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March 30, 2006

Press Release: New Website for Consumers About Dolphin Safe Tuna
Earth Island Institute’s International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) today announced a new website for consumers and the general public about Dolphin Safe tuna.
Action Alert: Stop Louisiana From Using Pesticide Toxic to Birds
“For the third time in five years, Louisiana is requesting a special exemption for carbofuran use.” From the Center for Biological Diversity.
Action Alert: What's the worst thing you can do to a forest?
”This timber industry’s dream come true just passed out of the House Resources Committee. Please, ask your representative to oppose this ‘log first, ask questions later’ legislation!“ From Earthjustice.
Event: Global Green USA host it’s 10^th Annual Green Cross Millennium Awards
Honorees include William McDonough, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons and Turner Construction and will feature several past honorees including Paul Hawken and Ray Anderson.

March 23, 2006

Action Alert: Please Help Stop the Export of Taiji Dolphins
Taiji Town in Japan is again planning to sell dolphins from the brutal “drive hunt” to China.

March 22, 2006

Event: Announcing the 2006 RIC Conference!
The Rooted In Community conference is for youth around the country to come together to learn how to make a difference in the world and have fun doing it.
Action Alert: Help Stop Gale Norton’s Last Public Lands Giveaway
From the Wilderness Society.

March 21, 2006

News Room: Groups Urge Removal of Logging Executive from Forestry Panel
Weyherhaeuser Has Obvious Financial Conflict of Interest, Groups Say. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Event: Adventures in Urban Nature
Gateway to Golden Gate Park: Prehistoric Pond & Dirt Dwellers. A San Francisco trek with Nature in the City.
Action Alert: Save the Amazon’s Madeira River!
“The Brazilian government is planning to build two massive dams on one of the Amazon’s most important tributaries…” From the International Rivers Network.
Action Alert: Tell Mutual Funds to Take a Stand Against Global Warming
Please sign this petition urging these mutual funds to protect the health and economic well being of current and future generations by supporting meaningful action on global warming today. You don’t have to be a current investor to take action. From SaveOurEnvironment.org.

March 20, 2006

In the News: Letter From Sri Lanka – Lessons learned in a disaster zone
Earth Island Project Ethical Traveler’s Jeff Greenwald featured in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle.
News Room: The Red Panda Project has renovated thier Web site

March 18, 2006

News Room: Court Rejects EPA’s Loosening of Air Rule
Dealing a sharp setback to the Bush administration, a federal appeals court Friday threw out a controversial regulation in the federal government's clean-air program that would have allowed older factories, refineries and power plants to install new equipment without using the most modern anti-pollution devices. From the Los Angeles Times.

March 16, 2006

Action Alert: Roadless Forests Threatened in the Siskiyou
“In a shocking move, the Bush Administration announced plans to log the largest unprotected roadless forest in Oregon.?art of the controversial Biscuit logging project, the Forest Service is pushing this destructive proposal despite the fact that roadless wildlands are supposed to be shielded from logging while state Governors and the Bush Administration negotiate state specific roadless conservation policies.” From the Siskiyou Project.
Action Alert: Save Remote Panama Rainforest from Hydro Dams
Four proposed hydroelectric dam projects threaten free-flowing rivers, rare tropical species, indigenous cultures and a biologically diverse World Heritage Park in the remote rainforest of western Panama. From the Center for Biological Diversity.
Event: What's Natural About Natural Disasters?
Featuring Tom Athanasiou of Earth Island Project Eco-Equity (author of Divided Planet), Sherlina Nager from Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) and Peter Davidson, UCSF director of the UFO Study. Co-sponsored by Nature in the City.

March 10, 2006

News Room: Gale Norton Leaves Interior Post With Dismal 5-Year Record
“Interior Secretary Opened Sensitive Public Lands to Industrial Destruction, Suppressed Science, and Worked to Cut Public Out of the Process.” From The Natural Resources Defense Council.
Action Alert: Arctic Refuge at risk yet again!
“Slipping Arctic drilling into the budget is an irresponsible and destructive abuse of the budget process…“ From Earthjustice.
Action Alert: Plan Threatens Arizona Monuments’ Most Prized Resources
“Remoteness and Wildlife Take Back Seat to Roads, ORVs.” From the Wilderness Society.
Press Release: Scientists Urge Government to Keep Protected Areas for Endangered Sea Turtles
“We would be abandoning our responsibility to do everything we can to prevent them from slipping into the oblivion of extinction.” From the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.

March 9, 2006

News Room: Key vote to ban taking krill from federal waters
Without their krill, the Cassin’s and rhinoceros auklets abandoned eggs in their nests, and common murre, the most populous seabirds in the Farallones, had lower numbers of fledglings. From the San Francisco Chronicle.
In the News: We Can Do It: When it comes to the environment, women lead the way
Earth Island projects Ma’at Youth Academy and Women’s Global Green Action Network are profiled. From SFGate.

March 8, 2006

Event: Rockin’ For Youth
Bay Area indie rock bands "Sleeper" and "Southdowns" will be performing at
this benefit for Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) Wednesday 15 March.
News Room: Buffalo Betrayed by Official Cruelty and Indifference
“This year, more than one in five members of the nation’s largest remaining “free-roaming” herd, located within Yellowstone National Park, will be killed – by slaughter, hazing and maiming – as a result of federal action.” From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

March 7, 2006

Action Alert: National Call-In Day: Call your Senator on March 9^th in support of the Endangered Species Act!
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee may take action on an Endangered Species Act bill as soon as this month.
Press Release: Global outcry over falling forests and failing democracy on Australia’s island state of Tasmania
“Demonstrators delivered a letter signed by leading international sustainability groups to Prime Minister John Howard demanding that the government act in accordance with scientific recommendations to protect Tasmania’s virgin forests…” From Rainforest Action Network.
Event: Feature Film on Tibetan Antelope Conservation
…a fact-based account of the group of Tibetan volunteers known as the "Wild Yak Brigade," who patrolled the wilds of Qinghai province in the 1990s attempting to halt poachers… Co-hosted by the Tibetan Plateau Project.

March 3, 2006

Action Alert: Save the Northwestern Hawai’ian Islands from Wespac’s Plans to Plunder
Wespac has made yet another reckless attempt to propose fishing regulations that violate the law and the goals of the proposed NWHI Sanctuary. From KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance
Press Release: Endangered Species Act 93% Successful in Northeast
Study Finds Species Recovery Will Take Decades, but Progress is Steady. From the Center for Biological Diversity.
Action Alert: Stop the Plan to Log on Tongass’ Kuiu Island
From the Wilderness Society.
Action Alert: Tell EPA that cleaning up the dry cleaners is important and necessary…
EPA is accepting comments on a rule that sets exposure levels for a chemical known as perc used by dry cleaners. From Earthjustice.

March 1, 2006

Event: In search of the Red Panda: Yes, there is another panda!
Join Executive Director and Founder of The Red Panda Project, Brian Williams, for an exploration into the plight of this lesser known but original panda. At the Oakland Zoo, Oakland, California.
News Room: No simple answer seen for drastic decline of delta fish
“The sudden collapse of several fish species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is likely a result of factors including water exports, pesticides, non-native species and even poisonous algae, government scientists testified Monday at a hearing of the House of Representatives Resources Committee.” From the San Francicsco Chronicle.