Spreading the message: Environmental Alerts

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In this thread I'm going to link to environment-related actions alerts and campaigns by various environmental organisations. I invite you all to participate. It often only takes a couple of minutes.

I'm closing this thread so it remains alerts only.

If you would like to discuss any or all of the issues, please open a new thread in the Chat Area.

Thank you everyone who participates in the linked campaigns.

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NRDC: Tell the Navy to stop harming whales with high-intensity sonar

Although the Navy agreed to limit its use of low-frequency sonar, it continues to blast the world's oceans with mid-frequency sonar, which can be just as harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Tell the Navy to turn off the noise.

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NRDC: Tell the Bush Administration to protect polar bears and their critical habitat

Polar bears are completely dependent on Arctic sea ice to survive, but 80 percent of that ice could be gone in 20 years and all of it by 2040. Polar bears are already suffering the effects: birth rates are falling, fewer cubs are surviving, and more bears are drowning. The Bush Administration's proposal to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act is a crucial first step toward ensuring a future for these magnificent Arctic creatures. Yet the administration's proposal does not designate "critical habitat" for protection, even though melting habitat from global warming is the main threat to the polar bear's survival.

Submit your Official Citizen Comment urging the Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize the listing of the polar bear and designate its critical habitat.

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NRDC: Tell the Bush Administration to Protect Gray Wolves!

A new Bush Administration proposal to strip gray wolves of federal protection would pave the way for mass killings of wolves in Yellowstone's wild country and central Idaho. This reckless plan would turn over wolf management to state agencies. Idaho is already gearing up to kill off the majority of its wolves. With oil and gas drilling, logging and road building chipping away at crucial wildlife habitat across the Rockies, leaving wolves unprotected could drive them back to the brink of extinction.

Submit your Official Citizen Comment opposing any plan that would strip wolves of federal protection and leave them vulnerable to mass killing.

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The latest Brosnan Alert:

Dear Fellow Californians,

On April 9th the California State Lands Commission and on April 12th the California Coastal Commission voted that a proposal by the largest mining company in the world to build a massive floating Liquefied Natural Gas terminal off the coast Malibu and Oxnard did not comply with California’s environmental laws or the requirements of The Clean Air Act.

Our hope is that our “Green Governor” Mr. Arnold Schwarznegger, will put the final nail in their coffin and veto this project – soon. If you’d like to send our Governor a message to terminate the terminal, please do so by clicking here.

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NRDC: Tell the Bush Administration to protect polar bears and their critical habitat

Polar bears are completely dependent on Arctic sea ice to survive, but 80 percent of that ice could be gone in 20 years and all of it by 2040. Polar bears are already suffering the effects: birth rates are falling, fewer cubs are surviving, and more bears are drowning. The Bush Administration's proposal to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act is a crucial first step toward ensuring a future for these magnificent Arctic creatures. Yet the administration's proposal does not designate "critical habitat" for protection, even though melting habitat from global warming is the main threat to the polar bear's survival.

Send a message urging the Bush Administration to finalize the listing of the polar bear and designate its critical habitat.