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Amazon.com Removes more than 145 Japanese whale and meat products

February 22, 2012, www.ens-newswire.com | “The Internet retail giant Amazon.com has responded to a public outcry against whale meat sales on its Japanese website by removing more than 145 food products from the site overnight. The products made from the meat of whales, dolphins and porpoises were removed within 24 hours after a campaign launched yesterday by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Humane Society International quickly gathered worldwide momentum. ”

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“The products made from the meat of whales, dolphins and porpoises were removed within 24 hours after a campaign launched yesterday by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Humane Society International quickly gathered worldwide momentum.

Tens of thousands of people took action via Twitter, Facebook and HSI’s online petition and thousands more sent protest emails to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based business.”

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California’s newest state animal could be the 2,000-pound sea turtle

February 22, 2012, www.latimesblogs.latimes.com | The world’s largest sea turtle could earn a new distinction from the California Legislature: the title of official state marine reptile.

A bill introduced Friday by Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) would add the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle to a growing list of official state animals and plants such as the California quail (the state bird) the gray whale (state marine mammal), plants like the California poppy (state flower) and even extinct megafauna like the saber-toothed cat (the state fossil).

The symbolic measure, intended to raise awareness about the endangered species, comes as the federal government is setting aside 41,000 square miles of the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington as critical habitat for the sea turtles.

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~ ENDANGERED “LEATHERBACK” SEA TURTLES (world’s largest, up to 8 ft long) WIN 42,000 SQ. MILES OF OCEAN PROTECTION along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington, http://naturescrusaders.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/2-thumbs-up-award-leatherbacks-win/and have been nominated for California’s state marine reptile. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/2000-pound-leatherback-sea-turtle-could-be-californias-state-marine-reptile.html Here’s a map of their migration path all the way across the Pacific, http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=PRD&ParentMenuId=212&id=3994

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Lawsuit awards 4,200 acres of Protected Habitat to Endangered Cave-dwelling Invertebrates in Texas

Feb 13, 2012, www.biologicaldiversity.org | “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized protection of 4,200 acres of critical habitat today for nine rare, cave-dwelling invertebrates in Bexar County, Texas. ‘Protecting the habitat of these mysterious, cave-adapted animals — which don’t exist anywhere else on Earth — gives them a shot at survival,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center. “All it will take to save these unique creatures, some of which have lost the power of sight and all their color as they evolved in the dark, are modest restrictions on urban sprawl in Bexar County.'”

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SAN ANTONIO— In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, Citizen’s Alliance for Smart Expansion and Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized protection of 4,200 acres of critical habitat today for nine rare, cave-dwelling invertebrates…

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Judge Nixes Tejon Pass Sprawl Development Project

Feb 13, 2012, www.biologicaldiversity.org | BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Plans for a large scale housing development proposed in the Frazier Mountain area of southern Kern County, Calif. were struck down by a superior court judge on Friday, Feb. 10, in a victory for groups fighting for smart growth in the region. The Frazier Park Estates project would have included 41 acres of houses and condominiums on steep and rugged terrain in the rural mountain area near Lebec and the Tejon Pass area of Interstate 5.

Judge Kenneth C. Twisselman of the Kern County Superior Court agreed with TriCounty Watchdogs and the Center for Biological Diversity that Kern County had failed to adequately analyze the project’s water supply; that the project description inconsistently described the project as having anywhere from 188 to 661 residences; and that the county improperly justified deferred mitigation for the project’s impacts. The suit was brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

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“This is an extremely important habitat area for scores of threatened, endangered, and rare species, including the California condor, so it’s important that any development be carefully thought out,” said Adam Keats, urban wildlands directo…

Judge Nixes Tejon Pass Sprawl Development Project

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Plans for a large scale housing development proposed in the Frazier Mountain area of southern Kern County, Calif. were struck down by a superior court judge on Friday, Feb. 10, in a victory for groups fighting for smart growth in the region. The Frazier Park Estates proje…

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600 SQUARE MILES to be protected for WOODLAND CARIBOU in Northern Idaho, USA

www.seattlepi.com, December 2, Julia Gominelli, Attila Marton, Veronica Smith and 11 others like this. 4 shares, Comments: GoodNews FortheEarth, “thanks to the efforts of the Center for Biodiversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and others”,

, Tracy Breaux Great job!,

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Susan Menanno · wow … now there’s a beauty…I see wisdom in the eyes of the caribou … thanks for the post..

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Feds propose caribou habitat safeguards in N Idaho

Tuesday, November 29, 2011, www.seattlepi.com | “Nearly 600 square miles of land in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington will be designated critical habitat for a woodland caribou herd that has seen its numbers dwindle to less than 50, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday.”

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“~ 600 SQUARE MILES to be protected for WOODLAND CARIBOU in Northern Idaho, USA, thanks to the efforts of the Center for Biodiversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and others”

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