News Room

2007

• Autumn 2007 Earth Island Journal is now available online
  — 10 January, 08
• Energy Action Coalition Youth Applaud House for Passing a Strong Energy Bill as a Down Payment for their Future
  A response to the House's passage of a strong energy bill
  — 6 December, 07
• Reality Check on the Nuclear Industry
  — 28 November, 07
• Six Ibans Arrested for Defending Their Lands
  By Ini Andan, Sarawak Dayak Iban Association, Kuching, Sarawak.
  — 24 October, 07
• Iceland stops whale-hunting quotas after low demand
  "Nearly a year after ending its ban on commercial whaling, Iceland will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until market demand increases and it gets an export license from Japan…"
  — 31 August, 07
• Elaho Valley Saved!
  The British Columbia government and the Squamish Nation today jointly announced a land use plan agreement for a large portion of the Sea to Sky Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) of the Squamish-Whistler Region of southwest BC
  — 8 August, 07
• Federal Court Ruling on Dolphin-safe Tuna Becomes Final
  Bush Administration Forgoes Supreme Court Appeal
  — 2 August, 07
• Taiji officials: Dolphin meat ‘toxic waste’
  Assembly pair break taboo, warn of acute mercury risk in school lunches
  — 2 August, 07
• Spring 2007 Earth Island Journal is now available online
  Winter edition archived with full content
  — 27 July, 07
• Beach lighting a big problem for sea turtle hatchlings
  Texas builders and homeowners should learn from the mistakes made in Florida
  — 27 July, 07
• Dubai should prohibit importation of live dolphins From Solomon Islands
  Import would violate Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
  — 3 July, 07
• IUCN Scientists Oppose Dolphin Export From Solomon Islands
  Export would violate Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
  — 26 June, 07
• Endangered Sea Turtles Recieve Vital Protections from Drift Gillnets
  Proposed Permit for Deadly Nets off California and Oregon Denied
  — 13 June, 07
• Solomons capture sparks fears of live dolphin exports
  The capture of 20 wild dolphins in the Solomon Islands has sparked fears among environmental groups that the government will overturn a ban on dolphin exports.
  — 7 June, 07
• ASISERVY Restored to Dolphin Safe Company List
  — 25 May, 07
• ECO, the environmentalists' voice at the International Whaling Commission's annual Meeitng
  First issue from Anchorage, Alaska is now online
  — 25 May, 07
• Tolerance not Slaughter
  Groups Ask Agencies to Use Discretion to Protect Bison. From the Buffalo Field Campaign.
  — 24 May, 07
• Vodnjan Rejects Dolphinarium
  From Animal Friends Croatia
  — 17 May, 07
• Winter 2007Earth Island Journal is now online
  The Autumn 2006 edition is archived with full content.
  — 10 May, 07
• Of Dolphins and Decency
  From the Panama News
  — 8 May, 07
• Plutonium and the French elections
  Royal has promised to repeal the authorization for construction of an EPR and to launch a new debate on the energy future of France. Sarkozy favors strengthening the nuclear industry in France
  — 3 May, 07
• Us Court Of Appeals Rejects Bush Administration Bid To Weaken The "Dolphin Safe" Tuna Label
  — 29 April, 07
• U.S. court rebuffs Bush on tuna ban
  White House chided for trying to loosen 'dolphin-safe' rules. From the San Francisco Chronicle
  — 28 April, 07
• The WildeBeat Joins Earth Island Institute
  Media Project Set to Bring Wilderness News and Features to Wider Audience
  — 28 April, 07
• Chevron Facing Multi-Billion Dollar Liability as Landmark Environmental Lawsuit Nears End
  Chevron Management Must Inform Investors, Prepare for Possible "Rainforest Chernobyl" Judgment. From Amazon Watch
  — 24 April, 07
• Cruise on down to our dumping ground
  Canada has never fined a cruise ship for a violation and is unlikely to do so under current guidelines. From straight.com
  — 24 April, 07
• California Fish & Game Commission Adopts Final Marine Protected Area Plan for Central Coast
  First phase of statewide network of MPAs is a landmark achievement seven years in the making.
  — 19 April, 07
• Groups dismissed from timber lawsuit
  "They've been dismissed from the case," Rachel Fazio -- an attorney with the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, one of the environmental groups suing the Forest Service -- said of the Tuolumne County groups. From the Union Democrat.
  — 21 March, 07
• Life Cycle Assessment Essential to Nanotech Commercial Development
  from the Nanotech project
  — 21 March, 07
• The mountain that will spit poison
  From the Daily Southtown
  — 21 March, 07
• National Memorial for the Mountains
  ...an online memorial that identifies and tells the stories of more than 470 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal, was included as featured content in Google Earth
  — 15 March, 07
• GMO corn causes liver, kidney problems in rats: study
  ...rats fed for 90 days on Monsanto's MON863 maize showed "signs of toxicity" in the liver and kidneys.
  — 15 March, 07
• New Hawaii Swordfish Longlining Proposal to Close Loophole Welcomed
  Environmental groups call for further protections
  — 22 February, 07
• Navy rejects California panel's restrictions on use of sonar
  — 21 February, 07
• Cruise ship waste: All ashore?
  Port urged to consider treating it for farms
  — 14 February, 07
• Victory!
  Salt River Project Abandons Attempt to Re-Open Mohave Generating Station
  — 8 February, 07
• Dominican President will be asked to halt dolphin imports
  From Dominican Today
  — 7 February, 07
• Food Lion Suspends All Purchase of Tuna from Mexican Dolphin-Deadly Brand
  The suspension was the result of documentation provided by Earth Island that the tuna is caught by the intentional chasing and capture of dolphins.
  — 1 February, 07
• Largest Youth Mobilization on Global Warming: Events on 575 Campuses
  An Inconvenient Truth Screenings Will Anchor Week of Action, Jan. 29 – Feb. 2
  — 25 January, 07
• Reef Protection International Profiled
  In National Wildlife's Green Consumer
  — 24 January, 07
• Borneo Project 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.
  — 24 January, 07
• Rumah Nyawin DEMOLISHED by Sarawak gov't-- Iban community devastated, seeks emergency assistance
  On 4 January 2007, Sarawak's Land and Survey Department demolished Rumah Nyawin, an Iban longhouse near Bintulu. Over 200 enforcement officers from Land and Survey, along with 20 police, arrived without warning at 8am, forcing out the 120 residents and d
  — 24 January, 07
• Dominican Republic to Import 12 "Show" Dolphins from Japan Slaughter Pens
  Aquarium Industry Subsidizes the Japanese Dolphin Slaughter
  — 18 January, 07
• Ton Sang Replaces Temaru as President of French Polynesia
  Reflections on the Accomplishments of the Outgoing President re: Nuclear Testing. From La France nucleaire.
  — 17 January, 07
• Major Japanese Supermarket Chain Permanently Bans All Sale Of Dolphin Meat
  — 11 January, 07
• Far Ocean Sea Products, Singapore
  apparently selling albacore tuna at below market prices that was caught in gill nets...
  — 3 January, 07

Q4 2006

• Some Really Good News from Japan
  Major Japanese Supermarket Chain Bans Sales of Dolphin Meat
  — 30 December, 06
• Winter 2007 Earth Island Journal on newsstands now!
  Special Environmental Education Directory supplement included.
  — 13 December, 06
• Weblog updated on saveTaijiDolphins.org
  "The bluish-gray dolphins are locked up in three separate areas of the killing cove..."
  — 13 December, 06
• Corporate Responsibility and Sacred Sites
  Recognizing the impact of corporations on Native American sacred lands, the Sacred Land Film Project has produced a comprehensive new report exposing the enormity of this threat.
  — 28 November, 06
• Rumah Nyawin victory: "We will not be evicted!"
  The longhouse, farmlands, and protected forest of an Iban Dayak community of Rumah Nyawin, bordering the Similajau Forest Reserve, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia have been saved, at least for now!
  — 28 November, 06
• Preview of the Winter 2007 Earth Island Journal
  — 22 November, 06
• Intelligence Of Dolphins Cited in Fight Against Hunt
  — 21 November, 06
• Earth Island responds to Washington Post story
  — 21 November, 06
• Court considers dolphin-safe labels on tuna
  From Bay City News Wire
  — 20 November, 06
• Dolphin kill dogged by mercury, activists
  From the Japan Times
  — 1 November, 06
• Dolphin trainers join in massacre
  The ugly secret is that the international trade in dolphins for aquariums and "swim-with-dolphins" programs is subsidizing the dolphin slaughter.
  — 31 October, 06
• Taiji, Japan: Dolphin hunt underway
  “After being driven into the killing lagoon, the confused pod of dolphins spend the entire day swimming in a tight circle near the mouth of the lagoon. The fishermen have cut off their escape with two large nets…”
  — 25 October, 06
• Tales of the City
  Animal rights activist speaks for the voiceless
  — 24 October, 06
• Beware smoke that hides Proposition 90's aims
  News laws, already signed by governor, fix California's eminent domain problems. From the Sacramento Bee.
  — 24 October, 06
• Leading CA Green Groups Embrace Planktos Ecorestoration to Erase Their Carbon Footprints
  Two Premier Enviro Communities Take Ecorestorative High Road to '07 Carbon Neutrality
  — 11 October, 06
• MTV and the Campus Climate Challenge battle global warming
  "...designed to educate students on global warming and to challenge them to stop it."
  — 4 October, 06
• Reports from around the world; Japan Dolphin Day
  Demonstrations in 30 cities...
  — 27 September, 06

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