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Ocean Farmers Begin 3-Day Journey to ‘Climate March by Sea’

Ocean Farmers Begin 3-Day Journey to ‘Climate March by Sea’

By Jonathan Hahn On President Trump’s first Earth Day in the White House, he declared on Twitter that “we celebrate our beautiful forests, lakes and lands”—an amiable if blasé arm-punch to the planet from the leader of the free world. Until a few hours later that is, when the president resorted to his usual right […]

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    Massive Plunge in Wildlife Expected by 2020

    Massive Plunge in Wildlife Expected by 2020

    By David Miller Every two years, the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London report on the health of the planet with an updated index of wildlife populations. This year, the numbers are especially bleak: Populations have already declined on average by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012. And unless we act quickly, […]

    Poachers Illegally Kill Hundreds of Endangered Snow Leopards Each Year

    Poachers Illegally Kill Hundreds of Endangered Snow Leopards Each Year

    With possibly as few as 4,000 snow leopards surviving in the wild, a new report from TRAFFIC has found that hundreds of the endangered big cats are being killed illegally each year across their range in Asia’s high mountains. Published ahead of today’s UN meeting on snow leopards and International Snow Leopard Day on Sunday, […]

    100 Years Ago 100,000 Tigers Roamed the World, Now There Are Fewer Than 4,000

    100 Years Ago 100,000 Tigers Roamed the World, Now There Are Fewer Than 4,000

    Discovery Communications and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced Wednesday a partnership to conserve nearly 1 million acres of critical tiger habitat in India and Bhutan in hopes of doubling the world’s population of tigers by 2022. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1321900031156264/ expand=1] The big cats are known to have once roamed much of Asia. Poaching and habitat loss […]

    Why Millions of Monarch Butterflies Are Dying in Mexico

    Why Millions of Monarch Butterflies Are Dying in Mexico

    By Alicia Graef While international efforts are underway to help keep dwindling populations of monarch butterflies from disappearing, scientists are raising concerns about how severe weather and a loss of forest habitat at their wintering grounds in Mexico are affecting them. Every year, monarchs embark on an epic multigenerational migration that takes them thousands of […]

    Giant Success for Giant Pandas

    Giant Success for Giant Pandas

    We’ve received some fantastic news over the weekend. The giant panda is no longer listed as endangered! Thanks to amazing conservation efforts and the commitment of the Chinese government, this iconic species has dropped down a level on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, from “Endangered” to “Vulnerable” following a remarkable growth of their […]