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Australia creates world’s largest marine reserve

A diver snorkels in the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's Queensland state in 2002. Australia has announced the creation of the world's largest network of marine reserves covering 3.1 million square kilometers of ocean including the entire Coral Sea. .

June 14, 2012, www.cba.ca | “Australia has created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing as well as oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food.”

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Australia has created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing as well as oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food.”
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Polar Bear Champion Steven Amstrup Awarded 2012 Indianapolis Prize

Photo: ~ PROFILE: POLAR BEAR CHAMPION STEVE AMSTRUP Awarded 2012 Indianapolis Prize, – the world’s leading award for animal conservation.http://www.enn.com/press_releases/4032

June 14, 2012, www.enn.com | “Hope that the iconic and endangered polar bear may survive is due in large part to Dr. Amstrup and his team and their groundbreaking studies that resulted in the listing of polar bears as a threatened species because of global warming. Amstrup’s three decades of polar bear research and his unwavering conviction that solutions can and must be found are creating new optimism that polar bears can be saved from extinction.”

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“~ PROFILE: POLAR BEAR CHAMPION STEVE AMSTRUP Awarded 2012 Indianapolis Prize, – the world’s leading award for animal conservation.”
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Conservationists successfully hatch world’s fourth most endangered turtle

June 11, 2012, news.mongabay.com | “The world’s fourth most endangered turtle has received a happy boost from breeding efforts, reports the AFP. Bangladeshi scientists have successfully hatched 25 northern river terrapins (Batagur baska) using an artificial beach constructed in the country’s Bhawal National Park.”

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“The world’s fourth most endangered turtle successfully hatches 25 offspring under conservationist efforts.
Picture of the turtles: http://www.asianturtlenetwork.org/photo_gallery/pages/Batagur_baska_hatchlings.html
Read the story: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0611-hance_northern_river_terrapin.html
Batagur baska hatchlings
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Determining appropriate incubation temperatures for Batagur baska eggs would undoubtedly influence current practices involving head-starting programs”
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Elite Commandos Save 3 Tiger Cubs From Smugglers

Elite Commandos Save 3 Tiger Cubs From Smugglers

June 11, 2012, www.care2.com | “An elite security force in Bangladesh saved the lives of three Bengal tiger cubs on Monday when they raided a house owned by smugglers. Tracking leads that came from a rumor, the team rescued the cubs before they could be sold.”

Elite Commandos Save 3 Tiger Cubs From Smugglers
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An elite security force in Bangladesh saved the lives of three Bengal tiger cubs on Monday when they raided a house owned by smugglers.
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Surfers Form Giant Floating Peace Sign For World Oceans Day

Surfers Form Giant Floating Peace Sign For World Oceans Day

June 8, 2012, www.care2.com | “Hundreds of surfers, swimmers, boaters, and plain-old ocean lovers, joined together at NRDC’s Malibu Peace Paddle to raise awareness about the critical problems facing the ocean.  The goal of the Peace Paddle, which set a Guinness World Record, was to inspire international action at the upcoming Rio+20 summit to protect the world’s oceans from the ever-growing global threats.”

“hundreds of surfers, swimmers, boaters, and plain-old ocean lovers, joined together at Malibu Peace Paddle, sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Video: http://www.nrdc.org/international/rio-2012/peace-paddle/default.asp
Surfers Form Giant Floating Peace Sign For World Oceans Day
Hundreds of surfers joined together at NRDC’s Malibu Peace Paddle to raise awareness about the critical problems facing the ocean.”
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Filed under: Animals, Animals & Plants, Climate, Compassionate Actions, Fish, Ocean Fish, Ocean Pollution, Oceans, Plastic Bags, Protests, Recycling & Plastics, Trash cleanups

Woman Designs Tiny Shoes to Help Disabled Birds Walk

June 8, 2012, www.care2.com | “Seven years ago, a little bird fell into our lives.  My friend Johann and I were living in a small community in the mountains, and one day the gardener brought two disabled, baby birds to me.”

Woman Designs Tiny Shoes to Help Disabled Birds Walk
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My friend Johann and I were living in a small community in the mountains, and one day the gardener brought two baby birds to me. He had found them under a tree…
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New Russian Shelter Shines Love on Homeless Animals

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May 25, 2012,  www.care2.com | “Svetlana Marchenko, a famous journalist from Astrakhan, is the pioneer and founder of the new Vernii Drug (True Friend) shelter.  The shelter has already re-homed 300 dogs and cats and have another 100 dogs at the shelter, not to mention the hundreds of cats in our foster care program.”

“New Russian Shelter Shines Love on Homeless Animals
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Svetlana Marchenko, a famous journalist from Astrakhan, is the pioneer and founder of the new Vernii Drug (True Friend) shelter. One day, she realized that she could do this. She loved and cared for homeless animals all her life, and even when she was a child, she realized how unfortunate and mistre…”
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Deaf Boy in Shanty Town Rescues Burned Homeless Dog

Deaf Boy in Shanty Town Rescues Burned Homeless Dog

May 16, 2012, www.care2.com | “We were attending a line of very poor people who had brought their animals to be tended and cured by our vets. In the line there was a small boy, deaf and unable to speak, who used sign language to tell us we needed to see something urgently.  He returned with a small, cold, miserable puppy covered in an angry, itchy mange and with a nasty, festering wound caused by scalding water, probably thrown at him to scare him away from market stands. He was completely abandoned, except for his faithful human friend.”

“A very good news..
Deaf Boy in Shanty Town Rescues Burned Homeless Dog
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One damp, chilly day we were attending a line of very poor people waiting for low-cost pet care when a small, deaf boy appeared with a small, cold puppy …”
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5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth

Credit: NASA.

April 20, 2012, www.motherjones.com | “Most news from nature is depressing—species extinctions, changing climate, dying oceans. Yet it’s not all bad… though we might never know it, since positive news is underreported. I wrote about this tendency in my latest MoJo print piece about my old friend Enriqueta Velarde and her work to save an island and a whole ecosystem called Can One Incredibly Stubborn Person Save a Species?”

5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth
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A lot of people are working overtime to save endangered species and ecosystems. We don’t hear enough about them.
  • COMMENTS:
    GoodNews FortheEarth ~ great article, with reference to the need to publicize good news!
    read it and check these out:
    1) Huge Drop in PCB Levels in Norwegian Polar Bears
    2) Amur Cats Get Their Own 650,000 acre National Park
    3) Half Billion Dollars Funds Most Ambitious Conservation Programs Ever
    4) Right Whales Return to New Zealand
    5) Arabian Oryx Returns from Extinction
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NOAA updates right, blue whale recovery plans

Photo: ~ in response to the Center for Biological Diversity's notice of intent to sue, the RECOVERY PLAN FOR ENDANGERED NORTHERN PACIFIC RIGHT WHALES WILL BE UPDATEDhttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2012/juneau-empire-04-18-2012.html

April 18, 2012, www.biologicaldiversity.org | “A federal agency will develop recovery plans for two endangered whales.  A notice Tuesday in the Federal Register said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will prepare a recovery plan for North Pacific right whales and update a recovery plan for blue whales.

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“~ in response to the Center for Biological Diversity’s notice of intent to sue, the RECOVERY PLAN FOR ENDANGERED NORTHERN PACIFIC RIGHT WHALES WILL BE UPDATED”
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