just about 6% of the earth's surface they are home to between half and three fourth of all plant and animal...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Over the last week or so, I have been blogging about the impacts of climate change on several of our BioGems. From the tundra of America's Arctic in Alaska to the tropics of Costa Rica, all of our BioGems are...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The Heart of the Boreal Forest is a breathtaking expanse of woodlands, marshes and over 1.5 million lakes straddling the border between the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. The forest is a haven for caribou, wolves and wolverines, great...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Costa Rica is home to an estimated 500,000 plant and animal species - about 4% of the Earth's total. Jaguars, ocelots and sloths inhabit its rainforests and rare turtles, dolphins, and sharks are found in the oceans to its east and west....
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In August, I was able to spend a week in the Tongass National Forest with a NRDC group led by our Founding Director John Adams. Spanning 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest forest...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
NRDC's President, Frances Beinecke, traveled last July to the Peace-Athabasca Delta BioGem in Alberta, Canada. She wrote in her blog about the visit that: All four major bird flyways in North America converge in one spot in the boreal, right...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Bristol Bay in Alaska is NRDC's newest BioGem. The Bay's watershed sits on the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Its massive salmon runs provide food for grizzlies, wolves, eagles, beluga whales and...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
One of the planet's last truly wild frontiers, the America's Arctic BioGem is a landscape of dramatic mountain ranges, frozen tundra, and ice-sheets. It is home to remarkable species capable of enduring the harshest conditions, like the polar bear, caribou,...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Eight years ago, I helped launch NRDC's BioGems Initiative to protect threatened special natural places throughout the Americas - ranging from the Alaska's Arctic to Chile's Patagonia. We have worked very hard to ensure that these treasured wildlands — and...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The BioGems Initiatve is not only about preserving the last remaining sanctuaries of wildlife. It's also about protecting and supporting the communities that are in these areas or surround them. Through BioGems, NRDC helps to assure that these people have...
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Over the years, NRDC's BioGems have ranged in size from that of a small desert lagoon to vast expanses of forests, mountains, and wilderness. Each of these places is a true natural treasure worth saving on its own merit....
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Check out the new NRDC BioGems website at www.savebiogems.org. It is a next step in the evolution of NRDC's advocacy. In 1970, NRDC was founded as a public interest law firm; and over the last 38 years, we have continued...
