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Get Eco-Real with Planet Action On Planet Green
Global warming, deforestation, overfishing, and pollution are just a few of the many threats to wildlife around the world. More often than not, the pressures that push a species to the brink of extinction, and beyond, are the result of human activity. However, humans also have the power to help endangered animals and even save species from extinction.
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What You Can Do to Protect Sea Turtles
I recently covered a story about a sick loggerhead turtle that miraculously ended up on the doors step of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida. Whilst snooping around the Turtle Hospital's website and blog, I found a list of tips on how people like me and you can help the sea turtles. Many species of sea turtles are endangered or threatened.
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Save the Wolves—Because Obama Isn't Going To
Yes, Obama's many green acts have dazzled—or at least encouraged—the environmental community. But nobody's perfect. In one of the Obama administration's more dubious environmentally related moves, they've decided to uphold the Bush ruling stating that gray wolves are no longer an endangered species.
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Help Protect the American Pika
The American Pika could be the first mammal in the lower 48 (U.S.) states to make the endangered species list primarily because of climate change. The pika is a tiny round-bodied relative of the rabbit who lives in the mountainous regions throughout the western United States and Canada. (Picture a brown, furry version of the cartoon "Pikachu.") An environmental advocacy group, The Center for Biological Diversity, petitioned for the pika to be listed on the Endangered Species list in 2007. Now, U.S. Fish and Wildlife will decide if the pika will make the list.
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How to Report Poachers
Poachers rob us all of the nature that we strive to protect. The most devastating poachers are the ones who hunt endangered species, but poaching can be as simple as hunting during the off-season or keeping too many fish from a lake. In any case, poaching affects us all.
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How Many Sharks Get Killed for their Fins Every Year?
It's sort of mind boggling when you hear the number for the first time—it just doesn't make sense. Maybe because it's something most of us don't think about; sharks getting killed for their fins. But it's happening everyday. Everyday, "fishermen" catch sharks, pull them out of the ocean, cut off their fins, and throw the still-living remains back into the ocean, where they slowly bleed to death.
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Adopt Wildlife
Hummingbirds rule. Anyone who says different better change their tune. How can you not like crazy little birds that hover, eat nectar and go into torpor? You can adopt a hummingbird. If your not a hummingbird fan, you can adopt a bald eagle, a monk seal or a bison. You can even adopt a beluga whale.
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Nine New Frog Species Discovered: Why You Should Care
According to Robin Moore, an amphibian expert working with the environmental group Conservation International, ten new species of amphibians were recently spotted in the mountains of the Darien region in Columbia (on the Panama border).
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Help Save the Polar Bears without Leaving Home
Polar bears are some of the most fascinating, inspiring creatures in the North American wilderness. And as you probably know, they're an endangered species (though there's recently been some dubious political debate about this). And despite scientific efforts to help protect the polar bears, those arctic animals need all the aid they can get.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium's Endangered Seafood Guide
Get up-to-date info on the best fish to eat in terms of over-fishing with sources like Monterey Bay Aquarium's Endangered Seafood Guide.Answer all your concerns about health advisories in terms of which fish are highest in mercury and which fish you can eat pretty regularly without enduring health scares.
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