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June 30, 2005
- Event: LIVE 8 Viewing Party & Networking Event (7/2)
Come take part in this vital moment in history, and unite and network with others in the Bay Area community who share the same passions and concerns you do.
Press Release: Pombo’s Endangered Species Bill Revealed
Seeks to Bury Federal Agencies Under an Avalanche of Paperwork; Promote Industry Lawsuits; Weaken Protection Standards; Bankrupt Conservation Programs. From the Center for Biological Diversity
- Event: International Development Series Panel: Education & Development (7/14)
Our panelists will speak about their own experiences in education and development, both in the United States and abroad. They will highlight their work in this field and touch upon the current challenges they face in accomplishing their goals.
- Event: The 2005 Rooted in Community Conference: the Politics of Food (8/4-7)
A great time for organizations with youth garden programs to meet other youth gardeners, share skills, support each other, have fun, and collaborate.
June 24, 2005
- News Room: IWC conference wraps up in Korea
Read ECO, the voice of enviromentalists at the IWC annual meeting
June 21, 2005
- News Room: Japan’s call to resume whale-hunting rejected
The International Whaling Commission has rejected Japan’s call to resume regulated commercial whaling and end the 19-year moratorium on whale hunts. From NewScientist.
- News Room: ECO: Whale Experts Blast Japan Culling · Foot in Mouth · RMS Mess · Plurality Reality · Don't Eat the Meat
The second day of the IWC conference...
- Event: San Francisco Natural History Series (6/23)
Come hear about the mission, goals, and objectives of the brand new Nature in the City Project. This will be an interactive presentation during which Peter Brastow, the Project Director, will welcome feedback, suggestions, and ideas for initiating this exciting effort for the conservation and restoration of nature in San Francisco, and how to successfully carve out a sustainable niche for this new organization.
June 20, 2005
- News Room: Report from the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting's first day
ECO, the environmentalist voice at the IWC will be published each day this week...
- News Room: Land Study on Grazing Denounced — Two retired specialists say Interior excised their warnings on the effects on wildlife and water.
The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study. From the Los Angeles Times.
June 14, 2005
- Action Alert: Defeat the Energy Bill
The Senate energy bill will do nothing to end the high prices of gasoline and natural gas, puts our national security at risk by making us more dependent on foreign oil, and opens the door for oil and gas drilling in our most treasured wild places. From SaveOurEnvironment.org.
- Event and Action Alert: Japan Dolphin Day: Abolish the Slaughter
Our Japanese colleagues tell us that outside pressure can stop the dolphin slaughter. So why not give the Japanese decision-makers some serious, outside international media pressure? The goal is to make this the biggest global protest against the annual dolphin slaughter in history...
- Press Release and Action Alert: Armenia’s Shikahogh Nature Reserve and Mtnadzor Forest at Great Risk
Armenia, a country which historically had forest cover of 40-45 percent, is today at perilous risk of becoming completely deforested. From Armenia Tree Project.
June 9, 2005
- News Room: New Project: Nature in the City
The mission of the Nature in the City Project is to restore a positive human connection with urban nature, leading to urban ecological sustainability. By fostering public education, community empowerment and stewardship, networked collaboration, government reform, and scientific data collection, policy analysis and advocacy, we will demonstrate that cities and communities can restore indigenous urban biodiversity and live dynamically and harmoniously with wild nature in the city.
June 7, 2005
- In the News: Vacation volunteers
Travelers who ‘want to give back’, donate time and money to relief efforts around the world. The writer returns to his native Thailand to clear debris left by the tsunami. From Newsday.
- Action Alert: Business Owners and Managers: Support the Endangered Species Act
If you own or manage a business, please consider signing this letter from the business community to Congress supporting the Endangered Species Act. From the Endangered Species Coalition.
- In the News: $30,000 grant to aid area nature preserve
Funds will go to restore native plants. From the Ventura County Star.
- Action Alert: Protect Roadless Siskiyou Forests
Part of the monstrous Biscuit logging project, these roadless logging sales could be the first in the nation since the popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule was approved in 2001. From the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Campaign.
June 3, 2005
- Action Alert: Ask Secretary Norton to Make the National Landscape Conservation System a BLM Priority
On the NLCS' 5th Anniversary, the the agency in charge of it is falling short of its responsibility, putting these lands at risk. From the Wilderness Society.
June 2, 2005
- Press Release: 68 Bay Area Conservation Groups Call for San Francisco to Restore Alameda Creek
A letter today to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Submitted by The Alameda Creek Alliance
- Get Involved: Wilderness Training and Equipment Intern for BAWT
San Francisco, California, June 2005 —- Aug/Sept 2005
June 1, 2005
- Press Release: Court of Appeals Unanimously Denies Intervention of Mexican and Venezuelan Tuna Industries
Earth Island Institute’s International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) is celebrating an important legal victory for dolphins in the US Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel unanimously turned down an attempt by the tuna industries of Mexico and Venezuela to intervene in the case on the side of the Bush Administration.
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