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Iceland resumes fin whale hunting after two-year break
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19.6.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Undercover pictures taken by Greenpeace show a harpooned whale being cut up for meat likely to be exported to Japan
Iceland has resumed its commercial hunting of fin whales after a two-year suspension by landing the first of an expected 180 whales in Hvalfjördur. The first kill prompted protests from environment and animal welfare groups that the hunt is "cruel and unnecessary".
Undercover pictures taken aboard the Hvalur 8 by Greenpeace show the harpooned whale being cut up for meat that is likely to be exported to Japan. Fin whales are the second largest animal on earth after the blue whale and are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species .
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) condemned the Icelandic whaler Kristján Loftsson who has resumed fin whaling after a two year break. "It is a very sad day seeing these images and knowing that this endangered animal has suffered a cruel death, only to be cut up for meat ... |
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Green groups warn government of national parks hunting backlash
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18.6.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Labor appears to have backed away from laws granting greater federal powers to protect Australia's national parks
Environmental groups have forecast a huge public backlash to proposed logging, shooting and prospecting within national parks, after the government backed away from adding federal oversight to conservation areas.
The Greens put forward an amendment to a government bill – on protecting water tables from coal seam gas drilling – that would have given the commonwealth greater power to protect national parks.
Under the current the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the federal government can intervene only if an endangered species, heritage area or place of "national significance" is affected by development.
It is understood that the Greens amendment was rejected at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday night.
A spokesperson for Tony Burke, the federal environment minister, said that the government supports its bill "as it stands" and that separate 2011 ... |
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Could the world's biggest marine sanctuary be declared in the Antarctic? | Graham Readfearn
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17.6.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Proposals will go before a commission next month to help protect thousands of species in Antarctic waters
An extraordinarily big thing might happen in the world of marine conservation next month at a meeting in Germany of a little known international commission.
And while you probably haven't read much about it, the outcome could see the creation of the two largest areas of protected ocean on the planet that would lock out fishing from more than 1.5 million square kilometres of ocean around the Antarctic.
The areas in question – the Ross Sea and coastal areas in East Antarctica – are almost untouched by the often-clumsy hands of human progress and give a home to thousands of marine species.
Across the two areas are about a million pairs of Adélie penguins, more than a dozen species of whale, more than a third of the world's population of emperor penguins, abundant krill and fish species and the Ross Sea region's top predator – the toothfish, which can grow to two metres weighing 200 ... |
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We should not play Russian roulette with Australia's national parks | Open letter
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17.6.2013 |
Guardian: Environment |
| Open letter: Recent laws allowing hunting and logging in our parks are misguided. Our reserves protect biological diversity and shouldn't be used otherwise
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New enforcement chief takes over at DNR
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16.6.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will have a new enforcement chief this week. |
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Parliament awaits Gillard's final throw
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16.6.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| School funding and 457 visas are top of the government's bucket list, with national parks protection on the margin
Cabinet will decide on Monday whether a last-ditch bid to extend federal powers to protect national parks from state government laws will be added to the legislation the government is trying to pass in the final two parliamentary sitting weeks.
With just eight sitting days before parliament rises ahead of the election, the government has produced what amounts to this parliament's bucket list – the things it wants to legislate before time runs out – with changes to school funding and the requirements for employers wanting to use temporary work visas at the top.
But with the Queensland government now allowing starving cattle into some national parks during the drought and the controversial decision by the NSW government to open some national parks for recreational shooting, the environment minister, Tony Burke, is considering adding national parks as another "trigger" to push ... |
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Rewriting rules on chimps
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16.6.2013 |
LA Times: Opinion |
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to reclassify captive chimps as 'endangered' rather than 'threatened' is a smart move.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to reclassify captive chimps as 'endangered' rather than 'threatened' is a smart move. |
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Goal of Broader Protection for Chimpanzees Emerges From Changing Perspectives
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16.6.2013 |
NYT: Home Page |
| Goal of Broader Protection for Chimpanzees Emerges From Changing Perspectives |
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Green diary rescue: Wolves under the gun, eyeballing damselflies & mapping the polar cyclone
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16.6.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 230 of these spotlighting more than 12,964 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 50 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Green Diary of the Week
Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" —by Agathena : "The original mission was wolf recovery begun in 1994 because of expiration (local extinction) of the grey wolf in many areas. Recovery goals of an equitably distributed wolf population containing at least 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs in 3 recovery areas within Montana (MT), Idaho (ID), and Wyoming (WY) for at least 3 consecutive years were ... |
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Dishing up trash: New look for sustainable seafood
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15.6.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Science |
Most people have only ever seen a scorpion fish in an aquarium. Unless they dine at Carolina Crossroads Restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C., where they'll find the spiny, venomous creature on the menu. |
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Shark Stewards Project Report
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15.6.2013 |
Earth Times |
| David McGuire of Shark Stewards gives his account of the state of the shark nation. It's great to have personal accounts of the real animal in its element, the open ocean. |
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Range of the wolf
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15.6.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published Jun 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT
Re “Value of wolves: Feds must maintain some oversight” (Our View, June 11): Although U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel Ashe declared victory by stating “Wolves are recovered and they are now in good hands,” I share serious concerns with the 16 scientists with expertise in carnivore taxonomy and conservation biology who believe delisting is terribly premature. The feds are gauging gray wolf recovery solely on the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes wolf populations. Under the Endang... ... |
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Science of wolves
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15.6.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published Jun 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT
I admire The Tribune for boldly standing up for wolves only months after Utah’s Legislature voted to give money to Don Peay to lobby against wolves (“Value of wolves: Feds must maintain some oversight,” Our View, June 11). If wolves are removed from the list of endangered species nationwide, this would mean no protection for wolves entering Utah or any other state. Take a look at Yellowstone National Park since wolves were reintroduced. Many plant and animal species, absent for decades, have re... ... |
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Dishing up trash: New look for sustainable seafood
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14.6.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| Most people have only ever seen a scorpion fish in an aquarium. Unless they dine at Carolina Crossroads Restaurant in Chapel Hill, N. |
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Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change
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13.6.2013 |
New Scientist: Sex and Cloning |
| Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change |
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Study Finds Large Seabird Toll From Fishing Nets
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12.6.2013 |
NYT: Home Page |
| Study Finds Large Seabird Toll From Fishing Nets |
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U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
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12.6.2013 |
LA Times: Science |
Chimpanzees would be reclassified as endangered, making it harder to use them in medical research.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. |
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Feds want new protection for chimpanzees in captivity
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12.6.2013 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
| Chimps in the wild are listed as endangered, but their kin in zoos and parks are not. |
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Wildlife agency to list all chimps as endangered
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12.6.2013 |
AP National |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday called for protection of all chimpanzees as endangered, an action that could affect use of the apes in medical research.... |
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Wildlife agency to list all chimps as endangered
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12.6.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Wildlife agency to list all chimps as endangered |
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