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Flock of Siegel Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity answers Grist's questions		15 Jan 2007	InterActivist
Kassie Siegel. What's your job title? I work for the Center for Biological Diversity as director of the Climate, Air, and Energy Program. What does your organization do? The Center for Biological Diversity works to protect imperiled plants and animals, the wild places they depend on, and, by extension, our own well-being. We are probably best known for our legal work related to the Endanger ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, InterActivist, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

What top environmental orgs have to say about animal welfare They don't ignore it	Jason D Scorse	05 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In order to further elucidate the role of animal welfare issues in environmentalism, let us examine mission statements from some of the top environmental organizations in the world. Let's start with the first line of the mission statement from the World Wildlife Fund: 'Protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.' Notice that WWF talks about protecting wild animals independently of whether the ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, endangered species, environmental movement, NRDC, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Sine Quammen Non David Quammen chats about evolution, science, religion, and his new book	David Roberts	02 Nov 2006	Main Dish
David Quammen. Though we do not, alas, live in the kind of world where science writers become celebrities, David Quammen has developed an unusually devoted fan base. As a young man he aspired to write fiction, and that sensibility remains evident in science writing that reads like literature -- humane, absorbing, occasionally thrilling. His "Natural Acts" column for Ou ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, God and the Environment, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

A win-win-win-win scenario Carbon offsets that go to developing world forests rule	biodiversivist	02 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Here's an uplifting article by Rhett Butler over at Mongabay. It enables my personal eco-fantasy. It's titled, Avoided deforestation could help fight third world poverty under global warming pact. $43 billion could flow into developing countries: When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation. Avoided deforestation is the concep ...
Topics: air pollution, biodiversity, deforestation, Kyoto Protocol, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Environmentalism and animal rights No environmentalism is complete without consideration of animal welfare	Jason D Scorse	07 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Under a previous post on whaling, a commenter pointed out the hypocrisy of those in the environmental movement who oppose whaling while tacitly supporting other forms of animal slaughter no less morally offensive. The commenter made the point that as long as an animal species is being managed sustainably, there is nothing inherently wrong with using that animal, no matter how sentient, in whatever ways we desire. This contention gets at a key weakness in the envir ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, environmental movement (all these topics)

Humans spur worst extinctions since dinosaurs	Chris Schults	21 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a U.N. report said on Monday.Habitats ranging from coral reefs to tropical rainforests face mounting threats, the Secretariat of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity said in the report, issued at the start of a March 20-31 U.N. meeting in Curitiba, Brazil.'In effect, we are currently responsible for th ...
Topics: biodiversity, extinction, habitat loss (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Buried treasure Discover new species in the Caribbean, a new reef off Thailand, and an ocean-centric MoJo issue	Sarah van Schagen	22 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy, mateys! Welcome aboard the good ship Something Fishy, a biweekly blog column focused on all things, um, fishy, and oceanic, and marine biological, and whatnot. It's sure to shiver your timbers ... if you know what I mean. (Should I have stopped at 'ahoy'? Methinks the eye patch is on a bit tight. Aarrr!) Pirate lingo aside (for now ... there may be mention of a 'poop deck' later on), this first column will focus on the theme of buried treasure -- from new s ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Specious On Bjorn Lomborg and species diversity	Norman Myers	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg opens his chapter on biodiversity by citing my 1979 estimate of 40,000 species lost per year. He gets a lot of mileage out of that estimate throughout the chapter, although he does not cite any of my subsequent writings except for a single mention of a 1983 paper and a 1999 paper, neither of which deals much with extinction rates. Why doesn't he refer to the 80-plus papers I have published on biodiversity a ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

Vanishing Point On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction	E. O. Wilson	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
My greatest regret about the Lomborg scam is the extraordinary amount of scientific talent that has to be expended to combat it in the media. We will always have contrarians like Lomborg whose sallies are characterized by willful ignorance, selective quotations, disregard for communication with genuine experts, and destructive campaigning to attract the attention of the media rather than scientists. They are the parasite ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

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