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Learn and spread knowledge about insects.  This article shows  recent studies that show 45% declines, which harm birds, plants, frogs, lizards, and the many flowers, trees, fruits, and vegetables insects pollinate.  It tells us how we can help insects:Planting pollinator gardens, asking...

Link  Great Story! Divers free a trapped whale, and then she nudges and gently pushes each of the divers! She swims in joyous circles around them

 David Herasimtschuk won the underwater photographer of the year for his photos  of a salamander biting a snake. He works with Freshwaters Illustrated which shows images of  wildlife underwater. link  to group.    Story  

4 of the 17 species in VT have gone extinct.  The causes  of decllines include "habitat loss, parasites, pesticides, and climate change" Link

Here is a catchy cartoon about  an orangutan and palm oil.  Great article on palm oil.Palm oil is found  "in half of all consumer goods including soaps and toothpaste, cosmetics and laundry detergent and a whole array of processed food". "alternative names including sodium...

Japan will kill whales in its territorial waters.  It will leave the International Whaling Commission.  "Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga admitted in a statement that the government is putting its own " life and culture of using whales" ahead of...

The proposed Twin Metals mine near Ely got its lease renewed by the Trump administration.The PolyMet mine got air and water permit okays.  Both copper nickel sulfide mines could pollute the pristine air and water.  Twin Metals is by Ely,...

Japan announced it will start commercial whaling in its waters.  This is outrageous!  Whales are already threatened by pollution, super-loud military sonar, oil spills, and explosions for oil exploration.   Link  to article in Common Dreams.  Link to Japanese newspaper Link   Japanese...

link  Dolphins, turtles, manatees, and fish were dying this past summer due to the "red tides" on Florida's coasts.  These toxic blooms were accelerated by the agricultural waste that the then governor, now senator, Scott allowed to be dumped into...

Local people  in South Africa protected their land, river, and bay from an Australian  mining company.  The mining company would poison the land and river. Natives spoke up, met, rallied, danced, and marched on behalf of their land and river....

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, The Environmental and Health Risks of Fracking , Thursday October 4, 2018, 7 pm I was stimulated to act and to care by her writings. I liked her book Living Downstream. The Cube at MCA in Stapleton...

The air was full of smoke from forest fires here in Boulder and across the west. This summer there were 4 fires over 100,000 acres at once in the US: the Ranch Fire (over 600 square miles in N. CA),...

www.breakfreefromplastic.org/ waterkeeper.org https://www.lonelywhale.org/ http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/destinations/venturethere/post/2011/03/Do-you-live-in-a-plastic-world/146222/1 inlandoceancoalition.org http://www.surfrider.org/programs/rise-above-plastics https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/03/06/only-9-of-the-worlds-plastic-is-recycled https://www.bbcleaningservice.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch.html

The NYT article blames it on human nature and implies there is no hope. Instead activists say we must hold the oil companies responsible for the misinformation about and denial of global warming. We must organize, hope and care. www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/01/nyt-magazines-losingearth-receives-scathing-reviews-climate-action-movement...

They want to stop protecting threatened species and stop protecting habitat. They want oil, mining, and logging companies to be in charge of wildlife. They want to stop listing more species. They want politics and industry to trump science. Great...

http://www.rockyflatsnuclearguardianship.org Petition to keep Rocky Flats Closed: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/keep-rocky-flats-wildlife Petition to stop new road construction thru Rocky Flats: https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-road-construction-at-site-of-former-nuclear-bomb-plant-rocky-flats Petition to prevent intentional fires at the nuclear weapons site: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-prescribed-burns-at

Here you can write to your Colorado Senators and Representatives. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/keep-rocky-flats-closed-forever?delivery_id=29957036 Here you can disagree with the local governments that think that building trails and bikeways thru a radioactive site is "good".https://www.jeffco.us/FormCenter/Open-Space-15/Rocky-Mountain-Greenway-Comments-197 Info on the dangers of the former plant:...

Please go to corising.org to find ways to support the Colorado Rising ballot initiative. This is a statewide ballot initiative for a 2500' setback to oil and gas development. Petitions are due by Aug. 1. There continue to be deaths...

The Republicans have stuck some anti wildlife riders (amendments) in some bills that Congress must pass ( military and appropriations). These bills make economic impacts have priority over the lives of endangered species. They also devalue science. https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/onlineactions/kI6tpzUoukShooLX4Dpeqw2?sourceID=1004352&utm_source=ad&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=currentalerts   www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/07/19/endangered-species-act-stripped-of-key-provisions-in-trump-administration-proposal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.812c9e372e40