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What's New Archives, January 2007
January 31, 2007
- News Room: Update – Dominican Republic to Import 12 "Show" Dolphins from Japan's Secret Killing Cove – Aquarium Industry Implicated
January 30, 2007
January 25, 2007
- Action Alert: Tell Congress to ensure Navy's sonar exercises comply with environmental laws
"The Defense Department this week issued an official exemption that allows the Navy to conduct their sonar training exercises in direct violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act for another two years." From In Defense of Animals.
- Press Release: Largest Youth Mobilization on Global Warming: Events on 575 Campuses
An Inconvenient Truth Screenings Will Anchor Week of Action, Jan. 29 – Feb. 2. From Energy Action Coalition.
January 24, 2007
- Press Release: Rumah Nyawin DEMOLISHED by Sarawak gov't-- Iban community devastated, seeks emergency assistance
On 4 January, the Land and Survey Department Sarawak demolished Rumah Nyawin, an Iban longhouse along the Bintulu-Bakun road. Over 200 enforcement officers from the Land and Survey Department, accompanied by 20 police, descended without warning on the longhouse at 8 in the morning and forced out the 120 residents. While the longhouse people looked on, two excavators and two chainsaws flattened their home. From the Borneo Project.
- In the News: Reef Protection International Profiled
In National Wildlife's Green Consumer
- Action Alert: Stop Salvage Logging on the Grand Canyon's North Rim
From the Center for Biological Diversity.
- News Room: Borneo Project new documentary online: Rumah Nor: A Land Rights Test for Malaysia
An Iban Dayak community in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo describes ten years of struggle to protect ancestral rainforests, using letter writing, blockades, community mapping and legal action against Borneo Pulp and Paper and the Sarawak government.
- Action Alert: America's Songbirds At-Risk: Help Keep Deadly Towers Out of Their Way
As more and more cell phone, radio, and digital television towers are built, the escalating kills could soon spell disaster for many already at-risk songbirds like the Bell’s Vireo, Golden-winged Warbler, and Bachman’s Sparrow.
Thankfully, simple improvements to the structure, location, lighting, and other details of new communication towers can significantly reduce the numbers of birds killed each year. From Earthjustice.
January 23, 2007
- News Room: Chicken of the Sea International Instructs Suppliers to Stop Doing Business with Gillnet Operation
"Enforcing its long-standing policy on maintaining the sustainability of the world's oceans and stewardship of the environment, Chicken of the Sea International this week called on its tuna suppliers to suspend business practices with Far Ocean Sea Products of Singapore." From BusinessWire.
January 18, 2007
- Press Release: Dominican Republic to Import 12 "Show" Dolphins from Japan Slaughter Pens
Environmental organizations revealed today that two American aquarium specialists are poised to transfer of twelve bottlenose dolphins from Japanese slaughter pens to a Dominican Republic aquarium, Ocean World Adventure Park. From the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition.
- Action Alert: Act Now to End Overfishing of Gulf Red Snapper
"Right now we are at a critical juncture that can lead to key conservation measures being put in place within the next few months…" From the Ocean Conservancy.
January 17, 2007
- News Room: Ton Sang Replaces Temaru as President of French Polynesia
Reflections on the Accomplishments of the Outgoing President re: Nuclear Testing. From La France nucleaire.
- Event: Climate Week of Action
January 29 through February 2 young people will speak to their campus and political leaders about how the decisions they make today will directly affect the world we inherit tomorrow.
January 16, 2007
- Event: Sixth Annual Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival
"We invite you to attend this year’s exhilarating presentation as we explore our world and see how people can make a difference."
- In the News: Japan Times 11 January, 2007 – Mercury level acute; store pulls dolphin
Meat sample from Okuwa chain contained levels 13.5 times state limit
- Action Alert: Exotic Bumblebees Threaten Native Pollinators
"The introduction of exotic bumblebees could worsen the plight of our native bumblebees by potentially introducing new pathogens into native bumblebee populations." From the Center for Biological Diversity.
- In the News: £25,000: What brutal hunters in Japan charge for catching a dolphin
From The Independent 14 January 2007
- Action Alert: Keep Steens Spectacular
"Steens is an ideal place for quiet backcountry recreation and experiences, and is a jewel in our National Landscape Conservation System." From the Wilderness Society.
January 11, 2007
January 9, 2007
- News Room: The Okuwa Supermarket has announced that the ban on selling dolphin meat is now PERMANENT!
- In the News: Bloodbath: Japan's dolphin cull gets underway
From The Independent, 6 January 2007
- Get Involved: KIDS for the BAY is seeking a Development Coordinator
- In the News: Mercury poisoning may save whales
From Animal People, January 2007
- In the News: An Interview with Ric O'Barry on Dolphins in Japan
The Samurai Dolphin Man and the Japan Connection
January 3, 2007
- Alert / News Room: Far Ocean Sea Products, Singapore
Earth Island Institute has issued a warning to fish processors, brokers, and trade offices that Far Ocean Sea Products of Singapore is apparently selling albacore tuna at below market prices that was caught in gill nets. Tuna companies approved as Dolphin Safe by Earth Island should refuse tuna fished with gillnets. From the International Marine Mammal Project.
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