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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com, editor@news-photos-features.com It’s not just rhetorical flourish or pandering promises. President Biden has taken historic actions in devising and implementing real, innovative programs and achieved...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 04:30 PM PDT
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The Bureau of Land Management has announced new regulations for 245 million acres of public property. Important modernization includes conservation measures and increased bonds and royalties. BLM itself says this will concentrate exploitation, thus...
by RosyFinch
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM PDT
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an Ecology Florida Feature The UK's guardian published an opinion piece this week on the severe decline that they call a "Freefall" of the Swift, a migratory bird that summers in England and winters in Africa. The author laments that this Spring has...
by jtietz
on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 01:11 PM PDT
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www.cnn.com/... In moves that will add about 123000 acres to the two monuments , President Biden is expected to sign proclamations to the coming weeks adding acreage to Berryessa Snow Mountain , adding 13000 acres including the area known as Molok...
by MorrellWI1983
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 01:30 PM PDT
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Doomerism has serious downsides, a recent study found, it doesn’t change beliefs or support for policies, is demoralizing, and fails to motivate action. Communication experts have long known that an “all is lost” presentation about any topic is...
by Besame
on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 08:56 PM PDT
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I used to occasionally use the road over the Gray Ranch (now called the Diamond A, after the name used by William Randolph Hearst while he owned it) to get to the area of Cloverdale and the Coronado National Forest, the latter partly in Arizona (See:...
by Desert Scientist
on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 06:08 PM PDT
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Let’s take a look at no growth, post-growth economics and a steady state economy. For many of you, these terms are seared into your memory. For others, I am hoping they will inspire action to do things differently and show that we aren’t the only ones...
by populationmediacenter
on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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Logging large trees can boost timber industry profitability. The 21-inch rule, a 1995 Eastside Screens regulation that prevented the timber industry from logging trees with diameters greater than 21 inches at breast height in eastern Oregon and...
by JaredKukura
on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 11:15 AM PST
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A Florida lawmaker seeking looser regulations on the killing of wildlife has claimed that black bears high on crack are breaking into people’s homes and “tearing them apart”. The allegation from Republican state congressman Jason Shoaf, whose biography...
by Lenny Flank
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 08:21 AM PST
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Here’s the thing: Collective action works. And boy oh boy do we need it. Our individual actions (and inactions) brought is to this juncture. We burned the fossil fuels. Most of us still do, every moment of every day. Turn on a light. Cook a meal....
by Solarman55
on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 10:32 AM PST
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Catherine Semcer penned an article for Property and Environment Research Center that has been shared and celebrated by other sustainable use activists and members of the trophy hunting industry. The article comes across as pro-trophy hunting propaganda...
by JaredKukura
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 10:18 AM PST
with 18 Recommends
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Anti-abortion sentiments are unfortunately all too common within the trophy hunting community. The multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign funded by the likes of Safari Club International posted anti-abortion memes and spread hateful rhetoric...
by JaredKukura
on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 08:47 AM PST
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South Africa announced it intended to end its lion-bone industry. The country had allowed private farming of these magnificent animals to harvest their skeletons, which are used in traditional remedies promised to cure impotence and rheumatism. South...
by JaredKukura
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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In 1996, American nonprofit Safari Club International and their African Chapter held a series of visits and meetings around the African continent. The result was a report called the SCI African Chapter Strategic Plan for Africa. It detailed “possible...
by JaredKukura
on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 04:07 PM PST
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Hypocrisy sums up the trophy hunting industry best. The industry claims critics are racist, yet they are guilty of promoting racial inequality. And now trophy hunting advocates, leaning heavily on their scientific credentials, are proclaiming “media...
by JaredKukura
on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 06:30 AM PST
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Social media is an influential tool that can be exploited by those with funding and a willingness to walk a moral tight rope. I uncovered clear evidence that American hunting organizations conducted information warfare on social media to influence...
by JaredKukura
on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 06:40 AM PST
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The Daily Mail, Times, and Telegraph published a coordinated trophy hunting public relations campaign on November 5, 6, and 7, respectively. The campaign, conducted by London-based public relations firm Abzed, claimed that a poll found that Africans...
by JaredKukura
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 07:31 AM PST
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We can all probably use a bit of levity in our lives right now, and you can’t get more absurdly silly than John Oliver in an elaborate bird costume, in his words “interfering” in an election: ...
by Joan McCarter
on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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It all started with a trip to San Juan Island, WA a few weeks ago. Killer whales were sighted on our first day - a pod in the area known as "J-Pod". The day after, it was supposed to rain, so we ...
by NeverEverAgain
on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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in a move that will create the largest monument to date in his tenure, President Bidenis going to designate the Grand Canyon Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument next week while visiting Arizona. the acreage is going to be around 1.1 million...
by MorrellWI1983
on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 02:02 PM PDT
with 124 Recommends
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