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You can go here for a sample script to use in calling your your US Representative asking them to oppose HR 2 : https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/onlineactions/9xU-0dnmB0as7zZLLSYE7Q2?sourceID=1004352&utm_source=ad&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=currentalerts Here are more details from Center for Biological Diversity: Sick Joke': House Agriculture Committee Advances...
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http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/03/running-out-of-bugs/
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E.O.wilson writes that we need field biologists and protected reserves for about one half of the earth. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
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Parasites are important in keeping a balance among different life forms and in processing dead creatures into food for other creatures. Parasites comprise 80 % of the food web, and the majority of the biomass. One third of parasites could...
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Giant pikeminnows, Florida panthers, piping plovers, and Kirtland's warblers have been nursed back to healthy populations due to protection under the Endangered Species Act and due to people studying them, suing to protect them, and organizing to pressure government to...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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Find endangred species events near you. Find books and films about wildlife. I like the film "Damnation" about people organizing to save rivers and their wildlife. Link
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Tigers increase from as few as 3200 to 3890. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-V3k8Y35NA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDkZEUGRzMQ
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A lovelorn bull elephant walked 130 miles, traveling by night and hiding by day, looking for a mate. He was avoiding the poachers who send ivory to China. Over 150 park rangers in the Congo have been killed by poachers...
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See the film “Born to Be Wild” and donate to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust refuge for orphaned elephants and to the Orangutan Foundation International for orphaned orangutans. This is an upbeat film, with adorable young elephants and orangutans...
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Frogs, toads, salamanders, reptiles, birds, bees, primates, coral reefs, turtles, sharks, rays, plants ocean species, and vertebrates all are declining in abundance. There are fewer species and smaller populations remaining. And as we are minds embodied and bodies envirionned, we...
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A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists says staff feel that wildlife science is being overturned by business and political interests. Read: Science Endangered at the Fish and Wildlife Service
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link Here is one interview. The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists. The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs,...